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Effective immediately, jip is now retired from SOLDIERX. I talked to him in great detail the past few weeks and he has requested that I notify the rest of SX that he is retiring. He has desired to take his work further underground and away from the general public. As a result, I will be taking over his work on the VDB and Tutorial Curation for the time being. We wish him the best and hope that he returns to us someday.

We are proud to announce today that the HDB (hacker database) now has 1,000 entries. Back in January of 2013 when Infosec Institute ran an article about us having the largest database of hackers, we had around 700 entries. We are proud to have grown our database by more than 30% in under a year. Out of the 1,000 entries - 800 of them have photos and 838 of them have real names. We feel it is a great accomplish to have real names and photos for 80% of our entries. We are very thankful to scryptz0 and the rest of the crew that have contributed to make this happen.

This is a bit delayed due to other priorities, but was decided after our last public IRC meeting. First - Phantasm and neotek will be retiring. Nu11By73 is being removed from the group with cisc0ninja returning to take his place as Tools Curator. Amp has decided to stop being the Presidential Advisor and be the Special Projects Curator. He is going to be taking a stab at OFACE with the help of Jerbo and Kohelet. We're sad to see our numbers reduced by three, but happy that cisc0ninja has finally decided to return to computers.

I was given the opportunity today to purchase a Raspberry Pi. I of course took that opportunity and I'm now a proud owner of a Model B. I've been thinking a lot about how best to use my spare time. I'm burnt out on trying to get shared object injection (without reliance on the RTLD) working. It's a very hard task, one that I simply can't seem to figure out. I've decided to let someone else finish that work. I hope that SoldierX will rise to the task (winking at you, jip) of working on a fun, exciting, but extremely challenging project.

With the insemination of ARM-based devices into consumer electronics, my goal for libhijack is to port it over to ARM with initial support for Linux, then support for FreeBSD. Once that is done, I will retire from the project with the hopes that someone else will take the reigns. I would love to see two things: full shared object injection support and support for Android. Getting generic ARM support is the first step towards the latter goal. I will still act as the project maintainer and will gladly accept and merge in patches and pull requests (albeit with modifications if need be). As always, if you submit a patch or a pull request, you will be recognized and given proper credit, if desired.

To align my spare time with my career goals, I will be focusing on the goals I outlined in my long-term plans blog post. The plans pertaining to libhijack still stand (finishing libhijack), but take on a slightly different meaning. I will consider the port to ARM as a finished product. I plan to also do extensive research into the ARM architecture and dive into Android malware analysis.

Congratulations to xAMNESIAx for being promoted to the rank of SOLDIERX Inductee. After weeks and weeks of hard work on two different proxy projects, he has made enough progress to make it to the next step. He's currently working on "suggest an HDB entry", recruiting, and hacking challenges for training. We hope to see him make it to full blown crew in the near future!

Due to a number of inactive members, dead projects, new members, and general chaos going around SX - we're having an all hands meeting this Thursday at 4PM CST. This will primarily be a meeting for SX Crew, but anybody is welcome to attend if they are interesting in getting a sneak peek at the future of SX. In the case that there is too much disturbance, we will be migrating the conversation somewhere other than our public IRC. Please come prepared with suggestions for changes that you feel would be beneficial to SX. The meeting will be on our IRC channel #soldierx at irc.soldierx.com. Hope to see you all then

A new tutorial from fellow crew member Pirrup has been put up about unpacking and resource editing TeamviewerQS at https://www.soldierx.com/tutorials/TeamviewerQS-unpackingresource-editing for everybody's viewing. Enjoy.

Lately, shaming DoSers has been fun and all, but the honest reality is that they don't deserve it. Most of the people who rely on such an attack are scum sucking, mouth breathing, bottom feeding, pieces of shit and we're sick of it. We have repeatedly asked where the 0-Day is and with good reason as doing good attacks gets respect, not some bland, brainless attack that is merely an annoyance. Today, as part of my duty is to be the resident banhammer for the site, we are taking it to a new level so that it it swings harder and faster than before. Between this and my work with FEDWatch and MILWatch, I consider this to be a part of our crusade against stupidity.

Due to CriticalMass (Alex Berta) not understanding passwords/security/twitter/internet, we have had to change twitter accounts. After 6 months of trying to get him to recover the password, we gave up and had a new one created. Kohelet has decided to join the group as an inductee focusing on Public Relations (starting with twitter). Our new twitter account is @soldierxDOTcom. For those of you that don't know, we also have a facebook account with the same name.

Following our older tradition, we've released FEDWatch and MILWatch 2013. These are lists of .gov and .mil visitors to our site. We don't prevent .gov or .mil from visiting our site, but we've typically done our best to keep track of what they're doing. We won't be publishing that information, but we are sharing the IPs and reverse lookups (no usernames) to give our users an insight into how many governments check up on us (the number is surely much higher, but they use proxies). Interesting visitors include (but not limited to) SOCOM, CIA, DHS, SPAWAR, Ft Meade, Los Alamos National Labs, Idaho National Labs (stuxnet lol), and DISA. Thanks to Amp for writing the tools to expedite this process.