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... Looks to have been a bit of a stormer.
Here's the list of talks.
Here's the list of mirrors for video download.
Rop's keynote is well worth the half-hour. He's right about Wikileaks, Anonymous and Defcon, and is just a good chap. Text version here.
Other stuff I shall be viewing when it gets encoded and uploaded:
Contemporary Profiling of Web Users
SMS-o-Death
Recent advances in IPv6 insecurities
Spinning the electronic Wheel. Still the bicycles for the 21th century
File -> Print -> Electronics. A new circuit board printer will liberate you from the Arduino-Industrial Complex
"The Concert". A disconcerting moment for free culture
High-speed high-security cryptography: encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet (DJB!)
The Baseband Apocalypse
Data Recovery Techniques
Secure communications below the hearing threshold. Improved approaches for auditive steganography
Cognitive Psychology for Hackers. Bugs, exploits, and occasional patches
... And loads more. I am sad to have missed this one, but it would have required more organisation and a different rest-of-the-year.
I don't do new year resolutions, but if I were going to it would be 'write some code for an open source project'. Rop, as usual, is an inspirational sort of fellow.
Here's the list of talks.
Here's the list of mirrors for video download.
Rop's keynote is well worth the half-hour. He's right about Wikileaks, Anonymous and Defcon, and is just a good chap. Text version here.
Other stuff I shall be viewing when it gets encoded and uploaded:
Contemporary Profiling of Web Users
SMS-o-Death
Recent advances in IPv6 insecurities
Spinning the electronic Wheel. Still the bicycles for the 21th century
File -> Print -> Electronics. A new circuit board printer will liberate you from the Arduino-Industrial Complex
"The Concert". A disconcerting moment for free culture
High-speed high-security cryptography: encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet (DJB!)
The Baseband Apocalypse
Data Recovery Techniques
Secure communications below the hearing threshold. Improved approaches for auditive steganography
Cognitive Psychology for Hackers. Bugs, exploits, and occasional patches
... And loads more. I am sad to have missed this one, but it would have required more organisation and a different rest-of-the-year.
I don't do new year resolutions, but if I were going to it would be 'write some code for an open source project'. Rop, as usual, is an inspirational sort of fellow.
CCCamp it up
Jan. 25th, 2007 05:15 pmIt's on: http://events.ccc.de/2007/01/24/chaos-communication-camp-2007/
Handy for this: http://www.luftfahrtmuseum-finowfurt.de/museum.htm
I think a small round of 'Oh fuck yes' is in order.
Handy for this: http://www.luftfahrtmuseum-finowfurt.de/museum.htm
I think a small round of 'Oh fuck yes' is in order.
Kitbag laptop capers
Jun. 21st, 2006 11:28 amhttp://www.megabit.nl/
and
http://burningdork.slab.org/
I express no particular preference. I'd like to go, but I'd like a pro-touring HemiCuda, too. My impression of the megabit tent at WhatTheHack was that it was more LAN-party than activist, but I'm prepared to be cheerfully wrong. The talks seem to be shaping up interestingly, but I don't know what language they'll be in.
The other one's going to be run by English people. Expect long queues for rubbish bogs, no on-site LAN or power to the tents.
and
http://burningdork.slab.org/
I express no particular preference. I'd like to go, but I'd like a pro-touring HemiCuda, too. My impression of the megabit tent at WhatTheHack was that it was more LAN-party than activist, but I'm prepared to be cheerfully wrong. The talks seem to be shaping up interestingly, but I don't know what language they'll be in.
The other one's going to be run by English people. Expect long queues for rubbish bogs, no on-site LAN or power to the tents.
Wow hearts walk a close edit 12
Mar. 24th, 2006 03:54 pm(It was a song)
I feel the need to take a tent and a laptop and go sit in a field with like-minded individuals this summer. Is there anything on the horizon, or do we have to self-organize? BarCamp Hay-on-Wye, for entirely random instance.
Elsewhere, the self-powered![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silentq pointed to Nice Guys versus nice guys and dating as a bisexual woman, both written by the clearly splendid divalion. I have to say that the first piece hits disturbingly close to home in some respects. (Or 'hit', at least. I like to think I'm better now.)
I should probably be writing some code, but I have the strange urge to bodge up some maximally wrong KPresenter slides instead. That's likely the reason I'm not asked to stand up and make presentations to the rest of the inmates here.
I feel the need to take a tent and a laptop and go sit in a field with like-minded individuals this summer. Is there anything on the horizon, or do we have to self-organize? BarCamp Hay-on-Wye, for entirely random instance.
Elsewhere, the self-powered
silentq pointed to Nice Guys versus nice guys and dating as a bisexual woman, both written by the clearly splendid divalion. I have to say that the first piece hits disturbingly close to home in some respects. (Or 'hit', at least. I like to think I'm better now.)I should probably be writing some code, but I have the strange urge to bodge up some maximally wrong KPresenter slides instead. That's likely the reason I'm not asked to stand up and make presentations to the rest of the inmates here.
Hacker-camp it up.
Sep. 13th, 2005 12:54 pmBollocks.
I mean, just look at the place.
Years ago, Stephenson wrote about hacker-tourism... Well, what he was writing turned out to be an extended research piece for Cryptonomicon, and he was looking at the sort of long-lived objects and institutions that tourists look at because they turn up in guidebooks. And they turn up in guidebooks because tourists look at them. (Although that's a conceptual difference, because I'd be pleased to see a guidebook that mentions the Alexandria telephone exchange.)
But anyway. Winer-ish hotel-bound 'blogger-con' or that?
There's no contest.
I mean, just look at the place.
Years ago, Stephenson wrote about hacker-tourism... Well, what he was writing turned out to be an extended research piece for Cryptonomicon, and he was looking at the sort of long-lived objects and institutions that tourists look at because they turn up in guidebooks. And they turn up in guidebooks because tourists look at them. (Although that's a conceptual difference, because I'd be pleased to see a guidebook that mentions the Alexandria telephone exchange.)
But anyway. Winer-ish hotel-bound 'blogger-con' or that?
There's no contest.
A virus with hiking boots
Aug. 13th, 2005 11:57 pmI've been watching the videos of the sessions I missed from the tail-end of Whatthehack.
Bugger. I want to go back.
(I also have to do something. But what?)
Bugger. I want to go back.
(I also have to do something. But what?)
Everything I know is wrong. Again.
Aug. 2nd, 2005 01:58 pm(I have lived in sad ignorance of Humppa music thus far. If you're in the same pitiful boat, I suggest you hie thee to http://sunsite.dk/~mk/wth-radio-humppa.mp3 and listen along. The first cover is pretty obviously 'Ace of spades', the second could either be 'John Wayne is big leggy' or 'Jesus built my hotrod'.)
Anyway.
So, these hackers, right? Pasty-faced malodourous individuals with a monitor tan, blue anoraks and the personality of a typewriter, yes?
No.
"An OpenBSD developer is an organic system that can transfer beer into code. Especially Henning."
At some point over the weekend I bought a high-visibility jacket with an OpenBSD logo on the back. I was drunk.
Some other things went on. Kevin Warwick was soundly heckled (not by me. I was doing... Something else.) and hand to be rushed away from the site in a black Saab before an angry mob could subject him to a cybernetic implant of their own devising. I learned that Bluetooth is startlingly insecure and I want a Mysteron box in order to terrify BMW drivers. If it wasn't pissing it down from the sort of cloud systems usually seen in 'When tornados attack' (I blame Joe Meek) it was stupefyingly hot. I survived both, though one pair of combats are now shorts. There were one too many MFTL presentations, though they would sort-of solve the problems they were pointed at. A bit.
(I'm not doing this very well.)
Weather satellites appear to make the very odd noise usually associated with the Villainous Tech in Bond films. We're probably not going to run out of oil, it'll just get really expensive. I had the devil's own job with airport security and passport control. It was either the damp passport or the 'Whatthehack' tag that I'd not cut off.
(If you're listening along, those were covers of 'We will rock you' and 'Paranoid'. Intermingled with drunken ranting about why Cups and Samba are shite. And how to hunt down furries.)
I return to 'reality' with the sense that I should be doing a lot more of this sort of thing.
Anyway.
So, these hackers, right? Pasty-faced malodourous individuals with a monitor tan, blue anoraks and the personality of a typewriter, yes?
No.
"An OpenBSD developer is an organic system that can transfer beer into code. Especially Henning."
At some point over the weekend I bought a high-visibility jacket with an OpenBSD logo on the back. I was drunk.
Some other things went on. Kevin Warwick was soundly heckled (not by me. I was doing... Something else.) and hand to be rushed away from the site in a black Saab before an angry mob could subject him to a cybernetic implant of their own devising. I learned that Bluetooth is startlingly insecure and I want a Mysteron box in order to terrify BMW drivers. If it wasn't pissing it down from the sort of cloud systems usually seen in 'When tornados attack' (I blame Joe Meek) it was stupefyingly hot. I survived both, though one pair of combats are now shorts. There were one too many MFTL presentations, though they would sort-of solve the problems they were pointed at. A bit.
(I'm not doing this very well.)
Weather satellites appear to make the very odd noise usually associated with the Villainous Tech in Bond films. We're probably not going to run out of oil, it'll just get really expensive. I had the devil's own job with airport security and passport control. It was either the damp passport or the 'Whatthehack' tag that I'd not cut off.
(If you're listening along, those were covers of 'We will rock you' and 'Paranoid'. Intermingled with drunken ranting about why Cups and Samba are shite. And how to hunt down furries.)
I return to 'reality' with the sense that I should be doing a lot more of this sort of thing.
