Hackito Ergo Sum day 1

Keynote by Cedric Blancher (French security researcher)

Attending HES 2012, that's really awesome! Cedric Blancher is opening the conference by a keynote.

Indeed, during this keynote he is trying to present and explain his feeling about HES and especially Hacking.

According to Cedric B., hacking is much wider than IT security, in fact security is a tiny part of Hacking.

Hacking is the ability to understand how things work, and to be able then to modify them in order to produce new stuffs or resolve problems.

To better illustrate this definition, Cedric B. makes an image with photography, knowing how to play with photographic equipements is a kind of hacking

In other words, Hacking makes you bends reality to you needs and have fun !

Of course, hacking is related to computers simply because theses "engines" are used evry days for various tasks.

Moreover, there is nothing so flexible to study, analyze and modify as computers...

And Being at HES, hacking deals also with IT security. Computer security is very hot topic, moreover Cybersecurity is becoming also a hot topic

For that just get a glance on :APTs (Google, RSA, Bercy....), anonymous (Lulzec..), cybercrime and cyberwar subjetcs.

Security gets coverage and then hacking gets coverge

Talking about Hacking implies the contrevesy between : Good and Bad. In fact, poeple are always linking Hakinhg to Evil World !

Cedric B. points out the fact that security conferences are booming in this world till the point that we are now able to spend all his life in confenreces

Except in France, Indeed in France there still few conferences as SSTIC, Hack In Paris, HES...

Cedric B. also points out that the technical level is decreasing concenring the subjects that are presented in these conferences.

Hopefully, HES still very technical.

Speaking about conferences, Cedric B. mentioned about Ekoprty (the same spirit as Hackito Sep at argentina). The idea of this confernce is that Hacking is becoming a public interest for that it is important to protect this knowledge

According to Cederic B. Protecting hacking is motived by:

• Need to learn
• Need to innnovate
• Need independance (reference to Hadopi in France)
• Need conter-powers
• Need Empowrement

Finally, Cedric B. underlines that he's a blogger and took the decision to never talk about political stuffs.

However, during the last 10 years --> laws such as : Hadopi, LCN and Lopsi2 makes Hacking more difficult.

To conclude if we want to change that we need to vote ....