[Liverpool] [HAR2009] The lectures and related activities

Thu Jun 11 19:35:41 UTC 2009

sounds like a cool event, unfortunately it's too expensive and too far away
:(
i'd need to hack a Gibson and plant a virus that attacks Ellingson Mineral
Oil Fleets and hold them to ransom before i could afford to go

2009/6/11 Tim Dobson <lists at tdobson.net>

> is anyone going?
>
> I may/may not be... :-/
> :-s
>
> Graeme Dyas wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: *HAR2009* <har-announce at har2009.org <mailto:
> har-announce at har2009.org>>
> > Date: 2009/6/9
> > Subject: [HAR2009] The lectures and related activities
> > To: har-announce at har2009.org <mailto:har-announce at har2009.org>
> >
> >
> > 1. The lectures and related activities
> > 2. Camping
> >
> >
> > 1. The lectures and related activities
> >
> >   Hell yeah - if you're anything like us, you've also been curling your
> >   toes in fearful and joyous anticipation of what would be presented at
> >   [1]HAR2009. For a while, it looked like nothing much was happening,
> >   but the closer we got to the deadline, the more we got swamped in
> >   submissions. We ended up getting so many proposals that we had to
> >   reject about half of them: we simply couldn't fit more than a hundred
> >   talks in four days, and presenting that amount of talks, lectures and
> >   debates already boils down to expecting all participants to subject
> >   themselves to serious sleep deprivation...
> >
> >   We were amazed at what we received. There was shock and awe in the
> >   program committee. To be honest, we've gambled as well: taking aboard
> >   speakers who we didn't know but who'd come up with a titillating
> >   thesis, a mindboggling concept or a clear-cut idea. We hope just as
> >   much as you do that they'll live up to our expectations, but we're
> >   quite confident that the HAR2009 program will be, uhm, interesting - to
> >   be modest.
> >
> >   There are some presentations that we ourselves are very eager to see
> >   and hear.  And there's some serious hardware hacking.  For instance,
> >   we'll have a guy with an in-built camera eye (Mr. Eyeborg) and people
> >   showing how you can fab prostheses for 40 bucks instead of 25,000
> >   dollars - we'll happily buy a left arm and a knee from them.
> >
> >   There's politics, too - of course. Wikileaks will speak about their
> >   position in a society where governments are increasingly secretive
> >   about their own policies, and discuss the hazards and complications of
> >   publishing leaked documents. We'll talk about the policies of search
> >   engines, the dangers of data breaches, and EFF will explain their
> >   strategy for civilians to defend themselves against the ubiquitous
> >   surveillance society. Anonymous will talk about social media as a
> >   political tool, and they'll explain why fun is important when you start
> >   an argument with Scientology. We'll talk about copyright and
> >   distribution rights.
> >
> >   There's plenty of hardcore tech as well. How Mifare was broken and what
> >   to do next; reverse engineering chips; side channel analysis (reading
> >   votes cast on a voting machines from a distance), and how to use the
> >   debug port of your devices to do hardware hacking.
> >
> >   We'll have scientific talks on crypto - can we use quantum mechanics to
> >   provide secure identification in an insecure environment? - and we'll
> >   talk about the relation between the need for open source and the
> >   progress of science. Or to put it the other way around: how science
> >   suffers through proprietary formats, patens and non-disclosure.
> >
> >   And it's going to be fun, too. The aesthetics of [2]Blinkenlights,
> >   Hacker Jeopardy, bars, food, and so many interesting people to see and
> >   meet....
> >
> >   A detailed program will be available at the end of June.  See you at
> >   HAR!
> >
> >
> > 2. Camping
> >
> >   Also, we notice many people are asking about the camping grounds.
> >   Therefore, a short run-down of the essentials. Yes, there will be
> >   [3]power. Yes, there will be [44]network. Yes, there will be wifi
> >   (triple band). Yes, there will be plenty of [5]showers and toilets.
> >   More information on all this is available [6]on the wiki.
> >
> >   A sneak preview at some other facilities (more details in later
> >   announcements): the area will be covered by eventphone's [7]DECT
> >   network (with free dialout to numbers in the Netherlands and Germany),
> >   a lounge area with soothing background music and a fully-fledged
> >   [8]arcade hall, [9]the family village with fun and education for our
> >   youngest hackers, 24/7 [10]camp-radio with news and backgrounds (maybe
> >   even television), good and diverse food and plenty of fluids, an indian
> >   coffee-house, and more!
> >
> > References
> >
> >   1. https://har2009.org/
> >   2. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Village:BlinkenArea
> >   3. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Power
> >   4. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/NOC
> >   5. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Camping:Sanitation
> >   6. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Camping:Introduction
> >   7. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/POC
> >   8. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Village:HARcade
> >   9. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Village:Family_Village
> >  10. https://wiki.har2009.org/page/FM
> >
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