Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated my website. I was going through my old photos, and I found an album from the 2600 conference, HOPE number 9. I was looking forward to this trip for the past 6 months, I had gathered up some interested friends and all together there were 5 of us.
Morning, just got into NYC.
Backtrack is clearly the standard tool here still.
One giant lock. It’s Medeco.
Homebrew macro mouse. Basically has hardware built in to send keystroke macros to a mouse.
Creator of the wifi gun.
Wifi hacking “gun”. Point and shoot at access point! Self made, with backtrack installed.
3D printer
Free, good connectivity is important for any conference these days. The question is: do you want to be on the same network as 500+ hackers?
Me on a segway.
3D printer printed.
Lock picking lesson. This particular lock is magnetic. Damn near impossible to pick – magnets orientate the lock into place.
This man looks intense. He showed us how to break out of handcuffs. Not sure if he was really an inmate though.
Author of the book talking about phreaking and the stories from the old, golden days of phreaking. Has a forward by Wozniak.
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. As telephone networks have become computerized, phreaking has become closely linked with computer hacking.
The Hotel Pennsylvania is a hotel located at 401 7th Avenue (15 Penn Plaza) in Manhattan, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.
A blue box is an unauthorized electronic device that generates the same tones employed by a telephone operator’s dialing console to switch long-distance calls. [1] A blue box is a tool that emerged in the 1960s and 70s; it allowed users to route their own calls by emulating the in-band signaling mechanism that then controlled switching in long distance dialing systems.
The old school phreakers did a live demonstration of social engineering on some random poor pizza store.
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This is a post while I was in a “Strategies for a Quantum Entrepreneur” workshop that was held at IQC RAC 1 2009, June 6, 2012. It was a “bonus classroom experience” to the QIC 870 and QIC 871 classes. I came into the workshop looking for ideas to develop, something feasible as a project and that is likely to succeed. My plan is to get ideas from physics and create a spin-off. Being here reminds me of QKD 2011, this is the exact same lecture room. The workshop takes a very formal approach to entrepreneurship, kind of like business school class and theoretical physics. For example, innovation = invention + commercialization. Facts like government policies, a slide titled “the national system of innovation”. This is not quite what I would like to hear about. I want to find out what are some practical things that I can build, as an undergraduate student. Hypothetical ideas are kind of ironic… in the sense that the workshop takes a theoretical approach to how an ideal startup should start off.
I will be exploring into the world of holographic photography!
Otherwise known as holography. This is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that when an imaging system (a camera or an eye) is placed in the reconstructed beam, an image of the object will be seen even when the object is no longer present. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the image appear three-dimensional.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a 3D photograph? It’ll just be like a picture on a newspaper from the world of Harry Potter. I think by far the easiest way to get started is to get a kit. You still need to setup everything in the kit… my idea is to figure out how this works and simplify it down to a point and shoot device. Then try to build another one. I want to create a device that allows people to easily take a holographic photo. First, I need to figure out how holographic photography really works.
This is the kit I will be invest it with. Thank you to Dr. Shodiev for letting me take a look at this. Check it out!
This is an analysis of the consequences from the OPERA experiment, which measured the speed of neutrinos to be travelling faster than light.
The OPERA experiment was an observation of muon neutrinos apparently travelling faster than light. The OPERA instrument, which stands for Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus, was used to measure the neutrinos. This was a paper published in September 2011, observing that muon neutrinos sent from CERN were travelling faster than light by a factor of roughly 1 in 40,000.
