[Liverpool] [HAR2009] The lectures and related activities

Fri Jun 12 09:27:10 UTC 2009

Hi Tim,
Yes i am going har

2009/6/11 oscillik <oscillik at gmail.com>

> 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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