DC401 tag:dc401.org,2007-09-06:/site//1 2009-12-28T02:39:20Z Bringing l33t skillz to the Biggest Little Movable Type 4.21-en January Meeting - Make and Break Night tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.74 2009-12-28T02:31:28Z 2009-12-28T02:39:20Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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

]]> December Meeting - Joan Pepin on Gender Hacking tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.71 2009-11-24T00:53:10Z 2009-11-24T11:15:43Z 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.... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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

]]> Video - Dennis Brown - Synthetic Economies tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.70 2009-11-22T21:36:19Z 2009-11-23T21:50:08Z Perennial DC401 speaker Dennis Brown gives his 3rd talk.... ducksauz http://dc401.org/

Perennial DC401 speaker Dennis Brown gives his 3rd talk.

]]> Video - Andy Pavlo - Graffiti Networks tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.67 2009-11-01T21:36:22Z 2009-11-01T21:42:34Z If you want to follow along with a more readable copy of the slides, they are available here.... ducksauz http://dc401.org/

If you want to follow along with a more readable copy of the slides, they are available here.

]]> November Meeting - Dennis Brown - Synthetic Economies: A Real World Arms Race for Virtual Gold tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.66 2009-10-27T13:49:24Z 2009-10-27T13:53:49Z 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.... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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

]]> October Meeting: Andy Pavlo on Graffiti Networks tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.64 2009-09-30T10:23:29Z 2009-09-30T10:56:33Z We've got a real treat for the October Meeting. Andy Pavlo, a CS graduate student at Brown will come by to talk about his research project called Graffiti Networks, which apparently landed him and his collaborators into a little hot... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ We've got a real treat for the October Meeting. Andy Pavlo, a CS graduate student at Brown will come by to talk about his research project called Graffiti Networks, which apparently landed him and his collaborators into a little hot water last spring. Should be a very interesting talk with a good 'lessons learned' section.

"In response to the lack of user anonymity and long-term data persistence in existing P2P systems, we developed the Graffiti Network distributed file sharing protocol that uses multiple third-party storage sites as a data replication and transfer medium between clients. Our approach is to use publically available web sites to store multiple copies of shared content. We use the term graffiti for our work since we are storing data in a way that non-network participants may regard as unsightly or unwanted vandalism."

Date/Time:Monday, 12 Oct 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

Note the special night! AS220 once again has Action Speaks! on Wednesday nights this month, so we got bumped to the second Monday.

]]> DC401 featured in The Providence Phoenix tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.63 2009-09-14T14:09:25Z 2009-09-14T14:11:44Z We had some press presence at the last meeting. Abigail Crocker from the Phoenix came by to check out what we're all about. You can read all about it on in the Phoenix... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ We had some press presence at the last meeting. Abigail Crocker from the Phoenix came by to check out what we're all about. You can read all about it on in the Phoenix

]]> September Meeting - Making Prototype PCBs with a Milling Machine tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.61 2009-08-18T11:09:24Z 2009-08-18T11:19:53Z For the September Meeting, yours truly will be giving a presentation and demo of creating prototype printed circuit boards using the Roland Modela milling machine available for use at AS220 Labs. Sometimes you've got an idea for an electronics project... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ For the September Meeting, yours truly will be giving a presentation and demo of creating prototype printed circuit boards using the Roland Modela milling machine available for use at AS220 Labs.

Sometimes you've got an idea for an electronics project and want to knock out a prototype board right away. There are a couple of different methods available to the homebrew board maker. One of those is using a milling machine to shave away the copper on a board where you don't want contacts. I'll give a short presentation on how this process works followed by a demo of creating an actual PCB for a project I'm working on with entr0py.

Date/Time: 2 Sept 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

]]> July Meeting - Dennis Brown on The #IranElection Cyberwar tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.60 2009-06-16T22:09:59Z 2009-06-16T22:20:00Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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

]]> Video - Nick D on deDECTed tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.59 2009-06-01T11:06:00Z 2009-06-01T11:32:27Z ducksauz http://dc401.org/ ]]> June Meeting - Bring a Project, Shoot the Breeze tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.58 2009-05-31T15:06:30Z 2009-05-31T15:11:35Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ Date/Time: 3 June 2009 - 1730-1900
Location: AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence. Directions

]]> May Meeting - Hacker Jeopardy! tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.54 2009-05-03T21:54:29Z 2009-05-03T22:10:32Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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 Meeting - Nick D on DeDECTed tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.53 2009-03-17T10:51:59Z 2009-06-01T11:32:58Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ 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

]]> Announcing QuahogCon tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.52 2009-02-26T12:14:47Z 2009-02-26T12:16:15Z It's official. QuahogCon is announced. Check out all the details.... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ It's official. QuahogCon is announced. Check out all the details.

]]> Sam featured in the Wired Gadget Blog tag:dc401.org,2009:/site//1.49 2009-02-25T17:51:03Z 2009-02-25T17:55:55Z 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... ducksauz http://dc401.org/ Sam on his Shopping Cart Bike

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

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