Yeah, I've been using http://www.ethicalhacker.net/forum/ lately as well *thumb up*

Yep!

Not very often. Maybe once every few months and it's usually other people initiating the conversation.

I'd be interested in having the capability, but I honestly wouldn't be blogging all that much.

If there's a task list to knock out that I could load up when possible during working hours or late at night, sure! I can't commit to anything scheduled though, work's pretty hectic.

While I would love the opportunity to just delete spam threads as I see them, I don't know much time I'd be able to commit to other moderator duties (see above).

If I knew PHP/MySQL, definitely...but I don't

I'd support this.

7 days to pentest, 7 days to prep your report.
Source: http://www.elearnsecurity.com/certification/ecppt-gold/process.php

Gosh, I hope not. 28 here and I'm working on making the transition. If I only have one more year...

A Raspberry Pi version? Nice!

Sweet, thanks for the heads up!

Great review! I've already had this one on my wishlist, but I've just bumped it up to #1 as I'm more motivated to get back into Python.

Been slowly working through these as I had time tonight. Here's my progress so far without using the hints:

1 - solved!
2 - solved!
3 - solved!
4 - solved!
5 - ...what?
6 - ...huh?
7 - solved!
8 - Pretty sure I got this one, but I get a 500 error page (instead of a 404?). Source for the page gives the URL for their career page lol
9 - solved!
10 - solved!

These are fun! Curious if anybody is able to get the "you solved it" page for puzzle #8...

Aside from the out of pocket costs (btw, wow ), this would be the other deciding factor for me. That amount of money when I could benefit more from another course just wouldn't be worth it for me. Maybe if it was a Community event and the travel/lodging costs weren't so high (if you live close enough that you don't need to stay in a hotel, you still get the free cert attempt).

February 19th? Looking forward to listening in to this Q&A

Sweet, thanks for the heads up!

w00t! Gratz man!

Congrats, j0rDy!

Man, now I wanna play Killer Instict...

@SephStorm - If you live in an area where they have community SANS events, you should look into applying for a facilitator position for those (if you haven't already). You don't get the SANS experience of a large event, store, etc, but you get all the great training without the cost of travel, lodging, etc.  That's what I did