Lies, Telephony, and Hacking History

Ground Floor, 11:30 Tuesday Who’s ready for some “Show & Telecom”? This talk takes attendees on a historic retrospective journey through time. Learn when Social Engineering first intersected with Technology, following previous advancements in Teleco...

Ground Floor, 11:30 Tuesday

Who’s ready for some “Show & Telecom”? This talk takes attendees on a historic retrospective journey through time. Learn when Social Engineering first intersected with Technology, following previous advancements in Telecommunications. Our expedition highlights the technological origins of Phone Phreaking, Computer Hacking, Social Engineering, and how these activities relate to modern times. The speaker brought numerous hardware relics from the past to show the crowd throughout this presentation. Come learn about what the underground phone phreak and early computer hacker scenes were like before there was a Cybersecurity industry and associated career paths.

Matt Scheurer