Hacking at Random
August 13-16, 2009
near Vierhouten, NL

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Babak and i hanging at the MetaLab tent on the first night with Kyrah and our other friends from Austria
 
Everyone's favorite con drink   =)
 
The MetaLab crew makes these helpful Club Mate identifier tags... they can snap on tent poles or on bottles with ease.
 
part of Nigel's great lever lock collection
 
more lever locks
 
Lockpick Village public tables
 
This is the new Master Hash Lock... it's a neat solution to an interesting problem of providing reliable, low-cost security for simple, non-critical applications.
 
MH from the German sportpicker group SSDeV has discovered a way to crack the new Hash Lock... this technique involves using precision measurements of the shackle. It also works on this older S&G 8088 combo lock, as well. He is one smart fellow...
 
... heh, and he surely deserves this great shirt!
 
Til is setting up a Quick Key copying demo
 
Look at this amazing copy of an advanced paracentric Elca lock key
 
Here was our huge Lockpick Village tent... in various light settings, so you can see it inside and out.
 
i love this slide... it's such a great example of the type of "research" and "facts" you see in a lot of talks. Did you know that oil is going to run out really soon? It's ture... "geologists" say so.
 
Giving one of our many, many intro to lockpicking lectures
 
When the sun had set (or when we threw a huge tarp over our roof) we could use the top of the tent as a big screen.
 
There was never a thin crowd when we were speaking. It was great to see how much people enjoyed learning, time after time.
 
an awesome contest... the kind you typically only see at Euro cons or occasionally at HOPE.
 
looking down upon some of the camping areas from a small hill
 
huge blinkenlight-enabled CCC letters on the hill
 
raising a toast in the HOAP cabin
 
with Kaminsky pouring, glasses didn't stay empty for long
 
Vyrus is one large dude... man, can he party it up
 
BernieS stays connected on what looks like an eeePC
 
Mr. E and Rogue with me. Happy times.
 
The Soviet Embassy tent, heh.
 
An interesting secure hosting area at the camp... this company allowed anyone to drop a server into their locked-down shed for the duration of the conference.
 
this product is goddamn awesome
 
part of the signage outside of the Lockpick Village
 
Dave approves of the Lockpick Village
 
Staff members doing their thing in the Village
 
Yet another lecture
 
My series of cut metal pieces showing exactly how to make a good padlock shim
 
Jake Applebaum and the lovely Leslie working on locks and then on handcuffs... hawt. video online here.
 
Lever lock workshop materials
 
Jos and Kate working on some impressioning
 
Was this a hookah or a mate concotion device?
 
Interesting little RF or Prox reader device being given away for free in limited quantities
 
heh... great shirt
 
and, another great shirt
 
Astera and huntr... a lovely couple
 

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