Occasionally I find myself or one of my projects getting some media attention. Sometimes this is planned, other times it's just picked up by a wayward or bored reporter.
I've been accused of being a media whore, and I have to admit a certain amount of glee at the attention. However, I hate the media, I much prefer getting my truthful news from places like The Independent Media Center, but big media are a nessecary evil. I would prefer to talk to the media and give them answers and facts that I know are right and that they can't skew to make Hackers look bad. So far it's proven fairly efective. Besides, shameless self promotion can be fun
Please note that some links may be dead or broken as I have no control over media outlets moving content or erasing old stories. When I can I'll make local mirrors but even then it's not perfect.
Computer World, Norway, February 23, 2009. Norwegian language interview about E-voting. Local cache - Page 1, Local cache - Page 2, English local cache - Page 1, English local cache - Page 2
Pauldotcom Security Weekly, September 4, 2008. Interview with Thorn and theprez98 about Kismet Hacking
Globe and Mail TQ Magazine - Summer 2008. Cover profile of RenderMan in a national newspapers IT magazine insert. Backup Link
Network world video report about The Last HOPE RFID badges including about 2.5 minutes of RenderMan's talk - 7/20/08 - Video removed 01/09
Cnet news artice about RenderMan's "Pwn Thee" talk at The Last HOPE - 7/20/08
Hak5.org podcast for Season 3, Episode 8 - Interview with RenderMan at Shmoocon 2008
Alberta Venture Magazine, December, 2007 - Feature article about RenderMan and wireless security - Local mirror
Pauldotcom Security Weekly, April 28, 2007 - Audio Link
Edmonton Sun newspaper, December 20th 2005 - Article about wireless security, unfortunatly titled 'RenderMan to the rescue'
Ed Magazine, August 13th 2005 - Article about 'borrowing wifi' with quotes from RenderMan indicating it's illegality - Local Mirror:Page 1 - Page 2
Reuters (and elsewhere), August 5th 2005 - Article about the DC13 wardriving contests with RenderMan and Panthera quotes
TheInquirer.net, July 31th 2005 - Article about DC13, Mentioning me in the lockpick contest
TheInquirer.net, July 30th 2005 - Article about DC13, featuring the Warpack
Network World Fusion Magazine, November 10th, 2004 - Article about lockpicking featuring a few quotes from Renderman about the DC lockpick contest
Watchguard Newswire August 24th, 2004 - Article about the Defcon 12 Running Man competition featuring Renderman and Deviant and the Warpack. Also picked up by Slashdot
Las Vegas City Life - August 4th, 2004 - Renderman is mentioned in the cover story as "the notorious Canadian hacker known for his black fedora hat and his zoot suits". - Local Mirror
Edmonton Sun - April 15th - Renderman interviewed about the downing of an Edmonton Police Association message board
CBC Radio, March 11th 2003 - The Current - Freakishly early (6am) interview with host in Toronto about wardriving and the CSIS docs
CBC Radio - Edmonton, Alberta - Afternoon radio interview 2/24/03 about the CSIS Docs
Edmonton Sun - Local angle about Renderman being the subject of a CSIS Intelligence Brief
Edmonton Journal & Canadian Newswire - CSIS fears wireless trackers - RenderMan and JJKaczor find out that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) were keeping an eye on the First Worldwide Wardrive - Scan of the print article
Speaking engagement about wardriving - Renderman gave a talk to the local CIPS Compsec group about wardriving on Feb 20th, 2003. Presentation materials are in the Presentations section - Local Mirror of Summary
'Ed' Magazine (Edmonton Journal) - Local interest magazine makes Renderman out to be a cartoon character - Cover Scan - Story Scan
Global News, Edmonton Alberta - RenderMan talking to a local TV crew in a VERY good piece on wardriving Edmonton (Video coming soon)
Profit Magazine - RenderMan doing a good deed wardriving - Scan of the print article
The Register - Renewing Norton.com for symantec when they forgot the bill
Wired Magazine Online - Converting a Diamond RIO MP3 player into a Red-Box - Local Mirror
Hacker News Network - Reform the Anti-Virus industry (local mirror, HNN is now defunct)
Hacker News Network - How the Anti-Virus industry works (local mirror, HNN is now defunct)
As well, various articles and documents have been reprinted or linked to elsewhere. Feel free to copy/link to any of my files/docs, just credit them back to myself and this site.
