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Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival
zoobab writes "Hackers from all over Europe will meet at the end of the month (27-30 June) at the second Hacker Space Festival in Paris. The four-day schedule includes conferences and workshops on: Metasploit, HostileWRT, FPGA for beginners, ICT disaster recovery, software patents in Europe, Hadopi, and many other topics. The future of Hacker Spaces will also be debated. The event will be hosted by the first French hackerspace, /tmp/lab, located in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Paris."
Is a dying art - and I am not referring to malicious hacking. That is a term spawned by the over-hyped media.
Being able to hack a system to get it to work is sadly something that less and less techs are able to do. Format-reinstall is the mantra of techsupport lately.
And these tools that the summary mentions might not refer to that kind of hack, but they still have some real-world positive applications that seem to be eschewed by the new generation of IT staffers, and when something does go bork in the night they stare wide-eyed at the screen and look for the re-install disks without thinking of running a diagnostic such as NMAP or metasploit (yes it can and should be used as a diagnostic tool) to find out where the problem actually lies.
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Sorry to disappoint you but outskirt is the standard translation for French banlieue, which makes the whole thing less sexy.
On the other hand, if you insist on this side, I may advise you to have a look at this geek's girlfriend advise site if you read some French.
Cheers.
After I saw FPGA and Verilog right along side making your own bio-diesel I knew, this was a really eclectic group of topics being talked about. I envy you insensitive euro-bastards. Where is my hacker space festival (in the US?) All we get is lame gatherings of steam-punkers doing the cosplay thing in the desert while modding their cases/cars/bodies to look like they were built by Jules Verne .. or commercial gatherings where it's free pencils and a few days at the poker tables in the area.
There are still plenty of 20 minutes slots for Lightning Talks to present your project:
http://www.hackerspace.net/lightning-talks
That's the advantage of the location: at least the Bobos from Neuilly won't come because they don't go to Vitry :-)
Some interesting videos of last year:
http://www.justin.tv/hackerspace/all
The HostileWRT presentation appears to have been cancelled, which is too bad, it's the only thing in the summary that looks particularly interesting.
as it's in Paris, do people speak english there ?
Heh, that site is hilarious. If I ever find myself with a french girlfriend again I'll have to remember that, even if it hasn't been updated for ages.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Everyone who gonna be there, say hi to the secret services for me :)
When I first read the headline, I thought Paris Hilton would be hosting the event! Perhaps she's just been a hacker in disguise all of this time!
Oh well.
Not having my coffee yet, my mind entered a warp zone like when your eyes can't focus on the wall.
... Four Days and Three Nights in Paris!
1 hacker in paris?
Just check the official Schedule ( http://www.hackerspace.net/schedule ) and you'll see it's still there.
Anyone else read the summary title as 'Paris Hosts the Second Hooker Space Festival' ?
I mean, I wouldn't put it past Ms. Hilton, and I was mostly disappointed I missed the first hooker space festival.
The decision whether to repair or to wipe a computer is not always easy. I've been fixing computers for a long time, to the point where many of my clients are other IT professionals in need of support, and my hourly rates are significant.
A common scenario involves multiple malware infections on a computer with numerous applications installed. Wiping and properly reinstalling the machine will give guaranteed results, but will take hours due to the large number of updates and patches required. With luck it's not some low-end desktop full of no-name hardware with hard-to-find drivers.
So the first choice is usually to repair the infections rather than wipe the computer, but here's the catch - some of these buggers are HARD to get rid of, particularly in the case of new variants for which effective removal tools aren't available.
I've cleaned computers to the point where every malware scanner I run reports clean, but malicious activity like bogus DNS resolution or blocking of executables is still evident.
Now it gets tough. Say you've already spent 2 hours scanning & disinfecting a machine and it's beginning to smell like you may be up against a root kit or something your favourite tools can't detect. You have to make a call. Do you keep digging, spending more time, and risk having to give up and reinstall in the end, or cut the losses and wipe now? If the malware uses new tricks you haven't seen before, you could spend HOURS digging, and if unsuccessful, still be facing 3 or 4 more hours to reinstall from scratch.
There are times I would like to keep going out of sheer curiosity, but when someone brings in a computer for malware removal, you can't run up a bill that would rival the cost of replacing the computer! Choosing to reinstall does not mean you lack skills - it's a cost/benefit decision.
Paris Hosts the Second Hacker Space Festival
No matter what you think of her lifestyle or social antics, ya gotta give her kudos for taking on a whole festival...
Does that make it a hole festival?
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Actually Paris Hilton could be a good case study in worms, viruses, and Trojans (or lack thereof). In her case, if you don't have a Trojan, you get a virus.
Ironic.
"You can't really dust for vomit" --Nigel Tufnel
I hope they figure out, all they have to do is have Sarkozy download 3 mp3s from a spoofed ip ... that should take care of his three strikes once and for all after they cut off his internet access and take his 'crimes' to the press, without process ofcourse, after all, it's HIS law (or was it his wifes?)
Free speech was meant to be free for all... how can anyone grow up in a nanny state ?
f I ever find myself with a girlfriend I'll have to remember that
Corrected