This is a talk on perspectives. Hackers, and hacking, are perceived differently around the world and, in turn, some view our community and what we do with different eyes than ours. I believe most reports/papers about that topic are skewed and never give a quite accurate global image. It’s all about perspectives, and these are what I will explore in this talk. Being a foreign hacker attending a con, or delivering an engagement, in an alien land often led to unexpected situations that I will also recount. I am not only looking to enlighten and entertain attendees with this talk, but also to have them take a step back and look at the big picture, at what they are part of; a global community that spreads beyond borders and continents. My hope is that the contents of this talk will circulate wider than just Con attendees so family, friends and co-workers get a better understanding of who we are, what we stand for, and what that thing is that brings us all together globally under one banner.
Jayson E. Street is an author of “Dissecting the hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network” from Syngress. Also creator of http://dissectingthehack.com He has also spoken at DEFCON, DerbyCon, UCON and at several other ‘CONs and colleges on a variety of Information Security subjects. His life story can be found on Google under “Jayson E. Street” *He is a highly carbonated speaker who has partaken of Pizza from Beijing to Brazil. He does not expect anybody to still be reading this far but if they are please note he was chosen as one of Time’s persons of the year for 2006. ;-) jaysonstreet / f0rb1dd3n.com Krypton Security