I just found an interesting event scheduled on next Saturday: Freedom Not Fear 2009. The origin of this initiative came from Germany where authorities are known to have a strong position on data retention and Internet/mobile phone users tracking. The goal of this event is to protest against the growing
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FrHACK_01 Day Two
Just back to home from Besancon. Here we go for the second day review! Due to last minute planning changes, the conference started later today. Not critical, it was a good opportunity to do some social networking and BruCON promotion.
FrHACK_01 Day One
After driving most of the night, I arrived in Besancon just in time for the registration at FrHACK_01. Next step was to look for a breakfast and 0xC0FFEE. Nothing to do with the conference but Besancon looks to be a nice small city. My first mission was to let some
Back to …
After some good summer times, back to school for my daughters today (a very special day, a bigger school) and to work for me tomorrow… I was off for two weeks and spent one of them on the Ré island in France. Very bad Wi-Fi coverage, more and more access
Security Awareness Book for our Children
It is never too early to give some security recommendations! My first daughter became a fan of a book series called “Max & Lili”. Those comics books (only available in French if I’m not wrong) are written by Serge Bloch and Dominique de Saint-Mars. Each volume focuses on a specific
Compromized Bagde? ;-)
I’m back from Maubeuge where was organized the “Salon Informatique“. I had some free time this weekend and decided to visit our south-neighbors to make some social networking. The event had several aspects: exhibitors active in the open source world (users groups, schools, associations and professionals), a LAN party and
Tell Me How You Work and I’ll Monitor You!
Today, I read an interesting story in Datanews, a Belgian IT newspapers. To briefly resume, “Company A”, the customer, complains about “Company B”, the telecom operator, which installed a telephone central at the first one premises. During a weekend, hackers took control of the system and used it perform calls
Map of Surveillance Societies Around the World
This is not recent map (2007) but interesting… Notice the colors of the United States and France! The map is here: http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559597
What’s a Valid Evidence?
The following case happened in France: A Court of Cassation rejected a simple data file as an evidence. The evidence proposed by one of both parties was a data file with information about an e-mail transmission (a log?) send from company A to company B. According to the Court, the
Find the Error!
Read here: “Chaque utilisateur de l’Internet est identifié, sur les réseaux, par un numéro à plusieurs chiffres, également appelé adresse IP (pour Internet Protocol). Par exemple : 128.263.36.45. Et seuls les fournisseurs d’accès (Orange, Free…) peuvent savoir qui est la personne derrière chaque adresse IP. Cette information était considérée comme