Hackito Ergo Sum confernece to be held in Paris coming soon…

Copy pasted (and re-formated) from :  http://hackitoergosum.org

Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 – Call For Paper – HES2010 CFP

Hackito Ergo Sum 2010 – Call For Paper – HES2010 CFP

Hackito Ergo Sum conference will be held from April 8th to 10th 2010 in Paris, France.
It is part of the series of conference “Hacker Space Fest” taking place since 2008 in France and all over Europe.

HES2010 will focus on hardcore computer security, insecurity, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, research and hacking.

INTRO
The goal of this conference is to promote security research, broaden public awareness and create an open forum so that communication between the researcher, the security industry, the experts and the public can happen.

A recent decision of justice in France has convicted a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities and exploits. These laws (similar to the one in Germany), descending from USA’s DMCA law, are orienting freedom of research and knowledge into a situation where “illegal knowledge” can happen, restricted to the only ones blessed by governmental silent approval and military. Scientific research and public information cannot be made into another monopoly of state, where “some” can study and publish and “some others” cannot.
Such approach just show how misinformed some politics are and how little understanding they get of the struggle they are acting in.

Not understanding that the best way to improve security is to attack it shows the lack of maturity of some stakeholder by being cut out of independent information sources.
This is where our ethics and responsibility is to say “No, we have a right for free information and true independence in research”, and this responsibility is the one of anybody, not just the responsibility of academically blessed scientists.

This conference will try to take in account all voices in order to reach a balanced position regarding research and security, inviting businesses, governmental actors, researchers, professionals and general public to share concerns, approaches and interests during.
During three days, research conferences, solutions presentations, panels and debates will aim at finding synthetic and balanced solutions to the current situation.

To see content proposals, tracks and timelines it is worth visiting original post here

RAX!

These days there are several events that are worth taking into account. The Medialab opening and official presentation (Now!), the Co-Hacking Space Pas-sage-en-seine on June, 4th and 5th and the Hackerspace Fest. on June, 26-30th.

First things first:

Sciences Po anounces it’s official Medialab. Other Medialabs are already there (just see google results) however I guess this one, apart from it’s specificity, can also have it’s “Media” pronunced both with French or English accent… Anyway. They have a great set of conferences which, as listed on their site www.sciences-po.fr, includes:

Le lundi 25 mai: Richard Rogers, de l’Université d’Amsterdam, directeur de la fondation Govcom.org, auteur de Information Politic on the Web, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass (2005), montrera comment suivre la politique sur le web;

Le mardi 26 mai: Yochai Benkler, de la Law School de Harvard, co-directeur du Berkman Center for Internet and Society, auteur du livre important The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Market and Freedom, Yale University Press, New Haven (2006), montrera ce qu’on peut faire en science politique en utilisant les données numériques;

Le jeudi 28 mai: Carlo Ratti, du MIT, directeur du SENSEable City Lab, nous montrera comment le numérique modifie l’appréhension de la ville et des études urbaines.

from www.sciences-po.fr/recherche/fr/dispositif/medialab.htm

We will be there for Benkler talk entitled Observing Networked Politics and see if we can grasp some usefull inputs for our Thesis. What does resist the assumption of not being networked today anyway? Certainly not politics.

RAX!