[Liverpool] [HAR2009] The lectures and related activities

[Tim Dobson]

is anyone going?

I may/may not be... :-/
:-s

Graeme Dyas wrote:
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> Date: 2009/6/9
> Subject: [HAR2009] The lectures and related activities
> To: har-announce at har2009.org <mailto:har-announce at har2009.org>
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> 
> 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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