Deviant's H2K2 Photos
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Before
VHS there was BetaMax. Before BetaMax there was CartiVision. CartiVision
was sold just as a set of components with no enclosure. BernieS actually
brought an unopened Cartrivision unit to the conference and a copy of
The Empire Strikes Back in the very old format.
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This
emulator machine is possibly the best example i have ever seen of someone
making an Arcade system using a PC.
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Renderman,
ShapeShifter, and someone else (who i can't remember) along with myself
hung these huge banners. We got some help from people who had good throwing
arms... but Renderman deserves a lotta credit. The larger one was hung
due to his perfect three throws in a row.
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Here
is The Chesire Catalyst, master of the TeleCo network, giving a very
informative talk on Directory Assistance.
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This
was a panel on Crypto for the Masses. Matt Blaze, Greg Newby, and Anatole
Shaw were part of this talk.
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The
panel on Caller ID spoofing was really a fun time. Lucky225 and Tray
Smee demonstrated various methods to fool Caller ID devices.
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Fooling
a Type 2 Caller ID box using a Bell 202 modem and Orange Box software.
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Calling
a teleco to spoof a number using an Op-redirect.
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The
room erupted when the social engineering method worked.
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Setting
up the public computing cluster
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The
H2K2 NOC. Thanks to everyone else who donated hardware, Adam really
appreciated everything that we loaned him.
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A
good shot of the Hotel Pennsylvania from the street.
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This
panel told the story of DeCSS. From it's creation, to the 2600 lawsuit,
to the future of access controls. That's Ed Hernstadt, 2600's attorney,
on the left and Robin Gross from the EFF is in the middle, next to Emmanuel
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The
public computing cluster was working... woo hoo!
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Another
shot of the public terminals.
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I
guess it wouldn't be a hacker con if the network wasn't broken at least
part of the time. :-)
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When
you consider all of this equipment and how we pulled it all together,
it is pretty impressive that it worked at all sometimes.
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This
was a panel on the FBI and how it's basically being mismanaged to the
point of lunacy. That's Declan McCullagh, Mike Levine, and former CIA
agent Robert Steele.
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Renderman
brought to H2K2 his first American printing edition of George Orwell's
1984. What better way to get Emmanuel's autograph?
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Three
cheers for Jason Scott of textfiles.com
who helped setup this Atari for public gaming in the convention area.
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Another
shot of the public LAN area and people trying feverishly to get their
network connections active.
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I
thought that this was really cool. H2K2 attendees didn't trash the hotel
or make a real mess anywhere (unlike DefCon and SummerCons) but it was
common to see the black "security" domes over the surveillance
cameras removed as if to say, "You're watching us, but we're watching
you, too."
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Yes!
My network connection was working!
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Here
is Emmanuel introducing keynote speaker Aaron McGruder.
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Here
is Boondocks creator
Aaron McGruder. His talk was great.
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This
was the big one for me at H2K2. Actually being able to see the Mentor
and hear about his reasons behind writing his
Manifesto.
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I
wasn't prepared for how much it would impact me. Loyd silently approached
the podium and just went right into an open-mic style reading of the
piece.
The whole audience, most of us wide-eyed and jaws agape... some of us near tears, erupted into a standing ovation when he finished. |
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I captured a pretty decent quality movie of the Mentor towards the end his recitation of The Conscience of a Hacker. It's large, but you may enjoy it. |
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Hearing
Loyd speak was one of the highlights of my time at H2K2. I was sitting
close enough to even toss him a beer when he finished his talk, get
a photo with him, and talk for a while about the fate of the public
school system.
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Philip
Kaplan a.ka. Pud was at H2K2 to talk about the story behind the creation
of his famous web site, fuckedcompany.com.
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Former
CIA agent Robert Steele giving a fantastic talk about "Open Source
Security" for protecting our citizens in the modern world.
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The
shirts that I got at H2K2. The"Hackercronie & Phreak"
i thought was very well done. The two black shirts are from 2600,
always great. You can order them from their
online store. As for the blue one... sorry, the only way to get
that was to be on the H2K2 staff.
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BernieS,
ShapeShifter, and Alexander Urbelis from the New York Civil Liberties
Union talking about abuses of authority. If you don't know the stories
about what happened to BernieS
and ShapeShifter,
you really should read them.
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Another
terrific time I had at H2K2 was the Lockpicking panel. Barry "The
Key" Wels and Michael Glasser (a.ka. Laz) demonstrated the workings
of many locks and lockpick devices. I know that from now on there are
certain locks i'll never use again. If this panel could have gone on
for about two more hours there would have been no shortage of content.
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Here's
my bud RenderMan giving a talk about
stalking domain names.
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A
good shot of the 2600 team during the closing ceremonies. That's BernieS,
Emmanuel, Porkchop, Mister Ohm, Rop Gonggrijp, and The Cheshire Catalyst.
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Another
shot of the 2600 staff... Greg Newby, Adam (who did a great job
with the network), BernieS (sitting), Rop Gonggrijp, Emmanuel (very
tired), Kerry Zero, PorkChop, and Mister Ohm.
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