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Zero Trust (ZT) has evolved from pure network access to hype. ZT Everywhere has become a buzzword. If you ask about it during product presentations, the sales person sometimes runs out of the meeting. If we look beneath the surface, we find a lot of code that we trust in zero trust environments without realising it. Istio containers in service meshes, key management systems in SSH/Ansible environm...

After some internal evaluation and a journalists inquiry on the possibility of chinese state actors having access to camera footage, Muncipality the Hague decided to do a security test focused on an APT threat on their traffic camera infrastructure. During the session we will show how the team approached this project, how some of the cinematic scenarios of causing traffic jams and using the camera...

How do you scale up victim notifications from a couple of hundreds, to thousands, to millions to billions of stolen credentials? Credential theft is on the rise. Cybercriminals are gettings smarter and more efficient. Why hack in, if you can log in? At the DIVD we see this trend in the cases where we assist with notifying victims of credential theft. Where our first such cases started with a mere...

This is NOT an introductory talk about ISMS (Information-Security-Management)! It is about my experiences and reflections about real-life issues when deploying an ISMS. There will be a section dedicated to 'hacking' an ISMS, though. The presumed audiences are: - individuals working in the realm of IS-/IT-security management - hackers working in environments that expose them to ISMS-related TODOs (...

We in Quantum Development (WIQD) is a growing community dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the quantum ecosystem. In this presentation, we will introduce WIQD’s mission and activities, share insights from our first Women’s Day Hackathon, and highlight why fostering an inclusive quantum community is essential for innovation and impact. WIQD (We in Quantum Development)...

This talk will take you along with a deep dive on how the internet works at its core and how you can participate yourself. You'll learn all about BGP, AS- numbers, IP-prefixes and more. Ever wanted to become sovereign on the internet? Want to know what its like to run an ISP? Are you a sysadmin that wants to learn more about networking? Then you're at the right place. This talk will take you along...

Are you interested in maps? Are you searching for a FLOSS mapping navigation? Do you need geodata? Do you need a map on your site? Do you want to help creating maps from your local environment or from vulnerable places? Then, you have come to the right talk! This talks gives a broad overview of OpenStreetMap, the community and how to get started with it. OpenStreetMap is an open database of geodat...

Experiences from a hacker working at the Election Council of The Netherlands. After critically following the elections for 8 years from the outside, a hacker was employed as one of the functional administrators of the software supporting the elections. Sharing experiences of the use of election software during 7 elections (2020-2023), from local, national to European in The Netherlands. A governme...

What happens when an attacker controls time on a Linux system? This talk looks at how system clocks work, and what breaks when they’re manipulated. From bypassing delays to triggering subtle logic errors, we’ll explore how unstable time can subvert assumptions, break security controls, and cause software to behave in unexpected or unsafe ways. This talk explores the consequences of full control ov...

As everybody knows, "L" in IoT stands for long-term support. I'll take you on a tour of my technical adventure where I revived an abandoned IoT "AI" translator and gave it a new life, 2025-style. Through deciphering peculiar protocols and formats, reverse engineering firmware and software and doing the necessary research to write new software, we'll see how curiosity and persistence can help you o...

Wikipedia tells us that _low-background steel_ is steel produced before the detonation of the first nuclear bombs. Yep, you guessed it, **this is a talk about Large Language Models**. LLM outputs have quickly spread like radionuclides, threatening everything from the scientific record to the existence of the Internet as we know it. In this talk I'll discuss _practical small web approaches_ that we...

A team of Dutch scientist and cloud engineers is working on Ecofed: European Cloud Services in an Open Federated Ecosystem. The objective and scope of the ECOFED project are to develop a technical framework for a more open and integrated cloud usage model. This framework will enable multiple clouds from various providers to function as a single, cohesive system, offering a European alternative to...

Lightning talks are a 5 to 10 minute quick talk on an interesting subject. They can be with or without slides, and with or without proper preparation. if you weren't accepted in the main CfP, this is also a great opportunity to give an abridged version of your talk. These sessions will be available to sign up to later on, with details on the wiki: https://wiki.why2025.org/Lightning_Talks Lightning...

Security teams want to prevent incidents - but what if controlled breaking prevents catastrophic failures? Drawing from aviation safety, chaos engineering, and resilience design, discover why 'unbreakable' security comes from breaking things on purpose. Learn to transform incident culture from blame to learning, implement controlled failure practices, and build psychological safety that turns near...

Sometimes ago, I embarked on a journey into the world of electronics and FPGA technology with no prior knowledge. What began as passion for retro gaming evolved into a quest for preservation via reverse engineering and FPGA-based emulation. This presentation will share my journey, highlighting the challenges of learning Verilog, the tools, the resources, and the lessons I learned along the way. By...

Did you know that if you change a single bit from 1 to 0 (or vice versa) in the first 'g' of the domain name google.com (which is 01100111 in binary) you will end up with variety of valid "bitflip" domains like coogle.com, oogle.com, & woogle.com So what happens if you generate and register a bunch of cheap bitfliped versions of popular cloud / Saas provider domains, point them to your VPS, log al...

TIC-80 fantasy console Byte Jam is a friendly competition to livecode a demo in a relaxed atmosphere. TIC-80 fantasy console Byte Jam is a friendly competition to livecode a demo in a relaxed atmosphere. This can take an hour or more depending on the inspiration and time needed of the participants. You could follow the suggested random chosen topic or do your own thing. TIC-80 is a fantasy console...

Our digital communities are controlled by corporate platforms that surveil, manipulate, and arbitrarily deplatform us. We need a Bill of Digital Rights—ensuring privacy, ownership, algorithmic control, and self-governance. This talk lays out the Four Freedoms for Social Media and how open protocols like ATProtocol, ActivityPub, and Nostr make them possible. The future of social media must serve co...

I used CircuitPython (but could have also used MicroPython as well, so this is not about A vs. B) to implement various smart-home related projects. I will present some of my projects and also dive into what Python has to offer for (personal, not corporate-style) embedded devices (and the development process). 1) Introduction - My (past) smart-home setup - Moonshot: my future smart-home setup 2) Pr...

Afturmath closes the live music program with an immersive journey of sound and light. Combining modular synthesizers, lasers, and abstract video synthesis, Afturmath crafts dense, evolving sonic landscapes that invite you to lose yourself in the experience. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/7W9GTM/

Modern software development and operations heavily relies on third-party applications, libraries, containers etc. This presentation will showcase how dev, ops, but also security management can be transparent about dependency versioning and known vulnerabilities, while also staying on track with updates. It will show demos of Open Source Standards like SBOM and Frameworks like Dependency-Check, Dep...

This talk introduces participants to the Bosch BMI270 (inertial sensor) and BME690 (environmental sensor) on the WHY2025 Hackathon Badge. After a brief overview of MEMS technology and how these tiny sensors are made and used, we’ll dive into a hands-on session showing how to read sensor data using MicroPython — so you can start experimenting right away. MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) sens...

The Light and Music entertainment platform Lightupyourbanjo began in 2010 when “Cash-a-billy with a Bluegrass bite” band Ed and the Fretmen wanted to have better lights on their banjo. They developed banjo lights with addressable LEDs for in and outside mounting showing interactive animations, written in C++ supporting the songs, and wrote songs to support the lights. In 2025 the Lightupyourbanjo...

This talk will enable you to lead architecture conversations and discuss their security options through an informal diagramming technique. I will use examples such as key/encryption architectures, DevOps, and even your home music system. Presentation at https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/why2025/ You have seen many diagrams of computer and information systems in your career. They have been around s...

You've maybee seen the raking robot that got a CEH (Certified Estetisch Harker) certificate, the Telex linked to Twitter/Telegram or the ASCII foto booth. They are all made by me. If this talk gets accepted I will do a deep dive on these three contraptions and what I learned building them. Beside Schuberg Philis, DIVD, attending the farm and keeping my bees I als build machines. It is an interesti...