August 2007

“Monitoring is accepted if …

• … user has immediate benefits
• … everyone can freely decide where and when
• … users accepts what happens with the data”

From Sputnik Project, by Milosch Meriac

Since the event timetable is available online, I’m trying to get a selection of conference to attend next week:

• Day 1 - 08.08.2007
• Inside Sputnik & OpenBeacon - Smart Dust for the Masses: a hackers guide into homebrewn 2.4GHz hardware & peripherals
• People, Profiles and Trust: On interpersonal trust in web-mediated social spaces
• GPS-Trackers: How they track you when your mobile is switched off
• Hacking Space: Cheap access to Space using lighter then air method
• Geocaching and Alternate Reality Games: Play Simulations of Future Problems
• Day 2 - 09.08.2007
• Hacking on the Nanoscale: Dual Beam Devices for Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering
• Life & Complexity: Organisation, information and optimisation in real and simulated biological systems
• Trojans, A Reality Check: An Overview of the Trojans we are really seeing in the wild, their technology and recent developments
• Hacking the Bionic Man: Science fiction or security in 2040?
• Day 3 - 10.08.2007
• Estonia and information warfare: What really happened in Estonia, and what does it mean to us?
• Practical RFID Attacks: writing, sniffing & emulating 13.56MHz RFID tags with OpenPCD and OpenPICC hardware
• Day 4 - 11.08.2007
• Breaking WEP in less than 60 Seconds: the next level
• Hardware Hacking for Software Geeks: Essential Tips and Tricks
• Rebellious Communication and the Federal Flood: My experience and the role of bloggers, podcasters, and other rebellious net-based media sources in post Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
• Enabling Innovation in Europe: Hacker Spaces, Startups, and a new approach to social movements
• Hack Your Brain: Using Sound & Light Machines to achieve desired states of consciousness
• Proof by Erasure: The Life of John von Neumann

Other various exciting projects

• Sputnik: “test and play around with 2.4GHz RFID technology and to demonstrate the actual threats, problems and benefits of tracking and data mining”. The “play” thing is ringing in my head :)
• USB FM transmitter: to mix fun and soldering

That’ve been a long time I wished to send this text (original) by John Perry Barlow to a lot a friends, but most of them stopped after a few lines of english, so here comes a french version of this enlightful essay.

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[Correction in progress]

A la Poursuite du Vide
par John Perry Barlow

Le bonheur est l’absence de recherche du bonheur - Chuang-Tzu (350 B.C.)

Chuang-Tzu avait raison. Rien de plus à dire. Mais la nature humaine est ainsi faite: plus nous énonçons la vérité de façon succincte, plus nous avons tendance à l’ignorer. Donc, malgré la complétude de cette homélie, je développerai, en espérant que mon livre pourra insinuer dans votre approche globale ce que la brièveté de Chuang-Tzu n’a pas pu faire.

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