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When I see people after they have read about SOA or attended a conference with SOA, there are a few ideas that seem to pop up repeatedly. I have even been guilty of using these ideas myself. These ideas were proven to be bad before SOA came around, and (some) SOA evangelists seem to think that SOA solved these problems. It did not. It just refused to learn from history. Some of these ideas work under some circumstances, but recent SOA-itis ..
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Barcelona I just returned from The ServerSide JavaSymposium Europe. Great conference, with interesting tracks and good opportunities to get to know people. The conference was in Barcelona, which was interesting, because hardly anyone (taxi drivers and waiters included) understand English here. It’s the first time where I’ve been a place where I am totally unable to communicate verbally with people around me. So it as a bit of an adventure. ..
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DJ Catharsis (Renewal through music for those outside the heard) on [EGR Records] spins Hard Techno and Industrial at DEF CON 13 Black and White Ball.
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Regenerator plays at the DEF CON 13 Black and White Ball Los Angeles based duo with a dark electronic dance sound. industrial, gothic, ebm, electro; however you slice it, it's just plain good. :) Harsh male vocals mixed with beautiful, haunting, female vox make for stark contrast. 7 albums - 3 singles - far too many compilation appearances to count here. New album "Disease" available now! - online and in stores everywhere. Remixed b..
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DJ Catharsis (Renewal through music for those outside the heard) on [EGR Records] spins Hard Techno and Industrial at DEF CON 13 Black and White Ball.
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Regenerator plays at the DEF CON 13 Black and White Ball Los Angeles based duo with a dark electronic dance sound. industrial, gothic, ebm, electro; however you slice it, it's just plain good. :) Harsh male vocals mixed with beautiful, haunting, female vox make for stark contrast. 7 albums - 3 singles - far too many compilation appearances to count here. New album "Disease" available now! - online and in stores everywhere. Remixed b..
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DJ Catharsis (Renewal through music for those outside the heard) on [EGR Records] spins Hard Techno and Industrial at DEF CON 12 Black and White Ball.
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Regenerator plays at the DEF CON 12 Black and White Ball Los Angeles based duo with a dark electronic dance sound. industrial, gothic, ebm, electro; however you slice it, it's just plain good. :) Harsh male vocals mixed with beautiful, haunting, female vox make for stark contrast. 7 albums - 3 singles - far too many compilation appearances to count here. New album "Disease" available now! - online and in stores everywhere. Remixed by ..
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DJ Psytrip spins California Desert Psytrance at the DEF CON 12 Black and White Ball. Emerging eclectic from the vast geographies of the Los Angeles musical landscape, psytrip fiendishly paints fissions of psychedelic beats and frenetic rhythms. schlAut, Dav and shAmii bring together a long and diverse history in the electronic dance scene. From the early days of cyber-punk to the darker days of techno, their unique blend of psychedeli..
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DJ Catharsis (Renewal through music for those outside the heard) on [EGR Records] spins Hard Techno and Industrial at DEFCON 14 Black and White Ball. Catharsis, by definition, is a cleansing of the emotions through art. Raised by a professional jazz guitarist (Jack Petersen), Scott Petersen DJ Catharsis has been exposed to many facets and genres of music. Textures of Deep House, Tech House, Broken Beat, and Eclectic Downtempo are expre....
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Regenerator plays at the DEF CON 14 Black and White Ball Los Angeles based duo with a dark electronic dance sound. industrial, gothic, ebm, electro; however you slice it, it's just plain good. :) Harsh male vocals mixed with beautiful, haunting, female vox make for stark contrast. 7 albums - 3 singles - far too many compilation appearances to count here. New album "Disease" available now! - online and in stores everywhere. Remixed b..
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DJ Jackalope spins dirty Drum and Bass at the DEFCON 14 Black and White Ball. Jackalope Army Cafepress Store open! If there's something you want that you don't see, let me know, I will see what I can do to help! http://www.cafepress.com/jackalopearmy
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Roger Sessions has just published “A Better Path to Enterprise Architectures”. His main point is that large, centralized, big-bang enterprise architecture efforts fail. I could not agree more. Sessions gives some good arguments for why you would want to deliver incrementally. He calls this approach SOA. This is a fairly common way of defining SOA - basically SOA is another name for incremental deliveries. If this is SOA, I don’t hate SOA at..
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Blessed synchronizity: From Jason Yip’s blog: Vendor’s Law: Organise people into roles corresponding to the tools that you want to sell to them. And today’s Dilbert:
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In my previous post, I talked about how I feel SOA encourages rigid design. Of course, in some situations, you may not really have a choice. When creating Business-to-Business (B2B) integration, interfaces will naturally be much more rigid. There is no way around it, SOA or SOA-not. Ian Robinson recently published an article on Martin Fowler’s webpage titled Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern. The article gives some very..
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On JavaZone 2005, I talked about “Why I hate SOA”. I found it hard then, and I’ve still found it hard for a while to express this sentiment concisely. I think I’ve finally got it! One of the most common inefficiencies I discover in organizations is poorly designed boundaries. I find that people suffer when a boundary is too ridig, not when it is too loosely defined. Contractual interfaces create a “mine versus yours” mentality, where every ..
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Suomenlinna island fortress Kerttu had her entry exams to the Biological faculty of University of Helsinki yesterday, and therefore she is now free to enjoy the summer. To mark that, we decided to go flying a bit around Espoo and Porvoo. The runway 27 was in use so we took the plane out through Nokka and returned later through Deger. The wind was a bit bumpy, but otherwise it was nice to fly again after the long winter bre..
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Suomenlinna island fortress Kerttu had her entry exams to the Biological faculty of University of Helsinki yesterday, and therefore she is now free to enjoy the summer. To mark that, we decided to go flying a bit around Espoo and Porvoo. The runway 27 was in use so we took the plane out through Nokka and returned later through Deger. The wind was a bit bumpy, but otherwise it was nice to fly again after the long winter bre..
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Since March 2000 the Freenet project has been the very embodiment of the "release early, release often" mantra, gaining invaluable experience of the unpredictable challenges encountered when deploying a P2P architecture on a large scale. This talk will discuss recent developments in the project including our "next generation" routing algorithm, and a sophisticated but elegant new load balancing mechanism called "adaptive rate limiting". ....
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Peter D. Feaver and Kenneth Geers, The First International Cyber War: Computer Networks as a Battleground in the Middle East and Beyond
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
This briefing addresses the world's first global Internet war: the cyber skirmishes associated with the Palestinian intifadah. What started out as a localized conflict spread to battles around the globe as forces sympathetic to either the Israelis or the Palestinians joined the fray. With the Middle East cyber war as a backdrop, this presentation will cover the ways in which people can try to affect the course of world history through coord....
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The time has come for people to start using email encryption extensively. There is enough threat from attackers as well as ignorant judges that email is not safe. SSL isn"t good enough. But how? How do we get people to do this? How do you get people whose VCRs blink 12:00 to use encryption? How do you get people to remember to encrypt? This talk discusses both specific answers as well as open architectures to nudge people down the..
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n0namehere, Real World Privacy, How to Leave Less of A Trail in Life
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Like leaving breadcrumbs in the forest, individuals leave a data trail throughout their day. This talk will look at practical ways to leave a smaller data wake. Privacy isn"t dead. Time, money and effort are needed to maintain and live outside the data collection mechanisms that are now part of society. Level of privacy achieved How easy it is to lose one's privacy... This is not a talk to look at the ways in which your dat....
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Interested in hardware hacking but were not sure where to start? This presentation is for you. I will show you how to get started with modifying equipment for fun and useful purposes. I will show you the best ways for opening the enclosures for electronic equipment without destroying it, how to identify electronic components, how to solder together circuits, where to get parts, and will do a walk through of several hacks i have completed. t....
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Dead Addict, Hacking the Media, and Avoiding Being Hacked by the Media
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Hackers have been demonized and romantisized in the media. Some hackers interactions with the media have caused their eventual incarseration, while others seem to pimp the media to promote their careers. Dead Addict will provide a framework for manipulating the media and avoid being the victim of the media. While this talk will be relavent to hackers, it is applicable to all that consume or are consumed by media. Dead Addict wil..
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The Dark Tangent acknowledges those who made Defcon 12 possible, contest winners and the techniques that were used to win.
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Cameron nummish Hotchkies,Blind SQL Injection Automation Techniques
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Due to improper software design and implementation practices, the number of web-based applications vulnerable to SQL injection is still alarmingly high. Yet the actual steps used to exploit these applications remain very tedious and repetitive. This presentation will focus on methods available to automate the task of exploiting blind sql injection holes. It will also feature a new tool, 'sQueaL" and explain some of the research, used in the....
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Robert "hackajar" Imhoff-Dousharm and Jonathan "ripshy" Duncan, Credit Card Networks Revisted: Penitration in Real-Time
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Credit card authorization is the core to all major businesses, both on and off the Internet. Yet an alarming number of businesses are not taking the right steps to insure that your credit cards are secure against fraud and theft. In bringing this to light (Credit Card Networks 101, July 31 2003 - DC 11), you were awed at the posibility, but were not provided with any real proof. This year we, that's you and I, will walk through the process ....
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Ian Vitek, Exploring Terminal Services, The Last 12 Month of Research. Or, The Evil Admin And His Tools
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
ot shell? On a Citrix or Terminal Services server? The speech will demonstrate some common ways to explore Terminal Services. Uploading files with the keyboard and elevate luser rights to SYSTEM. How secure is it for a client to connect to a Citrix or a Terminal Services server if an evil admin owns the box? Tools and exploits will be released. Ian Vitek: 183 cm. 80 Kg. Brown eyes. Brown hair. Eats meat. Drinks almost ..
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In September of 2003, a noted security consultant was terminated from his job over controversy surrounding a document that he co-authored. One key focus of the document was the risk associated with operating system monocultures. This idea was nothing new. In fact, in 1989, the following passages appeared in a book that spent over four months on the New York Times best seller list: "Just like genetic diversity, which prevents an epidemi....
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Information Hiding techniques are much researched in the context of watermarking or fingerprinting images and sound files, mainly as a means of copyright protection and piracy prevention/detection. Those mediums offer a significant amount of redundancy, thus lending themselves to the implementation of robust IH systems. Executables however do not offer such amounts of redundancy, and have thus far proven to be a difficult and rarely used me....
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Michael Davis, The Open-Source Security Myth and How to Make It A Reality
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Open Source software is frequently described as more secure, than closed source software for two reasons: the number of people available to correct a problem is potentially larger; and anyone can review the source code for vulnerabilities or malicious code. Unfortunately, the current state of design documentation does not support a cost-effective security review. In addition to compromising the confidence in the software, the lack of ....
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The insecure workstation. A creative look at the windows group policies as a security solution in today's workplace and how easily they are circumvented. This talk will discuss the Were, What and Why on policies and also demonstrate simple tricks to bypass policies and exploiting poor policy implementation. Deral Heiland has been in the IT field since 1994 working in the following industries; Newspaper media, System Integrator, Manufac..
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Maximillian Dornseif, Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Tell - Hidden Data In Document Formats
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Applications usually put all kinds of information besides the ones which you intend to into saved documents. This can lead to embarrassing revelations. We will take a look into different types of application data and what can be hidden in there. This allows us to 'scrub" our own documents to avoid unwanted information in there but also to look for information in documents which the authors didn"t want to hand out. Go grasp the scope of the ....
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For close to 100 years amateurs have been working with radios and sending transmission all over the world. The dawn of the information age has inspired many new technologies and advancements in communication; and amateur radio is no exception. Today's modern amateur radio operators are building wireless networks and enjoying several advantages over their unlicensed counterparts. This presentation will review some of these advantages as well....
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Google hacking is not new, but it's back and deadlier than ever. This talk is the follow-up to last years very successful talk "Watching the Watchers". Attendees will learn the tricks and tactics that any self-respecting Google hacker should know. Expanded extensively since last year, the techniques and always killer examples from the "googledorks" database are always a crowd-pleaser. Witness how sites from all over the net fall victim to s....
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Michael T. Raggo , Steganography, Steganalysis and Cryptanalysis
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
This presentation will present Steganography and techniques for Steganalysis (identifying files with hidden messages). A review of Steganography will provide the basis for identifying and dissecting carrier files. There will also be a demonstration of carrier file analysis and disection. There will also be a demo of my new Steganography detection program, StegSpy. Cracking and reverse-engineering Steganography programs will also be covered.....
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Wavyhill and Andre Goldman,Toward a Private Digital Economy (Trusted Transactions In An Anonymous World)
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www.defcon.org
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20 years ago
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eng
Current financial privacy tools have drawbacks arising from centralized ownership and control, and the limitations of the service-for-profit model. A better approach is to construct a fully distributed environment for economic activity which mimics in freedom and variety of action the way cash is used in the physical world.The key to this variety is the element of locale. We introduce the "Farmer's Market" model of anonymous commerce a....
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