Infonomicon
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Infonomicon Computer Club is a hacker organization that is a collection of over a dozen people from across the United States. It was once called Infonomicon Media, a majority of the group members produce hacker-related webcasts, including both podcasts and TV webcasts. The group changed its name in early 2006 to the Infonomicon Computer Club, and has since started work on projects outside the media realm. Members of the ICC have done many presentations at various hacker conventions across the country, the most recent being Notacon 3 in April of 2006 (for complete listing, see Presentations section).
There has been little "mainstream" attention to the Club as of 2006, but its episodes and member sites have been mentioned often in other hacker-related broadcasts such as by Binary Revolution Radio and Hak.5.
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[edit] Members
(in order of appearance)
droops - Infonomicon Father
Obfuscated - Infonomicon Father
Phizone - Host of Infonomicon TV
Irongeek - Author of Hacking Illustrated
Lowtek_Mystik - Host of Ninja Night School Radio
Enigma0 - Twatech.org Admin
p0trillo23 - Twatech.org Host
kn1ghtl0rd - Host of Knight's Round Table
Ponyboy - Host of Bellcore Radio
livinded - Twatech.org Host
downer - Head of Graphic Department
Dosman - Host of The Packet Sniffers
Zach - Host of The Packet Sniffers
Electroman - Host of ElectroStuff
[edit] History
Infonomicon started in June 2004, with its first episode broadcast under the title of droops Radio (later changed to Infonomicon Radio). Episodes focused on a variety of subjects, from hardware hacking, lockpicking, and FM transmitters, to wilderness survival tips. The series lasted until December 25, 2005 and produced 53 episodes.
The show was originally hosted by droops, later bringing in Obfuscated as a second host in episode 3 (July 20, 2004). The show released sporadic episodes for about a year, and then in late 2004 added a video webcast, called Infonomicon TV, which included content from both droops and other outside contributors.
In August 2005, one of their contributors, Phizone, joined the group, and helped launch a new website called PodcastIncubator.com, which provided free hosting to other individuals who were interested in starting their own podcast. Also in August, droops became the administrator of HackerMedia.org, a site which many hacker audio and video webcasts had been using to announce new episodes of shows. Towards the end of October, 2005 droops began setting up free computers for children by installing Linux on old Windows 98 boxes. He used Edubuntu, which was designed as an educational tool for children to learn how to use Linux at the same time as they learned other things with the educational software that was included in the Linux distribution.
The club has also released two linux LiveCDs called PodcastFertilizer and Slast. Podcast Fertilizer, or PodFert, was designed for people who want to make their own podcast. It contains free audio editing software as well as other tools embedded directly into a Slax LiveCD. Slast is also based on the Slax LiveCD, and has asterisk PBX software pre-compiled on it. Users simply have to enter in some basic information and they can make any computer into a temporary asterisk console.
In April 2006, several members of Infonomicon gave presentations at Notacon 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, and also participated in a Hacker Media panel, moderated by Jason Scott.
[edit] Presentations
[edit] Notacon 2
'C64 RIP (Revival In Progress)' by Zach Notacon 2 April 2005
[edit] Interzone 5
'Hacker Media' by droops and Ponyboy Interz0ne 5 March 2006
[edit] Notacon 3
'Build Your Own Linux' by droops Notacon 3 April 2006
'Blended Threat Management' by kn1ghtl0rd Notacon 3 April 2006
'The Rise and Fall of Payphones, and the Evolution of Phreaking' by Ponyboy Notacon 3 April 2006
'Network Printer Hacking' by Irongeek Notacon 3 April 2006
'Hacker Media Panel' by droops, Ponyboy, Lowtek_Mystik, Dosman, Zach, (also featuring slick0, Jason Scott, and Drew) Notacon 3 April 2006
[edit] PhreakNIC X
'Understanding RFID' by Lowtek Mystik and Kn1ghtl0rd October 2006
'Creating a Windows Live CD for System Recovery and Pen-Testing' by Irongeek October 2006
[edit] Other projects
- The Infonomicms - Weblog content management system
- "1337 Speakers" - In process novel by Kn1ghtl0rd
- Geeks Unleashed: Assault and Batteries - Fighting game
- Unnamed - Hacker related FF type role playing game
- PDA Phreak - a revived site with pda and phreaking content
- Slast Linux - A Live-cd containing Asterisk and based on Slax
- Free Linux CD Project - Send in cd's and get Linux mailed back to you
- Old Computer Documentation Project - Old computer books
[edit] References
- TWAT Radio: Today with a Techie
- Slast Linux
- Official website
- List of episodes at Jason Scott's website
- Binary Revolution Radio
- BellCore Radio
