Bridging the Gap Between Hackers and Academics

Tal Garfinkel writes "There has long been a disconnect between academic computer security and underground forums like Black Hat and Phrack. A new USENIX-sponsored workshop called WOOT (Workshop On Offensive Technologies) is looking to bridge that gap by providing a high-quality, peer-reviewed forum for attack papers, with top reviewers from the academic, open source, commercial IT, and information warfare communities. Got a great attack paper? See if it makes the cut at WOOT."

I'm sure academics

[Anonymous Coward]

can learn a lot from script kitties.

Creating...

[Billosaur]

...the Hackademic. Ba-dum-bum. I'm here all week.

A lot about hacking, not so much about bandwidth

[192939495969798999]

Apparently the disconnect may have to do with how bandwidth works, because that site is slashdotted all to hell now! Either that, or during that long delay, they were hacking into my PC. Anyone else get the jitters when they go to a website about hacking and it just sits there and grinds in the browser?

Information warfare communities...

[$RANDOMLUSER]

I bet they'd be interested in my design for a chair cannon.

One more exclamation down

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn it! Now whenever I get a good drop and yell "Woot!", people will think I'm a hacker.

Re:WOOT?

[eviloverlordx]

Shouldn't that be 'How to Pwn the Internet in Your Spare Time'?

Re:WOOT?

[EvanED]

This was 2002, before the P took the place of zero.

But I agree, if it were to be published today, that would be the "proper" title.

My paper wuz rejected.

[minotaurcomputing]

My paper, "How to Pwn n00b Sys Admins" wuz turned down by teh pier reveiw commitee bcuz they sed i had bad grammer.
teh suxors im l33t
-m

Other publications to follow suit

[sam_handelman]

That's not the only party of IRC seeking academic legitimacy. Expect the following in the near future:

- Proceedings of the National Association for the Advancement of Kiddie Porn

- Transactions in Piracy

- Nigerian Finance Quarterly

- Kawaii! Anime of journal from translate poorly, for sure yes or else!

- Trends in Russian Credit Card Management

- Journal of Interactive Marketing
  Oh, wait, this already exists.

Author is also a WOOT Program Chairs

[Evil W1zard]

Anyone else catch that the person posting the article is also one of the Program Chairs for the event. Guess if you want free advertising /. is the way to go! Can't wait to see when Ron J. posts the article for P0rncon here!