[Air-L] Social Engineering/Social Hacking anyone?

Julia Pellicciaro jpellicciaro at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 23:38:20 PST 2009


Viele Gruesse Dr. Humer:

I'm not quite sure which angle you are coming from when you speak of social
engineering, but I am a bit familiar with the (non-malicious) hacker scene
and would say that it is definitely one worth investigating.

I would start here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/09/berlin_hacker_spaces_1.html
http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces

A good friend of mine is the co-principal of The Hacktory (
http://www.thehacktory.org) here in Philadelphia and orchestrated an
international Hackerspaces call-in in November. I believe Chaos (
http://www.ccc.de/)  in Berlin was one of the participating hacker spaces.
You can view the blog entry about the call-in here:
http://industrialsomething.org/?p=219

One social engineering (a.k.a. geek–?) phenomena from the 1980s that is
being revived by the hacker scenes in Philadelphia and in New York is the
live performance of chiptunes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptunes) by
means of hacked/repurposed Nintendo Gameboys. Without fail, these shows are
always accompanied by 8-bit VJing (http://www.waitforvblank.com/ &
http://www.no-carrier.com/). Philly's 8static crew (8static.com) were major
players in the recent Blip Festival in New York (
http://blipfestival.org/2008/).

This may not be the kind of thing you were looking for, but most of these
people do work as some type of engineer by day and play hacker by
night/weekend. It is a fascinating (and friendly!) scene, and I'm sure the
hacker scene in Berlin has just as much to offer.

Feel free to email me off-list if you would like more information.

Alles gute,
Julia Pellicciaro
Philadelpia, PA

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