Hacking haunting hardware

Hacking haunting hardware
Early this month, more exactly on the 2nd of September from 7pm till around midnight, Strassen’s city council and their city youth committee organised the second iteration of their nighttime rallye through the nearby woods. Syn2cat was asked to support this event with some fancy decoration and did of course gladly accept the challenge. The ...

Syn2cat meets Shack 1

Syn2cat meets Shack
On last Friday two hackers from Syn2cat hit the road to the Large Hacker Convention taking place in the Shackspace (the Stuttgart hackerspace) which didn’t just promise a lot but exceeded by far all expectations with a whole bunch of hacking activities in hard- and software (see pictures here). BUT hacking doesn’t necessarily mean that ...

LHC2 – be part of it

LHC2 - be part of it
Dear fellow hackers, Syn2cat invites you to join us visiting the Shackspace in Stuttgart from August 26th to 28th when the Large Hacker Convention 2 takes place. What’s the Large Hacker Convention? The Large Hackerspace Convention Episode II should be exactly that. Hackerspaces and hackerspace-folks from all over Germany, Europe, the world, our galaxy, and ...

Coding Contest in its first edition

Coding Contest in its first edition
Dear syn2cat reader, hackers & coders out there! This Saturday – tomorrow – will be the first edition of the official syn2cat Coding Contest, realized by destructive. Scraaatch! What is this about? Well you probably all know what a contest is and if not look it up on Wikipedia. Well coding is a synonym for ...

CCC Camp Live Streaming

CCC Camp Live Streaming
Dear fellow sympathizers of CCC & the hacker ethics, if you haven’t made it to the CCC Camp 2011 in Finowfurt near Berlin (Germany), you have the possibility to come to our beloved syn2cat Hackerspace in Strassen (Luxembourg) and watch with us some live stream lectures or just discuss about technology and the world or ...

Communication Security

Communication Security
Dear syn2cat & non-yet-syn2cat folks! Communication Security is a term that can be defined by a few point of views, so trollchen & prometheus from C3L, but also in syn2cat decided to give it their own definition for this Saturday evening talk and though to illustrate it with their own views, opinions and ideas, but ...

Ubuntu Release Party 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot 1

Ubuntu Release Party 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot
It hasn’t been that long ago that our last Ubuntu Release Party took place. It was the first one with some talks and presentations. Hopefully in the future there will even attend more folks and may be even do their own hacks on the party. Until the next one it still is a while, but ...

Hackers’ Night Out: Tron Legacy

Hackers' Night Out: Tron Legacy
Friday night, a hacker horde descended upon Cinebelval to watch Tron Legacy in 3D. Disappointingly, but not at all rarely, the opening nights in Luxembourg tend to be weeks, if not months, behind the rest of the world. Having bravely withstood the pressure and not cheated by watching the movie first in a neighboring country, ...

Cyberpunk Friday: TRON

Cyberpunk Friday: TRON
On 14th of January we’re going to screen TRON at our hackerspace in Strassen. This will probably be played on a vintage Laserdisc Player, with the video “quality” of those times. So everyone who has never witnessed Laserdisc, this is the opportunity to see it in action. And to see an awesome movie, considering the year it was ...

Review: Foire de l’Etudiant 2010

Review: Foire de l'Etudiant 2010
Our Friends at BEE Secure were so kind to write a review about syn2cat at the national Foire de l’Etudiant 2010 The article is in French, hope you enjoy it. http://www.bee-secure.lu/node/478