David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

Phil Lapsley
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As part of his book on the history of phone phreaking, Phil submitted hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to various three-letter government agencies. In this talk he will give an overview of how FOIA works, describe the type of documents you can get via FOIA, and discuss some of the typical FOIA stumbling blocks and workarounds to them. He will then focus on FOIA from a “hacker’s perspective” and will examine the recent launch of several FOIA/hacker related websites such as GetGrandpasFBIFile.Com, GetMyFBIFile.Com., TvShowComplaints.Org, UnsecureFlight.Com, WhatDoTheyKnow.Com, and GovernmentAttic.Com.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

John Threat, Mark Abene aka Phiber Optik

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Hackateer is an episodic adventure series about a team of hackers who are being chased by quasi-government agencies. The show blends a reality Do It Yourself tech show with a scripted spy/adventure narrative shot in anime style. Embedded within the entertainment of an episode, viewers learn how to take everyday technology and use it in ways they never dreamed of and not always originally intended. The show also features interrogations with top hackers and tech people from around the world that are kidnapped by the Hackateers. Hackateer is also unique in that the show is cast with real underground hackers and the stories are drawn from world famous hackers and their real life exploits.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

Lazlow
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A talk by Grand Theft Auto IV cowriter and coproducer Lazlow focusing on that phenomenal project as well as what’s been going on in media in the last decade. Beginning in 1996, corporations began gobbling up every newspaper, billboard, radio and TV station in the United States. Ironically, since then, readership and ratings have plummeted, resulting in entertainment executives and editors programming even more sensationalist and desperate content. Lazlow discusses how parody of the media in video games, on TV, and online can often garner a larger audience reaction than the media establishment itself. He will describe why the mainstream media invents crises, and the reaction by the media and Hollywood establishment to the growing popularity of interactive worlds where players are celebrities rather than smug starlets tittering for TMZ. How can you hack the media? In this interactive talk Lazlow talks about his work in radio, video games, and the future of the media, democracy, and the role of comedy in it.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

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GRL’s presence at HOPE this year will be represented by Graffiti Research Lab in Utah. Michael Auger (aka Love Monkey 4000) will come from the mountains of Utah to the Big Apple to run workshops, conduct technology demonstrations, screen a movie, and announce (for the first time) a new GRL project very close to his heart: One Laser Tag Per Child. The event will start with an LED Throwie workshop. Throwie workshops only last until the supplies run out, anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. The screening of the new GRL movie (fresh from Sundance, MoMA, the Tate Modern, etc.): Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season will then begin. People will be encouraged to misbehave with their throwies in the dark, yell at the screen, etc. All this will be documented so that the HOPE viewing of The Complete First Season will actually be footage for the sequel: Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season II. After the movie ends, GRL Utah will come to the front of the room and introduce GRL live via webcam from Korea. New GRL technologies and initiatives will be unveiled, including (but not necessarily limited to) the One Laser Tag Per Child system.
During the course of the HOPE conference GRL Utah will man a table where interested attendees will be able to do the following: play with lasers, get trained on how to set up the laser tag system, take a closer look at the prerelease of the One Laser Tag Per Child system, download the disc image of the GRL movie (or buy the actual DVD), learn how to set up a GRL in their hometown.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope

Black Ratchet
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Have you ever wondered what the heck was pounding on your Internet connection? Or what exactly was making your cable or DSL connection’s activity light blink wildly when you knew there was no traffic from you? If so, this presentation will shine a light into the dark corners of your personal tube, showing you the unending stream of junk that comes across your Internet connection as well as how to pick out the good, the bad, and the ugly. This presentation will cover the steps involved in setting up a poor man’s IDS and honeypot. Using open and freely available tools, strategies of IDS deployment on your home LAN and the setup of both low interaction and high interaction honeypots will be covered. Learn what you can expect to see, how to pluck out the signal from the noise, and generally be aware of what is flowing in - and out - of your LAN.

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This is part of a series of posts that I am making in order to create an RSS feed for The Last HOPE talks and other media in order to share and download the audio files easily with software such as iTunes. The feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhatIsNoiseTheLastHope