Toorcon Day 1
posted Sep 30th 2006 2:06am by Will O'Brienfiled under: misc hacks
[12am] We hit the opening keynote by Cory Doctorow. He had some interesting things to say about patterns in eula agreements and the restriction of rights to enforce business models.
[Simple Nomad] followed up with his talk called ‘State of the Enemy State’ – his observations regarding government security, just how advanced real time encryption cracking probably is and predictions on some forthcoming laws and how they’ll affect the security industry. The most interesting one: encryption key escrow was enacted a couple weeks ago by Blair in the UK, and it’ll probably come to the US next.
The talk on the apple airport security flaw was canceled, so it was replaced by ‘lightning talks’. Think open mic night on the floor of a security conference. Johnny Cache opened it up with some observations about why the talk was canceled. He had to skirt around the issue to keep from getting in trouble, but he was definitely pissed.
There were a few others, but I’ll leave it there for now.
Needless to say alot of Mac fans where in attendance! Free speech advocate’s(arguably arm-chair,) restricting free speech.
Posted at 4:40 pm on Sep 30th, 2006 by Timmy