Bridging the Gap Between Hackers and Academics

Tal Garfinkel writes "There has long been a disconnect between academic computer security and underground forums like Black Hat and Phrack. A new USENIX-sponsored workshop called WOOT (Workshop On Offensive Technologies) is looking to bridge that gap by providing a high-quality, peer-reviewed forum for attack papers, with top reviewers from the academic, open source, commercial IT, and information warfare communities. Got a great attack paper? See if it makes the cut at WOOT."

Comments

WOOT?

[EvanED]

I'm sure the WOOT conference would have been happy to publish "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time," which, incidentally, has to be the best academic paper title ever.

Re:WOOT?

[EvanED]

This was 2002, before the P took the place of zero.

But I agree, if it were to be published today, that would be the "proper" title.

Creating...

[Billosaur]

...the Hackademic. Ba-dum-bum. I'm here all week.

A gap?

[saintlupus]

There has long been a disconnect between academic computer security and underground forums like Black Hat and Phrack.

Just because "academics" don't introduce themselves as such to the script kiddies, doesn't mean that we're not around.

--saint

A lot about hacking, not so much about bandwidth

[192939495969798999]

Apparently the disconnect may have to do with how bandwidth works, because that site is slashdotted all to hell now! Either that, or during that long delay, they were hacking into my PC. Anyone else get the jitters when they go to a website about hacking and it just sits there and grinds in the browser?

Information warfare communities...

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I bet they'd be interested in my design for a chair cannon.

Whats the point?

[splug]

If it is so cutting edge why the hell is the conference "by invitation only, with preference given to the authors of accepted position papers/presentations". If it suppose to be academic the people with papers probably know this stuff already. Shouldn't it be for everyone? This way no one learns.

Re:Whats the point?

[blhack]

Contrary to what my receptionist believes "Computers" is not one skill. While one person might be especially good at manipulating Wi-Fi networks, another person might be talented at writing kernel-mode rootkits for unix. Still another person might be exceptionally experienced with IBM as400 mainframes and have written papers on the topic. It is by invitation only so that they don't get 2000 fresh out of puberty "hackers" who have never written an application in their life constantly asking them how to hack into pr0n sites and hotmail.

it is exactly the same as if a bunch of physicists got together for an invitation only conference. Its for academics.

There's your problem.

[mcmonkey]

This doesn't seem to have anything to do with hackers at all.

You want crackers. Two doors down.

My paper wuz rejected.

[minotaurcomputing]

My paper, "How to Pwn n00b Sys Admins" wuz turned down by teh pier reveiw commitee bcuz they sed i had bad grammer.
teh suxors im l33t
-m

Other publications to follow suit

[sam_handelman]

That's not the only party of IRC seeking academic legitimacy. Expect the following in the near future:

- Proceedings of the National Association for the Advancement of Kiddie Porn

- Transactions in Piracy

- Nigerian Finance Quarterly

- Kawaii! Anime of journal from translate poorly, for sure yes or else!

- Trends in Russian Credit Card Management

- Journal of Interactive Marketing
  Oh, wait, this already exists.

Author is also a WOOT Program Chairs

[Evil W1zard]

Anyone else catch that the person posting the article is also one of the Program Chairs for the event. Guess if you want free advertising /. is the way to go! Can't wait to see when Ron J. posts the article for P0rncon here!