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0wn the C0n!

Presented at ShmooCon I (2005), Feb. 6, 2005, noon (60 minutes)

Whether you've noticed it or not, there's a trendy opinion emerging, amongst the folks around you, that the smaller hacker cons are where it's at. Fewer crowds, more clue. Less traffic, cooler tools. Fewer feds, more friends. ToorCon is the standard. CanSecWest is the cold kick-ass con. Creative genius abounds at CodeCon. LayerOne is the nifty newbie. Notacon, Phreaknic, etc. And now, in D.C., we have ShmooCon, which might actually have more feds, but aims to bring the small-hacker-con-with-clue fad to the nation's capital.

So let's figure out what it is we like and don't like about cons--including this one. Help us make our con better. Let's make other cons better. From suggestions to start-your-own-con strategies, we can figure out how to maintain or create critical, small scale, geek gatherings for ourselves and the public at large.

To hell with surveys. To hell with email feedback. This is live. This is on-site. The Shmoo Group wants you to step up to the mic and "0wn the C0n"!


Presenters:

  • Beetle - The Shmoo Group
    Beetle is a member of the Shmoo Group, holds a BS in Computer Science, and is a D.C.-area computer security engineer. He is a geek, and he is a licensed amateur racecar driver. He presented on the topic of rogue access points at DefCon 11 and Black Hat Federal, demonstrating his rogue AP setup utility Airsnarf. Last year, he and the Shmoo Group pimped some of their new wireless gadgets, such as 802.11bounce and the Sniper Yagi, at DefCon 12, and Beetle unleashed Wireless Weapons of Mass Destruction for Windows at ToorCon. This year, Beetle is taking a break of sorts, and helping pimp an East coast hacker conference in D.C. called ShmooCon in the Winter, so he can spend more time in the Summer 1) getting his ass kicked on the racetrack and 2) drinking at all the other cons he likes.

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