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Campuscon

Event not in TOG.

CampusCon 2012 is the inaugural information security conference hosted by the WIT Hacking Societyand Waterford 2600 members. It will run on Saturday the 21st of January, on the WIT Sports Campus, on the outskirts of Waterford City.

The event will host a number of speakers, covering an array of topics – from web-application security to infosec philosophy. CampusCon will also host a team-based hacking challenge, where everything is to play for and the winners earn bragging rights over their peers. The event will be hotly contested, with teams from various security groups and universities taking part. We will also host a video game challenge. Of course, no conference is complete without a social aspect – so in the tradition of Irish spirit, there will be beers after the event.

Entry to the event is only €5, which covers entry and refreshments. Doors for the event open at 9am, with the first talk at 10am.

One of our members will be giving a talk on Hackerspaces at the event to try and get Ireland’s next hackerspace to be in Waterford.

 

 

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28C3: No Nerd Left Behind

CCC “is a annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia” held in Berlin. This its 28th year, tickets were like gold-dust. So if you’re one of the many who couldn’t get any, consider catching a few of the live streams with us at tog. (You can find our official listing here.)

Running over four days, from December 27th to 30th, starting about 11:30am each day, running until midnight the first three days and finishing up about 7pm on the 30th. Constant talks, presentations, and massive info dumps. Check out the schedule here.

We are unsure whether there will always be someone in tog over the course of the conference (as many of our members are at 28C3, or at BerlinSides), but we are going to try our best to be open and watching! As always, check irc or twitter regularly to find out if the space is open.

We’ll be showing the (English) talks on the projector. Choice of talk will be majority-rule, or coin-toss. (And you can always pull out the second projector, or tune in on your laptop if you really can’t miss something.) We offer company, fairly comfortable seats, cooking facilities, and the usual tog-ness. You could do a lot worse than joining us 🙂 But wherever you’re tuning in from we hope you enjoy the event!