Update on Other Side Projects

Ubuntu on a stick will be tested again on Monday when I can get access to other computers that might be able to boot it if it were to be a hardware conflict however until then I will not be able to report any progress on that project unfortunately.

I am also hoping to run live a distribution of Linux called back track 2. This distribution as I mentioned in an earlier post is a security related distribution. I do not, unlike the immediate assumptions some people may come to, want to hack into other peoples computers and make ad ware, viruses or any other malicious code, script or software. In fact I think people, and to some extent now companies, who write ad ware and viruses should be strung up but their privates and left for the vultures to pick at. I am simply interested in security related programs and system. I became interested some years back when I had to encrypt some text in Visual Basic 6 so it could be stored. I designed an algorithm to encrypt the code which I have only just found out closely models the one time pad. It went though many versions being re-written in C#, and J# to deal with files and not just text.

A couple of years back I spent some time uncovering security problems "hacks" if you will in the network at my school.