full-disclosure - Re: Hacker Space Fest 2009 CFP: Call For Paper

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Message-ID: <a2674a3d0904151818x645a75f9qdd084249549e875e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:18:57 -0700
From: Ralf-Philipp Weinmann <crypto.rpw@...il.com>
To: "Valdis' Mustache" <security.mustachio@...il.com>,
	Alexander Sotirov <alex@...irov.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Hacker Space Fest 2009 CFP: Call For Paper

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Valdis' Mustache
<security.mustachio@...il.com> wrote:

> Like you, I was not amused by the brazen audacity and foolishness of
> hundreds of low-rent apartments, grandmother's basements, and shuttered
> Oldsmobile dealerships speciously presenting themselves as dens of
> underground activity, providing opportune one-stop surveillance points for
> various government entities. [1]

LOL. I really like the wording here.

> Rather, it appears that young men (and even, it would seem, nubile young
> women) band together in these "spaces" in a spirit of bonhomie to work on
> shared endeavours like constructing sandwich-making robots, soldering (and
> its ever-present cousin desoldering), and the fabrication of hundreds of
> contraptions known as "LED throwies" [3], the latter of which are evidently
> useful as props during dance routines at electronic music events, in which
> the throwies are attached to extremely ill-fitting "phat" (sic.) pants. [4]

Alex (Sotirov), have you taken to writing to FD under aliases now? ;)

> [2] For our purposes, "hacking" is defined as any activity not performed by Bre Pettis.

ROFLMAO.

Cheers,
RPW

-- 
Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
CryptoLUX / Laboratory of Algorithmics and Computer Security, FSTC
University of Luxembourg
phone: +352-466645654

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