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Flight was good. Good food, Good service. I’m very happy with korean Airlines, and I’d travel with them again, just maybe not from Toronto to Brisbane (Brisbane to Toronto, however, was flawless, arguably the best flight I’ve ever taken in my life).

These are pictures of the free Hotel room Korean Air set me up with. I had to wait 16 hours for my next flight. They provided me with a free lunch coupon, but I got hungry by 7:00 AM and just looked for a decent local joint to satisfy my kimchee and bibimbap craving.

Excuse the poor quality pics – they were taken with my laptop’s webcam.

John Lennon would have been 69 years old today.

Happy Birthday ol’ boy.

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

I’m having some people over on Saturday night for a social poker game. I already bought food and snacks, they were on sale last week. Since I couldn’t bring my own poker chips (they weight a tonne), I borrowed some from a friend, but they are only 100! Which means, if there are 10 people, only 10 chips each! Not even CLOSE to enough for a game. I might need 300 or so. I will see if I can buy then return, but that won’t be likely. i’ll just buy and keep very cheap ones. Cards aren’t a problem, I have my own Copags. Chairs could be an issue, but I’ll borrow from the downstairs neighbours just in case there aren’t enough.

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

-Walt Disney

I am presently working on an assigment I have due on Sunday. It involves located and recoving 9 illegal images from a 256 flash drive image. The image was passed through FTK (Forensics ToolKit) and about 6 images were recovered easily. Another one which took some effort, was only a duplicate of another one already discovered. One more was steganographically hidden, and using stegbreak I discovered the password PANDA. JpHS was used to open the image and separate the two images from each other revealing another illegal image. 8 in total, and I stuggle to find the last one.

If you know what PGP is (or GPG for you *nix folks) then go ahead and download my Public key to use for encrypting data to me, or to verify any signed messages.

Can you believe that my Cryptology and Security professor does not have a public PGP key?

Homework is catching up with me, but I really like it like that. I’ve got cryptography maths to sort through (I’m a bit slow at maths), I’ve got assignments in Security to submit Friday. My Project Management class has an group assignment due Wednesday, and my group has not yet submitted everything to me so I can stitch all the disparate parts together. Finally, in Forensics class, we have not yet received our assignments, so I’m still waiting there.

What disappoints me is that the assignments ought to be there from Day 1. Read more…

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If you enjoy buying books and don’t mind used ones to save a few bucks, try alibris.com. Save $10 when you shop at Alibris. I’m a member, so they emailed this coupon to me. Not everyone gets these emails, but anybody can use the ‘coupon keyword.’ Enjoy.

I woke up this morning to check my email. In it, I received this strange e-mail message. This is purely spam (because its African haha =). Always treat your e-mails with respect, and never carelessly click on links, or reply to people you do not know. They may not know that they have hit a ‘live’ email, but when you reply, now they know that it is ‘real’ and will spread the news, and you will get even more spam. I want to post this, hopefully as a lesson to Mr Osatoh esq, and hopefully spam harvesters will pick up his email address and start spamming him.

From Barrister Frank Osatoh
Frank Osatoh Chambers & Associates
12 Rue Blvd Lome-Togo
West Africa
Tel: 00 228 936 71 53
Email; mr_frankosatoh@yahoo.com.ph

My Dear Alvarez,

I am Barrister Frank Osatoh ,a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr.J.C. Alvarez , a national of your country,who used to work as a contractor in Lome Togo.

Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 24th of June 2007, my client, his wife and his only daughter died in a motor accident along Kpalime express Road.Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients extended relatives,

this has also proved unsuccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to searcht-through with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assist in repartrating the fund valued at US$ 9.5 million left behind by my client before it gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited.

The said bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confisicated within the next twenty one official working days.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 2 years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last name, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer.

I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for this claim. All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
You can also contact me through my email address:

1 Full names,………………………..
2 private phone number…………………….
3 current residential address, …………….
4 Occupationn…………………..
5 Age and Proffession………..

Yours faithfully
Barrister Frank Osatoh (esq)
Tel: 00 228 936 71 53
contact me with my private
Email; mr_frankosatoh@yahoo.com.ph
you can also use your private email