Re: What the hack roundup

[Nick Drage <nickd () metastasis org uk>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:06:48PM -0400, Dave Aitel wrote:

> What the Hack rocked. It was by far more awesome than I thought it
> would be. First of all WTH is humongous. It was on a massive scale I
> hadn't really experienced before. Second of all, it was remarkably
> well run. It had a for-the-people-by-the-people atmosphere I've never
> seen before. At no other conference are you going to get served drinks
> by some of the best hackers you've ever met. And I don't mean
> "hackers" in the same sense that small-minded people pretend to when
> what they really want to say is "coders". Remember when hacking was
> fun and not something you did just for cash? Apparantly everyone in
> Europe does.

Seconded, it was an excellent contrast to Defcon this year.  While I
missed the sun and the casinos and the friends and the incessant clatter
of the slot machines it was good to be outside, with good people, in a
really chilled atmosphere.  And I did like the "by the people for the
people" idea, which I don't think would work at Defcon, and that worked
very well once people got past the initial "who wants to do what"
discussions.

> o WTH had its own phone system. You could bring a phone (some standard
> kind) or buy one there, and you'd have phone service wherever you
> went.  People could call you on your phone from anywhere in the world
> and it would get routed through the WTH pdx to you, sitting next to a
> camp-fire drinking beer with THC people and watching the lights on the
> spaceship.

This was impressive, while I unfortunately didn't have one of the
numbers that could be rang from outside, it was very cool ringing people
saying "I'm in a field, in Holland, calling you for free, because
someone else put some effort in".

<snip>

> o EU Feds much better dressed than US feds.

I need some training, what do EU Feds look like.  Even I ( native
British ) can spot a US Fed at Defcon with a wallet in each back pocket,
no tan, crewcut, and hawaiian shirt, but an EU Fed?

> o A military (NATO?) AWACs buzzed us for fun during lunch. As halvar 
> said "I guess a lot of wireless boxes got popped just now". Who has an 
> AWACs in the area?

I think it says on the Wiki that there's a military airfield a few miles
away at Eindhoven, the rather less glamourous explanation of that
plane's presence ;)

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