SIGINT is a conference on discourse in the digital age, brought to you by the Chaos Computer Club, one of the biggest and most influential hacker organizations in Europe. Its stated purpose is to bring together, surprise, and enlighten those interested in playful and clever interactions with computers, networks, art, politics, and society. SIGINT is about participation and making the world a better place. The conference takes place in Cologne, Germany, in close proximity to the Ruhr area in Western Germany and not far from the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
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Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects. This website is for everyone who started or wants to start their own hackerspace.
The experience of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in tracking an intruder suggests that any operating system is insecure when obvious security rules are ignored. How a site should respond to an intrusion, whether it is possible to trace an intruder trying to evade detection, what can be learned from tracking an intruder, what methods the intruder used, and the responsiveness of the law-enforcement community are also discussed.
There's a new staff and a new release of the legendary phrack e-zine. (how could I miss this?)