Presented at
HOPE Number Nine (2012),
July 14, 2012, 7 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Project Byzantium (a working group of HacDC) is proud to announce the release of Byzantium Linux, a live distribution which makes it fast and easy to build ad-hoc wireless mesh networks. Due to the actions of certain governments (such as those of Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria), alternative data networks are becoming more and more important as a means to communicate, organize, and coordinate. Project Byzantium aims to help support (and in some cases, replace) damaged or compromised Internet infrastructure and services with commodity wi-fi enabled equipment and a flexible, improvisable architecture. The presenters will discuss some of the engineering challenges faced and solutions that were developed to overcome them, including automatic network configuration and interaction with mobile clients that have limited capabilities.
Presenters:
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Sitwon
Sitwon is a programmer, hacker, and pirate extraordinaire. He is a member of HacDC, a Linux administrator, and developer, with experience building Live Linux distributions and custom OpenWRT firmware.
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The Doctor
The Doctor is a system architect and system administrator working for an aerospace engineering firm in Washington, DC. When not building or repairing servers, he’s aiding dissidents in the Middle East as an agent of Telecomix, working on projects at HacDC, contributing to Zero State projects, traveling through time and space inside a funny blue box, or consulting in the private sector. He is one of the core developers of Project Byzantium.
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Haxwithaxe
Haxwithaxe is a hacker, developer, outdoorsman, HacDC member, software developer, and a live distro and OpenWRT firmware developer. He is a fixer of things... because he breaks them....
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