[Hackers On Planet Earth] (HackEr)

Live Event test

The [Hotel Pennsylvnia] ("Pennsylvania6-5000", where it's held, is supposed to be demolished.

The Last-HOPE was Jul18-20'2008 http://www.thelasthope.org/

OWASP: boring corporate presentatiion

Urban Farming

• composting is not easy, get help

• [Victory Garden]

• multi-site: let others work your backyard

• CSA

• [Spin Farming]: space-intensive

• [Vertical Farm]: multi-story building, hydroponics: none built yet. Raise BioFuel?

• cityfarmer.org, cityfarmer.info, ryanishungry.com

• city money often avail: sanitation dept, etc

Food Hacking

• Gweeds worked at [FatDuck], also does code

• Reclaiming celery

• Underground [Supper Club]

• [Blood Lab]

• Wiki for lab Note Book

• food games: 3 random foods combined

Climate Change

• US military is largest consumer of oil

[Education Kids]/OLPC

• dang [Ivan Krstic] sick no-show

• [Gus Andrews]

• silly politically correct crap

• Nell "wins" (compared to other girls) because of Miranda? I think that's a total mis-reading of the book. Miranda may have saved Nell, but it was that "interesting" life she was saved from that made her so special.

  • attempt at teachers-are-key parallel

• focus on [After School] for Route Around?

• Lee Felsenstein of [Home Brew Computer Club] (is also in this space) and has written various critiques

[Art Of Do Foo]

• data analysis/inference w large data sets

• left in middle

[Community Fabrication] (Desktop Fab)

• [RepRap], etc

• [Proto Typing] machines: $60k, very closed

• 3D printer $15k

• DIY: $600-3k: [RepRap], [Fab At Home] and others

• current state: linux mid90s

Public IT: Groningen Netherlands

• focus: Open Office, Open Data, Open Source

• 1% of [GNP] for US software licenses

[Better Ballot Box]

• DieBold now called Premier

• smells like edge cases (handicap, multi-lingual) create infinite complexity. Maybe fall back to paper for long tail?

Free-music rant

• uh I don't see any part about the starving people

Prometheus radio: how to talk to normal people

• farm workers taught ReadIng in 45 days

Reprimand/Gonzo: fanboy inside-baseball

OLPC adhoc

• recent update improves power mgmt but may screw up mesh networking

[Honey Pot]

Steven Rambam

• (everyone read Little Brother)

• 30sec after callerID: he'll have basic info on you

• 5min for criminal record, family

• from [Stevens Tech] talk: spent 5hrs researching one guy's info

• focusing on private databases: because govt usually outsources this stuff

• plenty from Social Networking

• AmaZon has db of everyone's soul

• GooGle has more

• MobIle makes things worse: completely tied to you.

  • And you can't take the battery out of your IPhone

• [Justin Barber]: killed his wife, caught by browser cache

• [GoogLe] owns the data the have: attitude

  • won't remove it

• remember: Double Click, etc

• de-anonymizing:

  • via cross-ref

  • no [ID] needed, just unique combo of data: AOL search records; NyTimes census research

• [Dominos Pizza] customer db: sold to [Federal Marshall]-s

• [Stop N Shop] selling data to HMO-s. Stopped by outrage.

• [OnStar] can be activated remotely by warrant

• Car license plates being identified all the time

  • roving cars scan 3k/hr

• Cell Phone location

• [RABII]

• tracking dwi, truants: must carry/register gps phone

• TiVo selling data

• [InfoUsa] sells lots of lists

• used in [Jury Pool] investigation

• private companies: no FOIA

  • [Lexis Nexis] (owned by [Reed Elsevier]) and [Choice Point] own everything now. Biggest client: US govt. And govt won't pass that info in FOIA request.

• local police: drones, UAV-s

  • [Devil Ray] recharges from powerlines, never sleeps

  • NYPD $10M helicopter; can see what you're doing in your car? I guess that's just through the windshield?

• WebCam growing use

  • Manhattan 3k/sqmi WebCam-s

  • embedded [Facial Recognition]

  • London: 50% of assaults caught on camera, 3% of crimes solved

  • [Newkirk Ave] subway station: lots of WebCam-s, why? because neighborhood heavily foreign/Middle East?

  • NYC paying [Lock Heed] to install/maintain

  • [Univ Of Colo] smoke-in: facial-recognition, suspended almost everyone

  • [Gait Recognition]: FBI investing $1B

• Quividi billboards look at you

• [Gorilla Trak]

• Rick investigation

  • just private db, no field work

  • found someone else using his [SSN]

  • follow-up: tracked him for year while Rick tried to hide, caught him bunch of times: [Stealing Your Own Identity] coming out soon

    • Panera cafe hotspot to send email

    • cell phone ping

    • frequent flyer number: plane ticket

    • match.com scam

    • called pharmacy, pretended to be him, got his doctor name, found out scheduled visit

    • [ExIf] tags, gap in photo numbers, found photos in "secret" FlickR area showing where we was

  • FBI arrest story: Santoro

    • FBI filed complaint w [NYS] licensure group yesterday

Zen of Hacker: Joshua of [FSF]

• reading his speech

• Paul Graham Silicon Valley bit: need Subvers Ive CultUre

• DMCA

• [Chemistry Set]-s are lame now

• immigration blocks

• [ATHF], other hoax charges

• Bruce Schneier: crime of the unexpected

DMCA: Marcia of [FSF]

• didn't know that YouTube/ViaCom data changed

• doesn't seem to know about Google Book Search

[Corporate Jurisdiction]

• [Douglas Spink] made millions, later ran drugs

  • http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Spink_Douglas_-265441.aspx

  • http://alex.golub.name/log/category/completely-true-stories-of-my-life/douglas-spink/

  • http://weirdnewsstories.blogspot.com/2008/05/douglas-spink.html

• trains horse being held for ransom?

  • http://abcnews.go.com/US/AmazingAnimals/story?id=4911317&page=1

  • "relationships" with animals?

    • http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.dogs.misc/msg/8289c38c70f2a335

    • http://www.stallions.net/images/Spink%20statement%20re%20personal%20attacks.pdf

• [DEA] can do anything, so don't get into the drug biz

• Rules on disclosing ownership depend on state

  • if you want real privacy you have to go outside US

  • seychelles (mostly british Common Law), Lichtenstein, Vanautu

  • KaZaa did this successfully vs RIAA

  • may need US sub to open bank

  • you can get these set up cheap/fast

• private Curren Cy

  • if you do gold/etc in US (Digi Cash), [Treasury Department] will put you in jail.

  • He's working on something new/digital

  • raises moral/practical issues with clients you accept

Simulating Universe

• simulate sample of 10^6 particles

[Grand Theft] Media: laslow.com (of [Grand Theft Auto])

• goal: get heard

• [Nancy Franklin] article on news vs lies

• blogging is not Journal Ism

• [Katie Couric] vs Jon Stewart

• Parody both sides to be credible

• Goal is to get people to think (via laughing), not to change their minds

• comedy is VirAl

• federaljack.com questioner

• xm/sirius merger

• if you want to do Computer Game StartUp, do pc not console, so you can self-publish

• [GloriaW] says play Katamari

[Adam Savage] of [Myth Busters]

• biggest welcome ovation

• obsessions: photos

• [DoDo] skeleton: [Super Sculpey]

• [Maltese Falcon]

• has portable laser scanner

• new episodes in couple weeks

• [ILM] sold off their model biz last year

• jack off all trades

• shows they didn't do (because [Discovery Channel] was scared of advertisers): rfid-card security; teeth whiteners

[YouTomb]: has API?

[Jello Biafra]: news bits

• George W Bush firefighting budget cuts

• Iraq reparations: James Baker, Kuwait, Halliburton and [ToysRUs]

• [Media Marketing Accountability Act] (co-sponsored by Joseph Lieberman): ratings system worse than Tipper Gore's

Hope-6 was Jul21'2006 http://www.hopenumbersix.net/

• my photos - FlickR:HopeConference

Speaker Steven Rambam/[Steven Rombom] was arrested by the FBI while there.

notes from various sessions

• RFID

  • Razor blades most-stolen good

  • Nokia building RFID readers into phones

  • Already carrying RFID?

    • Amex card

    • car keys

    • passports soon?

    • pet chips?

  • California stopping RFID in driversLic

    • for 2 yrs

    • fed RealId?

  • Easy to disable

    • 2sec in microwave

    • mass vandalism in store

      • 20w EMP

    • wrap in foil

  • range is 2m on passive?

  • [Veri Chip] lying about Secur Ity/PrivAcy

• Lockpicking

  • buy pick here

  • security.org

  • lockpicking101.com

  • this [BumpKey] demo VidEo includes shots from HOPE

• [Mono Chrom]

  • typical art-weenies

• Richard Stallman

  • philosophy

    • messy use of "power", etc.

      • Freedom and [Social Solidarity]

    • like an animal rights nut

      • or does this become fundamental in the future?

        • software

        • content

        • AI uploaded entities - Acceler Ando (Charlie Stross)

        • Desktop Fab

    • Freedom means not being subjugated by others

    • "I'd rather have no software than proprietary software"

    • ApaChe is not [Copy Left]

    • Creative Commons do not provide freedom

    • beware Trusted Computing

  • [SpyWare]

    • WinXP

    • [Windows Media Player]

    • [Real Player]

    • TiVo

      • are they violating GPL?

        • won't run changed OS

          • how?

        • [GNUv3] will forbid that

  • [Back Door]

    • [Inter Base]

    • WinXP

      • NSA server

      • subcontractors in India

  • Hacking = Mental Play

    • throw party

    • write music

      • esp tricky

        • palindrome

  • EMacs for secretaries

    • hard programs are always hard

    • but in Emacs, simple programs are useful

    • dang we need Python equivalent

• Robert David Steele http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060720/dcth035.html

  • close to an [OSI] agency?

    • who will control?

  • slides of threats and policies

  • 2nd book fresh-out

    • he also writes piles of reviews there

  • 18 current genocides

  • war over Clean Water

  • good guys

    • Anthony Zinni

  • bad guys

    • Donald Rumsfeld

    • Dick Cheney

      • history of not informing the Us President of actions

  • Educating Women

  • governance: Corruption and the [Party Line]

  • [Citizen Party]: Third Party for Election Reform http://citizens-party.org

• Weird tech

  • shock-wave generator: sonic weapon

  • nail-gun into machine gun

• [Mike Murray]

  • [NCircle]

  • NLP

  • buffer overflow

    • open too many loops/tangents

      • esp via Story Telling

    • then remaining flow goes right into Un Conscious

  • format string attack

  • data content attack

    • like SQL injection

  • [Milton Erickson] stories

    • shift FramIng

  • [NoOp] sled

    • be [Artfully Vague]

  • [Shell Code]

    • give self opportunities rather than commands

    • do it via Question

      • can't be ignored

  • books

    • [Milton Erickson]

    • [Robert Cialdini]? influence

    • http://nlpcanadatraining.blogspot.com

• Radio

  • ham

    • reach anyone in world with 1w

      • qualifiers?

  • Part15

    • super-low-power

      • garage door openers

      • iTrip iPod/[FM] interface

    • WiFi

  • [QRP]

    • below 5w

  • turn old radio into transmitter?

  • Gnu Radio

    • Software Defined Radio - [SDR]

• Wire Less Network Secur Ity

  • [Cisco Discovery Protocol]

    • turn off when not troubleshooting

      • hard to do if using VoIP

  • network mgmt syslog

    • unencrypted UDP

  • infrastructure DOS

    • redundancy protocols often un-authenticated

      • [HSRP], [VRRP]

      • or password sent in plaintext

  • routing protocol info

    • [OSPF]

      • "set [LAN]-facing interfaces passive"

      • encrypt it

    • can add your own subnet to their network

  • use WPA with certs for WiFi access

  • email to hackerarchives.com

• [Citizen Engineer]

  • these guys did the MakeMag Micro Controller

    • ladyada.net

  • lots of old books available via Bit Torrent

    • Foxfire series

  • customizing as path to Hacking

  • is there a Linux for IRiver?

  • clone of Roland analog synth

  • what could I play with

    • old Intel dig cam

    • old cell phone

    • buy reusable video cam

    • buy Roomba

      • attach vidcam!

      • super-simple API

        • LoGo

    • Linksys

• [Gutenberg Project]

  • machine translation

  • audio

    • human-read

    • human-word mashups

    • auto-reader

  • copyright battles

    • precedent for desktop-fab

  • 35th anniversary just hit

  • help

    • proofread

    • scan/type

  • ebook reader

    • cell-phone

• Food Hacking

  • what can you do cheaply?

• Hacker Spaces

  • seems like speakers have shared workshop, not living together

  • extra $250/month/person?

  • [Hasty Pastry] Boston Ma http://www.hastypastry.net/who.html

  • Philadelphia Pa [Walnut Factory] http://walnutfactory.org/

  • [New York Computer Connectivity Project] in [Poughkeepsie Ny]

  • non-speaker co-living collectives

    • [Unicorn Precinct Xiii] http://www.up13.org/ San Francisco

    • [Hacker Halfway House] http://www.hackerhalfwayhouse.org/ Brooklyn Ny

  • non-speak work-only shared spaces

    • [New Hack City] social club? (dead?) in San Francisco

    • L0pht Boston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L0pht

• Graffiti Research Lab: LED "throwies"

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