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  1. Kaminsky had credibility already by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug

    Kaminsky wasn't an unknown - he'd spoken at a couple of Codecon conferences, doing increasingly heinous things to DNS. One year it was tunnelling SSH over DNS, which lets you break out of any firewall you're behind (and potentially lets malware do the same.) Another year it was the video-over-DNS hack referred to in the article. Codecon's not a big conference, but it's had a lot of high-quality presentations, and when I saw the announcement that Kaminsky had found a serious problem, it had to be more serious than merely breaking through firewalls...

  2. SiteAdvisor demo at CodeCon was cool by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on 5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe

    Siteadvisor was described and demoed at CodeCon in 2006. Cool stuff - they track a lot of virus and phisher sites and warn you when you're at one of them.

  3. Re:C&C Anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on North Korean Hackers Rival CIA?

    LinuxFund is a non-profit organization in the state of Oregon. Funds come from affinity cards LinuxFund has setup through MBNA. They get paid for signing you up as well as fraction (a very small fraction) of every dollar you spend using the card.

    They were using these funds to provide grants to the free software community. They have had "interns" which work on individual open-source projects, but mostly they offered grants and microgrants to OSS developers who needed funding to work on a specific project. For example Software Suspend recieved some funding as well as XIPH.ORG. They've also sponsorsed community organizations such as CodeCon when they were first starting out.

    According to public records they were bring in revenues between $100K to $200K per year at their high point. Its definately a viable model for funding open-source projects it just looks like its in need of volunteer support.

  4. Re:A few thoughts by irabinovitch · · Score: 3, Informative · on Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29?

    LinuxFund is a non-profit organization in the state of Oregon. Funds come from affinity cards LinuxFund has setup through MBNA. They get paid for signing you up as well as fraction (a very small fraction) of every dollar you spend using the card.

    They were using these funds to provide grants to the free software community. They have had "interns" which work on individual open-source projects, but mostly they offered grants and microgrants to OSS developers who needed funding to work on a specific project. For example Software Suspend recieved some funding as well as XIPH.ORG. They've also sponsorsed community organizations such as CodeCon and the Southern California Linux Expo when they were first starting out.

    According to public records they were bring in revenues between $100K to $200K per year at their high point. Its definately a viable model for funding open-source projects it just looks like its in need of volunteer support.

  5. Name isn't everything by CoughDropAddict · · Score: 1 · on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree?
    Here is my experience.

    I graduated in 2004 with a double major in Computer Science and Music from a relatively small private liberal arts college. I can be pretty much guaranteed that potential employers or grad schools have never heard of it. If they have, the CS department definitely doesn't stand out compared to other schools.

    However, I did what I could to distinguish myself. I got internships every summer. I did an independent study and a senior thesis. I co-presented at CodeCon my senior year. I graduated cum laude and got honors in both my majors. I would imagine that I got pretty good recommendations from my professors. Finally, I worked a lot on open source, learning and making connections.

    My senior year I applied to six grad schools: Princeton, University of Washington, UCSC, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, and University of Oregon. I made it into all but Princeton (inevitable -- not all my application materials got in on time) and University of Washington.

    By the end of my senior year, I decided that grad school wasn't what I wanted right now. After graduation I started working at a company I had interned at the previous summer. Within a few months, one of my friends I met through open source said that he had been contacted by an Amazon.com recruiter and asked if I was interested. I said sure, why not? A few weeks later, I had an interview and a job offer.

    There's no way for me to know for sure what effect my school's name had in these outcomes (grad school and job offer), because I don't have a control group to compare against. However, I would make these observations:
    1. The school you went to, like anything else on your resume, is mostly going to affect whether you get an interview or not (if it affects anything at all). Once you're being phone screened or interviewed on site, the only thing that really matters is their direct impressions of you. The interview process is designed to cut through all the BS of misleading qualifications and figure out what's really left when it's just you and the white board marker.
    2. That said, I have heard remarks from people who do interviews to the effect of "wow, we really get lots of good people from school X." However, that doesn't mean that you will be presumed to be good if you are from school X, or that you have to be from school X to be considered. It's just a noticable trend.
    3. I know everyone says this, but it's so true: connections are everything! It's really surprising to me how many times in my life I have heard either "if you know any good people, send them our way" or "we're looking for good people; are you interested?" I don't quite understand how this can be true when I always hear stories (especially on /.) of smart people being unemployed. The only hypothesis that makes sense to me is:
      1. good people are in demand, but
      2. the cost of weeding through bad people is too high (believe me, I've heard my manager phone screen lots of poorly qualified people, which wastes his time), therefore
      3. by far, the best way for companies to find good people is to get referrals, which gives a much higher success rate than trying to weed through resumes
    Finally, I should mention that I don't tell this story with any hint of entitlement or condescension toward people who have had it rougher than me. I feel very lucky that things have worked out so well for me, and I wish anyone who is facing tough times the very best.
  6. linkage by doom · · Score: 5, Informative · on CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.
    If you were wondering what this is all about... Annalee Newitz (with two N's) is the author of a regular print-media column called "Techsploitation", of which this story was an example. More on that: http://www.techsploitation.com/writing/ http://www.alternet.org/alsoby.html?Author=2188 More about CodeCon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeCon http://www.codecon.org/2004/ http://www.oblomovka.com/search.php3?q=%3Cspan%20c lass= http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/0 00050.html The Schmoo Hacker Group: "The Shmoo Group is a non-profit think-tank comprised of security professionals from around the world who donate their free time and energy to information security research and development." http://www.shmoo.com/ Wi-Fi Remains a Work in Progress A latte, a Wi-Fi link and a hacker Wireless network worries? Get a dog! "Need To Know" (a zine in fixed-width font, the way god intended the net): http://www.ntk.net/ Ken Schalk, yo-yo hacker, is the author of Vesta: "Vesta is an advanced system for source code control, versioning, configuration management, and building. It is an alternative to CVS+make." http://freshmeat.net/projects/vesta/ http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?relea se_id=156198 Sparky's http://www.milkycat.com/toiletree.htm Jonathan Moore evidentally did a bunch of wifi networking down in Santa Cruz, and is the author of the MobileMesh software http://wiki.haven.sh/index.php/WikiWikiWan Jonathan Moore's CodeCon presentation was about: "Hacking Social Networks part II (Don't search private data)" http://more.theory.org/archives/000110.html#more Science Magazine is put out by the AAAS, and does great in-depth coverage of general science (and insanely detailed minutia about biology): http://www.sciencemag.org/ Placebos http://placebo.nih.gov/ Oh, and about "GenToo 2004": http://www.gentoo.org/news/20031203-news.xml

    Heh... note the email address Annalee Newitz is using here... she evidentally creates a new mail alias for every column: sugarpill@techsploitation.com

    Ah, slash ids pushing a billion and whining about what a sewer it's become...

  7. Mod article troll! by Via_Patrino · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Report From CodeCon (Including Live Video)

    C'mom, the article have just two useful/informative links, one in the name of the poster (to codecon) and another about the audio stream. The others are for google, anonymizer and a broken link I didn't bother to fix.

    There's no video stream as the title say, it's audio. And the audio stream (Alluvium) doesn't work (I see errors and exceptions repeating all over the screen).

    There's only one person on the oftc irc channel.

    This article sounds like a bad written blog, for those that are interesested about those speeches that's a better link

  8. Censorship is just impossible in P2P virtual world by joaquin.keller · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds
    Simple -- censorship should exist in *either* world. Filtering for young people and such, fine, but not censorship. Virtual reality should be just that -- a representation of reality.

    IMHO Virtual reality is not only a representation of reality. It could be a paralel world with its own rules and laws.

    For instance Solipsis is a P2P virtual world (see Codecon2004)

    and I don't know very well how "Simple -- Censorship" could be possible in Solipsis...

    -- Joaquin

  9. Censorship is just impossible in P2P virtual world by joaquin.keller · · Score: 1 · on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds
    IMHO Virtual reality is not only a representation of reality. It could be a paralel world with its own rules and laws.

    For instance Solipsis is a P2P virtual world (see Codecon2004)

    and I don't very well how "Simple -- Censorship" could possible in Solipsis...

    -- Joaquin

  10. Rules in a P2P virtual world ? by joaquin.keller · · Score: 1 · on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds
    Solipsis (see Codecon2004) is P2P virtual world with no servers at all.

    I don't see how enforce rules or laws in there...

    -- Joaquin

  11. P2P virtual world (was Re:One HUGE difference...) by joaquin.keller · · Score: 1 · on Freedom of Expression in Virtual Worlds
    in A P2P virtual world, censorship will technically impossible

    Solipsis, presented at Codecon, is a true P2P virtual world (no servers)...

    -- Joaquin

  12. Re:most obvious question... by wavelet · · Score: 4, Informative · on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent

    No it was originally developed as a "regular" P2P application... a highly scalable way to download stuff.

    The first slashdot story on it was in March 2002, where its was used to distribute CodeCon 2002 .mp3s where Brian presented on bittorrent

    This is for CodeCon 2003:
    "CodeCon 2.0 is the premier event in 2003 for the P2P, Cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community.
    It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects."

    you get the idea...
    peek-a-booty (top 10 vaporware of 2001) was also presented at CodeCon 2002.

  13. Re:most obvious question... by wavelet · · Score: 4, Informative · on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent

    No it was originally developed as a "regular" P2P application... a highly scalable way to download stuff.

    The first slashdot story on it was in March 2002, where its was used to distribute CodeCon 2002 .mp3s where Brian presented on bittorrent

    This is for CodeCon 2003:
    "CodeCon 2.0 is the premier event in 2003 for the P2P, Cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community.
    It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects."

    you get the idea...
    peek-a-booty (top 10 vaporware of 2001) was also presented at CodeCon 2002.

  14. Codecon archive with bittorrent by throwaway18 · · Score: 4, Informative · on Slashback: Taplight, Handheld, Samba
    Those of you who are interested in the development of peer to peer systems such as bittorrent may be interested in the Codecon conference which took place last month. There were some very interesting panels.

    Bram Cohen the author of bittorrent is also the main codecon organisner. The audio recording of the talks and panels at codecon can be downloaded with bittorrent. It maxed my downstream at 50KB/sec, someone else reported 200KB/s down.

  15. With regards of duel posting. by JohnBE · · Score: 1 · on Why Freenet is Complicated (or not)

    Here is the original post, on the Freenet homepage about the Infoanarchy piece, as to whether it was posted on Kuro5hin or InfoAnarchy, read either, it doesn't matter. At the above link is an MP3 file of the original cited speech (at Codecon).

  16. Freedom Source Mirror and New CodeCon URL! by lowy · · Score: 4, Informative · on ZeroKnowledge's Freedom Server Code Available

    CodeCon is being broadcast live from the DNA Lounge over streaming video.

    They just announced Ryan at HavenCo has changed the password to the codecon.org server and conference organizers can no longer log in. They have setup a New Server for CodeCon which has updated info on the conference.

    The source to the Freedom Network servers linked from this new server is now at Linux Fund. Yeah!

  17. Codecon P2P conference coming up Feb 15-17 by billstewart · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Future Pocket P2P - Discreet Data Sharing?
    Codecon was
    recently announced on Slashdot. It's a conference on P2P and crypto code, taking place Feb 15-17 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Unlike the more commercial/marketing flavor of conference, presenters need to have actual working code.* There's now a Schedule as well as a Program.
    In addition to the code presentations, there are also several panels on legality, security, and business models by a number of usual suspects.

    So be there or be square!

    * ok, or at least well-rigged demos :-)

  18. Codecon P2P conference coming up Feb 15-17 by billstewart · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Future Pocket P2P - Discreet Data Sharing?
    Codecon was
    recently announced on Slashdot. It's a conference on P2P and crypto code, taking place Feb 15-17 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Unlike the more commercial/marketing flavor of conference, presenters need to have actual working code.* There's now a Schedule as well as a Program.
    In addition to the code presentations, there are also several panels on legality, security, and business models by a number of usual suspects.

    So be there or be square!

    * ok, or at least well-rigged demos :-)

  19. Codecon P2P conference coming up Feb 15-17 by billstewart · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Future Pocket P2P - Discreet Data Sharing?
    Codecon was
    recently announced on Slashdot. It's a conference on P2P and crypto code, taking place Feb 15-17 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Unlike the more commercial/marketing flavor of conference, presenters need to have actual working code.* There's now a Schedule as well as a Program.
    In addition to the code presentations, there are also several panels on legality, security, and business models by a number of usual suspects.

    So be there or be square!

    * ok, or at least well-rigged demos :-)