Upcoming Events (as of December 2015)

December 12:  Escape MKE, where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.  Doing the James Bomb mission.  All sold out for our group.

December 19: BasementLAN, contact Darkwind if you’re not already in.

January 8: DC414 Meeting, CESI  (first Friday is Jan 1st, so we probably won’t meet then)

March 11-12: Cyphercon, at Pfister and Safe House.  We want DC414 hackers at Cyphercon, so get in on the tickets as soon as you can! SOLD OUT

Upcoming Events (as of October 2015)

October 10: LAN Party, at CESI
October 17:  Escape MKE, where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.  Contact Korgo or Belouve if you’re interested in going.
October 31: Halloween Party, at Bubbles’ and Belouve’s house (contact directly for address, none of this blasting the address out to all the Internet).

November 6: DC414 Meeting, CESI

March 12: Cyphercon, at Safe House.  We want DC414 hackers at Cyphercon, so get in on the tickets as soon as you can!

Upcoming Events (as of Sept 2015)

To make a quick summary of upcoming events:

October 3-4: Barcamp, location is Sussex, WI
October 3: DC414 Meeting, held AT BARCAMP
October 10: LAN Party, probably at CESI
October 31: Halloween Party, at Bubbles’ and Belouve’s house (contact directly for address, none of this blasting the address out to all the Internet).

March 12: Cyphercon, at Safe House

Other TBD items:
A trip to Escape Chambers (see escapechambers.com), where a group is locked in a puzzle room, where puzzles, riddles, and coded messages are the only means of escape.
Some of us were interested in going, so we’ll look into it further.

September DC414 Meeting Recap

Return of meeting recaps!

Klaviel started us off by showing us how to view alternate data streams in files. Demo was with Notepad and a few command prompt commands.

Klaviel then showed a brief video on hotel room lock hacking, on the Onity locks. The video he showed off can be found here

Korgo announced an upcoming Milwaukee conference that he is leading: Cyphercon. Cyphercon will be held on March 12th, and the venue that has already been reserved is the Safe House in downtown Milwaukee. The themes involved are Ciphers, Puzzles, Lock Picking, Safe Cracking, Covert Operations, Cryptography and Privacy. Klaviel will be doing lock demos at this conference, and Belouve will be creating the puzzles and badge challenge for the conference.
Attendance is limited to 100 guests, and the ticket prices are $100.
The website for Cyphercon is located here: CYPHERCON.COM You may buy tickets now using Bitcoin ($95) or Credit Card ($100).

Belouve did a DEFCON 23 recap, with input from other members that attended. An overview of the slides/websites he used can be found here: DEFCON 23 Recap
There is also the website for the DEFCON 23 Badge walkthrough at PotatoHat Security

Klaviel also showcased video from the DEFCON 23 shoot.

There was also a demo (I forget the guy’s handle) on mounting and decrypting an encrypted hard drive within Linux. The simplicity of commands would be more useful than using an array of tools to mount an encrypted hard drive (say, migrating from Windows to Linux).

Those were all the demos that I can recall. I will take some actual notes next time, instead of relying only on memory. A list of upcoming events will be in a separate post.

The meeting then broke up at about 11pm. Nerf, quadcopters, and other shenanigans were kept until after 11pm.

June meetup re-cap

We’re still very much alive and active, no one has bothered to update the website is all. 🙂   dw5304 got us off to a fun start with some Outernet reception, although it was really a demofail.  Still fun to set up a satellite and receive signals!

Klaiviel had an awesome 3d printed brute force machine in the works for combination locks.  Very fast!

We also did a nice sized LAN party on Saturday, lots of fun, booze, and yelling commenced.  Want to join in the fun? Feeling like you missed out? Are you on our mailing list? You should be!  or join us on IRC on freenode at #dc414.

-darkwind

March meeting fun!

March came in, and was an awesome time.  Too bad ngharo and vlad missed it.  We were hopping at the Meetupery!

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dw5304 got things started with some radio hacking, with his HackerRF board that he’s managed to un-brick.   We swept some bands, and learned that car FOBs generally work around 300mhz for sending signals.  And Chrysler FOBs have some good output!  IMG_20140307_203527

After that, we had some fun with a giant lock that Klaviel tried his hand at.  This thing is used for some serious security!  IMG_20140307_203610

We also reminisced about previous dc414 meetings, like a certain laser incident, and RF jammers.   W also got to see a neat piece of hackery, an ammo can turned into a self contained power supply, with lithium drill batteries and an inverter.   Awesomesauce! IMG_20140307_213641

Thanks for everyone who came out, and we’ll see you again next month!

-darkwind

February meeting awesomeness and sadness

February was another great meeting. It started with me and ngharo running late then doing the introductions, which there was a lot of. Its always good to see new faces at meetings. Then I broke the sad news that I will be leaving Wisconsin and so dc414 as well, appointed ngharo as new prez and stepped down. Then ngharo said a few words and gave us a glimpse of some of the changes he will be making. Everyone be sure to congratulate ngharo, I can’t wait to see what he does with the place.

Rob started the demos off with hacking a used disposable flash camera and a halogen light bulb to make a handy improvised flash light. I perfect zombie apocalypse type hack. Then he busted out materials for everyone to make their own zombie caution light. It did’t take long for people to start hacking it up even more and did all kinds of crazy things. Vlad was the first to turn things up to 10 by doing something to the transformer in the camera to pump out more voltage and get a brighter light. Then dw5304 and others did their best to blow the capacitors and other things up! Then using the flash bulb that came with the camera and capacitors over 9000 we tried to do some UV tattooing. Next up was Klaiviel doing a key impressioning demo for the newbies in the crowd. Here are some photos of the meeting.

So here it is, my last post on dc414. It has been a fun ride and I will miss everyone. You can still find me on the dc414 irc chan and I will be at meetings via G+ or what ever ngharo sets up for the group. See you out there.

-AA

A call for help!

Hey everyone, I need some help getting the word out for the know your rights event. If anyone in MKE can spare some time to pin up a few flyers please let me know. Anyone who helps out will get a free dc414 shirt. Some places I would like to see hit up are FUEL Cafe and Brewing Grounds For Change and any place like them. As well as other cafes and colleges and just anywhere you think is a good place to put flyers. So if you can help out drop me a line at anarchy@dc414.org Thank you.

Know your rights event

dc414 is proud to produce the “Know your rights event” on January 11th 2014 at The Meetupery. The goal of this event is to educate the people and teach them how they can preserve their civil liberties during police encounters with confidence. The event will start with a viewing of the 40 minute film “10 Rules for Dealing with Police” from FlexYourRights.org followed by a few words from Stephen Govin attorney at law. After which there will be time for any questions the audience might have.

More information here.

November meeting recap.

First, many thanks to The Meetupery for hosting our meeting. You guys rock! Klaiviel got things going with his thingy that he plans on trying to make more of “I hope to get one!”. Then we went around the room and found out what everyone is up to. I made a few announcements that will be repeated here on a later date and Ngharo talked about his big plans for the new and improved dc414 PBX! I can’t wait for that to get done 🙂 Then dc5304 attempted to show us a super sweet SDR but ended up showing us how to brick one 😛 Then we talked about a old ass UHF/VHF scanner that you programmed with crystals I found at a yard sale. The one I got had 8 ports but only 5 crystals 4 of which had been identified with the fifth one unknown. We attempted to find the frequency of it but did not have all the right equipment. Anyway I thought it was a cool little piece of radio history so we gave it away along with a few other things. Here are a few pictures from the meeting. Congrats to the big winner college boy!