Missed another one

[hirez]

I am totally digging the pre-release uploads to the Youtubes from 23c3.

CDorctorow's thing about the war on general-purpose computing was jolly good. Meredith Patterson on (over) complex protocols and Weird Machines made my brain hurt in an 'oh lord that's a plot for a good story'. Bup looks like an interesting thing, I can't find the Kaminsky talk and it seems from the twitters that a lightning talk on depression resonated with an awful lot of people.

I probably don't go on enough about hackery and what it means to me.

[Later: If you have a HP Laserjet, you should really update your firmware right now. I am watching a nice chap remote r00t one and install a shell that'll tunnel outbound through your firewall. Just by printing a document with a firmware update attached. And once that printer's been r00ted, it can be used as a base of operations for cracking the rest of the kit on your internal LAN.]

[Later still: An excellent video about CCCamp 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqFDnW2eCnM ]

(When did I get quite so careful about having my braces match?)

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

28c3?

I really should get to some more hackish conferences.

Do you know Meredith by the way?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

This: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Main_Page

You should - I always have a fine and brain-expanding time.

I fear I don't.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link.

I always mean to go to the London hack events but then find out too late.

maradydd but no longer posts so much... on twitter also maradydd (but I don't think you do twitter do you?)... she's an interesting person even if we don't always agree she's intelligent and articulate.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I do indeed do the twitters. Although not under the username you might expect.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Aha... found you... though a search for your real name returned a single search result -- Will Smith.

Sometimes I don't understand twitter.