For the July meeting, Dennis Brown is bringing us a very interesting and current presentation about his observations of what's going on with the Iran Election.
A wide array of technologies have been deployed during the fallout after the election scandal in Iran, particularly by ordinary Iranian citizens. Some of these technologies have been purely disruptive, while others have resulted in an uncommon level of information dispersal and ad-hoc organization. This presentation is a discussion about the cyber-warfare tactics used in this conflict. It will explore the tools used, discuss their trustworthiness, effectiveness, reliability, and propose what tools future conflicts may employ.
Date/Time: 1 July 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
We don't have a speaker scheduled for this month, so this is a good chance for us to simply hang out, drink some beers and discuss the various projects we're all working on in our spare time. You don't need to bring a presentation or anything, just come on down and find some like-minded folks with whom to talk about your projects. You might just find some people to collaborate with and make your project go faster.
Date/Time: 3 June 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
In preparation for the August pilgrimage to Defcon, we'll be holding Hacker Jeopardy tryouts this month. Unfortunately, this doesn't guarantee us a slot in the game in Vegas, but it'll be hella fun anyway. Since NickD wants to play this year, I'll be passing on my Hacker Jeopardy returning champion rights and hosting the event.
Come on down (oops, wrong game show), toss back a few cold ones and be entertained as we toss out the answers and see who comes up with the right questions.
Special Note: We're on a special night this month due to Action Speaks getting all the Wednesday night slots this month.
Date/Time: 11 May 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
April Fool's day brings us a treat as Nick D presents on the deDECTed project.
DECT or Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, is a standard used for various data communications devices, most commonly phones but also mobile POS systems. Mostly deployed in Europe and making leaps and boundsin the US DECT was the recent focus of some hackers in Germany who sought out to create a Linux stack and driver for DECT hardware. With this hardware you can intercept DECT communications where encryption is optional, including cordless phones.
At this talk Nick will talk in details about the Dedected project, it's goals and progress as well as demonstrate a live intercept of a DECT phone call and conversation.
Date/Time: 1 Apr 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
It's official. QuahogCon is announced. Check out all the details.
Our very own Sam Thompson was featured in the Wired Gadget Lab blog today in an entry on crazy bicycles. Check out the madness that is the Shopping Cart Bike
Here's the video from the February 2009 meeting, in which Pepin tells a bunch of hysterical war stories.
We have at least two budding comedians in the group and one of them wants to see if he can entertain us for at least a half an hour for the February meeting. Not really sure what's on the topic list, but having listened to many a story of his in the past, I'm sure Pepin will amuse us all.
Date/Time: 4 Feb 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
We don't have Mitch Altman in town this January, but we're still going to do a kit build anyway. We've got 15 Conway's Game of Life Kits coming in along with all the right angle connectors we need to hook them all up together. Once they're all put together we'll hook them up and get some good pictures and video of them. Ideally, it would be cool if people marked them with their names and left them for a couple of weeks so we can install the whole thing in the gallery window on the street.
Date/Time: 7 Jan 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions
