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hardwear.io: Applied Physical Attacks on x86 Systems

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

On Monday the 28th of September 2015 a rather rare event occurred. At around 4 a.m. the moon changed its colour into a dim of red, luckily the sky was clear enough to see something.

[ picture stolen from NASA ]

If you missed that event your next chance will be in about 15 years or so.

The reason for being awake this early wasn’t the moon in the first place but what followed afterwards – my trip to the hardwear.io Security Conference in The Hague.

hardwear.io: Conference Day 1

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

During my stay in The Hague I needed to print something, so I asked for a Copy shop and this is where they sent me:

Against the common rule to just talk about the personal favorites, I will cover all talks in one, two or more sentences (arbitrarily decided while writing). This also gives you a broader picture of the conference.

Jumping right in with the keynote of Day 1 by Jon Callas and my favorite quote “Make your devices fixable”. Enough said.

hardwear.io: Conference Day 2

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Netherlands Police is called Politie because they’re so polite. (works only if you suffer from dyslexia)

[ picture stolen from the polite politie ]

Unlike the German Oktoberfest in Munich which already started in September, the Oktoberfest in The Hague started on 2nd October.

In spite of this competing event the decision going to the last day of the hardwear.io Conference definitely paid off.

Day 2 started with the Keynote from Harald Welte (the father of Osmocom) and his view about Telecom Security for the last few years. His observation is that nothing has changed so far – we still suffer from a lack of tools and monoculture throughout the industry.