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From (political) climate change to people marrying AI chatbots. The world can be a scary place. This talk will be a comprehensive guide to anxiety. We’ll go through the basics of neuroscience and **causes of anxiety**, look at **the effects of the neurodivergent brain on anxiety** and you will be provided with **tools backed by science to implement directly into your daily life!** You might feel t...

This talk is based on my experience working for Comcast/Sky Group in WLAN (802.11) standardisation. It follows the trajectory from environmental laws through to technical regulations and finally in to technical standards, patents and technologies. The talk argues that well-enforced norms and regulations remain a good way of incentivising socially and globally desirable outcomes, while explaining h...

Economic models are increasingly challenged for destroying our planet. But it is not easy to design a sustainable alternative. In a follow-up on my OHM talk "hacking for bankers", I would like to present a few realistic currencies that we can use to move away from the unsustainable path that we are currently walking. We could build a profitable yet sustainable grassroots movement. At OHM2013 I gav...

FreeSewing is the leading open-source library for parametric sewing patterns and combines sewing patterns with code; instead of drafting patterns on paper (hardly an easy task!), you can now enter the measurements of your body into the platform to get a sewing pattern that fits YOU. In this talk, I will introduce you to FreeSewing, the sewing world as a whole and FreeSewing's role in it, and I wil...

Experimental archeology to understand the development of woodwind instruments. What I learned about woodwind instruments by using a spoon drill to make a bore and a whip lathe to reinvent medieval woodturning. I will discuss cylindrical and conical bores, why they are different in a musical sense and why the technology of the times favours one over the other. I will also link some peculiar instrum...

BadgeHub is a Badge Application Website that enables Badge Enthousiasts to share Badge Apps. In this talk, we first explain what BadgeHub is and what you can do with it. After that, we go into all the technical details and difficult decisions that went into building BadgeHub with PostgreSQL, Node.js and Vite. We will talk about Infra, Frameworks, Databases, Backend and Frontend. Licensed to the pu...

WHY2025 contains a lot of activities and entertainment for the attendees. This presentation focuses on two of these activities, namely the CTF (Capture The Flag) and Secret Token Game. These activities focus on a wide range of visitors, including seasoned hackers, inspired newcomers and even the youngest generation. Want to try the CTF or search for some Secret Tokens? Join this talk for an introd...

Archives are vulnerable. Modern archival methods are robust, but no archive or institute alone can withstand the threats we are currently facing. Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage & scientific knowledge. We focus on publicly available material under threat of being deleted or altered. We preserve thi...

The hacker ethic teaches us that information should be free. So why do governments still keep so much of it inaccessible and out of reach? In this talk, we'll break down the barriers to digital transparency, show how hackers can help open up the government, and lay out a vision for a more democratic, accountable and open state. Governments should be radically more transparent, because public infor...

For over 23 years, the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its predecessors - GOVCERT.NL and CERT-RO - have been publishing security advisories to help protect Dutch digital infrastructure. Over the decades, this advisory service has evolved significantly in scope, scale, and approach. From the tooling and processes used, to the volume of vulnerabilities handled, the format of our advi...

Enter the fascinating world of corruption, chicanery, low-tech fraud, and forensic tools that uncover it. The story is told through the eyes of a Russian election official who has participated in campaigns of all levels in the past 4 years and fought for justice (mostly unsuccessfully). Watch a demo how to tamper with a security bag and learn how to use statistics to detect ballot stuffing [1]. Se...

A showcase of creative Web of Things use cases – fun prototypes that are nothing like light bulbs. The W3C seeks to counter fragmentation of the Internet of Things, finding common ground and enabling long-term support. That's the goal of the Web of Things (WoT) ecosystem. Alongside an introduction to Web of Things, I'll show off my collection of WoT prototypes that cover unusual use cases – like n...

How noticing a vulnerability in a website has led to a foreign government threatening to revoke my permission to publicly discuss the existence of an abstract vulnerability class. Belgium has laws regulating the reporting and public disclosure of vulnerabilities. While the goal is to protect both organisations and reporters of vulnerabilities, the assumptions behind it conflict with the practice o...

The MCH2022 Badge is an wonderful piece of hardware, with a great screen, a dual-core ESP32 CPU, and an Lattice FPGA to act as a co-processor. What if we could use the power of the FPGA to render 3D graphics? In this talk I'll take you through the basics of 3D rendering, the challenges of doing this on the Badge, and how I made the little Lattice produce pretty polygons. I don't know about you, bu...

We all live in a fair democracy 🎶 ... or do we? No, we live in a world where the major corporations decide how we interact with digital systems and digital systems govern the world. That's corporatocracy - a system in which corporations, rather than elected officials, have major influence over decision-making, laws, and societal direction. And they are not on our side. This talk is about what hap...

Compromising a well-protected enterprise used to require careful planning, proper resources, and ability to execute. Not anymore! Enter AI. From Initial Access to Impact and Exfiltration. AI is happy to oblige the attacker. In this talk we will demonstrate access-to-impact AI vulnerability chains in most flagship enterprise AI assistants: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Einstein, and their custom agent...

Celebrate 40 years of legendary hacking with Phrack! We’re dropping a special anniversary release packed with cutting-edge research, underground insights, and tributes to decades of digital rebellion. Don’t miss this milestone issue—crafted by hackers, for hackers. Grab your copy, meet the crew, and honor the zine that defined an era. #Phrack72 #WHY2025 #HackThePlanet Meet us later at the release...

Gosling is a Tor onionservice-based protocol and Rust reference-implementation which allows developers to build privacy-preserving p2p applications with the following properties: - persistent authenticated peer identity - end-to-end encrypted - anonymity - metadata resistance - decentralisation - real-time communication This talk will go over the complexities involved in combining all of these pro...

Web scraping continues to be a cornerstone of OSINT operations, particularly during Red Team engagements and external attack surface reconnaissance. Yet, as anti-bot technologies grow more sophisticated, traditional scraping methods based on direct HTTP requests are increasingly ineffective. This talk takes a technical dive into browser-based scraping techniques that closely mimic real user behavi...

Developing applications on Embedded Linux and Microcontrollers is a slow process. The various different languages and libraries can make it difficult to oversee the bigger picture. In addition, the development flow wildly diverges between platforms, making entering a new project or RTOS a big undertaking. Now, you can create Embedded Linux and Microcontroller applications using Swift - a fast, mod...

Since the start of the war, our community has risen to help Ukraine in many different ways. This talk explains what happens when your friends find themselves in a war and ask for help. Luckily, even though it can be overwhelming, everyone can do something. This talk shows you how. The IT community in Kharkiv is doing their best to help their city and country to counter the effects of the invasion...

This presentation will go over the sega Saturns hardware including the dual SH2s, SCU and VDP and the history on why it became so complex like the beginning of the Saturns conseption where it first went wrong. I plan this presentation to be for hackers interested in such weird hardware like myself This presentation will cover the conception of the sega Saturn like how the downfall of the Saturn wa...

Since 2020, EICAS evolved from an idea without collection, location or money into a full-fledged, officially-recognized museum for modern and contemporary art in Deventer, the Netherlands. In this technically-oriented talk, I will take you on a whirlwind tour of the open source tools and custom hacks with which we've grown into the 100+-person all-volunteer organization we are today, on a shoe-str...

This talk is a "no clip" deep dive through a genre of music. We'll start in 1990 and discover the genre as it was discovered by its creators. While traveling through time we'll try to answer the question: what is hardcore? There will clips and mixes of revolutions and sub-genres. We'll learn how it's made and how to win the loudness war. Hardcore spawned a youth culture with lasting international...

What aircraft have been in Moscow and New York within 24 hours of each other? How many helicopters normally patrol this border? At Bellingcat, a Dutch investigative non-profit, we publish open-source journalism using open-source software tools. In this presentation, I'll talk about a new tool I've been building for querying airplane data, and the broader journalistic context of this data, which ha...