HOPE Day Three

Well it's almost been a full week since the last day of HOPE and i'm just getting around to writing about it.. This will be a quick entry me thinks. Woke up late for a panel by Lady Ada and the TV-B-GONE guy. They talked about the no-contact jacket for women which is a stylish jacket with built-in tasers used to protect against attackers; how to create your own cell phone jammer for cheap (given you have a spectrum analyzer), and of course, tv b gone, which is a wonderful device that everyone should have. Next we need something that turns commercial radio... I only lasted for a minutes in 'Can security detectors be hacked?' due to a boring speaker and some hint of politics. Instead of checked out 'Urban Exploring' given by husband and wife pair who run Long Island Oddities. Covered basic "rules" of exploring abondoned places, some good stories about close calls and great pictures. Next I ditched out early on the computer forensics talk.. too bad for me, it was really good, says bo and josh. i saw some slightly lame talk on encrypting IM traffic. The last two sessions of the day and conference were at complete oposite ends of the spectrum. First was the panel on "social engineering" given by some of the guys from 2600 and chesire catalyst. They took advantage of the current power problems in NYC and attempted to gain information from a local fast food chain. Ends up they don't keep records on premise... Next they attempted to obtain addresses of people who have unlisted addresses in teh phone book by posing as Do-Not-Call employee. The first lady denied us and the second gave her address. And now for something completely different... Jello Biafra did a two hour ranting flamboient keynote mostly on politics. It was really quite boring and lame because he was preaching to the choir and his oratory style tended to wear on you after a while. He also dropped his pants and .... um.... completely exposed all of his body parts that i never wanted to see..

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