Saturday November 24th 2018 @ 14:00

This is a introductory programming language workshop, you will learn basics of Quartz Composer and common programming expressions. No programming background necessary. The focus of the workshop is application of programming in visual arts, and will mostly tackle implementation of basic interactions.

The workshop will be conducted in english.

Quartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language widely used interactive arts, mappings and VJ set ups.

• When: November 24th, 2018, 2:00 PM
• Where: Foulab! (please check the location section of our site)
• Please bring your own laptop
• Recommended Donation of 15$ (all proceeds go to foulab rent) Tickets can be bought here.
• Duration around 3 hours

Foulab is having it’s annual Halloween party on the 31st of October, starting at 19:00. This year, we’re doing an Orphan Black theme. That’s anything science related, bio related, conspiracy related or who needs themes anyways? Costumes, candy, and the usual Foulab Mad Science will be afoot.

Want to learn how to lock-pick? Want to learn how to make your own lock-pick set from free and common materials? Then come to our workshop! Foulab is hosting a lock-picking workshop where we will go over the basics of lock-picking and the making of a pick and torsion wrench out of spare parts. Details:

-The Workshop will be held at Foulab, 14:00 on the 13th of October.

-Our capacity for this workshop is 15 people.

-Ticket price is 20$.

-Duration is 2 hours, +/- a half hour

-Buy tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lockpicking-workshop-tickets-51049319890

This weekend (Sunday) is another of foulab’s brewing days, and this one will be open to the wider world of brewing enthusiasts and beginners! We’ll be doing an examples of simple beer kits and with enough public interest, a more advanced grain brew. There will be a discussion session and a Q&A.

We’ll start at about 10:00. On average, brewing takes 5 hours +/- discussion period.

Recommended donation to help cover material costs is 10$ to 20$.

This will be an introductory workshop to soldering! In this workshop we will cover the basic idea behind soldering, what it’s useful for, and some hands on practice. Recomended donation of 20$, but no one turned away for want of money. We have 20 seats in this workshop, and it is first come first serve.

Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd the new backend is setup!

We will have the old site up for posterity soon.

Goals:
Learn how to setup a wifi access point to eavesdrop on traffic and launch man in the middle attacks on wifi devices.

Secondary goal is to learn how to intercept communications between mobile applications and their manufacturers and third parties.

References:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/citizen-lab-sandvine-report-turkey-egypt-spyware-ads-1.4568717
https://privacylab.yale.edu/press/android-trackers

Subjects covered

• Creation of a malicious access point with hostapd
• Firewall configuration with iptables
• Wireshark basics
• Man in the middle with owasp zap, mitmf and similar tools
• Loading system certificates in android (root access required)

And, as a bonus, a test run of my talk about blackbear ssh (fork of openssh to get reverse ssh shells) that I am scheduled to give at nsec.