Hackmosphere

I’ve posted a couple of videos that have not yet made it up to the official video website (see below links).  Also below is a modification to the ending ceremonies video I posted earlier in the week.  This version just shows the laser show and was snagged via a rip I did of the 26C3 stream – my apologies in advance for the video artifacts…

26C3 Laser Show – Video
Blackbox JTAG Reverse Engineering – Info – Video
Closing event (no laser show) – Video
Our Darknets Bright Spots (Fixed version) – Info – Video
Fnord Jahresrckblick 2009 (with English audio track) – Info -Video
Security Nightmares (with English audio track) – Info – Video
Photography and the Art of Doing it Wrong – Info – Video

Next on my list is ShmooCon 2010.  I was one of the lucky bums who snagged a barcode back in November.  Sadly, all other tickets have been sold out as of 02 January – but keep your eyes peeled on EBAY (ticket for charity fundraiser @now), CRAIGSLIST (sells quick!) and the ShmooCon WEBSITE and email lists (?) for people who can’t attend and are selling their barcodes.

To see who has been accepted and what talks are expected check the PRESENTATIONS link.  Here’s the link for the (not yet filled in) SCHEDULE (use it to at least plan your flights).  Looking for someone to share a room with? Hit SHMOOCON ROOM MATES email distro, GOOGLE GROUP and HERE (DefCon Forum link).  Looking to share a ride there and back? Check the SHMOO SLUGS page.  And for some unofficial Tweets related to ShmooCon 2010 hit Mubix’s Presenter TWITTER FEED.

That reminds me, I owe someone a beer (Brickskeller anyone??? Partial beer list)…  Hope to see you there!

I’ve uploaded to the site a few of the finalized 26C3 videos and another partial audio track – this time for the English version of the Fnord-Jahresrückblick 2009.  I’ll post more links later tomorrow – after everything has finished transferring to the site.  Please right-click and save to get your copy.  Also, if there is any issue viewing these check for the latest codec pack before contacting me.  On my Windows machine I use the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, but you can use others…

[26c3]CKAN_Apt-Get
[26c3]Conlanging_101
[26c3]Darknet_Bright_Spots
[26c3]Defending_the_Poor
[26c3]Exposing_Crypto_Bugs_Rev_Eng
[26c3]GSM_Srsly
[26c3]Here_Be_Electric_Dragons
[26c3]SCCP_Hacking_Attacking_the_SS7_System
[26c3]Tor_and_Censorship_Lessons_Learned
[26c3]Why_Germany_Succeeded_Voting_Computer
[26c3]Wikileaks_Release_1.0

To see the status of which videos they have and what the status of their final encoding is, click HERE. Pretty cool!

(UPDATE: 1300 / 03JAN10) The local video links are no longer available as the CCC has posted all of them up on their video page.  Check them out HERE.

Alrighty… Unfortunately there were quite a few technical problems at the 26C3 servers and the first 20 minutes of the Hacker Jeopardy were not available in English, and not much more of it was seen/heard by the German audience either (screams of BILD!!! and other words were seen from the native speakers in IRC for a bit).  When it came back up I still had a couple small laggy parts.  Will give you the sync time queue after the official video is released…  The link to the slightly modified “raw” recording is HERE (55.3Meg MP3).  At the moment, the only modifications were to boost the volume in certain sections (was jumping between mirrors to get a good connection and volumes were slightly off from one another) and I added a quite white noise track in the areas where there is lag.  The decision to not edit out the silences was in order to keep this soundtrack roughly in sync with the official video of the event – whenever it hits.

Right now there seems to be one spot where the raw videos are being upped as torrents (or as sucky magnet links – more on that later).  Feel free to jump into the pile, but PLEASE stay on after you get your videos and audio files.  And know that at the moment the seeders are swamped – with average speeds hovering at 0.1kBps.  Torrent portal address: http://rnmshot.dvrdns.org/.  If things go as they have been after the last couple of years, if you don’t grab your vids now they will be MUCH harder to get for at least a month afterward.  The sources tend to dry up as people fly back to wherever they came from or loose the “con buzz” that they were under ;P.

Also, I’ve been trolling the official 26C3 wiki, the #26c3 IRC channel on Freenode and the tweets people have been posting to dig the following streams to try:

Source website: http://karme.de/video/
Saal1 – DIRECT LINK
Saal1 – VLC / TOTEM LINK
Saal1 – HTML 5 LINK
Saal2 – DIRECT LINK
Saal2 – VLC / TOTEM LINK
Saal2 – HTML 5 LINK
Saal3 – DIRECT LINK
Saal3 – VLC / TOTEM LINK
Saal3 – HTML 5 LINK

Source website: http://ccctube.de
Saal1 – HTML5 LINK
Saal2 – HTML5 LINK
Saal3 – HTML5 LINK

Source website: http://thw23.de:8000/status.xsl
Saal1 – ICECAST LINK
Saal1 – OGM LINK
Saal2 – ICECAST LINK
Saal2 – OGM LINK
Saal3 – ICECAST LINK
Saal3 – OGM LINK

(AUDIO ONLY) Source website: http://deliver42.ccctu.be:3000/
Saal1 – OGG / WINAMP LINK
Saal2 – OGG / WINAMP LINK
Saal3 – OGG / WINAMP LINK

Official video stream links:
Saal1 – WMV LINK
Saal1 – ICECAST LINK
Saal2 – WMV LINK
Saal2 – ICECAST LINK
Saal3 – WMV LINK
Saal3 – ICECAST LINK

Oh, and why I don’t like magnet links: Seems that only Vuze (old name – Azureus) adds (without asking) some extra software onto your system.  One of which is nagware for Norton Internet Security and the other is the Ask.com search bar (only infects, sorry, affects IE).  After installation, prepare for a substandard torrent client that does not throttle streams (despite being set to do so) and won’t stop uploading after you have stopped all the streams.  If you don’t mind extra software being installed, some extra services running in the background, and the fact that it is power-user hostile then go for it.   My advice, stay away from magnet links, and if you *really* need to torrent, use µTorrent.  It’s light and stable, and there’s no hidden BS to put up with.

(UPDATE @1450) Below are links to the slides as they are clicked through by the presenter, no audio!

Saal1 – SLIDES LINK #1 – SLIDES LINK #2
Saal2 – SLIDES LINK <–Ugh, down
Saal3 – SLIDES LINK <–Ugh, down

Another 26C3 news source: Infodesk@Identi.ca

And another VLC-friendly (and fast)  video stream for Saal1: http://derchris.eu:40000

Yet again, I didn’t come up with the $2,000+ to attend (flights, tickets, food, shelter) the Chaos Computer Congress.  One day…  But until then all of us can at least attend virtually.  The CCC guys/gals have done it again and worked their tails off to let us be there in spirit.  Woohooooo!!

Below are my links to the 26C3 streams.  Use VLC for best results.  For the official wiki page on all the links that will be coming up (or going down) click HERE.  Link to the PDF version of the schedule – HERE. Link to the HTML pages with more info on the whats in the schedule – HERE.

Saal 1 – LINK
Saal 2 – LINK
Saal 3 – LINK
Please note that these streams are working as fast as they can with hundreds (or more) viewers hammering their stream points.  Found a cool network map showing how they are getting all the streaming rolling to us – MAP.

Raw Stream Dump Site(s):
I’ll post those links after the conference.  Their servers are a bit over worked at the moment.

Tweets from and about 26C3: 26C3-related Tweets@ Google

(UPDATE @1444) As the CCC goes more and more options for getting your streams should pop up.  Right now there seems to be one or two trustworthy streams actually working.  Thanks to karme for setting up a couple of mirrors! (Dank für die Einrichtung einer Reihe von Video karme Spiegel!)

For Windows users here’s how to watch one of karme’s streams: Go to the command line and get into the directory VLC sits in and paste this, vlc –mms-caching=8000 –mms-maxbitrate 3000000 -v -v “mms://141.24.101.89/saal1″ (Make sure there are TWO dashes in front of mms-caching and mms-maxbitrate… for some reason they are copying over as one dash on Win7 systems).  For Saal 2 and 3 just replace the end number accordingly.   More mirrors as I find them ; )

(UPDATE @1618) Check this out.  Appears to be an official video stream that has not been bombed by visitors.  No lag, currently, but room (saal) 2 appears to be down on this mirror.  CCCTube link HERE.

Okay everybody.  I just received an ultimatum from my webhost, out of the blue, over files not expressly specified (other than a generic list of file types).  Either I delete all my content in three days or they do it for me…

So, all the technical videos, pictures of my cats, public domain (no copyright) audios, Navy study material, and other miscellanea  – as well as my blog content – will be moving to another provider in a couple of days.

The issue I have with my current provider is, why give me 40G of space if you don’t want me to host files on your servers?  Would it not seem logical to just offer 100M and call it a day for all of your customers?  According to their email, the hosting service’s list of verboten file types is quite inclusive…  Aaaaand why raise an issue now – after close to five years of hosting?  I’m not using all of the space and using less than 10% of my monthly bandwidth…

My guess is that they just want to drive customers away…  Well, today, PowWeb drove me away.

If the site appears down try again in a day or so.  I’ll be back!

W00t!  It’s THAT time of the year again… DefCon CTF Qual time!!  I’ll be playing along with the Church of WiFi guys again (thanks for having me again ; ), and look forward to seeing how the new hosts (Diutinus Defense Technologies, Corp.) do.  They’ve got big shoes to fill following behind Kenshoto.

So now what?  After reviewing the notes I took last year (quickie article HERE) it looks like I need to troll and play with a new set of tools.  I’ll post some of the ones I hope that will come in handy in the coming weeks…

I’ll be posting a few more items concerning ShmooCon 2009 in a couple of days.  In the middle of prepping to move to a new state.  Suckin’ up all mah time. : /

The Shmoos had a three official wireless networks running during the con this year.  Two were for normal traffic, open and WPA2, and another (“Mosh Pit”) was for interesting traffic.  I captured probably about an hour or so worth of what was in the mosh pit.  A couple of the cap files (tcpdump files) are available HERE (213K) and HERE (9.7M).  Check em’ out!