This is the video of the presentation titled "
TwatFS: Surly Abuse of Social Networking Bandwidth" given by CP, Adam, Frank^2 and Vyrus at
LayerOne 2009. You can download the slides
here.
Talk Description: Imagine a pseudo file system for small files where everyone in the world has read access from their computers and mobile devices. Utilizing character smuggling, we can increase the amount of data, as well as type of data, that can be sent to and stored on Twitter. TwatFS, pointless exercise in Rube Goldberg programing? or the beginnings of a global, social, pseudo file system? Only time, and this talk will tell. We will be covering the details of this full featured Proof Of Concept application, as well as theoretical alternate uses. Audience participation, Demo (sorry strom), and Source code release.
Speaker Bios: CP is a hacker first, security professional second. He maintains the notion that Firefox is a dangerously underused platform, to this end he has developed several extensions for use in security auditing. An active member of DC949, CP spends much of his time developing for oCTF, and more recently the first (annual) Barcode-Shmarcode contest at Shmoocon. He strives to enrich the hacker community, which has so enriched his own life.
Adam was a co-author of Skynet, an autonomous wifi auditing program, and is currently working on challenges for the fifth annual Defcon Open Capture The Flag contest. The majority of his waking hours are spent writing code and exploring the digital landscape. Recently he’s started working with designing hardware devices which has yielded new perspectives on solving problems.
frank^2 is a malware hobbyist and a computer scientist. Like most geeks, since a young age he’s always had a keen interest in computers, focusing on software and the curiosities of malware. This curiosity eventually lead him down the path of low-level software development, vulnerability research and reverse engineering. Now, more often than not, he can be found hunched over his laptop either taking apart a virus or hacking away at a complex programming problem– and completely losing track of time while doing so.
Vyrus is a 24 year old application security engineer who has been involved with the hacker community since childhood. From a 10 year old sneaking into the back rooms of printing houses and service bureaus chatting up a storm on BBS lines, to a bored kid in his mid 20’s hacking on malware, Vyrus has never lost his passion hacking itself, or the hackers he hacks with. Besides being an avid anime fan and jazz pianist for 21 years, he continues to stay involved with DC949 as well as other hacker related communities and projects.