DC612 Wardrive – Saturday July 15, 2017

The 2017 DC612 Wardrive is official!

On Saturday, July 15 we will meet outside the St. Anthony Falls parking garage ($5 parking for up to 12 hours) for a 4PM pickup, then enjoy 3 hours of hackery and drinking with a short break in the middle for snacks and leg-stretching.  Please plan on showing up at least 15 minutes early so we can do a head count and make sure we’re not over-booked.  There are three important things that anyone attending needs to know:

1. Important!  We went with the Black Onyx bus which can seat up to 40, maximum 60 with standing room.  Realistically speaking, considering the gear and booze we will only be able to accommodate around 30 people comfortably, so we have set up a RSVP link here:  clickyUpdate:  Apparently EventBrite requires an account to RSVP, but we won’t know or care if you use fake info  🙂  Sorry for the inconvenience!You must RSVP if you wish to come with!  If you don’t and you show up anyway, we will give priority to those who did RSVP and if there is room left we will open it up to general admittance on a first-come first-serve basis.
2. We want everyone to be able to attend regardless of financial situations.  While there is no mandatory fee for attending, we are requesting $20 cash per person for those who can afford it to help offset costs.  If you can chip in more, that is definitely appreciated.  Update: If you would like to contribute via Bitcoin, an address has been set up: 1JueDXm6AEtuq9PyFRhFkZYDFAQsfUsYwa
3. This is a 21+ event.  Alcohol is allowed, and some generic drinks will be provided but you are encouraged to bring your own.  Please be responsible, don’t overdo it and throw up or anything.  We want to do this again, and making fools of ourselves is not a good step in that direction.

A good resource for hardware compatibility is this page from the aircrack wiki.  Otherwise, ALFA brand cards have long been a solid choice.

For any questions, please email info@dc612.org or message us on Twitter at @DC612.  See you there!

Bonus March Meetup!

Hey everyone!

If you are free on March 27th at 6PM, we will be hosting a second meetup at the Wilde Roast!

Josh More (frequent speaker on topics ranging from infrared photography, to evading digital surveillance, to infosec industry trends) has taken several interns under his wing and wants to show them what the hacking community is all about.  All of us attend DC612 for different reasons – many are here to learn, some are here to teach, others just want to meet with like-minded individuals to socialize.  Maybe it’s all three.  Whatever the reasons, we have all grown professionally as a result no matter how far along we are in our careers.  The hacking community is built upon sharing information freely, and we owe it to ourselves and each other to not only share that information within our group, but to invite others in and expand so they can add to the collective whole.  Like the Borg, but less implant-y.

In the spirit of teaching, learning, and growing as a community, Josh is inviting his interns to join us for an evening of short talks from whoever has something to share.  You don’t need a Power Point presentation, or to dress up, or even to stand up.  Talk about something for which you have a passion, or a project you are working on, or some cool new technological concept you recently learned.  5 minutes, 2 minutes, 60 seconds, however much time you need to get a group of interns excited!

Josh will also be so kind as to provide appetizers for the group, in case you needed any more reason to join us  🙂

Hope to see you all then!

— TactiFail

DC612 – Thursday March 9th, 6PM @ Wilde Roast

Hello again!

On this month’s agenda we have a first-time speaker and relative newcomer to the DC612 scene: Taya Ellingworth.

She will be taking us back more than a hundred years, into the dimly-lit parlors of the Victorian-age seers, mediums, psychics, and clairvoyants.  Possibly considered early hackers, they employed an arsenal of clever tricks – some simple and others fairly complex – to part their marks from their money, and convince the masses that they could commune with the dead, read minds, and more.  Taya will provide a history of some of the more well-known mystics, and their routines, at the risk of angering their spirits.

As always, food and drink orders starting at 6 with the presentation beginning around 7 or when enough people have shown up.

See you then!

— TactiFail

DC612 – Thursday, November 10th – 6pm @ the Wilde Roast

Greetings, fellow humans!

Join us this Thursday, November 10th at 6PM at the Wilde Roast to eat, drink, and socialize (all within acceptable parameters).

This month, we will be entertained by Josh More as he shares his adventures in Nicaragua, photographing endangered hawksbill turtles using infrared flash:

I got the opportunity to travel to Nicaragua and take photos of critically endangered hawksbill turtles. The challenge is that if you take photos of them using regular flash, you disrupt the laying process and harm both the individual and the species. So I had to find a way to do infrared flash reliably… and I succeeded.

He will be bringing some of his gear along, and we will turn down the lights to experience the various flash settings hands-on.

As always, bring your appetites and help ensure that we keep getting invited back!

September… Again? Sure!

Hey all!

So, at our somewhat-regularly-scheduled meeting on September 6th we were approached by @transranea with an offer to speak about Faraday.  The only catch is, she will be leaving town before our October meeting!

So, never wanting to miss a cool talk, we decided to hold two – count ’em – two meetings this month!

The next meeting will be September 26th, at 6PM once again at the Wilde Roast in Minneapolis.  It definitely fit our needs last time, so we plan on being there for the foreseeable future – Our October meeting will still take place at the beginning of the month, and we plan to be at the Wilde Roast for that one as well.

See you all there!