[Noisebridge-discuss] Class ideas: Open Source and why it's good, & Computer security for non-security experts.

[Micah Lee]

I know a lot about computer security and would be able to contribute to such
a class on it. I guess for security n00bs, things to cover would be:
- packet sniffing, and when your traffic is plain-text or encrypted, and how
people can steal your twitter password most of the time (a demo even,
maybe?)
- basic TCP/IP, with IP addresses, ports, and firewalls
- what it means to have a shell, why reverse shells are cool, how to use
netcat
- nmap - host discovery, port scanning, version identification
- using nmap or exploits from milw0rm and whatnot to attack vulnerable
services you found
- web application hacking?

I also know a lot about iPhone game development now that I've been doing it
for awhile and would be able to contribute a lot to a class on that too.
- dealing with Apple's bullshit 101
- the iPhone SDK -- though I rarely touch it since I make games
- basic video game logic, like the game loop, how to organize all the
objects, switching from menus to gameplay, etc
- basic video game physics -- vector math, collision detection, etc
- how to use cocos2d, which is a badass Free Software iPhone game
development framework
- other frameworks like unity3d (I don't know too much about other
framework)

Right now I'm ridiculously busy though and so I don't think I have the time
to bottomline these classes myself. But if other people organize them, I'll
come and share what I know at them.

Micah

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like classes on the following topics:
>
> * Emacs
> * Android Development
> * iPhone Development
> * Flash game Development
> * Simple AI
> * Flamethrowers
>
> nym
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>
>> I am no experts on either subject but...
>>
>> Is anyone interested in learning more about why a bunch of folks here at
>> Noisebridge feel that open source software is a good and positive thing?
>>
>> Is anyone interested in learning what all this security nonsense is, how
>> to understand how someone can compromise your machine (and by you I mean
>> the average internet user and not someone as high profile, as let's say
>> Jake), and what simple steps you can take to beef up your security?
>>
>> Is anyone interested in running either classes?
>>
>> --
>> Rubin Abdi
>> rubin at starset.net
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