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July 4th, 2008
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the meeting. As promised, slides and a tarball have been posted:
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Fellow Hackers, Slackers, and Code-crackers:
On Sunday August 19th at 12pm PST (noon) we will be holding our monthly
official Midnight Research Labs meeting.
This month will be focused on reverse engineering and other CTFish
exploits. Jason will be presenting his reverse engineering
talk.
Light refreshments, and pizza will be served.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- Reverse engineering/exploitation presentation
- Open mic / lightning round presentations
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- OSX GUI development for wicrawl
- Wake in memorial of the E drive (2004-2007)
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
This is an "invite only" event, so, don't distribute the location to
just anyone =). That being said, we're still looking for active
members, so if you know someone that would be interested in
contributing and want to sponsor or vouch for them, feel free to bring
them along (let me know in advance if possible)
Location:
The usual place in Mountain View. If you don't know where it is, do
the social networking thing to find an MRLer or ask your sponsor.
If you live around the bay area, this looks like a pretty fun event to go to. As found on boing boing:
This weekend, MAKE: and the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) in Berkeley, California are holding a 24 hour event for makers to build stuff from the tons of fantastic gear collected by the electronics recycler. BYOT! (Bring your own tools!) Here are the details:
ACCRC in Berkeley, CA and Make have been collecting household electronics–including old projects, failed inventions, half finished prototypes. All of these items will be diverted to ReMake, a 24-hour event beginning at noon on Saturday, April 28.
On Friday January 26th at 7pm PST we will be holding our monthly
official Midnight Research Labs meeting.
This month will be a mostly hands on meeting with some hardware hacking
and random experimentation. I want to finish motorizing the bi-quad
antenna we were working on as a proof of concept for the larger (1
meter grid) motorized antenna project. There are some other ideas I
had for how we can mount the larger antenna to make things easier, so I
wanted to brainstorm on that. I also finally got my teachers
ferro-fluid kit with some neodynium magnets in the mail that we can
play around with that (if someone has a good small (<4 oz) glass
container we can use, please bring it). Hopefully we'll be able to see
what it should really look like this time, 
I also thought we could try some of the "non-newtonian-fluids"
experiments as well if we get bored. We can vote on what we'd like to
work on first. I'd also like to kick off the next phase of wicrawl,
and possibly hack on that if we have some extra time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XQ97XHjVw
Though ours would probably look more like on of the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHkjYund-vM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3839015462258921350
As always, anyone with cool toys, or interesting project ideas, bring
them along.
Light refreshments, pizza and beer will be served. Note, this time
we'll be serving food right at 8pm, so don't be late.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- Antenna and hardware hacking
- Ferro fluids
- Non-newtonian fluids?
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
Dearest MRL attendees:
For any actual MRL members reading this, our monthly meeting is scheduled for Friday January 26 instead of its normally scheduled time. Of course any attendee should already know this since you should be on the mailing list, :). I’ll still send out a formal meeting announcement in a couple days.
Here’s the schedule for MRL this Friday. Most of it is in preparation for the transbay wi-fi connection we’re going to attempt on Saturday Dec 16th. If you’re interested in helping, you know of anyone that has done this already, or know of good locations to try it from, let us know.
Fellow Hackers, Slackers, and Code-crackers:
On Friday December 15th at 7pm PST we will be holding our monthly
official Midnight Research Labs meeting.
In preparation for our trans-bay wi-fi link connection attempt, we'll
be watching a video from CCC on establishing long distance wi-fi
connections. We'll also finalize the start locations, pick gear and
teams for each side of the link. The plan is still to attempt the link
on the 16th (Saturday), but at this point it looks like a 50/50 chance
that the weather will cooperate (we'll decide one way or the other
Friday, and reschedule if necessary).
We have our bi-quad antennas to finish up as well. Also making an
appearance will be some freshly home brewed beer for those interested
(it will be its debut, so I'm not sure how it turned out yet, :).
As always, anyone with cool toys, or interesting project ideas, bring
them along.
Light refreshments, pizza and beer will be served.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
- MRL projects update
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- CCC long distance wi-fi video
- bi-quad antennas
- beer tasting
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
Fellow Hackers, Slackers, and Code-crackers:
On Friday October 20th at 7pm PST we will be holding our monthly
official Midnight Research Labs meeting.
Happy Hackiversary MRL!!!
One year ago, we held the first "official" MRL meeting. We had a
couple unofficial MRL meetings before that, but this marks the
anniversary of the first planned/scheduled/announced meeting. I
think we've come a long way in the last year, and this last month
things have started to really take off. Thanks to everyone for
making MRL something to be part of (*sniff* *sniff* memories!).
On to the main event!
This month Mike (drifter) will be giving a mini-presentation on
VOIP technologies, and he'll also have a demo on caller-id
spoofing.
For the hands on part of the evening we'll be putting together
home-brew biquad 802.11 antennas. If you want me to purchase
materials for you, let me know ASAP, it's only going to be about
<$10 a person for all materials. It's about as simple as putting
together a cantenna, but it looks a whole lot cooler,
In addition to the MRL hackiversary, we'll be celebrating the
wicrawl and SEAT releases which have occurred since the last MRL
meeting.
As always, anyone with cool toys, or interesting project ideas,
bring them along.
Light refreshments, pizza and beer will be served.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
- MRL projects update
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- VOIP mini-preso from Mike
- Biquad antenna construction
- Hackiversary
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
So, this is what Google thinks of MRL after our meeting… especially after playing around with SEAT.
Fellow Hackers, Slackers, and Code-crackers:
On Friday September 15th at 7pm PST we will be holding our monthly
official Midnight Research Labs meeting.
This month I (Aaron) will be giving a mini-presentation on an
introduction to distributed cracking with clusters, which leads to a
new potential MRL project (wicrack). Depending on time, I may even
have a proof of concept ready. We'll potentially be poking at some
hardware that Jason is bringing, and we'll also be doing a "glowing
electric pickle" experiment (this time without fire or law enforcement :).
As always, anyone with cool toys, or interesting project ideas, bring
them along.
Light refreshments, pizza and beer will be served.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
- MRL projects update
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- Mini-presentation: Intro to distributed cracking with clusters
- wicrack brainstorming
- Poking at hardware
- Electric glowing pickle experiment
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
I haven’t published the official meeting announcement here for a while, so I thought I’d post it as an example of what we’ve been up to. I usually post them directly to the email list with full details if you’re interested in attending.
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* Midnight Research Labs *
* !! July Meeting announcement !! *
* (http://midnightresearch.com) *
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Fellow Hackers, Slackers, and Code-crackers:
On Friday July 21st at 7pm PST we will be holding our monthly official
Midnight Research Labs meeting.
Since we got a little side-tracked with CTF and binary reversing topics
last month, we still have a couple of the same events listed this month
that we didn't get to cover last month.
- Mini-presentation on BiDiBLAH, an "Automated Assessment
Tool" written by SensePost, and presented by Aaron.
- Javascript and sockets, etc mini-presentation by Focus
- Ferro-Fluid: We tried with not much success to create some
ferrofluid last week, so we hope to have some *real*
ferrofluid to play with this week.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluid
As always, anyone with cool toys, or interesting project ideas, bring
them along.
Light refreshments, pizza and beer will be served. If anyone has a
better/newer/different suggestion for food, let me know.
Agenda:
Phase 0x0: Bootstrapping
- Greetings and welcome
- MRL updates and status
Phase 0x1: Initialization
- BiDiBlah mini-preso
- Javascript ans socks mini-preso
- FerroFluid Fun
Phase 0x2: Local exploits
- Food
- Off topic tools, toys and other shiny things -- If anyone
has any interesting to show off or play with, please bring
it.
- Whatever till whenever -- This is the more social
part of the event. People are invited to stay and
hack and have a couple drinks till whenever this
phase is no longer self-sustaining, =)
This is an "invite only" event, so, don't distribute the location to
just anyone =). That being said, we're still looking for active
members, so if you know someone that would be interested in
contributing and want to sponsor or vouch for them, feel free to bring
them along (let me know in advance if possible)
Location:
[private residence and contact. Removed for public posting]
For those remote, we will have a conference number, and I’ll
email that out shortly before the meeting.
Notes (nfo):
- We’re about 1.5 miles from bart (the Bayfair stop).
- Bringing a Laptop is a probably good idea if you have one.
- Please feel free to contact me by email or phone if you have
any questions
Thanks! Hope to see you there!
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