HOPE Day Two
We went to bed around 3am, so we didn't quit make it to the 9am session entitled 'low level firmware analysis and hacking', maybe buy the DVD. We did make it to "Wireless security flaws". Panel of three, did wardriving since 2002, gathering data on what type of wifi networks were available in urban areas. Found a lot insecure networks, most of which broadcast critical information regarding routing, network topo and hardware on unsecured wifi that can be accessed in parking lot. Discussed many different exploits, including spooking machines and inserting your own subnet.
Next topic was phone phreaking 101 - this talk was given by black ratchet from boston. Talked about old phone switching/routing equipment and the new electronic switches that have almost completely replaced the old. Other items of interest were: using operator to mask calls, line recording, CLI (silly) codes (e.g. LYNNMACHDS1= LYNN, Ma, City Hall, Digital Switch1), VOIP carriers, red, blue and black boxes and a handful of urban myths regarding phone phreaking. Also gave out some great phone numbers to call for disaster messages or old recorded messages. See also Old Skool Phreak and YAPL. In the audience was Captian Crunch.
I went to both sessions in A and B next while Bo, Josh and Ryan went lunch. 'Retrocomputing' was boring, talking about really old computer systems and BBS. The other super geeky talk 'in-band vs multiplexed digital radio' was just that... way too geeky for someone who knows almost nothing about radio on a tech level. I meet up with the guys at Popeyes and had some chicken and biscuits and burning hot mashed potatoes.
The keynote of the night was Michael Hart (who is actually talking to some people right next to me now as i type...). He is involved in project gutenburg. I only stayed for a few minutes, Mike was interesting but i wanted to go to 2nd floor to play with stuff there. I played with bump kit and lock picking with the Toool guys. I rode a segway (which was awesome!!) and i played zork on an IBM 5150 and talked with Eliza on a really old system, whose name i forget.
Sam Pocker gave a talk entitled 'Coupon Hacking'. Self explanatory. This talk had a great pre-recorded intro done by a pair of hand puppets, a bear and squirell. Very funny. So was the speaker, 'a short, fat jew from brooklyn'. See his website and radio show, Your Mileage May Vary.
'Password cracking and time-memory tradeoff' was next, basically comparing rainbow tables to full hash tables. Good speaker, impressive web app for cracking md5 passwords.
'Quantum Crypto and Computation' was canceled and replaced by some super boring guy giving a non-techinal talk, I caught the end of the two hour 'Privacy is dead, get over it'.. not that impressed.. And after that was 'hackers in prison' which coincided with the arrest of Steven Rambam. Some of the backround stories were okay but boring after a while.
'Law Enforcement Wiretaps' discussed how wiretaps work, what hardware is involved on the phone companys side and how you can circumvent by sending various tones to block recording, fake out phone numbers, etc etc.
Finally a talk by Robert Steele, an ex CIA covert ops guy. Very boisterous and slightly inflamatory. His main points are: government is idiots, they ignore 80% of the information out there, they need local people for information gathering, open source intelligence. He also likes vodka and women.
Flickr - H.O.P.E. Day Two
Next topic was phone phreaking 101 - this talk was given by black ratchet from boston. Talked about old phone switching/routing equipment and the new electronic switches that have almost completely replaced the old. Other items of interest were: using operator to mask calls, line recording, CLI (silly) codes (e.g. LYNNMACHDS1= LYNN, Ma, City Hall, Digital Switch1), VOIP carriers, red, blue and black boxes and a handful of urban myths regarding phone phreaking. Also gave out some great phone numbers to call for disaster messages or old recorded messages. See also Old Skool Phreak and YAPL. In the audience was Captian Crunch.
I went to both sessions in A and B next while Bo, Josh and Ryan went lunch. 'Retrocomputing' was boring, talking about really old computer systems and BBS. The other super geeky talk 'in-band vs multiplexed digital radio' was just that... way too geeky for someone who knows almost nothing about radio on a tech level. I meet up with the guys at Popeyes and had some chicken and biscuits and burning hot mashed potatoes.
The keynote of the night was Michael Hart (who is actually talking to some people right next to me now as i type...). He is involved in project gutenburg. I only stayed for a few minutes, Mike was interesting but i wanted to go to 2nd floor to play with stuff there. I played with bump kit and lock picking with the Toool guys. I rode a segway (which was awesome!!) and i played zork on an IBM 5150 and talked with Eliza on a really old system, whose name i forget.
Sam Pocker gave a talk entitled 'Coupon Hacking'. Self explanatory. This talk had a great pre-recorded intro done by a pair of hand puppets, a bear and squirell. Very funny. So was the speaker, 'a short, fat jew from brooklyn'. See his website and radio show, Your Mileage May Vary.
'Password cracking and time-memory tradeoff' was next, basically comparing rainbow tables to full hash tables. Good speaker, impressive web app for cracking md5 passwords.
'Quantum Crypto and Computation' was canceled and replaced by some super boring guy giving a non-techinal talk, I caught the end of the two hour 'Privacy is dead, get over it'.. not that impressed.. And after that was 'hackers in prison' which coincided with the arrest of Steven Rambam. Some of the backround stories were okay but boring after a while.
'Law Enforcement Wiretaps' discussed how wiretaps work, what hardware is involved on the phone companys side and how you can circumvent by sending various tones to block recording, fake out phone numbers, etc etc.
Finally a talk by Robert Steele, an ex CIA covert ops guy. Very boisterous and slightly inflamatory. His main points are: government is idiots, they ignore 80% of the information out there, they need local people for information gathering, open source intelligence. He also likes vodka and women.
Flickr - H.O.P.E. Day Two
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