Thought this might be of interested to some of the folks on the list. ---- *Hacking Humanitarian Technology Before the Bad Guys Do* Event: JIFX-RELIEF Field Exploration Location: Camp Roberts, CA Dates: August 15-16, 2012 In the last 18 months there have been a steady increase in attacks by hostile groups against citizens and response organizations utilizing communications and Internet technologies. Those attacks include custom malware targeting activists in Syria, harassment and infiltration of civil rights monitoring groups in Egypt, and the murder of citizen reporters in Mexico. The JIFX-RELIEF Field Explorations are acknowledged to be the premier venue for creating interoperable civil-military systems for Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Response (HA/DR) operations. This year's RELIEF experiments will bring together members of the security community to evaluate the security strengths and weaknesses of several technologies that are being deployed in hostile environments. Participants from the security community will have the opportunity to: * Support the development of emergency and humanitarian technologies * Meet a variety of groups working in the humanitarian technology space * Interact with other members of the public and private security community The security evaluations will take part over two separate days and security experts are invited to take part in one or both: *August 15th*: Tour of the different experiments taking place and discussions with the owners and operators of those technologies to provide the security expert's view of the strengths and weaknesses of the technology. *August 16th*: Penetration testing of a set of those technologies as they to identify and fix vulnerabilities before they are attacked in fielded in hostile environments. The attached document contains more information on the experiments that will be taking place and the organizations involved. If you are interested in taking part in the security assessment on one or both days please RSVP to george@roguegenius.com by August 1st. Thank you for your time and interest in supporting the development of secure technologies for use in crisis and disaster response operations. george George Chamales Rogue Genius LLC http://roguegenius.com Phone: 718.288.7718 _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE