2004-05-02»
cons and cons»I have no idea why I haven't mentioned this before: I'm speaking at two conferences in June: London's NotCon and Los Angeles' LayerOne. Both are shaping up to be pretty fantastic.
First up is NotCon, which is the mutant monster one-day convention that sprang out of our post-Emerging Technology 'ConCon' summaries. I'm going to toss a coin about what I'll be speaking about here. If I'm chicken, I'll do an updated reworking of my Emerging Tech talk "Lifehacks". If feel braver, I'm going to dredge through four years of trying to mentally inhabit Silicon Valley and the UK tech scene simultaneously, and see what horrors emerge. ConCon is on Sunday, June 6th at Imperial College Union. Price at the door, but it should be pretty cheap.
The Lifehacks stuff will be at the core of my LayerOne talk. This convention looks to be shaping up really well. Two of the smartest and most lateral-thinking security folk I've meant, Dan Kaminsky and David Hulton are speaking on their current secret projects. There's presentations on at least four of my current and/or long term obsessions - emergency broadcast networks, the EFF's current take on the DMCA, geek sub-culture viability, and Eldritch Global Banking Conspiracies. All for $40. I hope I can live up to the standards of the rest of the line-up.