Le dernier espoir
So the Last HOPE conference is now well under way. I'm pleased to visit the gigantic New York City, but I'm here for this big hacker conference. And when I say big, I mean it: around 2000 geeks and hackers, mostly white males.
There's a lot of cool talks, and we're always stuck in choosing between a few cool talks at the same time, but I guess that's a good thing: it means there's still a lot of life of the HOPE/2600 community.
My favorite talks yet, with cool discoveries:
- Advanced Memory Forensics: Releasing the Cold Boot Utilities - we already knew that disk crypto wasn't as safe as we thought, but those guys implemented proof of concepts, along with a little video.
- Autonomously Bypassing VoIP Filters with Asterisk: Let Freedom Ring - there's a(nother?) IAX DOS in Asterisk, demonstrated with the iaxpingpoker, It should be fixed in 1.6.
- Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM): A Brief Primer on the Arcane Art and Science of Electronics Surveillance and “Bug” Detection - I missed that one, but it seemed veryinteresting.
- "Off the Grid" Voice/Data Communications - that's it: i'mgetting my HAM radio license...
- "Steven Levy", the author of "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" - a good retrospective of the hacker history and origins.
- Bagcam - How Did TSA and/or the Airlines Manage to Do That to Your Luggage? - a cool trick: a guy embeded a tiny camera in his luggage to spy upon the airport security.
- Steven Rambam - a private investigator, a privacy expert that was arrested by the FBI at his last presence at HOPE. If you use Facebook or Google mail, you want to see this talk. A cool quote: "[Google] wants to suck out your brain and put it in a database." A reality check of the scale of this Naomi Klein article.
I'm still following the talks and will add more interesting stuff here, but I can't wait to share those cool talks with everyone, as the talks will supposedly be available online at some point.
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