K.C.'s Garage

I took Kim to New York City for her birthday this year. We stayed in an inexpensive hole-in-the-wall (read: cash only, up front) hotel in the East Village. It was a lot of fun! Here's my photos from the trip: Kim's photos can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/nonfucious/NewYorkCityOctober2008

Some time ago I needed an automated way to get the certificate DN, signing cert DN, and expiration date from a bunch of SSL web servers. I couldn't find a free tool out there to do that, so I hacked up this script in python. You provide it the IP address and it connects, retrieves the aforementioned information, and spits it out. There isn't any error handling &etc, but I thought someone else might find it helpful. Or use it as a starting point for something more advanced. It requires the M2Crypto library, since the built-in SSL library for python is SORELY LACKING in functionality. EDIT: 2010.01.26 - Fixed broken link caused by new hosting provider! Grab it here: sslprobe.python

Just an empty warehouse in an industrial area of Atlanta.  This place has apparently been empty for about a decade, and has been well decorated with graffiti.  Oddly, around some corners and off an empty showroom is a small room with two immaculate, untouched shower models.

Kim offered to buy me a tandem skydive for my birthday last year. It took me this long to get up the courage to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. :)

For sale: One former car battery manufacturing plant. Some cleanup required.

So several months back I posted some exterior shots of an abandoned winery that I discovered on the South side of Atlanta. Well, some time later as I was driving by I noticed the place was wide open - doors and all - so I stopped by and snapped some photos of the inside.

If you are attending DEFCON this year (or just want to see my slides), the final incarnation of my slides are available here: http://phreakmonkey.com/dc16-ue.zip The slides on the DEFCON CD are out-of-date. Also, thanks to everyone who came out to the EFF party last night! My talk is on Saturday at 3:00pm, track 5. :-) EDIT 2008.08.12: Another year, another DEFCON gone by.  A quick THANK YOU to everyone who makes DEFCON possible (if you attended that includes you!), and thanks to everyone who attended my talk or walked up to me at some point during the con to share your personal Urban Exploration experiences!  It was a lot of fun.  See you next year!