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

[Kurt Pfeifer]

Did anybody attend this?  I wanted to go but had a class that night.

-Kurt


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Eric McNeill<eric.mcneill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting looking talk coming up next week.
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> Eric
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> http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69014
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> Date From June 11, 2009 7:30 PM
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> Location Town Hall Seattle
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> Price $5.00
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> 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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