It’s taken a little longer than expected for EC Council to go throught the entries and pick a winner, but I’m pleased to announce that the complete Certified Ethical Hacking package goes to Jonathan Carr who commented on my blog post. Jonathan, If you haven’t already you’ll be contacted shortly. Congrats.

But I guess everyone’s a winner here, because I also received word that everyone who emails eric.lopez@eccouncil.org will get a 50% discount. That’s nearly $1500 dollars off the course’s regular price. Not too shabby. So, why are you still here then? Just tell Eric I sent you.

Apparently, there’s a course out there that makes you a Certified Ethical Hacker (or CEH). I always thought that being a hacker was about having an certain attitude about technology. I consider myself a hacker because I own a region-free DVD player. It’s about manipulating technology to suit your needs. But unfortunately, these ‘needs’ are personal, and there are plenty of people out there for whom illegal activities like fraud constitute personal goals.
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As of now, ‘m testing a new WordPress theme on this site. I haven’t decided on a title yet, and there’s tons of little stuff missing, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be releasing this one sometime this or next month. The most important thing to sort out is decent widget support. This was sorely lacking from some of my earlier themes, and instead of updating them I decided to dedicate the time to designing a new one altogether.

I wanted to use a white background to increase readability, and I’m using Flash movies to do some typography tricks that plain HTML doesn’t know yet. Other than that it’s a relatively simple theme that will be easy to modify by anyone who isn’t completely allergic to style sheets or HTML.

So, what do you think?