Last night I went to the monthly 2600 meeting in Brisbane. We played a few rounds on Quake Arena and later on talked about different geek and hacker topics. I had fun, but not as much fun as I expected.

I’ve always had an interesting in hacking and trying to make gadgets and such do more than it’s expected to do. Yesterday I drifted away when they were talking about wifi sniffing and cracking. Well, I listened with one ear, but I didn’t feel as interested as I might have been 10+ years ago.

I’m not sure if I’m losing interest, or if my focus is shifting to something that everyone can benefit from.
I’ve always been interested in telecommunication, so exploiting wifi is interesting, but not something I would go around doing everyday. My focus has always been more focused on transportation and spreading information securely. Be it words or raw data.
I think it’s safe to say that I find social engineering and media hacking more interesting and useful in the long run. Don’t get me wrong, keeping focus on how to better improve wireless security is important; but can that be used to change the world?

Also I don’t tinker as much as I used to. I just browse around the web, reading news and randomly posting an article now and then.

Honestly I don’t know where I’m heading with this article, but I’ll try to sum it up in the next paragraph.

I think I’ve just become too tired of always tinkering with stuff without no purpose. I spent maybe an hour to fix the sound issue in Fedora 11, thanks to a great howto; but that had an actual meaning and end result. I do have a few ideas on how to change this, but I’ll air those ideas later or never.

Live long and prosper.