When did you (month and year) create your Gmail account

If you do not know it and need to know, you can find the date that you created your GMAIL account.

In General You’ll Need The Following Information To Quickly Reset Password

• What was the last password that you remember (must have)?
• When was the last time (month, date, and year) you were able to sign in to your Gmail account (must have)?
• When did you (month and year) create your Gmail account (must have)?
• What was the answer to your security question?
• E-mail addresses of up to 5 frequently emailed contacts.
• Name of up to 4 labels.
• What was the first account recovery e-mail address that you remember?
• Name up to 4 other Google products that you were using with your Gmail account and also the approximate date (month and year) you started using them.
• Phone numbers that you may have associated with your Google account.
• Information about how you lost access to your Google/Gmail account.

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Fiction ** Collector USB Flash Drive

Fang-Chun Tsa created The Collector USB Flash Drive.  It uses Micro-SD cards as it’s own memory. You can insert up to three Micro-SD cards into the USB flash drive to expand the memory capacity of the flash drive. 

Have Micro SD cards of different sizes?  No Problem.

But getting one 'may' be a problem as I cannot find this product for sale.

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Tetrahedron Superyacht

google :: Tetrahedron Super-Yacht

This Trimaran seems more like a House Boat.  It is also a HYdrofoil Small Waterplane Area Ship (HYSWAS).  Made from Carbon Fiber and Duplex Stainless Steel, the Tetrahedron is 25 Meters (82') long. With a take-off speed of 15 knots (17.2 mph) and a flying speed of 38 knots (43.7 mph) this vessel has a range of 3,000 nautical miles.  This ship was conceptualized from the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation (MAPC) ship 'The Quest' (1995).

This Innovative concept vessel can accommodate six passengers. At low speed the yacht sits gently on three underbelly hulls. Long distances are achievable with reduced out-of-water drag and stormy ocean conditions would incur virtually no slamming. It is designed to travel smoothly through rough water by controlling Pitch, Heave & Roll Forces. The pyramid-shaped superstructure will appear to fly low over the water and the submerged torpedo-shaped hull ‘levitates’ the Pyramid out of the water by rotating hydrofoils on the submerged hull.    

 Can anyone say SG1?  

I don't know about you, but this is an amazing idea for a ship.  

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A Hydra-foil wing gives it lift.

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Lack of Nutrition is the Leading cause of most deaths and disability.....

Lack of Nutrition is the Leading cause of most deaths and disability.....

Risk Factors for Death

Risk Factors for Disability

• Do you want to waste away? Keep eating the wrong things and you will have up to 15 years of disability before you die, 
• Where do you learn about nutrition?  Not the stuff that is Junk Science, but the real stuff?
• What is Lifestyle-Medicine?
• Why is it that Doctors do not talk about my primary health risk?  
• Why isn't this on the news or taught in every medical school?

My Risk Factors

• I can control for Diet, and have a decent diet since I am Vegan.  
• I don’t smoke, so that is not an issue
• My BMI needs to come down.  
• My blood pressure should follow my diet and exercise.  
• My fasting blood glucose should be better than normal due to my bean consumption.  
• I do need to increase my physical activity.  
• I don’t drink any alcohol, so that goes away.
• Being Vegan works to keep my total cholesterol low.
• I am not a drug user, so that is N/A.
• My main occupational risk is sitting too much.
• I can control the Ambient Particulate Matter with a filter.

READ ** The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success

I fished reading the book The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success by Walter Mischel and wanted to make a note to myself. 

Are you only into immediate rewards or can you wait and reap twice what you could get now.  A Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow) has a similar model of “fast” and “slow” thinking that has many parallels to what is described by Walter Mischel.

Mischel describes two systems in the brain: "hot" (limbic) and "cold" (prefrontal cortex).  The Hot system deals with immediate threats and rewards.  The Cold system deals with delayed consequences.  The key to self-control is cooling the hot system where appropriate.  When the Limbic System Kicks in it may shut down the prefrontal cortex and prevent cooling if you cannot recognize a hot button before it takes over.  We need to learn to recognize Hot-Buttons and activate our Prefrontal Cortex to work on delayed rewards that are larger than immediate rewards.

As a child would you wait for twenty minutes to have two marshmallows or have one right now.   Can you delay rewards? Could you as a child?  And what does that have to do with the rest of your life?  In this book Walter Mischel explains that your ability as a child to delay gratification is a Key Indicator to life time performance.  The Marshmallow test (Delayed Gratification) has the ability to predict higher SAT scores better social and cognitive functions, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth.

Nature or Nurture?  Do our Genes define our level of self-control or is there an epi-genetic control that can turn self-control on or off?  Can willpower (our cognitive ability) substantially increase this crucial ability via our brains plasticity to gain more self-control?  Genetics clearly plays a role in the level of self-control you have, but Genetics are not your destiny.  If you really want to, you can increase your self-control if you approach it with a growth mindset and that willpower is not a limited resource over which you have no control.

Not only do you at times not need willpower, you can often remove the source of temptation by not buying it and surrounding yourself with people who can help you.  You may also want to have an effective pre-commitment strategy and cues. 

* MAKE UP "IF...THEN" RULES. We tend to react to cues out of habit. Create new habits with new cues. IF I go to a restaurant, THEN I will start my meal with a salad. IF I get an email notification, THEN I will finish the next item on my to-do list before reading the email. When well-rehearsed and practiced, the desired behavior is triggered automatically without effort.

* COOL THE NOW, HEAT THE LATER. Vividly imagine the negative consequences of immediate gratification: Whenever you are tempted to smoke, visualize the picture of a cancerous lung. If you are tempted overeat, visualize the picture of a person who is unfit and out of shape.

* DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM THE SITUATION. Refer to yourself in the third person. Instead of saying "I've to finish the report by tomorrow", I can say "Chuck has to finish the report by tomorrow." This way you distance yourself and change your role to that of an observer. This makes the completion of the task easier.

* SHIFT YOUR FOCUS FROM HOT TO COOL PROPERTIES. Shift your attention from the hot to the not-so-hot attributes of the stimulus: Instead of looking at the chocolate as a tasty flavorful treat look at it as a brown square, wrapped in paper. By focusing your attention on the on the cool attributes of a stimulus, we can decrease its appeal.

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In the science of self-control it is said “good things really do come to those who wait”.  But like most things, taking control of any area of your life starts with asking the question: Would you like to? 

Sitzfleisch, the ability to sit in a seat and reach a goal, despite obstacles.

How many things are in the world that are temptations, that if we just followed a few simple rules, we could live a life of reaching goals.

Digital Security

Knowledge of Security is Paramount to everyone in this Digital Age, and many people are not aware of the security threats that are in the digital world.  We fear a spider more than a link, but a link can hurt us far more, if we do not take precautions.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ~ Benjamin Franklin.

You can only stop what you know.  If you are unaware that it can happen, then you are vulnerable.

Were do you learn about Digital Security?  From those who do security, and you can get a YouTube-PHD while watching and learning about what can protect you from harm.

What you will find below is my notes as I go through the information and update the links - No-Link, means that I have not watched it yet.

I was going to put this out on Google+, but they limited me to ... 50 boards.  I thought about putting this on Pinterest, but the videos' would not be of interest to that genre, and twitter is way to short

TODAY is 2016.11.24




OWASP  YouTube channel has roughly  18.5 days (442.5 hours) of video as of TODAY.

 51:12  OWASP  Radio Hacking: Cars, Hardware, and more! - Samy Kamkar - AppSec California 2016

Drive it Like You Hacked IT

http://fcc.io

To Listen - Use HackRF One - Great Scott Gadgets - 1Mhz - 6Ghz - CAN use to Spoff GPS - 1MHz is FM Radio Frequency Range.

RTL-SDR RTL2832U -  SDR (Software Defined Radio)

Planes Circling over LA - FBI planes.

GNU Radio - The Tick Shift of SDR

GQRX - See a waterfall view of the spectrun

SDR# for Windows

Sub Reddit - for RTL-SDR

rtl_fm - command line tool to grab broadcasts

Audacity is a FREE easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder

Yard Stick One by Michael Ossmann using rfcat python device to send and receive data.

Mattell IM-ME - uses the TI CC1101 Chipset - BRICKED the Code. . . 

Shows that most Garage Doors can be hacked with Brute Force in 30 min, but that using smart logic you can get it down to just 8 seconds use the De Bruijn Sequence (bit shift register showing the least number of combinations to show all combinations.

SSL MITMA * Raspberry Pi, FONA GSM Board, Mallory (SSL, MITMA), dns spoofing (api.gm.com), iptables, alfa AWUS036h, Edimax Wifi dongle, Pre-Paid SIM card. Hacking CAR.

Very Kool presentation showing how the vulnerabilities of most wireless devices and the TOOLS he used.  He thinks outside of the box

TheSecurityTube's channel  has 525 video's as of TODAY has 6D:11H:59M:40S of video.

1:11:22  TheSecurityTube's channel   Satellite Hacking For Fun And Profit (Blackhat 2009)

Bluetooth // RFID // White Hat ## Reverse Engineering.  Feed Hunting, SCAN for Satellites, and Scan all Frequencies - Visual - Report on Mailing Lists / Forums - Poking around in the DARK on FeedHuntPlaza - EASIER Way to Do it - Visualization is your friend - humans brains like images, recognize food, danger, friends enemies,  Done initially back in the 90's.

Hacking a Bird in The Sky - this guy is Python and hacks 'DreamBox', Linux, GPL Source Code, Cross Compilers, Alternative Firmware * http://www.i-have-a-dreambox.com * IT IS IN GERMAN, and with  a DVB card can access the data from the satellite.  dvbsnoop - DVB & MPEG stream analyzer is like a "WireShark" for DVB and can access the raw data from the DVB card - can decode Known PID's. ** http:/dvbsnop.sourceforge.net ** Allows you to see IP and MAC addresses - the source and destination addresses.  Tunneled into a receiver and does some 3D modeling of his data.

DreamBox 7020 ~$350, 

Dish - $300

Motor & Mount $150

Total ~ $785

http://rfidiot.org    adam@algroup.co.uk

Sell them - NXP PN532 chips to run in emulator mode

DEFCONConference  has 1852 video's as of TODAY and 56D:2H:24:1M.  I was curious, since they have some really interesting stuff - how long it would take me to watch it - without sleeping or eating or going to the bathroom, and it would 2 months.

53:09   DEFCONConference    DEF CON 23 - Zoz - And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction (Fixed)

Explosions & how to destroy drives from 3-Letter-Gov.Agencies.  Just fun to watch and what I learned, is the ONLY, the ONE and ONLY way to destroy the data for all practical purposes  if you really want to destroy the data... - ONLY RUN your systems in Ram.  Otherwise if you are using disk they they WILL get your data. 

1:00:06  DEFCONConference  DEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse

45:31  DEFCONConference  DEF CON 23 - Samy Kamkar - Drive it like you Hacked it: New Attacks and Tools to Wireles

The Exploiteers Channel has 5H:2M:51S and 46 video's as of Today.

48:50 The Exploiteers Hack All The Things: 20 Devices in 45 Minutes

http://dc22.gtvhacker.com

Free UART adapters - 

Shows you how to hack hardware using most commonly the UART

eMMC (Embedded Multi-Media Card) 

HackersOnBoard Channel has 3000 Video's and has 98D:22H:38M:35S

42:36 HackersOnBoard  Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards

Subscriber Identity Module - Smart cards are designed to be secure.  Designed not to be cloned. 

SIM Apps - Did you know sim cards are actually 8 bit computers?  Not very powerful, but they are computers.  More specifically they are JavaCards.

Sim Alliance Loader - 

GlobalPlatoform is a standard for loading and managing apps on Java Cards

SEEK: Open-Source Android SDK for smart cards.

 1:39:42 HackersOnBoard  [Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up

D.A.G.  Directed Acyclic Graph

init,clone  diff,log,status  add,commit  checkout  branch,merge  push,pull

Init

Clone

 . . . How you start a repository.

# git init

Add

Comit

. . . Getting stuff done

# git add foo

# git commit 

# git status

# git add foo

# git commit

# git diff

# git add foo

# git branch feature

# git checkout feature

# git add  << errors

# git add bar

# git status

# git commit

a Git ID - Content+Author+Date+log+Previous Commit ID

Every ID is Unique

Every Commit is Unique

Commits never change

SecurityTubeCons 1066 video's and 6D:11H:59M:40S to watch them.

48:40 SecurityTubeCons  Blackhat - 2010 How to Hack Millions of Routers

How can I be secure knowing that the routers are insecure.

 27:05 Corpse Husband Horrifying Deep Web Stories "Why I Quit Hacking.." (Graphic) A Scary Hacker Story  THIS seems to be a Fictional Story about the Dark Net aka the Deep Web.

Programming Languages to Learn

Programming Languages to Learn

My first programming language was assembly for the Motorola 6800.  I remember most of the commands with the different addressing modes (Immediate, Direct, Index, Extended, Inherent) and the different registers.

I understand bit’s and byte’s.  I also know several programming languages and wonder if I should learn another language or increase my expertise with the ones that I know.  What are the best programming languages to know?

IT-Skills-Watch gives me an idea of what I should learn and because it is updated monthly I can keep track over time what I should evaluate and learn.  The Top 20 Development Skills shows programming languages, and the Top 40 IT skills shows the applications to watch. 

Beginners and experts know that there are many factors that should be taken into account while deciding what to learn.  Different Fields will require different technologies and with the rate technology evolves, by the time you become an expert it can already be considered obsolete.  There are ways to learn faster, and according to Josh Kaufman, you can learn anything in 20 hours.

Languages vary in terms of functionality and complexity. Each programming language strengths will help you with different types of tasks you want to perform.  Each grouping of task can be thought of as programming “tracks” or “developer paths”.   

	C	C#	C++	Objective C	Java	PHP	SQL	Ruby	Python	Javascript
Game Programmer	x	x	x		x
Mobile App Developer				x	x
Web Developer		x			x	x	x	x	x	x
Software Developer	x		x		x		x		x

In addition to programming Tracks, the Genealogy of Language can also guide your path as each language is influenced by other languages.  If you know Perl, then Learning Python, Ruby and PHP become easier. Perl’s creation is influenced by C, AWK, csh and the next generation of Perl, Perl-5 was influenced by C++.  C, Perl and Python are close enough that if you know one, then learning the others will be easier. And of course, you will want to have a book to read, so Free Programming Ebooks.

The top languages to learn was influence by IT-Skills-Watch.

1. Java was developed by James Gosling, in 1990 at Sun Microsystems. Java is an object oriented programming language. A Java core principle is WORA (Write Once Run Anywhere). Java is designed to be portable. You compile Java Source code and then on any machine where JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is installed, you can run that code no matter what OS or Hardware it is on.

Java should be learned by every programmer. Learn Java at Udemy.  Learn java online. Learn Java on Youtube (do not forget to use Filters = Long (> 20 minutes) ).

2. Python is extensible and has a small core language.  Guido van Rossum, being a fan Monty Python named the language Python. In the ‘Zen of Python’ there are 20 software principles the influence the design of python. For example;

·         Beautiful is better than ugly

·         Explicit is better than implicit

·         Simple is better than complex

·         Complex is better than complicated

·         Readability counts

Python may owe its surge in popularity to Google’s investment in the language in the last 10 years.  Some web sites that currently operate using python include pinterest.com, instagram.com, and rdio.com.  Python and PHP have associated web frameworks to make it more convenient to develop web based applications. Learn Python on Udemy. Learn Python on Codecademy. Learn Python the Hard Way.

3. C is a good programming language to learn (learn C at Udemy), specifically for the beginners who are intending for a programming career in the long run.  This language was created in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at Bell labs. C is used to develop low level applications and program embedded systems.  C is fast because it doesn’t have support for garbage collection, dynamic typing and other facilities which make it easier for the programmer to write programs but the additional processing overhead degrades performance.  There are many resources you can use to Learn C which can be found with google.

3. C++ is widely used and in high demand in the job market. The C language performs extremely well but it lacks object orientation (OO). In 1983 C was extended to include object orientation. This extension is C++. “Most packaged software is written in C++. That means games, office applications, graphics and video editors, and operating systems. In fact, if you think of the software you use every day that isn't online, chances are it is written in C++ (or C or objective-C). It's not written in Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc”((ref))

There are many resources you can use to Learn C++ which can be found with google. Learn C++ at Udemy.  Learn C++ for free.

3. C# (pronounced "C sharp") was developed in 2000 by Microsoft as part of its family of programming languages and is part of the .net framework.   C# is very similar to Java in terms of capabilities. C# is a pure Objective-Oriented language that combines the power and flexibility of C++ with the advanced features of Java.  If you know C#, you should be able to switch to Java and vice versa.

C# can be used to develop almost all types of software applications.  “If you don't already have C#, you can acquire a version of Visual Studio that includes C# for free from the Visual Studio site.” ((ref)) “The best GUI frameworks for Windows applications is Winforms and WPF together with .NET Framework. The best programming language to work with the .NET Framework and it's APIs is C#. Java is not an alternative for this. And C++ is an older language without automatic memory management.” ((ref))

The job market for C# programmers is good (see IT-Skills-Watch Top 20 Development Skills ). Start learning C# at Udemy.

3. Objective C was initially conceived of by Brad Cox and Tom Love, in 1983. Influenced by Smalltalk and intrigued by problems of re-usability in software design and programming they wanted a language that was backwards compatible with C.  In 1988  NeXT licensed Objective-C  and it has been used as a development platform for Apple based software applications.  

Start learning Objective-C at Udemy. Learn Objective-C in 24 hours. I searched for and found many explanations on how to get Objective C online.

4. Perl was created by Lary Wall in 1987 and is in continual evolution.  Perl 5.000 was released in 1994. The interpreter was rewritten to add many new features including “objects, references, lexical (my) variables, and modules. Importantly, modules provided a mechanism for extending the language without modifying the interpreter. This allowed the core interpreter to stabilize, even as it enabled ordinary Perl programmers to add new language features.” ((ref))

Perl comes standard on my Unix Releases, and is freely available for download. 

Perl comes with a very active community, and large number of resources for learning Perl including tutorials from novice to advanced. Start learning Perl at Udemy.

5. JavaScript was created in 10 days in May 1995 by Brendan Eich.  JavaScript is a client side language and is one of the three core technologies of the World Wide Web alongside HTML and CSS.  JavaScript runs inside a client browser and process commands on client computer.  This decreased load on the Server and Increases Application Speed. JavaScript was designed by Netscape and many websites make use of JavaScript.

Start Learning JavaScript at Udemy, mozilla.org, w3schools, Codecademy, learn-js.org, learncodethehardway.org, devdocs.io, Crockford.com, javascript.com, jsforcats.com, nodeschool.io, JavaScript Design Patterns, JavaScript Bible, JavaScript Allonge, Programming JavaScript Applications @ Oreilly.com, javascript.info, codecombat.com,  You Dont Know JS, best methods and resources according to 25 JavaScript experts, Eloquent JavaScript, Eloquent JavaScript (.pdf), khanacademy.org, 50 Best Websites to Learn JavaScript, Best Way to Learn JavaScript, quora- - -the best way to learn JavaScript   

6. Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995 and was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada and Lisp.  Ruby was created to be an Object Oriented language.  It is also a dynamic, general-purpose and reflective language that supports imperative and functional programing paradigms along with being Object Oriented.  Similar to Python it is readable and has been used to create websites including Github, Scribd, Yammer, Shopify, and Groupon via Ruby on Rails.  Ruby is flexible to the point you can redefine the + instruction as “plus”.

Start learning Ruby at Udemy, CodeSchool, Codecademy, TheOdinProject, TutorialsPoint(pdf), RubyInside(pdf), ProgrammingRuby(pdf), HumbleLittleRubyBook(pdf), The Book of Ruby(pdf), Ruby Cheatsheet(pdf), Ruby Language Quick Reference(pdf), The Ruby Programming Language(pdf), The Little Book Of Ruby(pdf), Ruby in a Nutshell(pdf).

7. PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”, but now is a recursive acronym “PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor”.  PHP’s first incarnation was as a set of CGI (Common Gateway Interface) binaries but after in 1997 the was developed into a new independent programming language.  PHP is a server-side scripting language processed on the server and the end result is sent to the user of the website in the form of plain HTML.  PHP has a mature interface for APIs, protocols, and multiple databases and is also extensible which attracts developers who create and submit modules extending PHP itself. With thousands of already built in modules you can usually find the desired functionality or use one of the hundreds of PHP platforms such a WordPress, Drupal, Joomla for website development.  PHP is also an integral part of the famous LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) platform and is one of the languages that every programmer should learn especially if they are looking for a Web Developer’s Career.

Start learning PHP at Udemy, w3schools, or at anyone of 50 websites.

8. Bash or Bourne Again Shell, is a Unix shell first released in 1989 and is the default shell for most major Linux distributions.  Bash is a command line interpreter that parses tokens into simple compound commands and performs various shell expansions, breaking the expanded tokens into lists or filenames and commands and arguments.  Bash can perform any necessary redirection and execution of commands.  Anyone who works with Unix will want to know bash.

Start learning bash at Udemy, with a free guide, TutorialsPoint.  There are literally thousands of options for learning bash and hundreds of online books to learn from.

9. SQL SQL (Structured Query Language) was created in the 1970’s for managing data held in a relational database management system.  SQL provides a standardized way to interact with a database and is extremely simple to learn.  Like JavaScript, knowing SQL is not beneficial by itself, but having a command of it will allow you to create applications that access and manipulate backend databases.  The most common SQL for many is MySQL that is part of the LAMP LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl) open-source web application software stack.

Start learning SQL at KhanAcademy, Udemy, w3schools.com, codecademy.com, sqlcourse.com, SQLcourse2.com, SQLzoo.net, TutorialsPoint.com, udacity.com, SQL-Tutorial.ru, tutsPlus, mySQLtutorial.org, codeschool and many pdf books are also available online.

 SQL Language Reference(pdf. 1634p Oracle).  SQL Reference(pdf. 1597p IBM).