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Sore throats, travel, CCC
Dec. 21st, 2008 07:15 pmOh dear. I seem to have developed some sort of throat unpleasantness, which oddly consists more of swelling than outright pain. I'm hyperaware of my tonsils, and there are some very swollen lymph nodes in my neck. No wonder I've been feeling so out of it and despondent the last few days.
Fortunately, I already had a doctor's appointment scheduled Monday for something else entirely, so I will have him take a culture and find out whether it's something bacterial or if I just get to drink a lot of tea and take a lot of aspirin and acetaminophen over the next week.
And I'd better get over it quickly, because on Wednesday I leave for Berlin, where I'll reunite with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enochsmiles and foxgrrl and the three of us will go to 25c3. If you'll be there too, chime in so that I know to look for you!
I will most likely spend much of my time participating in the hall track, but here are the presentations that I'm particularly interested in attending:
Day 1
Solar-powering your Geek Gear -- I might or might not stick around for all of this one, largely depends on whether they tell me anything I don't already know.
FAIFA: A first open source PLC tool -- Sounds a bit dull from the title, but definitely read the description before passing this one up. PLC stands for Power Line Communications, which is sort of the logical inverse of Power over Ethernet -- instead of power over your comms line, it's comms over your power lines. I remember this technology from about six years ago and thought it had gone away, but apparently it's making a comeback. For bonus points, it looks like the presentation will address security concerns.
Security Failures in Smart Card Payment Systems -- Stephen Murdoch always gives good presentations, and his work is invariably both technically sound and extremely practical.
About Cyborgs and Gargoyles: State of the Art in Wearable Computing -- A topic near and dear to my heart, and the presenter has some impressive credentials in real-world wearable computing foo. Looks like there might be some data mining involved? Should be pretty interesting.
Chip Reverse Engineering -- May be over my head, but it's something I've always been curious about.
Beyond Asimov: Laws for Robots -- The title sounds rather facetious but the abstract raises some important issues. I'm actually not so interested in this with respect to robotics as I am with respect to biohacking, as the two fields are similarly (1) unregulated, and (2) at risk of user-unfriendly regulation or constraint from governments, fearful citizens' groups and even people within our own ranks.
Day 2
Attacking Rich Internet Applications -- I'm not all that interested in doing it myself, but I like to keep abreast of protocol/language-based attacks because I like to pit them against my own research and see what wins.
Algorithmic Music in a Box -- sounds like pure good clean fun, and it's a hands-on workshop! Woot.
I'm awfully torn between Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks and TCP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, which are at the same time. The latter will probably be more practical, but I can't escape the thought that just because people aren't paying a lot of attention to mesh networks now doesn't mean they're not important, especially in industrial applications. Oh, decisions, decisions.
I might hit up part of Short Attention Span Security because I haven't seen Ben Kurtz in a few years and he's pretty cool, but I'm more interested in Scalable Swarm Robotics.
I also might go to All your base(s) are belong to us: Dawn of the high-throughput DNA sequencing era but I doubt it will cover anything I don't already know. That said, I probably should go, DIYbio represent and all that.
Tricks: makes you smile -- I'm not a pentester, but I think I'll go to this one just for the lulz.
Day 3
Repurposing the TI EZ430U is definitely my style, though I might also hit up eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen just to heckle.
I think I am morally obligated to attend Privacy in the social semantic web: Social networks based on XMPP, particularly given my interest in microformats, but I really want to go to An introduction to new stream cipher designs too. I dunno, maybe I should just get someone at COSIC to fill me in on the latter.
foxgrrl, enochsmiles and I should all attend Hacking into Botnets and pwn the whole fucking discussion. AllMost of your bots are belong to foxgrrl already anyway...
SWF and the Malware Tragedy -- yay, more good ammunition for my research, I don't know enough about Flash exploits yet. Time to fix that problem. Ditto for Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents, which happily is the very next talk after dinner.
Weirdly, nothing on Tuesday is all that interesting to me. So I guess I'll do all my hardcore drinking on Monday night!
Fortunately, I already had a doctor's appointment scheduled Monday for something else entirely, so I will have him take a culture and find out whether it's something bacterial or if I just get to drink a lot of tea and take a lot of aspirin and acetaminophen over the next week.
And I'd better get over it quickly, because on Wednesday I leave for Berlin, where I'll reunite with
enochsmiles and foxgrrl and the three of us will go to 25c3. If you'll be there too, chime in so that I know to look for you!I will most likely spend much of my time participating in the hall track, but here are the presentations that I'm particularly interested in attending:
Day 1
Solar-powering your Geek Gear -- I might or might not stick around for all of this one, largely depends on whether they tell me anything I don't already know.
FAIFA: A first open source PLC tool -- Sounds a bit dull from the title, but definitely read the description before passing this one up. PLC stands for Power Line Communications, which is sort of the logical inverse of Power over Ethernet -- instead of power over your comms line, it's comms over your power lines. I remember this technology from about six years ago and thought it had gone away, but apparently it's making a comeback. For bonus points, it looks like the presentation will address security concerns.
Security Failures in Smart Card Payment Systems -- Stephen Murdoch always gives good presentations, and his work is invariably both technically sound and extremely practical.
About Cyborgs and Gargoyles: State of the Art in Wearable Computing -- A topic near and dear to my heart, and the presenter has some impressive credentials in real-world wearable computing foo. Looks like there might be some data mining involved? Should be pretty interesting.
Chip Reverse Engineering -- May be over my head, but it's something I've always been curious about.
Beyond Asimov: Laws for Robots -- The title sounds rather facetious but the abstract raises some important issues. I'm actually not so interested in this with respect to robotics as I am with respect to biohacking, as the two fields are similarly (1) unregulated, and (2) at risk of user-unfriendly regulation or constraint from governments, fearful citizens' groups and even people within our own ranks.
Day 2
Attacking Rich Internet Applications -- I'm not all that interested in doing it myself, but I like to keep abreast of protocol/language-based attacks because I like to pit them against my own research and see what wins.
Algorithmic Music in a Box -- sounds like pure good clean fun, and it's a hands-on workshop! Woot.
I'm awfully torn between Security of MICA*-based wireless sensor networks and TCP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, which are at the same time. The latter will probably be more practical, but I can't escape the thought that just because people aren't paying a lot of attention to mesh networks now doesn't mean they're not important, especially in industrial applications. Oh, decisions, decisions.
I might hit up part of Short Attention Span Security because I haven't seen Ben Kurtz in a few years and he's pretty cool, but I'm more interested in Scalable Swarm Robotics.
I also might go to All your base(s) are belong to us: Dawn of the high-throughput DNA sequencing era but I doubt it will cover anything I don't already know. That said, I probably should go, DIYbio represent and all that.
Tricks: makes you smile -- I'm not a pentester, but I think I'll go to this one just for the lulz.
Day 3
Repurposing the TI EZ430U is definitely my style, though I might also hit up eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen just to heckle.
I think I am morally obligated to attend Privacy in the social semantic web: Social networks based on XMPP, particularly given my interest in microformats, but I really want to go to An introduction to new stream cipher designs too. I dunno, maybe I should just get someone at COSIC to fill me in on the latter.
foxgrrl, enochsmiles and I should all attend Hacking into Botnets and pwn the whole fucking discussion. foxgrrl already anyway...SWF and the Malware Tragedy -- yay, more good ammunition for my research, I don't know enough about Flash exploits yet. Time to fix that problem. Ditto for Methods for Understanding Targeted Attacks with Office Documents, which happily is the very next talk after dinner.
Weirdly, nothing on Tuesday is all that interesting to me. So I guess I'll do all my hardcore drinking on Monday night!