Lessons from Mexico
Recently returned from Mexico with a few valuable lessons.
First off, with copious amounts of time and the lack of an Internet connection, or English speaking television channels you can pretty much learn a language given the proper material. I blew threw an entire python book this past weekend and started hacking on code to better myself! I bought down a hard copy book and a bunch of e-books with me. All in all, it was a good weekend without the Internet.
I also learned that 2wire is the dominate source of Internet down there. Beyond that, which really is not a discovery worth mentioning is the fact that I think Mexico has better education on securing wireless networks than America. Out of all the Wireless networks I came across, especially in the area I Was staying, all of them had security on! Yet, throw on a scanner in my neighborhood and you hit 20+ access points with no security at all.
Los Sanitarios, Are far from Sanitary. While we were at El Mercado to grab some candy for the party I had to goto the bathroom really bad! When I walked in, there was shit on the walls, dirty paper all over the place. It was horrible, I felt as though I was going to contract a disease just pissing there. So, if you find yourself in Mexico and you need to use the bathroom… Beware of places that charge 1 peso!
While I was down there I also found some old docs on Rootkits, Anti Forensics and my architecture manuals for ARM and MIPS. W00t, now I just need to get one of these
and I’ll be good to go! I know its muy temprano, but I’ve been up since 3 a.m and doing too much travel for the day. Plus I got a speeding ticket again, so I’m not happy! Back to PPC later this week!
