Seamus Tuohy seamustuohy

A joint work between Quinn Norton and Alexandre Dulaunoy on how to interact with journalists. The presentation was given at OHM2013.

Talking to the media

You've reached out, or they've reached out to you. It could be everything from a formal request to PR to someone who sat down beside you in a bar. It could be a 30 second breaking news piece, or a book 10 years in the making. Knowing a little bit about the media can make the whole exchange more fruitful and useful not only for you and the journalist, but a public that hasn't had a lot of good information about our world.

Inform yourself

##Sunlight's APIs

Sunlight's APIs
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The Sunlight API Query Builder see the Open States example = Great!

Sunlight's Tools built w/ our APIs:

Useful Pandas Snippets

A personal diary of DataFrame munging over the years.

Data Types and Conversion

Convert Series datatype to numeric (will error if column has non-numeric values)
(h/t @makmanalp)

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

Recommended Books

A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommendations from others are noted in (parentheses). The rest are my personal recommendations.

Programming

Building your core

The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas

Open Directories

Ebooks examples

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+(.MOBI|.CBZ|.CBR|.CBC|.CHM|.EPUB|.FB2|.LIT|.LRF|.ODT|.PDF|.PRC|.PDB|.PML|.RB|.RTF|.TCR) PUT EBOOK NAME HERE intitle:"index of" -inurl:(jsp|pl|php|html|aspx|htm|cf|shtml) -inurl:(listen77|mp3raid|mp3toss|mp3drug|index_of|wallywashis)

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YARA Performance Guidelines

When creating your rules for YARA keep in mind the following guidelines in order to get the best performance from them. This guide is based on ideas and recommendations by Victor M. Alvarez and WXS.

Revision 1.4, October 2020, applies to all YARA versions higher than 3.7

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import urllib.request
	import re
	import ssl
	import sys

	# # find generic mirrors
	mirrors = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.debian.org/mirror/list')
	https = []

	import sys, time, datetime
	from copy import copy, deepcopy
	from collections import OrderedDict
	import string
	import math
	import win32com.client
	import traceback

	# Sample code for accessing MSProject
	# 2014 (C) Zohar Lorberbaum

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048