Archive for February, 2010
Breizh Entropy Congress: less than two weeks before deadline!
Posted by lekernel in Breizh Entropy Congress on February 26, 2010
You have until March 10th to send us a few words on the projects or the subject that you would like to present at Breizh Entropy Congress (Rennes, France, April 15-17 2010). After your submission, we will contact you before March 20th to tell you if it is going to be part of the schedule. The schedule with the timetable will be published on March 25th.
ANYONE can submit a proposal to Breizh Entropy Congress: students, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, artists… on ANY subject related to free and open technologies. This congress is about eclecticism!
To participate, send a mail to cfp@breizh-entropy.org including the following points:
- Format of the submission: lecture, workshop, installation, lightning talk, other…
- Title of the submission
- Name of speaker(s)/presenter(s)/artist(s)
- Language (if applicable): French/English
- Summary of the submission
- Short bio of the speaker
- Hardware/logistics requirements
- Contact e-mail and (if possible) mobile phone
The complete call for proposals is online.
Looking forward to your participation!
And we are grateful for any kind of distribution of this info!
Ben Nanonote launched
Posted by lekernel in Milkymist, Uncategorized on February 22, 2010
The Qi Hardware community launched the Ben Nanonote, a little “hackable” laptop/PDA-like gizmo with open schematics and software. You can order now.
Nanonote
Specifications:
- 336 MHz XBurst Jz4720 MIPS-compatible CPU
- display: 3.0” color TFT
- resolution: 320 x 240, 16.7M color
- dimension (mm): 99 x 75 x 17.5 (lid closed)
- weight: 126 g (incl. battery)
- DRAM: 32MB Synchronous DRAM
- headphone jack (3.5 mm)
- SDHC microSD
- 850mAh Li-ion battery
- 2GB NAND flash memory
- mini-USB: USB 2.0 High-Speed Device
- speaker and microphone
Qi Hardware will also be producing Milkymist One boards, with an FPGA implementing the free SoC. Stay tuned…
Milkymist 0.3 release announcement
It is with great excitement that I am announcing the release of Milkymist 0.3. This release marks a significant milestone for the project: since now, it’s no longer tens of thousands of lines of code for nerds only. It’s also an actual MilkDrop implementation, rendering good-looking visual effects that EVERYBODY can appreciate.
But, see for yourself. If you have a Xilinx ML401 board, grab your JTAG cable and fetch a binary kit from the usual location. See the wiki for setup instructions. Put on some music, turn on random preset selection, and enjoy!
If you don’t have a ML401, here is a video for you to chew on before the Milkymist One boards are available:
(download MP4 file)
On to the technical change log of this release:
- Major TMU redesign (TMU2):
- Improved performance (2-3 times faster)
- Rectangular rendering primitive
- Bilinear texture filtering
- Texture wrapping
- Subpixel texture resolution
- New vertex format
- PFPU modified to support the new TMU vertex format
- Additional MilkDrop features in the demo firmware:
- More wave modes
- Borders
- Motion vectors (experimental)
- Texture wrapping
- Random preset chooser
- Fine-grained decay
If you want to discuss and keep instantly updated about the project, I encourage you to come and idle in the #milkymist channel on the FreeNode IRC network. See this page.
See you there!
Breizh Entropy Congress artistic schedule
Posted by lekernel in Breizh Entropy Congress on February 11, 2010
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BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS
April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France
Artistic Schedule
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French version at bottom / Version française en bas
Breizh Entropy Congress is an inter-disciplinary event focusing on free
(as in freedom) creations and culture.
Through a meeting fostering open-mindedness, exchange of ideas and
learning, we hope to show solutions to technical, social and political
problems, and celebrate free, reclaimed and creative art and
technology.
We are proud to announce the schedule of the artistic night:
- Tonevain (1h)
Tonevain are Teresa, Aileen and Taniya from Ireland. They all have
different musical backgrounds and this is reflected in their music.
There are strong influences of traditional Celtic music and old-time
blues with driving hip-hop beats. They improvise a lot, drawing
inspiration from each other. They also take traditional Irish airs and
arrange them in their own style, giving them a whole new life and
structure. Their music is copy-left.
- Planet of the Shapes by Robert Ratcliffe (11min)
Planet of the Shapes is a three-movement work for (stereo) fixed medium
exploring the hybridisation of breakbeat-driven electronic dance music
(EDM) (specifically drum ‘n’ bass and breakcore) with the instrumental
woodwind music of Berio and Ferneyhough.
- Smoke Fish (1h 45min)
Smoke Fish are Shay (Guitar /Voice, Keyboards), Jonathan (Guitar,
Keyboards), PY (Drums) and Jean Se (Bass). The quartet’s common
influences, such as David Bowie, The Pixies, Pavement, Pulp or even
Queen gave birth to a dynamic, genuine and high energy Pop-Rock.
Exploring a vast musical range, from acoustic ballads to more full-on
rock material with slight touches of oriental and electronic
vibrations, Smoke Fish toys with contrasts to put forth an intense,
dream-like and gripping music that opens the doors of the listener’s
imagination.
Their music is Creative Commons licensed.
Web: http://www.smokefish.fr
- Réshowffment climatique by Marijane Miracle (1h 45min)
After her online performance in 2000 (366 short films produced in one
year); after her unorthodox advice on sexuality (Miss Trash); and her
tentative to propose a modern messie for the third millenium (Cristal);
Marie-Anne tries to raise political awareness with a music project
(Marijane Miracle).
For the Breizh Entropy Congress, they propose a multimedia concert
(high end music and visuals) of politico-festive electro. It’s
possible. In short, the audience is invited to dance on original works
while listening to mindblowing lyrics, excerpted from their latest
album (la fin du monde), sung with humor and casualness.
Web: http://www.marijane.fr / http://www.insoumise.net
- Marathon humain vs/with ordinateur by L’autre Bout (46min)
The computer plays a very simple melodic loop, and all six musicians
must play the very same melody according to the possibilities of their
instruments. The idea is to build a music work where the computer and
the man apply respectively what they can do, and the result is thus
enriched. Here, the computer will repeat its loops indefinitely and in
an extremely precise manner, while men will fail, get tired, create
indetermination, play louder and louder, accelerate, etc. It is a
performance as sportive as musical. The work lasts 46 minutes, because
a marathon lasts 46km.
The artistic event will start at 18:00 on April 15th, 2010.
Venue:
Le Diapason
Université de Rennes
263 Avenue du Général Leclerc
35700 Rennes, France
Breizh Entropy Congress is more than the artistic event. The next two
days will be filled with lectures, workshops, and others. You are still
most welcome to send your submissions in these fields! Here are the
deadlines for this part of the congress:
Submission Deadline: March 10th 2010, 23:59
Notification of Acceptance: March 20th 2010
Publication of Schedule: March 25th 2010
We accept submissions in a _VERY BROAD_ area: free software, open
hardware, security tools, science, society, politics,…
For more information, check out the full call for proposals:
http://www.breizh-entropy.org/cfp.html
BEC website: http://www.breizh-entropy.org
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BREIZH ENTROPY CONGRESS
April 15-17 2010, Rennes, France
Programme Artistique
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Breizh Entropy Congress est un évènement inter-disciplinaire ayant pour
thème la création et la culture libres.
A travers un colloque favorisant l’ouverture d’esprit, l’échange
d’idées et l’éducation, nous espérons ébaucher des solutions à des
problèmes techniques, sociaux et culturels et célébrer l’art et la
technologie libres, réappropriés et créatifs.
Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer le programme de la soirée artistique:
- Tonevain (1h)
Les Tonevain sont Teresa, Aileen et Taniya et viennent d’Irlande. Leurs
origines musicales sont différentes et cela se réflète dans la musique
du groupe. Il y a des influences fortes de la musique celtique
traditionnelle, du blues ancien et de rythmes hip-hop entraînants.
L’improvisation est très présente. Le groupe prend également des
mélodies traditionnelles irlandaises et les arrangent dans leur propre
style, en leur donnant une nouvelle vie et une nouvelle structure. Leur
musique est copy-left.
- Planet of the Shapes de Robert Ratcliffe (11min)
Planet of the Shapes est une pièce fixe en trois mouvements, qui
explore l’hybridation de la musique dance électronique breakbeat
(surtout la drum’n'bass et le breakcore) avec la musique instrumentale
à vent de Berio et Ferneyhough.
- Smoke Fish (1h 45min)
Le premier album du groupe Smoke Fish ressemble beaucoup aux voyages
autour du monde de son chanteur, Shay: beaucoup d’expériences à faire
et beaucoup à découvrir. Non seulement le voyage est ici une
récompense, mais il vous emmène également à travers nombre de paysages
fantastiques et endroits merveilleux. “Life Ain’t Pink” commence par un
tourbillon rock et électro, et se finit avec le sentiment agréable que,
de temps en temps, il est possible pour un nouveau groupe de suivre sa
propre voie. D’une ballade folk à un song-writing plus rock en passant
par quelques sonorités orientales, Smoke Fish joue avec les contrastes
et libère une musique qui sait se faire intense, aérienne et prenante
ouvrant alors la porte aux divagations et autres rêvasseries… une
rencontre fortuite avec la progéniture de Lewis Carroll, les
hésitations sexuelles permanentes de Mary, un tango lascif avec une
multitude de prophètes en pleine Calabre ou une partie de poker au fin
fond d’un asile norvégien.
Leur musique est sous licence Creative Commons.
Web: http://www.smokefish.fr
- Réshowffment climatique de Marijane Miracle (1h 45min)
Après sa perf en ligne de 2000 (soit 366 minimétrages réalisés et mis
en ligne en un an); après ses conseils peu orthodoxes sur la sexualité
(Miss Trash); et sa tentative de proposer un messie moderne pour le
troisième millénaire (Cristal); Marie-Anne tente d’éveiller les
consciences politiques avec un projet musical (Marijane Miracle).
Pour le Breizh Entropy Congress, la formation propose un concert
multimédia (musique et visuels de haut vol) d’électro politico-festive.
C’est possible. En clair le public est invité à danser sur des musiques
originales en écoutant des textes qui arrachent, extraits de leur
nouvel album (la fin du monde), chantés avec humour et désinvolture.
Web: http://www.marijane.fr / http://www.insoumise.net
- Marathon humain vs/with ordinateur de L’autre Bout (46min)
L’ordinateur joue une boucle mélodique très simple, et tous les six
interprètes doivent faire la même mélodie selon les possibilités de
hauteur de leurs instruments. L’idée est de construire une pièce de
musique ou l’ordinateur et l’homme appliquent respectivement ce qu’il
savent faire, et le résultat en est enrichi. Ici, l’ordinateur va
répéter ses boucles indéfiniment de façon ultra précise et toujours de
la même façon, alors que les hommes vont rater, se fatiguer, créer de
l’indétermination, jouer de plus en plus fort, accélérer etc. Il s’agit
d’une performance autant sportive que musicale. La pièce dure 46
minutes, parce qu’un marathon dure 46km.
La soirée artistique débutera à 18:00 le 15 avril 2010.
Salle:
Le Diapason
Université de Rennes
263 Avenue du Général Leclerc
35700 Rennes, France
Breizh Entropy Congress ne se limite pas à cette soirée artistique. Les
deux jours suivants seront remplis de conférences, d’ateliers, et
autres. Vous êtes toujours invités à envoyer des propositions dans ces
domaines! Voici les échéances pour cette partie du congrès:
Date limite d’envoi: 10 mars, 23:59
Notification d’acceptation: 20 mars
Publication du programme: 25 mars
Nous acceptons des propositions dans un domaine _TRES LARGE_: logiciel
libre, matériel libre, outils de sécurité, science, société,
politique,…
Pour plus d’informations, lisez l’appel à propositions complet:
http://www.breizh-entropy.org/cfp.html
BEC website: http://www.breizh-entropy.org
Logiciel libre et économie de la contribution : le temps de la déprolétarisation
Posted by lekernel in Uncategorized on February 4, 2010
Je fais suivre cette invitation:
Date: 06/03/2010 – 14:00 – 17:00
Lieu:
Théâtre National de la Colline
4 rue Malte Brun
Paris
Entrée libre
Nous y accueillerons Philippe Aigrain et Jeremie Zimmermann, avec lesquels nous débattrons des enjeux du logiciel libre du point de vue d’une économie de la contribution, dans un contexte industriel marqué par une extraordinaire croissance des technologies numériques, qui pénètrent désormais pratiquement tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne. Mais nous examinerons aussi cette question dans le souci de réfléchir aux possibilités et aux spécificités du modèle contributif dans d’autres secteurs que l’économie numérique elle-même.
Plus généralement, nous mettrons à l’épreuve l’hypothèse selon laquelle le mouvement culturel, social et professionnel du logiciel libre et des creative commons constituent un précédent historique avec lequel, pour la première fois dans l’histoire industrielle, une tendance qui conduisait à ce que les processus de prolétarisation, c’est à dire de pertes de savoirs, affectant progressivement tous les acteurs de la société industrielle (producteurs, consommateurs, concepteurs, mais aussi investisseurs devenus spéculateurs), semble se renverser en une tendance contraire, où la technologie industrielle est mise au service de la reconstitution de communautés de savoirs.
C’est comme extension de ce mouvement et des nouvelles caractéristiques organisationnelles sur lesquelles il repose que le modèle du logiciel libre, qui constitue la matrice de l’économie de la contribution, annoncerait le dépassement des modèles industriels productivistes et consuméristes.
Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 – Call For Papers – HES2010 CFP
Posted by lekernel in Uncategorized on February 3, 2010
Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 – Call For Paper – HES2010 CFP
http://hackitoergosum.org
Hackito Ergo Sum conference will be held from April 8th to 10th 2010
in Paris, France.
It is part of the series of conference “Hacker Space Fest” taking
place since 2008 in France and all over Europe.
HES2010 will focus on hardcore computer security, insecurity,
vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, research and hacking.
INTRO
The goal of this conference is to promote security research, broaden
public awareness and create an open forum so that communication
between the researcher, the security industry, the experts and the
public can happen.
A recent decision of justice in France has convicted a security
researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities and exploits. These laws
(similar to the one in Germany), descending from USA’s DMCA law, are
orienting freedom of research and knowledge into a situation where
“illegal knowledge” can happen, restricted to the only ones blessed
by governmental silent approval and military. Scientific research and
public information cannot be made into another monopoly of state,
where “some” can study and publish and “some others” cannot.
Such approach just show how misinformed some politics are and how
little understanding they get of the struggle they are acting in.
Not understanding that the best way to improve security is to attack
it shows the lack of maturity of some stakeholder by being cut out of
independent information sources.
This is where our ethics and responsibility is to say “No, we have a
right for free information and true independence in research”, and
this responsibility is the one of anybody, not just the
responsibility of academically blessed scientists.
This conference will try to take in account all voices in order to
reach a balanced position regarding research and security, inviting
businesses, governmental actors, researchers, professionals and
general public to share concerns, approaches and interests during.
During three days, research conferences, solutions presentations,
panels and debates will aim at finding synthetic and balanced
solutions to the current situation.
CONTENT
> Research Track:
We are expecting submissions in english or french, english preferred.
The format will be 45 mn presentation + 10mn Q&A.
For the research track, preference will be given for offensive,
innovative and highly technical proposals covering (but not
restricted to) the topics below:
Attacking Software
* Vulnerability discovery (and automating it!)
* Non-x86 exploitation
* Fuzzing with SMT and its limits
* New classes of software vulnerabilities and new methods to detect
software bugs (source or binary based)
* Reverse Engineering tools and techniques
* Static analysis (source or binary, Lattices to blind analysis, new
languages and targets strongly encouraged)
* Unpacking
* Current exploitation on Gnu/Linux WITH GRsecurity / SElinux /
OpenWall / SSP and other current protection methods
* Kernel land exploits (new architectures or remote only)
* New advances in Attack frameworks and automation
Attacking Infrastructures
* Exotic Network Attacks
* Telecom (from VoIP to SS7 to GSM & 3G RF hacks)
* Financial and Banking institutions
* SCADA and the industrial world, applied.
* Governmental firewall and their limits (Australia, French’s HADOPI,
China, Iran, Danemark, Germany, …)
* Satellites, Military, Intelligence data collection backbones (“I
hacked Echelon and I would like to share”)
* Non-IP (SNA, ISO, make us dream…)
* Red-light and other public utilities control networks
* M2M
Attacking Hardware
* Hardware reverse engineering (and exploitation + backdooring)
* Femto-cell hacking (3G, LTE, …)
* Microchip grinding, opening, imaging and reverse engineering
* BIOS and otherwise low-level exploitation vectors
* Real-world SMM usage! We know it’s vulnerable, now let’s do something
* WiFi drivers and System on Chip (SoC) overflow, exploitation and
backdooring.
* Gnu Radio hacking applied to new domains
* Toll-booth and fast-lane payment systems
Attacking Crypto
* Practical crypto attacks from the hackers perspective (RCE,
bruteforce, …)
* SAT-solver applied to cryptanalysis
* Algorithm strength modeling and evaluation metrics
* Hashing functions pre-image attacks
* Crypto where you wouldn’t think there is
We highly encourage any other presentation topic that we may not even
imagine.
Required informations:
* Presenter’s name
* Bio
* Presentation Title
* Description
* Demo?
* Needs: Internet? Others?
* Company (name) or Independent?
* Address
* Phone
* Email
Send your submission to:
hes2010-cfp __AT__ lists.hackitoergosum.org
> Business & Society Track:
Format:
20 minutes slots to present a tool, an innovative product, a solution
(commercial, open source, free); a customer experience or open
research domain; a society issue or a subject of public interest.
Demos are mandatory for tool, product or solutions presentations.
Pure-marketing presentation will be moderated (i.e. interrupted).
Follow-up with private group can be arranged for in-depth demo or
analysis.
Submission needs to be sent to:
hes2010-cfp __AT__ lists.hackitoergosum.org
> Other interests
If you want to organize a Capture The Flag, Reverse Engineering
contest, Lockpicking contest or any other activity during the
conference, you are most welcome. Please contact us at: hes2010-
orga@lists.hackitoergosum.org
DATES
2010-01-18 Call for Paper
2010-03-01 Submission Deadline
2010-04-08 Start of conference
2010-04-10 End of conference
PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
The submissions will be reviewed by the following programming committee:
* Sebastien Bourdeauducq (Milkymist, /tmp/lab, BEC)
* Rodrigo Branco “BSDaemon” (Coseinc)
* Jonathan Brossard (P1 Code Security, DNSlab)
* Emmanuel Gadaix (TSTF)
* Laurent Gaffié (Stratsec)
* Thomas Garnier (Microsoft)
* The Grugq (PSP)
* Dhillon Kannabhiran (HITB)
* Kostya Kortchinsky (Immunity)
* Itzik Kotler (Radware)
* Philippe Langlois (P1 Telecom Security, PSP, TSTF, /tmp/lab)
* Moxie Marlinspike (Institute for Disruptive Studies)
* Karsten Nohl (deGate, Reflextor)
* Nicolas Thill (OpenWRT, /tmp/lab)
* Julien Tinnes (Google)
* Nicolas Ruff (EADS, Security Labs)
* Carlos Sarraute (CORE Security Technologies)
* Matthieu Suiche (Sandman, win32dd)
* Fyodor Yarochkin (TSTF, o0o.nu)
FEES
Business-ticket 120 EUR
Public entrance 80 EUR
Reduction for Students below 26 40 EUR
Reduction for CVE publisher or exploit publisher in 2009/2010 40 EUR
Entrance fees and sponsors fees will be used to fund international
speakers travel costs.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers who sign up before 2010-03-01 get free access and will
need to be present onsite two days before (2010-04-06) if no further
arrangement is made with the organization.
SPONSORS
Sponsors are welcome to contact us to receive the Partnership Kit at:
hes2010-orga __AT__ lists.hackitoergosum.org
LOCATION
Paris, France.
CONTACT
hes2010-orga __AT__ lists.hackitoergosum.org
Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 conference – http://hackitoergosum.org
Hacker Space Festival – http://www.hackerspace.net
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Please disseminate and forward to your friends, researchers, and
anybody who may be interested.