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Hardware Hacking

Thu, Apr 09

Guest Speaker: Joe Grand (Grand Idea Studio)

In this class we will have a special guest: Joe Grand (a.k.a. Kingpin),  member of the legendary hacker group l0pht Heavy Industries, Discovery Channel host,  designer of several Defcon badges, creator of many open source hardware projects (like the Pizza Compass!), and now crypto wallet recovery specialist. We will have a Q&A session with Joe to ask him about his trajectory and his views on hacking in the past and in the present, as well as his participation in landmark congressional testimony on computer security back in the 1990s. Because he is a hardware hacker, we will focus on the art of designing, fabricating, modifying and repurposing hardware.

Read This:

Back in 1999, The New York Times Magazine profiled l0pht Heavy Industries in a piece called HacK, CouNterHaCk by the journalist Bruce Gottlieb. "The members of L0pht can knock you off line, steal your credit-card numbers and cut off the power for your whole neighborhood. But they'd like you to think they're the good guys."

Do This:

Technical Homework 05

See the instructions posted on the assignment's page.

This technical homework is due on 4/14 at 5pm.

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