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DC612 – Thursday April 13th, 6PM @ Wilde Roast
This Thursday, April 13th, come out to play with your local DC group!
Everyone’s favorite, SlideDeck Roulette will be the nights entertainment.
Think you want to get good at presenting a topic? Ever wonder how those improve comedy performers do it? Taking the best of both worlds, we now give you SlideDeck Roulette. Here’s how it works – when your turn is up, we shuffle the deck and present you 5 ‘never seen by you’ slides. You have 3-5 minutes to present on whatever you think the topic might be? Get creative. Sure, you don’t know the topic – But your audience is just as clueless as you.
*Rules governing SlideDeck roulette will be fast and loose.
**Bring your laptop to throw your own SlideDeck in the mix.
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 presents PROJECTS***
So what are you into these days?
Crypto? Reverse Engineering? Networking? Recon? Banana Phones?
DC612 wants everyone to turn their hobbies, tinkerings and musings into a DC612 Project.
Projects:
In the Month of February, DC612 will be opening a new program in which YOU are encouraged to sign up for and research a topic of your choosing.
Then, turn your Project into a 20 minute talk that you bring back to the group and present along with others in your category.
Talking in front of a group not your thing? We make it really easy. Share the Pain and Glory of public speaking with your fellow DC612ers. No single project will headline a meeting. Rather, you can present your project along with others researching similar topic
Also, we have a feedback mechanism baked into DC612 Projects. Prior to talking, specific folks who’ve volunteered their time will review your presentation notes and slides. These folks have a ton of experience speaking in front of groups and making slide decks. They are there to give you pointers on how to present your ideas effectively.
Project Categories:
We’ve organized possible projects into the following categories and assigned 1-3 SME’s to each category.
RECON – Presenting in June
WEB SECURITY – Presenting in July
CRYPTO – Presenting in September
DFIR – Presenting in October
NETWORK SECURITY – Presenting in November
MISC (encompassing all fruit related topics) – TBD
First, sign yourself up under a category before the March DC612 meeting (3/09), then put your feet up and relax. You’ve got time!
But you should probably pick a topic to start reading about, fiddling around with or building upon your ideas?
And then, Connect with the SME in your category. They are there to give you a sanity check should you ask them to look over some technical components of your research.
Also, if you need to be pointed in a good direction when beginning your project, ask your SME.
They have all graciously volunteered their time to help out projects in their area of expertise and will be announce at the upcoming February meeting (2/09).
To recap:
-Sign up under a category before March 9th. (Sign Up Here)
-Attend DC612, February 9th, for the SME announcements, and topic suggestions.
-Do the Project.
See you all on the 9th.
-Kat
DC612 – Thursday, January 12th – 6pm @ the Wilde Roast
Greetings Frozen Hackers, Makers and Tinkerers alike.
The weather is again threatening to numb our fingers and undermine our resolve.
Right on cue, comes the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge to warm our hearts if not our car.
Join DC612 (you!), Kat Traxler (gal on keys) and Suzie Juul, (actress of stage and screen) as we walk though this years
Holiday Hack Challenge.
You will experience the newly unveiled 16-bit world of the game and solutions to some of the stickiest challenges.
All accompanied by a dramatic reading of the Holiday Hack saga of Jessica and Josh and their quest to find Santa.
See you all at Wilde Roast!