Infonomicon

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 PhreakNIC 0x0b in October 2007 (for complete listing, see Presentations section).

There has been little "mainstream" attention to the Club as of 2007, but its episodes and member sites have been mentioned often in other hacker-related broadcasts such as by Binary Revolution Radio and Hak5.

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

Enigma - Twatech.org Admin

p0trillo23 - Twatech.org Host

kn1ghtl0rd - Development Department

Ponyboy - Host of Bellcore Radio

livinded - Twatech.org Host

kotrin - just a dude

downer - Head of Graphic Department

Dosman - Host of The Packet Sniffers

Zach - Host of The Packet Sniffers

Electroman - Host of ElectroStuff

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 Live CDs 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 Live CD. Slast is also based on the Slax Live CD, 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.

In October 2006 again several members of ICC gave presentation at PhreakNIC X in Nashville, TN. In April 2007 one member of ICC(Kn1ghtl0rd) spoke at Notacon 4 in April, 2007 once again in Cleveland, Ohio.

In October 2007 Lowtek Mystik and Kn1ghtl0rd gave a talk again about RFID at PhreakNIC 11 in Nashville, TN. This was part two of the duo's RFID information and covered previously un-addressed material.

Presentations

Notacon 2

'C64 RIP (Revival In Progress)' by Zach "Notacon 2" April 2005

Interzone 5

'Hacker Media' by droops and Ponyboy "Interz0ne 5" March 2006

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

PhreakNIC X

'Understanding RFID' by Lowtek Mystik and Kn1ghtl0rd October 2006 (see video below)
'Penetration Testing with Bart's PE' by Irongeek October 2006

Notacon 4

'Grid Computing with Alchemi and .NET' by Kn1ghtl0rd April 2007

PhreakNIC 0x0b

'RFID 2.0' by Lowtek Mystik and Kn1ghtl0rd October 2007

Other projects

*Geeks Unleashed: Assault and Batteries - Fighting 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 CDs and get Linux mailed back to you
*Old Computer Documentation Project - Old computer books
*RFID Syphon - To be shown at Phreaknic 11

References

* [http://twatech.org/index.php TWAT Radio: Today with a Techie]
* [http://slast.org Slast Linux]
* [http://www.nomicon.info Official website]
* [http://audio.textfiles.com/shows/TV/INFONOMICON/ List of episodes] at Jason Scott's website
* [http://www.binrev.com Binary Revolution Radio]
* [http://www.bellcoreradio.net BellCore Radio]
* [http://www.infonomicon.org/Grid InfoGrid Website]
* [http://www.infonomicon.org/grid/gridcrack/gridcrackconsole/ GridCrack Console Download Page]
* [http://phreaknic.wilpig.org/PNX/2006-10-20%20-%20Phreaknic%20X%20-%20004%20-%20Kn1ghtl0rd%20and%20Lowtek%20Mystik%20-%20RFID.avi Kn1ghtl0rd and Lowtek_Mystik talking about RFID at PhreakNIC X]