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."

WOOT?

[EvanED]

I'm sure the WOOT conference would have been happy to publish "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time [icir.org]," which, incidentally, has to be the best academic paper title ever.