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Live From Rubi-Con 5! 72

Posted by timothy from the perk-up-your-ears dept.
npongratz writes "Rubi Con 5, the premiere upper midwest security conference, is going on right now. Wanna get in on a piece of the action without leaving your computer? We are serving up streaming audio of the events, direct from Room B of the conference. Check out the exciting RC5 schedue and feel free to hammer away!"
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Live From Rubi-Con 5!

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  • Ooh Ohh! (Score:5, Funny)

    by fluxrad ( 125130 ) on Saturday March 29, 2003 @03:45PM (#5623302)
    the premiere upper midwest security conference

    This sounds like a pretty hot ticket on a saturday night.

    Topics from the convention:
    • Keeping your herd safe: Advances in electric fence technology
    • Screen door lock breaking and you!
    • Sheepdogs, Cattleguards, and Firewalling "Amish style"
    • Just because there are more corn fields then people doesn't meen they can't have a great security conference. I'm sure there are also people from both coasts traveling to this thing too.
      • Foolish Child! Surely you don't believe the "far coast" heresy?

        Lake Michigan has no "both coasts". There's nothing west of Manistee but endless waves and the occasional dragon. Get your facts straight next time, or be shunned.

    • Re:Ooh Ohh! (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The Amish are from southern PA, not the midwest.
    • I swear, Michigan gets no respect. ;-) Remember where /. came from.
      • I swear, Michigan gets no respect. ;-) Remember where /. came from.
        *chokes* Why do you think Michigan gets no respect in the first place?!
  • It's toast....

  • Uhhh What? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Drunken Coward ( 574991 ) on Saturday March 29, 2003 @03:48PM (#5623314)
    From the site
    And in the flash of picoseconds and the dark spaces of silicon gates and the invisible matrix of fiendish complexity which sits unfurling before the trembling fingers of those with the patience, undying curiosity and (let's just say it) genius to sling a pebble where others would hurl a mountain, one wonders why there stands disharmony between any who see this invisible world; between any who divine and any who would uncoil the wizard mazes which bind our terrible secrets and our teeming oceans of endless information.


    We bridge the duality. We unite the twins of our digital age, and show each what they are, what they were, and what they may be.

    Black. White. We stand outside the duality. We are gray.

    And the women! You can't forget the women!
    • I soooo read that wrong. After mulling through the paragraph of bullshit prose:

      Black. White. We stand outside the duality. We are gay.
    • These would be midwestern women at a security conference... Can you pick a 4MEG crypto-locked chastity belt, I didnt think so

  • The live stream (Score:3, Funny)

    by termos ( 634980 ) on Saturday March 29, 2003 @03:49PM (#5623315) Homepage
    I tuned in, and the first thing i heard was:
    w3 4r3 l33t h4x0rz, y00 d00rz! w47ch 0u7,k? 1 h4x0r y00 b0x0r.

  • Check out the exciting RC5 schedule and feel free to hammer away!

    Hmm, I would have thought RC5 schedule [distributed.net] might have linked somewhere else ;).

  • Good Con. (Score:3, Informative)

    by FwOOm ( 22492 ) <fwoom@@@hacksec...org> on Saturday March 29, 2003 @03:54PM (#5623338) Homepage
    I went last year, and had a good time. Spent most of the weekend drunk off my ass, but that was all part of it. They had a bit of a problem with immature little scriptkiddies running around, but a lot of good knowledgable speakers made up for it. Looks like this years is even better. Props to the organizers for all their hard work

  • mirror (Score:3, Informative)

    by scubacuda ( 411898 ) <scubacuda@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Saturday March 29, 2003 @03:54PM (#5623342)
    Here is a mirror [cow.net] just in case it gets /.ed.

  • Man Anarchy Online was so fun with those talking leets. Yah... leets, the only thing I saw in Anarchy Online, because I couldn't zone.

    RubiCon? Wait we're not talking about Eskimos?
  • On the speakers page [rubi-con.org] it lists GOBBLES as one of the speakers [rubi-con.org] on honeypots.

    Wired reported [wired.com] that the GOBBLES group posted a bogus [securityfocus.com] security advisory regarding the RIAA contracting the hacking group to develop a "hydra-like computer worm that has already spread widely by exploiting security vulnerabilities in several popular music programs." (/. thread here [slashdot.org])

    Thanks for the wakeup call, GOBBLES. :)
    • The biography of Gobbles (also on the site) is fucking hillarious. They are (IMO) really a refreshing member of the securitiy scene. I take the freedom to quote it here for your convinience:

      During the mid 70's, a poor Lithuanian was blessed with the first of the total nine children they would have, a healthy son. Over the course of the next twelve years, he was given the greatest gift that any young Lithuanian could ask for -- the title of "Big Brother" to his eight younger brothers and sisters.

      The villa

  • A gripe (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    People do this all the time and it really gets annoying. Dearborn, Michigan is certainly not in the "Midwest". I mean come on now. Michigan is still in the eastern part [yahoo.com] of the US, at least the last time I looked at a map. You want to have a "Midwest" conference? Try Omaha, NE; Kansas City, KS or MO; or Oklahoma City, OK. Michigan is certainly NOT "Midwest". Hell it isn't even West. Why do people assume that everything west of New York is Midwest or "out west"? Grrrr....

    • At one time the US didn't extend byond the mississippi river, so anything west of the 13 origional colonies, was the west. As the Us expanded it was no longer accuarte to call it the west, but habbit was you still did. Eventially people fell into calling the old west the midwest, and the new west the west. (Of course now old west as a different connotation)

    • I would probally poop myself if someone actually held a security conference in oklahoma city. After being around computers 16 years I've only met a handfull of people in oklahoma that were interested in security.
    • That bugs ya? How about the Asian culture -- to them, our whole damn continent is "The West" ;-)

      P.S. I don't mean to be disrespectful to Asians in anyway. Just trying to make a humerous point. If I failed, the mods will show.
  • It's decent, kinda quiet and garbled, but intelligible... yet it's really hard to understand just the audio without seeing what's going on. It seems clear (for my quasi-feeble, 1-track mind) why people go to these events, versus just listening to them on the internet.
  • ... will Rubi-Con 5 become Rubi-Con 1? :-P
  • the smell of that room. Hope they brought clothespins, or surgical masks, or something...

  • Very cool. I appreciate the effort taken to broadcast this.

    I listen to quite a few streams regularly and this is a pretty well recorded stream for 24KBPS.

    What is the hardware being used to trasmit this?

    • The following is directly from the guy doing the streaming:

      "Dell inspiron laptop, oddcast for win32 for shoutcast stream generation.
      lame codec is used here.
      shoutcast binary on freebsd on 10mbit link."

      • Thanks,

        I'm amazed that streaming isn't more ubiquitous judging by the low end gear needed to run a decent stream. The ISPs still seem to be the bottleneck.

        • You're right, the stream doesn't require too much bandwidth. I think the bottleneck actually might be the upstream out of the hotel to the server at wi2600.org. The upstream is being shared by a couple hundred geeks at the conference. The bandwidth of the network that wi2600.org is on is definitely not the bottleneck.
  • I've just started saving the stream now (via xmms).
    I assume SOMEBODY will have the complete sessions available somewhere? Anybody??
  • For those of you actually *at* RubiCon, you can go to http://10.69.69.69/ and click "Listen."

    This is a relay of the server, straight from the source, and won't kill our download stream as much as 20 users connecting to http://milwaukee2600.org:8000/

    Thx.

  • Hah (Score:4, Funny)

    by Adam9 ( 93947 ) on Saturday March 29, 2003 @04:48PM (#5623489) Journal
    I just turned it on. After about 6 seconds, I hear, "I'm drunk as fuck and I have to speak for 2 minutes"
  • Live from Rubi-Con 5!

    They've had 120 (5 factorial) of these conferences?!!

  • "...it got Slashdotted?!?!? FUCK!"
  • I live in the area, and went last year. Pretty neat stuff. I knod of regret not making it this year, but eh.

    No one steal the box with the mp3's of the speeches this year, eh? :P
  • Is anyone archiving this?

  • Rubi-Con (Score:1, Insightful)

    by 4d4m ( 584216 )
    Having been at last years Rubi-Con, I know personally that it's pretty much a group of small time thugs and petty theives. Most of them know little to nothing. It was horrible. People stopped showing up for their speaking sections after they found out what it was like. Oh yeah. It's cool when you 'own' things in the hotel. Because 'owning' means 'destroying'. I liked the police dogs last year...
    • I just got back from the con today and it was nothing like that. I've heard some horor storys from past rubi-cons (this is my first one) but since they raised the admission price to 50 for students and 100 for adults, it seemed to get rid of all the losers.

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