SF-SJ-SF-SFA

So I'm sitting in San Fran International terminal awaiting my flight to Melbourne via Auckland and reflecting on some fun stuff in the USENIX Security Symposium in San Jose I just attended(more specifically a special part of the conference on Security Metrics called Metricon):

a) SF Airport is at "Department of Homeland Security Threat Level ORANGE", who gives a sweet flying f**k.. and what does that mean anyway? Security traffic lights 'go slow' perhaps?
b) My GMAIL (web based email obviously.. AJAX'y port 80) to my securitymetrics.org group didn't get through from either the hotel's wireless nor the free wireless at the conference as the military have me blocked as a 'prohibited sender'... cool huh? Must be that email I sent a while back with as many keywords as possible in it. Nice one Draz! Anyway, see below for more details re: SMTP headers (I'm hoping it's not a redirect or filter by the hosting company of securitymetrics.org but I'm not sure yet) (NGILBEVSMB002CL.il.ng.ds.army.mil is in there somewhere...)
c) Spent an hour listening to the radio in San Fran today whereby a liberal radio station was interviewing Vincent Bugliosi, author of 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder', which is being blacklisted as such by the weak-ass delusional US media. Rock on Vince... he wants the death penalty for Bush + cronies. The fact that he carries such weight in terms of his background and history is one reason the mainstream invertebrates in the media are side stepping the gent.
d) met some cool amurican Lockheed Martin R&D dudes at the conference, including some peeps from Darpa, CIS(Center for Internet Security) and security bloggers I follow.
e) Met Dan Geer. Mission accomplished. Met Andrew Jaquaith who was like 'ahhhh Donal'..when he saw my name badge.
f) conference was pretty weak on the ground in terms of actual content but I didn't really care as I was just there for a holiday and to say hello to some peeps.
g) ebay security chick was cute, bigfix security chick looked like my mate micanders missus Holly
h) I came up with the idea of temporarily revoking NETBLOCKS as a punitative measure for orgs on the internets
i) Myself and Russell hit the bars twice chasing Asian-American chicks and had our fair share of Coronas and Mojitos, interesting discussions, great food, phone numbers, but didn't seal the deal. What's the story again with 2am closing?
j) I was reminded of the mass delusional insular conscious state most Amuricans live in
k) I was reminded of the smell of 'sewage' that wafts in certain areas of SF, including the abundance of homeless peeps around certain neighbourhoods.
l) I was pleased to see randomers walking around Haight-Ashbury in home made super hero capes, some in wizard hats... ain't it great that I wasn't phased nor were most of the public..
m) I was reminded how beatiful parts of California are and how cool and cooky SF still is.
n) I didn't get to the Green Gulch Zen Center, maybe next time! I seem to have ended up in San Fran every 1.5 to 2 years since around 1998-1999

What follows are the SMTP headers from the f**'ing dopy military, almost like they want to expose their internal MTA's....

Delivered-To: irldexter@gmail.com
Received: by 10.110.39.19 with SMTP id m19cs75264tim;
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:29:07 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.100.41.1 with SMTP id o1mr11435736ano.10.1217374144604;
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:29:04 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from mail06.ng.army.mil (mail14.ng.army.mil [132.79.8.26])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6si327532yxg.6.2008.07.29.16.29.03;
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:29:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of IL-ExchangeService@ng.army.mil designates 132.79.8.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=132.79.8.26;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of IL-ExchangeService@ng.army.mil designates 132.79.8.26 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=IL-ExchangeService@ng.army.mil
Received: from mail06.ng.army.mil (unknown [127.0.0.1])
by mail06.ng.army.mil (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 9D2A4520007
for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:23:31 -0500 (CDT)
X-AuditID: 844f0819-ac13fbb000001122-9a-488fa673712f
Received: from NGIAFESTBH002.ng.ds.army.mil (unknown [132.79.8.28])
by mail06.ng.army.mil (ARNG Mail Security Out) with ESMTP id 880194DC002
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Received: from NGILFESTBH002.il.ng.ds.army.mil ([55.70.177.222]) by NGIAFESTBH002.ng.ds.army.mil with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
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