Interview with our first Hack.lu 2016 Keynote - Quinn Norton

2016-06-24T20:40:55+02:00

Interview with our first Hack.lu 2016 Keynote: Quinn Norton, a journalist of Hackers, Bodies, Technologies and Internets.

Can you tell us about your background and your work?

I originally got on the net by sneaking into a university lab I had no right to be in, and using someone else’s credentials. Mostly I wrote posts on usenet groups, and hung around MUDs and IRC. I went on to be a web developer, UI designer, teacher, and system administrator, but my first love was always writing. I started blogging before it was called that, and made the jump into full-time journalism ten years ago. As the sort of person who read both literature and RFCs for fun, I came to understand the best contribution I could make was bridging technical and non-technical worlds. I still spend a lot of time keeping up with tech, largely in security and hacking, though increasingly in making and DIY manufacture. I bring that to a general audience, and then I try to listen to that general audience, and bring their needs and concerns back to the geeks.

Can you tell us more about your keynote speech? What will you cover?

We hear a lot about the mediagenic issues in security and privacy, like large data breaches, governmental hacking and global surveillance. But the majority of the human suffering and cost fly under the radar of most security professionals. They’re the unsophisticated attacks, the petty theft, the individual surveillance, the very local censorship. They are the day-to-day small terrors that make normal people dread the same networks they depend on to live. By overlooking the ecosystem of these small adversaries, computer security and the technology industry are squandering their best partner in fixing the big problems as well as the small - an informed, confident, and capable public.

In one word/sentence, can you describe your speech?

This talk is a fun look at a hard issue, how small adversaries and digital literacy quietly affect the whole security landscape, and how we can make it better.

More about Quinn Norton:

http://quinnnorton.com

Interview with our first Hack.lu 2016 Keynote - Quinn Norton was originally published by hack.lu team at Hack.lu 2016 on June 24, 2016.

Call for papers is now open for hack.lu 2016

2016-03-12T20:39:55+01:00

Hack.lu 2016 Call for Papers, Presentations and Workshops

Nothing is beyond a good hack

The purpose of the hack.lu convention is to give an open and free playground where people can discuss the implication of new technologies in society. hack.lu is a balanced mix convention where technical and non-technical people can meet each others and share freely all kind of information. The convention will be held in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in October (18-20.10.2016). The most significant new discoveries about computer network attacks and defenses, commercial security solutions, and pragmatic real world security experience will be presented in a three days series of informative tutorials. We would like to announce the opportunity to submit papers, and/or lightning talk proposals for selection by the hack.lu technical review committee. This year we will be doing workshops on the first day PM and talks of 1 hour or 30 minutes in the main track for the three days.

Scope

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to :

Software Engineering and Security
Social Engineering
Honeypots/Honeynets
Spyware, Phishing and Botnets (Distributed attacks)
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in software and hardware
Electronic/Digital Privacy
Wireless Network and Security
Attacks on Information Systems and/or Digital Information Storage
Electronic Voting
Free Software and Security
Assessment of Computer, Electronic Devices and Information Systems
Standards for Information Security
Legal and Social Aspect of Information Security
Software Engineering and Security
Security in Information Retrieval
Network Security
Malware Analysis and Reversing
Forensics and Anti-Forensics
Offensive (and counter-offensive) Information Technology
Mobile Communications Security and Vulnerabilities
CSIRTs, Incident Analysis and Response
Information Security and Data Mining
Threats Exchange and Sharing

Deadlines

The following dates are important if you want to participate in the call for papers.

Full paper submission : no later than 21th July 2016

Notification date : 15th August 2016

Deadlines on the CfP website

Speakers’ Privileges

Accommodation will be provided (3 nights)
Travel expenses will be covered up to a max amount agreed in advance
Conference speakers dinner

Publication and rights

Authors keep the full rights on their publication/papers but give an unrestricted right to redistribute their papers for the hack.lu convention and its related electronic/paper publication.

Sponsoring

If you want to support the initiative and gain visibility by sponsoring, please contact us by writing an e-mail to info(AT)hack.lu

Website

www.hack.lu

CfP hack.lu 2016 submission website

Call for papers is now open for hack.lu 2016 was originally published by hack.lu team at Hack.lu 2016 on March 12, 2016.