Presented at
A New HOPE (2022),
July 22, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
(50 minutes)
HOPE often attracts attendees who may be new to the hacking space - people who learned of the conference through the *Off The Hook* radio show, youth who are keen to get into this space, artists, journalists, activists, and others who see their work increasingly overlapping with hacking. There's a lot newcomers may have missed about hacking techniques over the years! This workshop is for those newcomers, to bring them up to speed about some very fundamental habits of thought in the hacking community. In this session, Gus will get attendees engaged in hands-on exercises developed in the engineering and hacking communities for finding vulnerabilities. To demonstrate counterintuitive strategies beyond code, this will be followed up with examples of past hacking, including social engineering and voting machine testing. Wrap-up discussion explores how these activities change what we think, feel, and see, and what we can do with the systems around us.
Presenters:
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Gus Andrews
**Gus Andrews** has a background that spans hacking, education, and software usability. She is currently working with Theorem Media on CyberNation, a multimedia public education project about digital security. Her book *Keep Calm and Log On* (MIT Press, 2020) aims to help everyday people survive the digital revolution without getting trampled. Over the past decade, Gus has improved everyday users' understanding of digital security through her work at the Open Internet Tools Project, Simply Secure, and reviving the Security in a Box guide for Front Line Defenders. Her work on open source encryption tools informed policy at the EFF and the U.S. State Department. She has been a regularly invited speaker at the Army Cyber Institute at West Point (improbably, because she created *The Media Show*, a YouTube series teaching media literacy using snarky puppets). Gus is a former panelist on the hacker radio show *Off The Hook* and a former organizer for HOPE.
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