What do you do when you find a USB stick on the ground?
Clearly you take it to work, plug it into a computer with network admin
privileges to make sure there is nothing funny about it.
I guess something could go wrong, I saw a documentary once where criminals
dropped a load of USB sticks on the ground which an unsuspecting prison guard
used in a computer. They probably put some malware on that USB stick and all,
not cool.
Anyway, at congress I saw this sign, sans stick. I hope there was both
something horrible on it and something that made it worth the hassle.
The CCC put together an excellent track of talks about Science and Space
technology. I chewed through a lot of them yesterday, they set a really great
tone and are aimed really well at their audience.
I have been thinking recently about organising events locally that have much
more technical content than the current things that happen. Up here there isn't
the density of expertise required to run a monthly or even quarterly event
without running out of fresh speakers very quickly.
Sessions by experts in a field with technical content, aimed at Non Cyber
Muggles from other fields (similar pitching as the space track talks) could
work very well. I will have to play with this idea and see if people from other
fields are interesting in taking part.
bunnie
has a long history of doing really cool things in hardware hacking,
his book
Hacking the Xbox
is a great read (he has another
book in the
works too
). bunnie and
xobs
presented a complete tear down and reverse
engineering of
sd cards
at 30c3, at 33c3 they were back talking about
their education project
chibitronics
.
bunnie's talk is about the project it self, technical design and motivations,
if the front matter of the talk turn you off believe me when I say it is worth
powering through and watching the whole thing.
xob's presents an excellent session of bit banging out usb from a low power
Cortex-M0+ microcontroller. This talk is a great introduction into the low
level details of the usb protocol.
God damn it! I won't be downloading all the 33c3 talks this year to watch
offline, instead I will stream them from the excellent
media.ccc.de
. No
good reason, I am only doing this because when making a list to feed to wget I
did:
I didn't really have the disc spare to store 100GB or so of talks anyway. I
will stream the videos in my browser instead. I don't really have set approach
to watching the CCC talks. I normally work through the list watching things
that other have said were good, or talks whose title catches my eye.
Chaos is an important part of CCC, most of the best things that happen are
pranks that only a small number of people experience. The Fnord News Show has a
large audience German speaking audience, I am pretty sure this awesome 'event'
is unknown outside of the German crowd.
