Wednesday, April 4, 2012  Hackito Ergo Sum: Not Just Another
Conference  First, a bit of background on conferences as I have
discovered them: I remember really well the first conference I
attended almost a decade ago: it was PH-Neutral in Berlin. The
first talk I'd ever seen was from Raoul Chiesa on attacking
legacy X25 networks, specifically how to root satellites. (For
those unfamiliar with X25, it was the global standard for
networking before the internet existed. Clearly, if you sent a
satellite to space in the 1980s, you weren't going to get it
back on earth so that you could path it and upgrade its network
stack, so it would remain in space, vulnerable for ages, until
its owner eventually decided to change its orbit and destroy
it). The audience comprised some of the best hackers in the
world and I got to meet them. People like Dragos Riou, FX,
Julien Tinnes, and various members of the underground security
industry were asking questions or completing what the presenter
was saying in a relaxed, respectfu