What Is Noise

Gregory Conti
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In a perfect world, interfaces help users accomplish tasks quickly and efficiently. However, in the real world, interfaces are often designed to manipulate users into behaving according to the designer’s calculated and suspect intent. Malicious interfaces abound on the web - employing trickery, misdirection of browsing, forced viewing of advertisements, and even animations designed to trigger epileptic seizures. Evil interfaces are seen virtually anywhere profit is at stake, from desktop applications and websites to gas pumps and toothpaste dispensers. This talk explores malicious interface techniques both on and off the desktop, and aims to energize the audience to pursue positive solutions. You’ll leave with a better awareness and understanding of the problem, increased resistance to attack and ideas for generating solutions.

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Ray

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Everybody knows normal police handcuffs are no real challenge for lockpickers, even though it helps to know the inner workings and tiny differences of the various models in use today. Less publicly known is that there’s also a variety of “high security” handcuffs on the market, used mainly for high risk prisoners and during transfers. But those also have their weaknesses… This talk will give an overview of the products in use today and their different attack vectors - not only focusing on picking but also bypassing some of the most advanced locking mechanisms used in this field.

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Michael Kemp
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Virtualized technologies are being lapped up left, right, and center by corporates committed to the cash savings they promise. Sadly, the savings that can be gleaned are not without the attendant risk. Instead of nice normal networks that people can understand, many vendors are offering networks in a box. As well as being lovely single points of failure, they have a number of risks that remain largely unexplored. Research has already been conducted around platform virtualization technologies such as VMWare, but there still exists a fundamental flaw within virtualized resource technologies that no one seems to have spotted. This talk will illustrate why and how virtualization works, what the difference is between what the vendors say and how it is being implemented in RL, and will discuss a theoretical vulnerability that if it can be exploited can bring down the house of cards.

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The Cheshire Catalyst
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The former telex hacker will take us on a verbal tour of yesteryear when telegrams meant the smell of machine oil and teletype machines. You’ll learn how the term “break text” became the equal sign and why you should indent your name five spaces to “sign” your e-mail. It’s a geek thing. Maybe you can understand.

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Robert Steele
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The first speaker at the first HOPE in 1994 will describe the emergence of the Earth Intelligence Network, the World Brain, and EarthGame as the triumverate that will empower We the People and make most governance and many organizations both transparent and obsolete. Emphasis will be placed on the eradication of corruption and restoration of the sovereign individual.

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