[SGVLUG] Thu 9/12 meeting recap

[Mic Chow]

I would have love to see the Pi Versus Pi presentation.

Mic
 

On 09/13/2013 12:10 AM, Lan Dang wrote:
>
> Meeting recap for those who couldn't make it:
>
> We had a pretty large turnout and one or two new people. Mike Proctor
> Smith was stuck at work so we didn't have a lot of Linux in the News.
>
> Michael and Steven filled up the entire counter with equipment for
> their presentation. There were two laptops, two raspberry pis
> connected to keyboard and mouse, one small monitor, one 32" tv, a
> router, an HDMI to VGA converter, many cables. They displayed their
> slides on the tv and did the demo on the projector. And even then, it
> felt like they needed another monitor so we could see what the
> attacker was doing.
>
> It was Raspberry Pi vs Raspberry Pi. They used Raspberry Pis to
> demonstrate that you don't need a very powerful computer to do the
> hacks. Michael played the evil attacker trying to hack Steven's Rpi.
> Topics covered were changing default passwords, cookie stealing
> through cross site scripting exploit, watching network traffic using
> Wireshark and tcpdump, why you should use https, and an SQL injection
> attack. The Wireshark and SQL injection attack didn't quite work as
> planned.
>
> Still, it was an entertaining and engaging session. Afterwards, Doug
> came up with a brief introduction to CSRF/XSRF which is cross site
> request forgery where a malicious person could craft an html element
> on a site like a forum, which directs the browser to request an action
> on another website that the user is believed to already be logged
> into; it takes advantage of the authentication cookie the browser
> already has to forge requests.
>
> I appreciate everyone eating my treats so I didn't have to take them
> home. I made a raspberry, blueberry, peach galette (aka a raspberry
> pie) and carrot cake sandwich cookies with additional cream cheese
> frosting in a sandwich bag if you had wanted to pipe on more frosting.
> I also had a can of whipped cream for the pie.
>
> I hope that someone erased the blackboard. I'd meant to check it
> before we left, but I forgot.
>
> We ended up eating at Hamburger Hamlet on Lake and Cordova. We were
> able to sit at two adjoining booths. They gave us separate checks but
> did charge a mandatory gratuity because of our large party. We closed
> out our bills by 10pm, but we actually stayed there till about 11pm
> before the party started breaking up.
> I'll send out an announcement for next month's speaker as soon as we
> can confirm the room, though I'll probably update the website sooner.
> I hope to advertise this presentation around Caltech since summer is
> over and the students are back.
>
> Lan
>

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