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CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the these-are-no-ordinary-yo-yos dept.

doom writes "Annalee Newitz rambles about CodeCon, placebos, random numbers, fear, yoyo-hacking, Dune and more. This is what it means to be a geek: Techsploitation."

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  1. linkage by doom · · Score: 5, Informative
    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...