Drone Hacking

I purchased a drone last year. When I first powered it up inside my house, I was greeted with a message that said I wasn’t allowed to fly it. This obviously piqued my interested. When presented with a message that says you can’t do something, the obvious next step is to try to figure out why.

Blackhat & Defcon Collages

While I was at Blackhat and Defcon in 2002, I decided it would be cool to create an image collage that reflected what people were doing with their computers while connected to the wireless networks. I hacked some programs together and ran a sniffer for a few hours at both Blackhat and Defcon which collected about 40mb of GIF and JPEG files from the ether. After hacking some more programs a bit, I was able to generate some cool pictures from this raw data.

Geek Plates

Ever since I started my first job in Northern Virginia, I’ve noticed that there was an obscene amount of vanity license plates. You know, license plates that you can get from the DMV with your own personalized saying. Well, I started keeping track of all the ones that I saw, but quickly gave up. There were just too many! And, boy were there some really really dumb ones. So, I decided to shift my focus to seeing how many geek related personalized plates I could spot and keep track of.

XBOX Car Audio

In 2005 I attempted to build a car-ready XBOX + XBMC system for playing digital audio. I finished it, but never got a chance to actually install it in a car. Oh well. It was a fun project and I’ve done my best to at least document it here a little.


25 Years of Arion.Net

Posted on December 09, 2021 in misc • Tagged with arionnet, web, networking, technology

Arion.Net is 25 years old this month. At the quarter century mark, I am feeling quite nostalgic and it’s time to capture some of how Arion.Net came into existence.

I registered Arion.Net in 1996 shortly after I started grad school at Carnegie Mellon University. As a …

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