...I went onto LinkedIn, a business-oriented social media service, and contacted three TEDx organizers. All of them suggested the same 3D foam company which gave me a quote of $2000 - way over my budget for the letters. Nevertheless, I was optimistic that I would be able to seek the help of professionals for guidance - I was right. After speaking with a student organizer from another high school’s TEDx event, I found a "makerspace" to fabricate the letters for 92% less: $160. Furthermore, I contacted the Producer of a local conference to request to rent their red rug. Surprisingly, he gladly let our team borrow it for free of charge. Indeed, my determination to step forward and solve our problems made my teammates more confident in their decisions. To the organizers, I attested to the fact that “nothing is impossible” if you are sanguine and...
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...During the junior year of high school I took a class called internship. This class gives students real world experience in a work environment. To pass the class one has to intern at a place of their choice sixty hours. I decided to apply for an internship at The Columbus Idea Foundry. The Columbus Idea Foundry is a Makerspace; a place where anybody can go and use a wide variety of tools that otherwise wouldn’t be available. After some time of working there I was assigned to work on a project that would soon become my favorite project during the entire internship. The project was to build six one-foot tall trophies that featured a glowing, 3d printed, crystal. These trophies were going to be given at an event called Venture Next hosted by Rev1...
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...Even once a person realizes he or she has a passion for information security, moving in the field can seem a daunting task. The education market is oversaturated with degrees, certifications, and training programs. Meanwhile, many prominent hackers mock those programs publicly. Although I’ve touched on security education and training quite a bit, I’m continually asked to provide a resource for people who are trying to transition from school or other fields into Information Security roles. Ours is a healthy job market and we do need qualified and motivated applicants. The jobs exist, but we repeatedly see candidates being given false advice to get them. With tremendous and very much appreciated help from many of my colleagues and friends in the field, I have endeavored to compile a comprehensive blog about starting an InfoSec career. This is a very lengthy blog broken into sections that may help people as parts or as a whole. We want you to succeed in our field. As always, please feel free to ask questions or leave comments / gripes / suggestions. Chapter 1: The Fundamentals Unfortunately, for all the interminable hacking tool tutorials and security guides floating around the internet, many InfoSec job candidates haven’t grasped two fundamental concepts: * To hack something (or defend it from hacking), you must have a solid understanding of how that thing works. And, * InfoSec is not a career that can be put in a box once you go home from work or school. You must be...
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...Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY ISSUE #90 - October 201 4 Photo: miss_millions (Flickr.com) P R I S O N AR C H I T E C T BUILD YOUR OWN OPEN SOURCE PRISON Fu ll Ci rcle M a g a zi n e i s n e i th e r a ffi li a te d wi th , n o r e n d o rse d b y, Ca n o n i ca l Ltd . full circle magazine #90 1 contents ^ HowTo OpenConnect to Cisco p.1 4 Full Circle THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE FOR THE UBUNTU LINUX COMMUNITY Linux News p.04 BACK NEXT MONTH LibreOffice p.1 5 Command & Conquer p.1 2 Arduino p.25 LinuxLabs p.XX Broadcast With WCS p.1 7 Linux Labs p.28 Review p.36 My Story p.37 BACK NEXT MONTH Blender p.XX Letters p.40 Tuxidermy p.41 Q&A p.42 BACK NEXT MONTH Inkscape BACK NEXT MONTH Ubuntu Women p.XX Ubuntu Games p.44 Graphics p.22 Security p.XX The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This means you can adapt, copy, distribute and transmit the articles but only under the following conditions: you must attribute the work to the original author in some way (at least a name, email or URL) and to this magazine by name ('Full Circle Magazine') and the URL www.fullcirclemagazine.org (but not attribute the article(s) in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you must distribute the resulting work under...
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