Pro!

That’s the only word this blog post needs to contain.

Diggnation did it again. The show was huge, with the arena full (and security turning late-comers away).
Kevin and Alex hosted a fun-packed, albeit short show. Carsonified provided the wi-fi access, Google provided free beers all night.

I went with Aaron, Aryel and Simon, and we absolutely rinsed the Google Beers (Beta?) between us.

The afterparty was in the Fox again, which was also packed. Some people I remembered from last year, and a few randomers who recognised me too.

The atmosphere at Diggnation is always good. The vibe is geeky but fun.

Of course it wouldn’t be a Live Diggnation without getting a photo taken with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht!;

Kevin and Alex

Someone happened to be showing me a custom Linux Live USB distro the other day, which looked kinda cool. It was KDE (ew), but also had a Fluxbox setup, which is sexy in a simple way.

I took a copy, to play around with, as it seemed to have a lot of cool tools on there, some of which I had seen before, lots of which I hadn’t. This looked like a hacker’s distro.

The name is BackTrack. I didn’t look much into it, until I was watching Hak5 on Revision3 this morning, and saw a review on Maltego, which just so happens  to come with BackTrack.

So I started playing around with BT3 (after an easy upgrade), and I love it. It’s so useful.
This is a Network Security / Sysadmin must-have distro. Every tool you could possibly need, is already there, on the disc.

Maltego is pro. It’s basically an Identity lookup tool. You input a person’s details, whatever you happen to know about them, name/email/location/phone etc. and then it will look up all the information it can find on said person.

I found some very old email accounts of mine, linked to forum posts and profiles, just as old. I think I may have also discovered Kevin Rose’s personal e-mail account. No luck with Bill Gates though. ^^