When you hear about a DevOps team, you might think about cooperation between developers and system administrators who can do each other’s work. Sometimes there is the third team part — quality assurance (QA) engineers. Actually, this is quite far from reality. If you want to understand what the DevOps team actually is, keep reading. […]
Spaghetti – An Open Source Web Application Security Scanner
Slides and Audio Posted
Holy crap, we survived putting on our first con and actually managed to make it look like we knew what we were doing. Once again, we’d like to thank all the attendees for coming and all the sponsors for sponsoring. All the audio and slides that we have are available on the schedule page. Some of the […]
Badge Prototype Preview
In the spirit of blurry camera phone pictures showing pre-release products on Engadget and Gizmodo, we are proud to present the first prototype of the QuahogCon badge. We’ve blurred out some identifying info on it for now so as not to give folks too much of a head start in the badge hacking contest. Fear […]
Alpha One Labs Hackerspace signs on as a sponsor
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, […]
Badge Hacking Contest Details Released
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 […]
Mitch Altman and Jimmie P. Rodgers in the Hardware Hacking Lounge
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 […]
Matthew Borgatti to give closing keynote
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 […]
Windows File Pseudonyms – Strange filenames and haiku
Dan Crowley In Windows systems, path and filename normalization routines have some interesting quirks. One file can be referred to with many different filepaths; some are well known, and some are not. The lesser known ways to refer to files are not often considered when designing security mechanisms. By referring to files in these strange […]
Art to Part – Using tech like 3d printing, rapid prototyping, cnc machining, and computational design to make digital plans into physical parts
Matthew Borgatti You’ve heard about Makerbot which can print 3d parts in plastic filament, but how about PolyJet, which can print flexible rubber parts from nearly any 3d file? How about printing in steel, clear plastic, fully colored resin, and ceramic? In this talk I’m going to go over some of the developments that have […]