All the audio and slides that we have are available on the schedule page. Some of the audio either didn't get recorded or didn't come out so well, so if it's not there, it's not going to be there. Enjoy!

Oh yeah. Badges are coming in and getting tested. We're three weeks away from QuahogCon now, so it's time to release some details about the badge and the development environment to give you all a chance to get setup before you come to the con. Check out the Contests page for all the details on the badge hacking contest and all the other cool activities we've got going on at QuahogCon.

• Badge Hacking Contest
• Hardware Hacking Lounge
• Hacker Jeopardy
• Crypto Puzzle Contest
• Alpha One Labs Arduino Hacking Contest
• Lockpick Lounge

Huge thanks go out to everyone who got in there and bought a ticket. Without attendees, we wouldn't be able to put on this con.

We're excited to announce that Core Security has joined on as a QuahogCon sponsor. Core's pen-testing tools are some of the best in the industry. They also are fantastic about supporting the Con scene. They'll be setting up a table at QuahogCon, so be sure to stop by and check them out and thank them for sponsoring the conference.

Alpha One Labs, a hackerspace in Brooklyn, NY has signed on as a sponsor of the conference as well. These folks are doing some great stuff down in Brooklyn. Holding classes, running with a radical inclusion membership policy and getting shit done. They're poised to grow. They'll be running a contest or two at QuahogCon, so check them out.

We're excited to announce the the Aileron Group of Boston has signed on as a silver sponsor of the conference. Aileron is an IT consulting and strategy firm. If you're in New England and need some help getting your IT story together, check in with them, they should be able to help you out.

We've really scored an excellent speaker to close the conference out. Matthew Borgatti is a hacker, builder and designer who specializes in mechanisms and manufacturing. He's built monsters for movies ranging from Snakes on a Plane to Aliens Vs. Predator II. He's built stop motion sets for the Simpsons. He's worked on giant metal slabs for Raygun Gothic Rocket and the DNA Lounge.

Matthew will be giving the closing keynote at QuahogCon, giving us the low down on all sorts of rapid prototyping tools and techniques that have become reasonably affordable to the common man in the last five years. We're quite excited about this talk and think it's really going to wrap things up well.

Don't miss out, get your tickets to QuahogCon today!

We have one more sponsor announcement today. J&J Technologies of Wareham, MA has signed on as a sponsor of QuahogCon. They are the fine people who are doing the manufacturing run of the hackable badges for us. While we obviously have to pay for the materials to make the badges, they have given us a big break on the labor to assemble them. We really appreciate their support of the con in this way. If you find yourself in need of some contract electronics manufacturing, please consider them. They're fine people who do excellent work, right here in New England.

It's a big weekend for announcements here. One of our speakers did us a huge favor and hooked us up with the folks at the Microsoft Security Response Center. They've agreed to come on board as a sponsor. Corporate budget planning being the way it is, they don't have funds to give us, but they will be providing a very nice item that we'll be giving away as a prize for one of the contests. We really appreciate the support.

We're super excited to let you all know that Mitch Altman and Jimmie P. Rodgers will be at QuahogCon giving workshops in the Hardware Hacking Lounge. Whether you're a soldering newbie or an experienced hardware hacker, Mitch and Jimmie will be there all weekend to help you out with whatever you're working on. They'll also be giving a mix of workshops based on their areas of expertise.

Don't miss out, get your tickets to QuahogCon today!

Photo Credits:
Mitch Altman picture by Jean-Baptiste Labrune
Jimmie P. Rodgers picture by Bill T Miller

Big thanks to the PaulDotCom crew!

Dan Kaminsky is a security researcher and Director of Penetration Testing for IOActive. He formerly worked for Cisco and Avaya. He is known among computer security experts for his work on DNS cache poisoning, including showing that the Sony Rootkit had infected at least 568,200 computers and for his talks at the Black Hat Briefings.

One of the things that will change on the production run is that the big USB A connector will get swapped out with a smaller (and less expensive) mini-B connector.