Welcome to DEF CON Urbana!
- Who: Hackers around the world
- What: Be the peanut gallery for DEF CON talks, play in CTFs, hack on our own projects, see what others are working on, help one another
- When: 4-8 AUG 2021
- Where: In-person at "The Big House" (vaccinations required), or online (see below)
- Why: Sounds like fun, no?
- How: Using open source software. See collaboration info below
Activities
The obvious first question is: "You're doing what now?" Well,
it's really up to the people who show up, but here are some of the things
we had in mind:
- Watch DEF CON talks (and be the peanut gallery you want to see
in the world)
- Play in CTF competitions together (casual)
- Collaborate on personal projects (details below)
- Give talks of our own
- Lockpicking
- Eat good food together (slushies, BBQ, etc.)
Personal projects
If you have a personal project you want people to know about before the
event, send them in and we can add them to the list. That will allow others
to do some background research so they can better help. This isn't meant to
be a list of all the things we will do, but rather a list of things we
might do.
- Fuzzing various things
- Write code to automate web hacking
- Packet timing analysis with
EyeOfProvidence
- DevOps/Infrastructure stuff, like setting up a streaming music sever
- Building HestiaPi Hardware
- Hacking on HestiaPi Software
- Build custom microphone box
If you are interested in any of the above, please speak up. Some of them
will require buying additional hardware or other preparation.
Collaboration info
In person is easy enough, just show up at some time after noon on the first
day, sort out sleeping arrangements if you plan on spending the night, and
you'll be in the thick of things.
For interacting remotely, we've been hosting small (< 10 people)
gatherings regularly for more than a year now. Doing something larger
will probably come with some growing pains. First, we'll go over the
technical systems that we'll use to connect, then some that we might set up
during the event. If you have suggestions, let Adam know.
Schedule (central time)
We are going to be streaming talks here
and chatting about them on Matrix (see above), or Mastodon (also see above)
- Friday 12:00 - Economist at LobbyCon
- Friday 14:00 - UFOs
- Friday 15:00 - Kindle exploit
- Friday 16:45 - Wendy speaking at Crytpo and Privacy Village
- Friday 18:00-20:00 Lobbycon break, CU2600 instead
- Friday 21:00 - Smalltalk demo
- Saturday 10:00 - Crossover Episode: First Mainframe Container Breakout
- Saturday 11:00 - TEMPEST radio station
- Saturday 13:00 - Breaking Secure Bootloaders
- Saturday 15:00 - You're Doing IoT RNG
- Saturday 16:00 - Defeating Physical Intrusion Detection Alarm Wires
- Saturday 19:00 - Systematic Security by Adam
- Sunday 10:00 - VLAN2
- Sunday 11:00 - Glitching RISC-V chips
- Sunday 12:30 - Tractor Vulns
- Sunday 13:00 - Breaking TrustZone-M
- Sunday 14:30 - Privacy Without Monopoly by Cory Doctorow