For January, we're going to do a combined DC401/AS220 Labs Make and Break night. We'll have five each of the Adafruit SIM readers, Minty Boost and TV-B-Gone kits. Cost for the kits with be $20 each. Assistance with soldering and general advise is free, as always.
Email ducksauz [at] dc401 [dot] org to reserve a kit. Or take your chances and come on the night of and see what's available. Also, if you've got a small kit sitting around that you've been meaning to build, bring it down and we'll help you through it.
Date/Time: 6 Jan 2010 - 1700-1900 (Early start!)
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
For December's meeting we have a talk from one of our members who you might not recognize at first glance these days. Joe Pepin has transitioned to Joan Pepin and will be speaking on the technical details of being transgendered. This will be a very interesting and enlightening talk.
Gender (as opposed to physical sex) is a social construct and is therefore susceptible to manipulation and what hackers may call 'social engineering'. Speaking from personal experience, I will discuss various techniques that some members of the transgender community use to alter the perception of their gender. This talk will not focus on the "why", but rather the "how", and may have applications relevant to the broader hacker/social-engineering community.
Date/Time: 2 Dec 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
If you want to follow along with a more readable copy of the slides, they are available here.
Prolific DC401 speaker Dennis Brown returns hot on the heels of his abbreviated presentation at ToorCon. They only gave him 20 minutes. We'll give him a whole hour and see if he can get all the way to the end.
Selling currency and services for massively multiplayer games are often viewed as a cottage industry, but it is in fact a half-billion dollar industry that profits off of malware distribution and sweatshop labor. Its also a conflict between the companies behind these games who want to keep a fair playing field, and the people trying to profit from them using techniques such as social engineering, keyloggers and spamming, amongst others. This presentation discusses the recent history of these synthetic economies, how they remain undetected and in operation, and the ways they can affect both virtual and real-world economies.
Date/Time:Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions