Forwarded from: "The Dark Tangent" <dtangent (at) defcon.org> (PGP signature will be munged from forwarding here! - WK) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx xx x xx DEF CON 17, Las Vegas 2009 xxxxxxxXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx x x July 31st - August 2nd xxxxxxXXXXXXxxxxx x x x The Rivera Hotel and Casino xxxxxXXXXXXXXxxxxx xx x x Las Vegas, Neveada, USA xxxxXXXXXXXXXXxxx x xxxxxxxx x https://www.defcon.org/ xxxXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxx x xxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxx xx x Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxx Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxxXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxx x x xx Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxxxXXXXXXXXxxxxxxx xxx xx x Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxxxxXXXXXXxxxxxxx x x x Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxxxxxXXXXxxxxxxxxxxx xx x x Call for Papers Call for Papers xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Call for Papers Call for Papers. Dark monks of techno-fu, it is that time of the year again! The DEFCON CFP is now open! What: DEFCON 17 Call For Papers When: The Call for Papers will close on May 15, 2009 How: Complete the Call for Papers Form and send to talks at defcon dot org Don't know what DEFCON is? Go to www.defcon.org and clue up! Papers and presentations are now being accepted for DEFCON 17, the conference your mother and ISC(2) warned you about. DEFCON will take place at the Riviera in Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 31 - August 2, 2009. Two years ago we eliminated specific speaking tracks and we received a diverse selection of submissions. From hacking your car, your brain, and CIA sculptures to hacking the vote, Bluetooth, and DNS hacks. We will group presentations by subjects and come up with topic clusters of interest. It worked out so well in the past we are doing it again this year. What are we looking for then, if we don't have tracks? Were looking for the presentation that you've never seen before and have always wanted to see. We are looking for the presentation that the attendees wouldn't ask for, but blows their minds when they see it. We want strange demos of Personal GPS jammers, RFID zappers, and HERF madness. Got a MITM attack against cell phones? We want to see it. Subjects that we have traditionally covered in the past, and will continue to accept include: Trojan development, worms, malware, intelligent agents, protocol exploits, application security, web security, database hacking, privacy issues, criminal law, civil law, international law/treaties, prosecution perspectives, 802.11X, bluetooth, cellular telephony protocols, privacy, identity theft, identity creation, fraud, social implications of technology, media/film presentations, firmware hacking, hardware hacking, embedded systems hacking, smartcard technologies, credit card and financial instrument technologies, surveillance, counter-surveillance, UFO's, peer2peer technologies, reputation systems, copyright infringement and anti-copyright infringement enforcement technologies, critical infrastructure issues, physical security, social engineering, academic security research, PDA and cell phone security, EMP/HERF weaponry, TEMPEST technologies, corporate espionage, IDS evasion. What a mouth full! Well you can't say we didn't give you some ideas. This list is not intended to limit possible topics, merely to give examples of topics that have interested us in the past, and is in fact the same list we used last year.. Check out https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html for past conference presentations to get a complete list of past topics that were accepted if you want to learn from the past. We are looking for and give preference to: unique research, new tool releases, Ø-day attacks (with responsible disclosure), highly technical material, social commentaries, and ground breaking material of any kind. Want to screen a new hacking documentary or release research? Consider DEFCON. Speaking Formats: Choose between 12 hundred seconds, 50 minutes, 110 minutes, 1/2 day Thursday or a break out format of a length you determine. We are continuing the Twelve Hundred Second Spotlight, which is a shorter presentation (about twenty minutes) that doesn't warrant a full 50 or 110 minute talk. The Twelve Hundred Second Spotlight is designed for those who don't have enough material for a full talk, but still have a valuable contribution to make. This is to ensure that great ideas that can be presented quickly don't fall through the cracks merely because they didn't justify a full length talk. Examples include research, announcements, group presentations, projects needing volunteers or testers, requests for comments, updates on previously given talks, quick demonstrations. You get the idea. Presenters will get a speaker badge which entitles them to free admittance to DEFCON, but we will be unable to pay an Honorarium. Remember being attacked by Gran Master Ratt's Flame Crotch(tm)? Do you remember thick accented Germans trying to convince you to attack critical infrastructure? Do you remember extravagant vapor ware releases by a stage filled with posses? We do, and sans projectiles of raw meat we want to encourage such shenanigans again this year. We are calling on all "hacker groups" (you know who you are, and the FBI has a nifty file with your name on it) to present at DEFCON, to discuss what you're up to, what your mission is, to discuss any upcoming or past projects, and to discuss parties/conferences you are throwing. We do humbly request that all gang warfare be relegated to electronic attacks, and not fall over into meat space. NEW this year is a 1/2 day set of tracks on Thursday, pre-con, to help orient newbies and provide 1/2 day training on different 'foundational' subjects such as networking, building custom Linux distros, a work shop on modding your PSP, the fundamentals of radio, things like that. These sessions will get you in the mood for the main conference and give you something to do if you showed up early Thursday. As such your submissions for the Thursday sessions should be entertaining and help attendees who are fairly new get their feet under themselves, or give more advances hacker types a half day of fun gutting their TiVo. If you want to present a 1/2 day training or newbie talk just make sure you mark down you want to present on Thursday. New for DEFCON 17: We have ALL the speaking rooms this year, and because of this I want to announce a call for workshops, demos, and mini trainings. We have additional small rooms that will enable highly focused demonstrations or workshops. If you want to talk about building a passport cloner or a tutorial on developing Metasploit exploits this might be the format for you. You tell us how much time you need, and we try to accommodate you! To submit a speech, complete the DEFCON 17 Call for Papers Form. We are going to continue last year's goal of increasing the quality of the talks by screening people and topics. I realize you guys are speaking for basically free, but some talks are better than others. Some people put in a bit more effort than others. I want to reward the people who do the work by making sure there is room for them. This year we will have two rounds of speaker acceptance. In the first round we will fill about half of the schedule before the submission deadline, and the remaining half afterwards. This is to encourage people to submit as early as possible and allows attendees to plan on the topics that interest them. If you see the schedule on-line start to fill, do not worry if you have not heard from us yet, as we are still in the process of selection. Barring a disaster of monstrous proportions, speaker selection will be completed no later July 1. The sooner you submit the better chance you have of the reviewers to give your presentation the full consideration it warrants. If you wait until the last minute to submit, you have less of a chance of being selected. After a completed CFP form is received, speakers will be contacted if there are any questions about their presentations. If your talk is accepted you can continue to modify and evolve it up until the last minute, but don't deviate from your accepted presentation. We will mail you with information on deadlines for when we need your presentation, to be burnt on the CDROM, as well as information for the printed program. Speakers get in to the show free, get paid (AFTER they give a good presentation!), get a coolio badge, and people like you more. Heck, most people find it is a great way to meet people or find other people interested in their topics. Speakers can opt to forgo their payment and instead receive three human badges that they can give to their friends, sell to strangers, or hold onto as timeless mementoes. Receiving badges instead of checks has been a popular option for those insisting on maintaining their anonymity. Please visit: https://www.defcon.org/ for previous conference archives, information, and speeches. Updated announcements will be posted to news groups, security mailing lists and this web site. https://forum.defcon.org/ for a look at all the events and contests being planned for DEFCON 17. Join in on the action. https://pics.defcon.org/ to upload all your past DEFCON pictures. We store the pictures so you don't have to worry about web space. If you have an account on the forums, you have an account here. https://www.defcon.org/defconrss.xml for news and announcements surrounding DEFCON. CFP forms and questions should get mailed to: talks/at/defcon.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.9.1 (Build 287) Charset: iso-8859-1 wsBVAwUBSZemkA6+AoIwjTCUAQJQWQf/bf+/iQPLvSQSNU8JNMn97+nQSEAjbIGg LOVrjO8Rbv/UWbPz3jMNWBaVv3IKVX2ACX45A7z5v8jUYmkfRJqLd/u8f8wI9Rla 2YAjiKcruIQC64XVmIU+6+Gtmjm/IdXvNFutBpo0DBSjdRfpr3YhSY7vyAaJoatg BaQu1KCZwHl+74lBmKw9lrNFFrmpPPu/DdtLChd4D6EcRddP9g5D+jQVxT8p4EJi bRmOX7WaZmFET5JoM+rZu72JJQSktd2KvyadT4CRgBLSENnAaD43yBM99o/bR2a9 2HS54f2U+OPv2b5t4Ez2oKRKmo8U9PPlffELhpLhqtGesHHwKN9Giw== =yHnp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 02:28:37 PST
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