[Hrgeeks] RECON?/DEFCON?/WOOT? (Was Re: Who's going to HOPE? Heads up, Badges)

[derez]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 02:27 -0400, Brandon Whaley wrote:
> I'll be there, flying up Thursday night.
> 
> > On Jun 27, 2010 2:47 PM, <telmnstr at 757.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Not sure who's planning to go to HOPE.
> > 
> > We will be doing the video network, once again. Probably the biggest
> > one ever,
> > need 5-6 playback endpoints and two encoding rigs.
> > 
> > I was listening to OffTheHook on the way back from DC on Friday.
> > They were
> > talking to Travis Goodspeed who is behind the badge this year. Once
> > again it
> > will be a "RFID" type tracking device. He has released GoodFET, some
> > sort of
> > firmware for turning the badge into a raw packet monitor. Also, the
> > badges are
> > reprogrammable so we could do some hacking.
> > 
> > The badges are based on the TI MSP430:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_MSP430
> > 
> > So get your compilers ready!
> > 
> > Also the sourcecode for the badge is already available:
> > 
> > http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/
> > 

On that note, just curious if anyone is attending the Reverse
Engineering CON (RECON) up in Montreal next weekend? It is a small (~300
people) con focused on all aspects of hardware and software reversing
and is easily my favorite con of the year.. Montreal is an awesome city
and it attracts some of the best talent out there.. Even if you don't
make it up they host a site a www.recon.cx that has the full
audio/video/content archives of every con for free so check it out if
you are interested in this sort of thing..

I am also attending DefCon 18 (www.defcon.org) in Vegas on July 30th and
the 4th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies
(www.usenix.org/events/woot10) on August 9th in Washington DC so if
anyone else is attending let me know. 

~d