I hack therefore I am

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                 --[ HES 2010 Lockpicking Workshop ]--
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                 Learn and practice how to open locks.

--[ Motivation:
  Because you can. Because it's legal. Because it's utterly fun.
  Because you never know.

--[ Location:
   We will have a dedicated workshop room dedicated to both FPGA
   and lockpicking during all^H^H^Hmost of the HES conference    

--[ Happening:
  Come learn lockpicking from the very basics, share your best tricks,
  or practice your skills on all types of locks and optionally try to
  convince others (or yourself) to get handcuffed under any purpose.
  We will have all the necessary material on site, but you are most
  welcome to bring your own tools, books and locks !

--[ Legal notice:
  Law enforcements people are required to ask a special permission possibly
  including a practical test to attend this workshop and are asked to leave
  their own tools at their hotel during the time of the conference  

--[ Contest:
  A lockpicking contest will soon be announced on our blog.

--[ Information:
  Keep updated on the lockpicking contest at:
  http://hackitoergosum.org/lockpicking .

--[ Contact:
lockpicking@hackitoergosum.org

Best regards,
--
The HES Team

Here is a list of hotels in close to the event (sorted from
cheaper/recommended to higher prices/not tested

• Cheap (55 euros / night), decent, close to the event (itinerary) :
  Etap Hotel, 45 Rue Docteur Babinski, 93400 Saint Ouen, +33 (0) 1 49 21 90 70‎, Direct: +33 (0) 8 92 68 31 26, +33 (0)8 92 70 12 71

• Hotel Ibis Paris Ornano, Montmartre Nord, 18ème,70 Bis Boulevard Ornano,
  75018 Paris, +33 1 46 06 06 60‎

• Hotel iliade, 51 Rue Letort, 75018 Paris, +33 1 42 57 64 40‎

• Pacific Hôtel, 77 Rue du Ruisseau, 75018 Paris, +33 1 42 62 53 00‎

• Holiday Inn Garden Court Hotel, Paris-Porte De Saint Ouen, 9 Rue La
  Fontaine, 93400 Saint-Ouen, +33 1 49 18 66 66‎, holidayinn.com

For all participants of the FPGA Reverse Engineering Challenge, please install Xilinx ISE Webpack BEFORE coming. This software is really long to install, so if you donnot waste time during the challenge don’t forget to get ready !

The title of the much awaited talk from Julien Vanegue (Microsoft) is being updated, disclosing information about this kind of bug that may unveil new bugs (and then vulnerabilities) in common software.

This talk is now titled “Automated vulnerability analysis of zero-size heap allocations” and gives a glimpse on what will be announced during the conference. Now, I guess there’s a couple of grep and static analysis tools that just got started with a clear objective in mind. I hope it’s with the goal of getting some software more secure

Lot’s of new posts, press articles are now announcing the HES2010 conference. It’s great to see that unfolding as rolling out a new location and program is never guaranteed of success… It seems however that many people want to come and wish there was an online reservation method (too bad paypal did such a bad job on the previous HSF).

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Hackito Ergo Sum is next week ! So get ready ! Here are more important information about the conference:

Social Medias

First, if you didn’t notice it yet Hackito Ergo Sum does have a twitter feed that you can reach here : Twitter Moreover, the official hash tag for the conference is #hes2010

Secondly, we are also on Facebook and you can pre-register your attendance status via Facebook at the following link: Pre-Register to Hackito Ergo Sum via Facebook.

Schedule

Schedule is available as online version at the following link : http://hackitoergosum.org/program/ and as a printable version here.

Location:

Mains d’Oeuvres
1, rue Charles Garnier, 93400 Saint-Ouen

Metro Around:
Porte de Clignancourt (Line 4) or Garibaldi (Line 13)

Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 Program is out. We’re delighted to host such a great selection of great speakers and interesting projects. With speeches ranging from new kind of vulnerability (world first disclosure of this kind of bug from Julien Vanegue, Microsoft) to a network technique for  generic-IP fingerprinting and tracking using hardware-related properties, we can say that this year Hackito Ergo Sum will be rich in content. Several workshops such as FPGA security and reverse engineering challenge, lockpicking or Capture The Flag (CTF) will happen too. Stay tuned for more information and details on the program.

The CFP is closed, thanks a lot for all your submissions. The quality of submission was overall very high, with new types of vulnerabilities and innovative hacks.

We will very shortly announce the final programme of HES2010. Stay tuned!

The call for papers (en | fr) has been extended to March 18th. So, hurry up to submit your last minute presentation!

The location also has been decided upon: Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 will be happening near Porte de Clignancourt, north of Paris thanks to our friends at Main d’Oeuvre and Art Sensitif.

We also now are social-media enabled: our Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

We have a logo now! Thanks to BT/n0w, here is the logo for Hackito Ergo Sum 2010. Spread the word, use and re-use

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