Opening Remarks
What is this Phreaknic you speak of? Who we are, what we are about, and what is
this
stuff I got for coming to the con? We'll go over the events, hit the highlights,
and some
general guidelines about attending Phreaknic.
Droops/Morgellon - The Extraordinary Journey from Fundamental
Electronics to Fabulous Enchanted Systems with Arduino's and Magical
Potions.
Droops and Morgellon will take you from basic electronics to building embedded
systems.
Learn how to build a standalone RFID tag reader with a fancy LCD display or your
own
oscilloscope or childrens toys that speak to you or how to solar power a
geothermal heat
pump. There may even be some giveaways and contests. Magical Potions will be
consumed but not provided.
Sorteal - LiVes Open Source video editor
This talk will introduce new users to the LiVES video editor and its vast array
of
supported formats, both audio and video. Basic and advanced video editing
techniques will
be cover as well as the use of real time effects along with their importance and
implementation in VJ projects. The unique networking features, the desire to
build a strong
community around the project and the openness for developers to expand the
project and
its functionality will be addressed as well during the talk.
TRiP - Discussion of the legality of wardriving
This talk is to provide a "current" legal status of wardriving throughout the
US. The talk
will include an overview of wardriving and it's history (wardialing), the
statues regulating
all 50 states and how courts have interrupted such statutes, recent arrests for
wardriving/related activities, and a brief overview of the international
statues.
Handgrip/Buttstock - Open Source AK-47's
Ensuring freedom through greater firepower. How to build yourself a legal,
paperwork-free
AK47 from salvage parts.
Jack Dreher- Hacking the Mind/Body Connection
This talk will teach you a simple acupressure based algorithm along with a
series of
visualization exercises that can be used to overcome a wide variety of mental,
physical,
emotional, and spiritual limiting beliefs. While the modality itself can be
applied to a
multitude of issues this talk will focus on using the techniques to enhance
learning and creativity.
Russell Butturini - Using the Hak5 U3 Switchblade as an Incident
Response and Forensics Tool
This talk will explain how to adapt the Hak5 switchblade, originally conceived
as an
attack/pen-testing tool into an incident response and forensics tool using
different utilities.
Adaptations of the original solution using a non-U3 drive and a more automated
solution
using U3 technology will be discussed.
Lee Baird/John Skinner - JAIL: Get your iPhone out, and try NOT to get
yourself in!
A guide on how to jailbreak your iPhone, install & backup unauthorized apps, and
what to
do with your iPhone once it's jailbroken.
Scott Milliken/Erin Shelton - Beer Hacking - Real World Examples
You build your own computers from the bare parts. You'd die before paying
someone else to actually write a basic HTML page for you. So why is it that you
pay up to 10x the
actual cost of making beer for something of lesser quality? This presentation
will cover the
various methods of making your own alcoholic beverages (beer, cider, wine),
including the
equipment required and approximate setup costs for each. Even if your skill in
the kitchen
is limited to the microwave, there is a method of brewing that will work for
you. Some
experimentation tricks will also be covered so that you can literally hack your
beer to
create a new flavor. Samples of various batches made by the presenters will be
available
during the presentation, assuming they haven't already drunk all of it.
Bruce Herman - The Art of the Approach: The Steps to Attract Women
I will go through a step by step instruction of getting a womans phone number
and date.
I will break this down bit by bit to show how to successfully do it. I will go
over the things
you should do and the things you should never do. Quick over veiws on body
language
and what yours is saying to the opposite sex.
Irongeek - Hardware Keyloggers: Use, Review, and Stealth
This talk will cover hardware keyloggers and their use. About six will be
presented in
person for folks to try hands on, with a few others referenced in the slide show
(mini-pci
ones for example) . I'll cover the advantages and disadvantages of the current
crop on the
market and how they work. Also covered will be possible ways to detect hardware
keyloggers via physical inspection an software.
Daniel Hooper - An Introduction to Software Defined Radio by Cowboy Dan
Software Defined Radio (SDR) is the latest (and possibly last) iteration of
radio
communication technology. Traditional radio technology is very
hardware-oriented, and
somewhat inaccessible to the software-hacking community. NO LONGER!
With a fixed piece of hardware such as the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP),
we can emulate many different kinds of traditional hardware, from CW Morse-code
type
transmissions, all the way up to digital QAM, HDTV, and beyond.
This presentation will demonstrate how to get set up with GNU Radio and the USRP
hardware. We will perform a few simple tasks such as receiving radio and TV. The
goal
is to get most people in the audience comfortable with the setup process so that
they
can start experimenting.
SkyDog & Crew - Starting your own Hackerspace (Panel Talk)
Got a bunch of hacker/maker friends and wanna do some projects? Start a
hackerspace!
We'll take you on an adventure as we look back over the last year and reflect on
the
progress we have made getting our hackerspace started, and share some pitfalls
and
triumphs along the way. Skydog will be joined by Seeblind, the VP of the HC,
Mudflap, the
Secretary, and Someninjamaster, a devoted, hardworking member.
Scott Moulton - At Least TEN things you didn't know about your hard drive!
This speech comprises at least 10 things that are 2+2=5 type situations people
do not
realize about hard drives. For Example, Data is written in Cylinders on hard
drives, all
partitions are created on Cylinder Boundaries and that leaves an offset from the
end of one
partition to the next which leaves a gap between partitions that is unusable or
free space at
the end of the disk. In addition to that, the point would be, since the outer
edge of a drive
starting at Track 0 is the fastest location on the drive, and the first
partition is created on a
cylinder boundary at the outside edge, then each and every partition you create
on the disk
has to be at a cylinder boundary into the disk. This means the second partition
is on a
slower part of the drive than the first. So for Mac Users that create a 32 gig
Fat32 partition
on their drive (actually the 6th/7th partition on the drive) is 32 gigs from the
end of the drive
on a Cylinder boundary and they just installed Windows on the slowest part of
the drive. No
it will not be animated!
Bruce Potter - Three Cool Security Technologies You've Never Heard Of
This talk will introduce you to 3 cool security technologies that you've
probably never been
exposed to. There is still innovation going on, and much of the most useful tech
isn't
getting press time. So I'm going to try and rekindle some of that love you've
lost over the
years by giving you the 20 minute low-down on each one. Go get some wine, light
the
candles, sit back, and enjoy security again. What are the 3 technologies? Well,
you'll just
have to attend the talk to find out.
Nathan Hamiel /Shawn Moyer - Satan is on my Friends List: Attacking
Social Networks
Social Networking is shaping up to be the perfect storm... An implicit trust of
those in one's
network or social circle, a willingness to share information, little or no
validation of
identity, the ability to run arbitrary code (in the case of user-created apps)
with minimal
review, and a tag soup of client-side user-generated HTML (Hello? MySpace? 1998
called.
It wants its markup vulns back). Yikes.
But enough about pwning the kid from homeroom who copied your calc homework.
With
the rise of business social networking sites, there are now thousands of public
profiles with
real names and titles of people working for major banks, the defense and
aerospace
industry, federal agencies, the US Senate... A target-rich and trusting
environment for
custom-tailored, laser-focused attacks.
Our talk will show the results of a series of public experiments aimed at
pointing out the
security and privacy ramifications of everyone's increasingly open, increasingly
connected
online personae and the interesting new attack vectors they've created.
David Hickman/Joshua Restivo - The Government Found Child Porn on
My PC. Now What?
Most users of the Internet are acquainted with peer to peer filesharing and the
amount of
pornography available therein and elsewhere on the Internet. Any active
filesharing user
has likely downloaded some form of child pornography unintentionally. Law
enforcement
has taken the stance that downloading, possession, and/or distribution of child
pornography, even accidental or system compromise, is a crime that will be
prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law. As a result, there are task forces, which scour
p2p networks
looking for the hashes of known child pornography. When found, the local
jurisdiction is notified to investigate. In many cases these local investigators do not have the
computer
skills or experience handle the case correctly.
Unfortunately, once the computers are seized, the accused automatically inherit
the
stigma of being associated with this type of crime. Only if they have access to
competent
defense forensics do they have a chance of avoiding charges, having existing
charges
dropped or winning their case in court.
This talk will concentrate on what happens in the pre-indictment and
post-indictment
stages of a case from the defense forensics viewpoint.
Darren Kitchen - Lessons Learned in Hacker Media
From e-zine to podcast the world of hacking has been filled with media of all
sorts. In this
talk I will speak about my experiences and lessons learned in "new media". In
particular
how they relate to underground culture and our social responsibility to the next
generation of security enthusiasts.
Why You Suck
Decius Drunken Rant
Intx80's Performance
Awards and Closing
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