[dorkbotsea-blabber] Science: Pablos: Hacking and Innovation

[Eric McNeill]

Interesting looking talk coming up next week.

Eric

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69014

*Date * From June 11, 2009 7:30 PM

*Location * Town Hall Seattle

*Price* $5.00

*Description* Chances are one or more of your credit cards is embedded with
a radio frequency ID tag, listing your name, credit-card number and
expiration date, and more, for your security. But with $8 worth of gear from
eBay, hacker/futurist Paul Pablos Holman can scan your card from a distance,
retrieve all that data, and start shopping. Luckily for us, Pablos is more
concerned with demonstrating the frontiers of what hackers do, and how
tenuous our sense of security really is. And even hackers have day jobsat
former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures
Laboratory, Pablos is part of a team at work on a wide variety of futuristic
projects, including a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste, a machine to
stop hurricanes (by harnessing the oceans own energy to lower its surface
temperature), and a laser-based mosquito-eradication system to eliminate
malaria. Presented as part of Seattle Science Lectures, with University
Bookstore and Pacific Science Center.
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