Hacks/Hackers London: September Meetup
- September 28, 2011 · 7:00 PM
7.00pm
In search of Xenu
Wendy Grossman, net.wars
Wendy M. Grossman is the founder and (twice) former editor of the UK magazine The Skeptic, and has been covering the border wars between cyberspace and real life for more than 20 years, contributing in that time to the Guardian, the Telegraph, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others.
She writes a weekly column on the Web called net.wars, which is also the name of her 1998 book, whose full text has been online for free continuously since it was published. In 1993-1995, she followed the story of Scientology vs the Net, which became first a Wired UK (1994) and then a Wired US article (1995). Many of the laws and practices surrounding the publication of copyrighted material online, such as notice and takedown, were defined during that particular net.war, and Scientology also pioneered the tactic of drowning out criticism with floods of competing messages. This talk is a look back - and a look forward.
**PITCH SESSION**
PITCH 1: An introduction to Demotix - by Alex McFadyen, Demotix CTO
PITCH 2: Juliet Ferguson, from The Centre for Investigative Journalism on their Open Source Intelligence Gathering Course with Neil Smith
7.30pm
Exposing Interesting, 'Hidden' & Dark Social Network Relationships with Data Visualisation Software (Maltego)
Chris Sumner, Hewlett-Packard
A talk for all those who have to investigate connections between people and groups using social networks.
In a talk of two parts, Chris - who has been directly involved in Corporate Information Security at Hewlett-Packard since 1999 - will introduce powerful data visualisation tool, Maltego, and show how it can speed up and automate the data mining and analysis of social networks.
He will show how he analyzed skateboard legend, Tony Hawk’s Twitter hunt and highlight how you could use the same techniques to set up your very own (legal) backyard hobbyist ECHELON.
Then, Chris will talk through how these techniques were used to enumerate a Nigerian 419 scam, infiltrate the scammers social network and expose deeper, more sinister links to organized crime.
Chris is currently focused on security in the development lifecycle and previously held the position of worldwide Security Manager for HP’s Imaging and Printing division. Outside the corporate world his interests include cyberpsychology, social networks, data mining and visual analytics.
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Martin Belam
Really enjoyed Wendy's talk - a fascinating dig into the archeology of the web, and how journalists used it in an era before search engines
September 29, 2011
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Suggy Sumner
Fascinating and diverse bunch of people. Really enjoyed my first experience of HHLdn and plan to attend as often as possible. Thanks for having me.
September 29, 2011
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Bruce Lynn
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.Great content. Cramped and stifling venue.
September 29, 2011
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John Rennie
Excellent. Wendy Grossman v good on the Scientology thing, Chris Sumner introduced v introducing ideas on interrogating twitter re Maltego
September 29, 2011
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Sanjay Goel
Great, as always - passionate bunch of speakers as well as attendees!
September 29, 2011
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Jules
Almost needed a microphone for the speakers - was a strain to hear every word sometimes.
Interesting to hear about the birth of content 'take-down' from the first speaker but would have liked to have explored more forward thinking on the subject or how lessons learned might be applied to future events.
Both halftime pitches were good and I am sure will have many takers..
The last speaker was very interesting and I appreciated the overview of the system he used and enjoyed chatting to him afterwards.
Overall very with attending
September 29, 2011
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A former member
Really enjoyed the speakers. This was the first meetup I've attended, and I will attend another.
September 29, 2011
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James Chappell
Great set of talks again, and yet again a great community of people with some fascinating ideas. I think this particular mix of journalism and hackers is really unique, and leads to some very interesting conversations.
September 29, 2011
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Andrew McDonough
This was my first Hacks/Hackers and I thought it was excellent. The presentations were two of the most interesting talks I have heard at tech meetups recently. I spoke to some interesting people after the talks.
September 29, 2011
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