Seriously.
I had a very, very quick talk with someone at NYSec tonight and we highlighted the Social Responsibility panel at Shmoocon that wrapped it up as one of the biggest letdowns of the weekend. It’s a panel that should symbolize all the hopes and dreams our entire community wants to accomplish but instead time was wasted debating the meaning of the word ‘hacker’ and what constitutes “our” “community”. I think Toby summed it up best when he threw a Shmoo Ball and said (paraphrasing) “We’ve debated what the word hacker means for 20 years and we’ll do it 20 more. We need to move on to talk about more important topics.”
Toby is exactly right, but his comments didn’t prevent the conversation from getting derailed again just a few short minutes later…
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ShmooCon has taken a nosedive. I don’t know where it went wrong, maybe this year was just a horrendously bad year, but the presentations did not meet my expectations. I can’t wait for the videos to go online in 60 days so I can watch myself hitting Simple Nomad in the face with a Shmoo Ball and being the first one to call him out on the poor quality of his presentation or the small businesses talk where Strat and I took turns dismantling all the presenter’s points.
This is the second time I’ve felt like this (the last time was after HOPE). I can’t sit here and complain anymore. If I disliked the presentations so much at ShmooCon, then I should present something myself to make up for it.
Who’s with me? HOPE/ISIS Con ‘08!
At ShmooCon ‘08 Simple Nomad heavily advertised the cause of forensiclicensing.com. Unknown to me and many others, many states are requiring that all practitioners of computer forensics become licensed, in this case by becoming a licensed Private Investigator. Simple Nomad described this as one of the greatest threats currently facing our community, however, I contend that this is not necessarily such a bad thing.
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While I’ve been sitting at home, sick for the last few days, I’ve been trying to keep my mind at least somewhat sharp by watching some light videos here and there. The usual stuff, some TED, some 30 Rock, and I came across this gem I thought many people on this list might be interested in:
Crouching Powerpoint, Hidden Trojan: An analysis of targeted attacks from 2005 to 2007
Presented by Maarten Van Horenbeeck of the SANS ISC at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2189.en.html
See the links at the bottom for presentation materials including a PDF, video, and analysis of actual targeted exploits. I highly recommend the video, the torrent was extremely fast.
Enjoy :-)
The UbuCon is an unconference for Ubuntu users, developers, and sysadmins taking place on February 16th at the new Google offices in Manhattan. A few people from ISIS will be there to represent the interest of security in Ubuntu’s future development and hopefully moving improvements like GCC proactive security measures, encrypted LUKS partitions, and main inclusions of Seahorse and gaim-otr up to a higher development priority. If you’d like to join us add your name to the RSVP list and we’ll see you there (it’s free!).
This is a little late (registration is over), but no less than 7 of us are going to ShmooCon in Washington DC this March 23-25. If you were lucky (and smart!) enough to get a ticket, we’ll see you there!
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