Ellipsis

I’ve migrated a lot of my old sysadmin stuff from my old host. This includes the following stuff

Presentations

• UCAR Web Advisory Group Shibboleth Presentation, October 2005
• UCAR Content Management System Forum, October 2004
• Web Application Security. A presentation for the Denver chapter of ISSA, 10 April 2002.
• SSH & SSL for SysAdmins. A presentation for University of Washington NetSys/LanAdmin, 24 January 2002.
• SSH & SSL. A presentation for the Colorado chapter of SAGE (Co-SAGE)”, 14 Nov 2001.

Notes

Some notes on work I do, which may or may not be useful to others

• How to run your own CA for launching SSL attacks
• PortSentry
• VPNs using Free S/WAN

Articles

• SSL Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 1 Feb 2002. An evaluation of several SSL attacks, includes a modification to Dug Song’s webmitm exploit.

RSS Scraper Job Feeds

Since I’m looking for work with specific institutions of interest in the Washington, DC, area, I thought I could track jobs more easily if I could subscribe to the relevant RSS feeds. Alas, although any institution now has its “Job Opportunities” web page, they seldom have RSS feeds of those pages. So I decided to work out my Ruby and Regular Expression skills and build my own feeds. These are built from RubyForge RSSscraper, written by Monster or <a href=”http://www.dice.com”>Dice or their ilk, so I can’t compare this to what they offer. But I find it useful so far, although scraping HTML from the NSF has been really challenging. I’d recommend that one sign up with their email job notification service.

RSS Job Feeds

• AAAS Jobs
• NSF Jobs
• Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Jobs