Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch
Prototyping Active Disk Antiforensics This action-packed lecture presents the inner workings of the author’s from-scratch implementation of a USB Mass Storage disk in user-land Python, along with some embarrassing bugs […]
How I Met Your Pointer
Hijacking Client Software for Fuzz and Profit An approach to the problem of fuzzing proprietary protocols will be shown, focusing on network protocols and native software. In the course of […]
Romantic Hackers
Keats, Wordsworth and Total Surveillance In 1791, the political reformer Jeremy Bentham theorized the Panopticon, whose design promised to allow a single Inspector to surveil (exercise “inspective force” over) large […]
Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins
On the Way to Free(ing) Education Massive open online courses are the vogue of the season when it comes to discussing the future of university-level education. But we’re only starting […]
Russia’s Surveillance State
Privacy International, Agentura.Ru, the Russian secret services watchdog, and Citizen Lab have joined forces to launch a new project entitled ‘Russia’s Surveillance State’. The aims of the project are to […]
Long Live the Protocoletariat!
We’re winning! The future looks like network politics! Wait, what the hell are network politics and how do they work? Is that like the Pirate Party, or the IETF, or […]