CNN send a reporter to DefCon
It’s not about breaking the lock, he said, it’s about learning the lock can be broken.
Tag: hacking
Video Footage of the iPod Shuffle Shuffle (Open Tech 2005)
It’s taken a while (almost five years!) but the iPod Shuffle Shuffle video has finally surfaced, along with the rest of the event footage from OpenTech 2005. To remind you, I was chairing a panel on Media Hacking, and decided that I would do some “physical media hacking” to waken up the audience: The experiment was planned to go something like this. Two pairs of volunteers would come forward… with a pair of 512mb and a pair of 1gb iPod Shuffles. They would swap over their units with each other, and take away an iPod Shuffle with a different audio
Walking Over a Digital Grave
As part of SXSW, I contribute to the SXSW Baby website with a daily podcast from the conference floor. Because of that, and like many at SXSW, I came under the wonderful embrace of Brad Graham. Brad suddenly died in January, which has put a tinge of sadness over SXSW for many, including myself. The tradition of “Break Bread with Brad” on the first night of SXSW ran for almost ten years, and while he won’t be with us this year, Break Bread For Brad will be on the first night of SXSW as usual. More details are on the
