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Recaps of past LA2600 meetings
Note: This list is, and always will be, woefully incomplete.
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| March 5, 2010: |
datagram and stderr |
Why You Are All Assholes |
And a-one, and a-four, and a ching chong potato.
Click the talk name to download a recording of the talk (MP3, 24.7M, 27:43)
Download the slideshow which accompanies the talk (PDF, 1.2M)
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| March 6, 2009: |
Stealth |
Satellite TV hacking |
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In case you were wondering whether we still have good old-fashioned "how to hack shit and steal services" talks, wonder no longer: Stealth explained how ridiculously simple it is to get your own satellite TV equipment, do a little jiggery-pokery, and watch satellite television for free. On a bittersweet note, this was Vidiot's last LA2600 meeting before moving to Seattle; he brought down a gigantic pile of old computer crap that he didn't want to take with, and, in true LA2600 form, all the attendees descended on it like flies to dogshit.
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| February 6, 2009: |
Arko |
Segwii |
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Arko gave a talk on the Segwii, a self-balancing robot of his own design controlled with a Wiimote. His talk included a demonstration of said robot, which, much to everyone's collective disappointment, did not become self-aware and enslave humanity. Stealth gave away a whole bunch of old computer books.
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| January 2, 2009: |
Chris |
How Not To Design Applications |
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| December 5, 2008: |
Noid |
Hackerspaces |
6 at Union Station, 33 at Philippe's, 25 at Denny's. The Union Station meeting started off with booze-and-schmooze at Traxx instead of the usual schmooze a la carte. M and Flea yelled drunkenly at the women dressed up nicely for the party at the Union Station Restaurant. At Philippe's, Noid (who came in from Seattle) gave a talk on Hackerspaces based primarily on his experience with setting up the Black Lodge in Kirkland. Other fun included the new Philippe's back-room security cameras which may or may not actually function, the battle of the super-powerful green laser pointers (neither of which failed to pop an inflated condom as effectively as a pocketknife), and the appearance of a good number of old faces who haven't been at the meeting for years.
Click the talk name to download a recording of the talk (MP3, 38.2M, 55:37)
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| November 7, 2008: |
skape |
Hacking Your College and Getting Away With It (Legally) |
3 at Union Station, 38 at Philippe's, 28 at Denny's. Skape gave a talk on security weaknesses he discovered at his college and steps he took to resolve them. Notable about his approach was his direct interaction with the faculty to obtain authorization to document and review the problem. Other announcements included our new Twitter feed for those of you who just can't get enough of that web 2.0 shit, and the presentation of the first LA2600 Tool Award to everyone's favorite annoying ex-recruiter who just can't stop recruiting: Nico! (It should be noted that Nico narrowly edged out Stever by a vote of 1839 to 1836)
Click the talk name to download a recording of the talk (MP3, 12.8M, 14:04)
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| October 3, 2008: |
stderr |
Electronic Mail Etiquette |
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3 at Union Station, 17 at Philippe's, 21 at Denny's. Strom Carlson's first evening running the meeting after accepting the role of Organizer. After much brouhaha on the mailinglist with regard to top-posting, threading, quoting, HTML versus text, proper use of line breaks, and all the other things people on e-mail lists get testy about from time to time, stderr gave an informative, amusing, alcohol-fueled talk on the subject. Highlights included the proper method of composing replies, why not to dredge up threads that haven't been active since 2004, what happens when 978-character lines interact with 24-inch high-resolution widescreen monitors, and why Blackberries can burn in hell. Notably, none of the individuals who inspired the talk actually had the balls to show up for the meeting.
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| October 2005 thru September 2008: |
Many |
Various Topics |
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The "dark ages" of LA2600, where no one updated this webpage. If you remember dates, topics, and speaker names, please send them in and we'll put them up.
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| September 2, 2005: |
CHS |
Tattooing Machines: principles and demonstration |
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After a brief flurry of interest on the list, CHS volunteered to give a talk on the history and mechanical principles behind machine-tattooing. This was followed by a demonstration and a number of attendees had the chance to play with the gun itself, much to the detriment of a number of potatoes. Pictures of the event are up at the above link.
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| August 5, 2005: |
-None- |
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This month's meeting was intended to be a post-DefCon wrap-up of sorts, with a sharing of stories and plans for next year. As it happened, Philippe's encountered problems in the kitchen and shut down at 8:00, necessitating an early move over to Denny's. Denny's, in turn, closed their doors promptly at 10:00 to film a Honda commercial in their parking lot. Undaunted, we staged a migration of the ~32 people in attendence to the Shakers on Fair Oaks and proceeded to do our thing unabated.
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| July 1, 2005: |
Strom Carlson |
Asterisk (DefCon preview) |
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10 at Union Station, ~27 at Philippe's, ~30 at Denny's. This month, Strom vetted the talk on Asterisk which will be presented at this year's DefCon convention in Las Vegas. Joining him over a VOIP link (thanks to Philippe's for their bandwidth) was BlackRatchet from Boston. The talk created a lot of discussion on Asterisk and VOIP in general, including a brief tale from Feedle from his aborted LayerOne talk. Note: Unlike previous years, DefCon will not interfere with the August meeting, so plan to join us August 5th, 2005 for the next round of la2600.
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| August 6, 2004: |
Shua-Z |
Smartcards |
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No notes.
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| July 2, 2004: |
sorel |
Data Mining |
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10 at Union Station, 32 at Philippe's, 26 at Denny's. sorel spoke on data mining. Other topics covered: Scientific Atlanta's digital cable boxes, 802.11-based mesh networks, mobile data and how best to accomplish it, GPS as an NTP source, BIND9 vs. tinydns, udev and the 2.6-series Linux kernels, the Mojave Phone Booth as it stands today, Defcon, Defcon, and Defcon, data over CB radio, the delayed push of digital FM and TV in the US.
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| June 4, 2004: |
skroo |
IDS and IPS |
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12 at Union Station, 42 at Philippe's, 34 at Denny's. skroo spoke on IDS and IPS. Other topics included the upcoming LayerOne conference, GPS as a backup to NTP, the new udev filesystem in the 2.6 Linux kernel, building a Mosix cluster on the cheap, compressing data over cellular modems to boost throughput, the Apple Lisa, pre-802.11 wireless data standards, line-of-sight broadband using lasers.
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| May 7, 2004: |
Feedle |
VoIP |
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13 at Union Station, 44 at Philippe's, 36 at Denny's. Feedle spoke on using the Asterisk PBX as a VoIP gateway. Other topics discussed included encrypted and checksumming filesystems, context-based security under Linux, common telco terminology for the uninitiated, 802.11 is officially beaten well beyond the point of death, the Los Angeles flood control system and its many interesting features, railroad radio communications, deprecated frequencies and what they mean in today's bandplans.
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| April 2, 2004: |
Harry |
RSA by Hand |
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7 at Union Station, 42 at Philippe's, 25 at Denny's. Harry gave a demonstration of how to do the RSA algorithm by hand. Other topics included archiving obsolete OS images to provide support for future emulation projects, mobile data communications do's and don'ts, telemetry on the cheap, GSM vs. CDMA vs. AMPS, interception and reconstruction of data streams, multiple-token authentication methods, the differences between IDS, firewalls, and IPS.
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| March 5, 2004: |
TommEE Pickles |
Conspiracy Theories |
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11 at Union Station, 39 at Philippe's, 21 at Denny's. TommEE Pickles spoke on conspiracy theories and the realities behind them. Other topics included Mac OSX security, using old hardware to its fullest potential, emulation as a method of creating a contained lab environment, comparative clustering technologies, better homes and steganography, and optical storage media throughout the ages.
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| February 6, 2004: |
Petty Larceny |
VPN Howto |
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9 at Union Station, 41 at Philippe's, 23 at Denny's. Petty Larceny spoke on how to set up and use a VPN. Other topics included bluetooth as an intelligence-gathering method, what does and doesn't work from old telco-related textfiles in today's day and age, obtaining utilities and other services without an SSN, automotive OBD systems and the information they store, ad-hoc radio broadcasting.
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| January 2, 2004: |
Vidiot |
Vector-space search engines |
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10 at Union Station, 34 at Philippe's, 24 at Denny's. Vidiot spoke on vector-space search engines and the advantages and disadvantages they have over keyword-based search methods. Other topics included snarfing IrDA traffic, wireless data transport not involving radio, what to buy and not buy when building a Cisco lab, web browser technologies, ad-hoc Metropolitan Area Networks, making mobile data capabilities useful from a human perspective, VoIP technologies.
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| December 5, 2003: |
Feedle |
Non-disposable disposable digital cameras |
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10 at Union Station, 37 at Philippe's, 28 at Denny's. Feedle spoke on Ritz Cameras' eleven-dollar disposable digital cameras and how to make them non-disposable. Other topics covered included: 802.11b over ludicrous distances; Novell, SuSE, SCO, and incest in the *nix world; LayerOne (L.A.'s first security convention) officially announced; comparative analysis of local DSL providers; compressed-air powered ballistic launch devices; psychoacoustics in .mod trackers; the hardware bazaar spans possibly the widest range of platforms yet made available.
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| November 7, 2003: |
boogah |
Privatising P2P networks |
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4 at Union Station, 35 at Philippe's, 28 at Denny's. This meeting was dedicated to the memory of a good friend and longtime attendee, Ghent (aka Branden Hancock), who died October 26th, 2003, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. May he rest in peace. Boogah spoke on methods of privatising p2p networks and the need for technologies intended to obfuscate their existence. Other topics discussed included GPRS cellular data, network discovery and mapping of rogue wireless environments, Linux for non-x86 platforms, backup automation and tunnelling via SSH, nd wide-area mobile 802.11.
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| October 3, 2003: |
skroo, et. al. |
Annual General Meeting |
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15 at Union Station, 42 at Philippe's, 31 at Denny's. In the absence of a set speaker, something roughly equivalent to an Annual General Meeting was held. xinc and stderr announced the formation of the DC213 Defcon Group and spoke about what they hoped to achieve with it. Other topics covered included Van Eck monitoring, steganography in non-machine-readable media, resurrecting old arcade games, fun things to do with the phone when you're bored, and securing wireless access points.
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| September 5, 2003: |
Dan Green |
Windows 2000 Host Security |
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19 at Union Station, 42 at Philippe's, an unknown number at Denny's. Dan Green spoke on Windows 2000 Host Security. Other topics covered include: recent weaknesses discovered in GSM, fun with scanners, AMPS as your next cellular protocol, books and other resources for beginners, TCP bounce attacks, response to and mitigation of automated or distributed DoS events, building packets for fun and for profit, the joy of making Linux work on new laptops, Defcon recapped, your car's on-board diagnostics system and fun that you can have with it.
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| August 1, 2003: |
Many |
Defcon 11 |
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Everyone was at Defcon 11 getting drunk and having a good time; recap the madness at defconpics.org. If you showed up, sorry we missed you, swing back by in September when we'll be back to our normal meeting schedule.
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| July 4, 2003: |
-None- |
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BBQ!
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| June 6, 2003: |
sorel |
chroot Detection and Aversion |
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15 at Union Station, 44 at Philippe's, 28 at Denny's. The long-awaited LA2600 t-shirts arrive and are devoured with amazing rapidity. Sorel spoke on chroot Detection and Aversion. Topics discussed include: Mac OSX in relation to FreeBSD, 802.11x as a point-to-point microwave medium, 802.11b and the potential for moonbounce, mobile telemetry and its applications, emulation of obsolete hardware platforms as virtual networks for honeypot environments, comparative filesystem structure and purpose, how to get to Defcon, California concealed-carry firearms laws and how they are applied, radiotelephone services and their potential for carrying data.
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| May 2, 2003: |
skroo |
Windows 2000 Domain Structure |
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14 at Union Station, 41 at Philippe's, 29 at Denny's. skroo spoke on Windows 2000 Domain structure. Topics covered include: the future of cellular, guerrilla low-power FM, Linux sound support, building a networked MP3 player for the home, host vs. network-based intrusion detection, Mozilla plugins, building networked console and control applications in Java, writing backend interface scripts in php, microwave relay stations, radiotelephone installations still in use in California.
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| April 4, 2003: |
eecue |
Data Forensics with Snarl |
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9 at Union Station, 41 at Philippe's, 30 at Denny's. eecue spoke on Data Forensics with Snarl. Topics covered included data signalling over AC power lines, mp3 codec configuration and comparison, firewalling and routing with Linux, fun with HP's JetDirect print servers, your local MPOE and how it may be of interest to you, ext3 vs. ext2 vs. xfs, privacy through demographic transparency.
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| March 7, 2003: |
CHS |
Q&A With CHS |
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9 at Union Station, 31 at Philippe's, 22 at Denny's. In lieu of a set topic, CHS did a 1-hour Q&A session on a varied number of subjects. Topics covered include: 802.11g and why it still hasn't been finalised; in-car data systems; 3G telephony and why it hasn't caught on; point-to-point microwave links; SS7 and the decline in non-fraud phreaking; obtaining OS media for specialty OSes; the radiotelephone service in national parks; early planning for Defcon and the Defcon Caravan.
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| February 7, 2003: |
sorel |
Secure Coding Practices |
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9 at Union, 40 at Philippe's, 31 at Denny's. Sorel spoke on secure coding practices in C under UNIX. Other topics covered include: Sprint PCS' continued slide into hell in the L.A. area; Active Server Page fun & games; .NET and how it'll let all your major Microsoft exploit architectures get together and have a party; X.25 over types of radio that were never intended to carry it; AMPS as a real alternative to digital cellular; sustainable pirate radio; frequency reuse and piggybacking techniques; ISDN as an ANI scrub.
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| January 3, 2003: |
xinc |
The SIGINT World |
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22 at Union Station, 45 at Philippe's, 30 at Denny's. xinc spoke on SIGINT and related aspects. Topics covered include: things to do with a Sparc IPC, cellular weirdness with Cingular, AS/400 administration, what books and materials to use for learning better system administration techniques, pirate radio heard once again in L.A. after a long break, stupid SkyTel tricks, why being a narc doesn't pay, early planning for DefCon and how to get there, RedHat kernel routing and packet filtering issues, streaming media and recording it to some form of storage media.
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| December 6, 2002: |
skroo |
Pirate Radio |
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10 at Union Station, 27 at Philippe's, 29 at Denny's. Last meeting of 2002, and also the first meeting to officially have set talks: skroo spoke on pirate radio, and held a Q&A session on the subject. Topics covered include SprintPCS Vision phones and how to make them do things Sprint doesn't want you to, Windows 2000 vs. NT 4.0 as a server platform, Qmail as an MTA vs. Sendmail, encrypting email, VOIP and its applications and future, the upcoming CES show in January, planning for L.A. 2600 t-shirts, possibly revamping the L.A. 2600 website, and the return of BBSes.
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| November 1, 2002: |
-None- |
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12 at Union, 20 at Philippe's, 15 at Denny's. We talked about and tried putting slackware on skroo's HP laptop, Loud ass beeps on said laptop that won't go away, 10mbps verses 100mbps, viewing net traffic on half duplex switches, Verizon wireless absorbing Sprint PCS, virtual hosting price comparison, how the media thinks about hackers and 2600 in general (reference the NBC dude that talked with us all night).
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| October 4, 2002: |
-None- |
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Slow month: 9 people at Union Station, 27 at Philippe's, and 23 at Denny's. SeanRox takes notes for skroo because skroo' s lazy. Dual-booting operating systems on laptops, virtual hosting, locking down Cobalt Raq2s, xemacs linefeed weirdness under MacOS 10.2, homebrew DSL, Bluetooth range, li-ion laptop batteries, and the L.A. Sheriffs' department's nifty unmarked brown van and its blister antennas on the roof.
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| September 6, 2002: |
-None- |
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15 at Union Station, 30 at Philippe's, 35 at Denny's.
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| June 7, 2002: |
-None- |
L.A. 2600's Tenth Anniversary |
marked the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles 2600 meeting. In actual fact, the meetings are believed to have been established a year or two before June 1992, but the exact date isn't known. Never needing an excuse for having fun, we celebrated it anyway at the meeting. We escaped the ubiquitous birthday cake, but various bits and pieces from the 1992-2002 timeframe have been gathered and a time capsule is being assembled to place them in, the intention being to present it at the June 8th, 2012 meeting as a retrospective for the twentieth anniversary.
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skroo
tommEE pickles
zerodivide
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| May 3, 2002: |
-None- |
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9 people at Union Station, 38 at Philippe's, and 28 at Denny's. Popular topics: Linux DVD support; spooling streaing media to permanent storage in real time; PacBell's 853 prefix; hardware, hardware, hardware; anonymous credit/debit cards; automatic update mechanisms in certain software packages; polymorphic code; why skipping out on the tip at Denny's is a Bad Idea.
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| October 5, 2001: |
-None- |
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34 people in attendance, 9 of whom made it to Union Station, 34 to Philippe's, and 28 to Denny's. Some attendees were interviewed by the media for an upcoming documentary on VH-1. Toorcon recapped; more uses for old Macs, especially with regard to running Linux or *BSD on them; establishing an e-Commerce site and securing it; proxies vs. gateways, the subtle differences; packet radio over distance; choosing ham radio gear; the PATRIOT act and how to stop it from becoming law; what we can reasonably do to assist in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.
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| August 3, 2001: |
-None- |
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Statistics gets thrown a curve ball. 45 people in attendance, 8 of whom made it to Union, 32 to Phillipe's, and 45 at Denny's (usually Phillipe's is the peak). Ghent gave a talk / demo on practical methods of snooping for 802.11 networks using readily-available hardware. Other popular topics: the horrors of EarthLink DSL, swapping stories from DefCon, things to do with COCOTs when you're bored, why won't WindowMaker build?, slight improvements in the tech job market, iptables vs. ipchains, low-power FM and whether or not we'll ever actually see it, building a dedicated portable 802.11 scanner on the cheap.
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| June 1, 2001: |
-None- |
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38 people in attendance, 11 of whom made it to Union Station prior to Philippe's. Popular topics: alternative OSes, the re-introduction of loops to the Southern California area, chrome boxes and ways of tuning them for a specific region, getting completely anonymous cellular service and anonymizing credit card transactions on the web, firewalls and their configuration and deployment, the pros and cons of network security through obscurity, and the possible uses of 802.11 networks in a surveillance or attack setting. ple in attendance, 11 of whom made it to Union Station prior to Philipp e's.
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| May 4, 2001: |
-None- |
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26 people in attendance, about 12 of whom made it to Union Station prior to Philippe's. Popular topics: identity hacking and its applications. Defcon, Defcon, and Defcon. IIS vulnerabilities and Windows 2000 security. Your rights when being stopped and/or searched by the police or other law enforcement agencies. The state of the current tech job market, and what this may mean for the future of obtaining employment in the industry. Reusing old hardware as network appliances, and building a home network on the cheap. Choosing a first *nix, and what to do and where to go if you encounter problems during installation.
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| January 2, 1998: |
-None- |
Smart Cards Revisited |
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| November 7, 1997: |
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Win95 File Sharing |
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| September 5, 1997: |
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Windows Browsing |
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| June 6, 1997: |
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Smart Cards |
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| September 6, 1996: |
-None- |
SSN's & Stuff |
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| August 2, 1996: |
-None- |
Magnetic Credit Cards |
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