Erik D. Jones’s Blog

Maltego calls itself an “open source intelligence and forensics application”.  Basically it uses “transformations” or heuristics to derive relationships between entities and extract data from discovered data.  In short, it is a highly configurable crawler that will find related and connected data points based on several different types of starting nodes that you can seed such as: ip address, person, phone number, etc.

Quick start guide:

0) Download the community edition.
1) Add a person entity and, using the properties pane on the right, enter a full name.
2) Right click on the newly created entity and select a transformation to run such as “Email addresses” or “Websites and Blogs”.
3) Watch your graph and data grow!

Check it out by visiting Maltego’s website.

Thanks to Mubix for the original post.

I was reading a rather lengthy but extremely entertaining trip log by a sailing friend of mine, Ari Rubenstein.  In it, he coins a phrase for a new type of sailing, "Daisy Duke Sailing".  Read on:

As we did, we had occasion to notice a bizaare phenomenon. Swarms of Hunters and Catalinas and Beneteaus with their mainsails reefed or even double reefed and motorsailing in the 10 to 15 knot wind. What the hell? What there some wind around the corner we weren’t seeing? We got closer to one boat and figured out a partial explanation. Two guys were standing near the wheel, and two attractive young women were perched on the stern rail, wearing short shorts, cowboy hats, and shirts knotted at the midrift. Clearly the lads didn’t want the apparent wind to build to a level sufficient to chill bare female flesh. Ever since, Sarah has derisively referred to unecessarily-reefed-in-moderate-wind-with-female-passengers style as "Daisy Duke sailing". For my part, I’ll just say for the record give me a girl in Gore Tex any day…

My honey got me an iPhone 3G for my birthday. Yay!!

Happy iPhone 3G!