“With great power… comes great responsibility.”

I have more than successfully penetrated AEP’s internal (and external) firewall and security measures. The method I used isn’t uncommon, however, the common method wouldn’t allow me to fully realize what I wanted to do so I had to get a little creative. Jo also introduced me to Hamachi which (after using a little bit of finesse) I’ve been able to use to completely bridge my home network and AEP’s corporate network… all I have to do is get the internal DNS server to register my computer and I would then have unrestricted access to the internal workstations/servers. Of course my proof of concept has already gone to too far already so I’m not going to push any more buttons… in fact I’m writing a report/tutorial for AEP’s security operations and engineering teams so they can try to plug the holes.

Dinner with Tara this week was awesome. Matthew is a lot like I was when I was his age (poor kid), but he’s a lot of fun. I also got to meet Tara’s cousin who is the daughter of the woman I found Tara through. There might be a very spooky connection between Tara’s cousin and myself. I am positive I’ve met her before (her name was even familiar) I just can’t place where. I’m not exactly petrified by the idea, more like masochistically intrigued, but it is entirely possible (given her age) that I met her in church or through someone at the church.