Hi Friends,

We have planned a one day conference and workshop on

“Exploring Internals of Mobile Technologies”@CIS on 27th October, 2012.

Whoever is interested in hacking mobile phones are most welcome to part of
the event. It is free. Please go through the agenda of the event which is
enclosed with this mail.

Regards,

Amarjit Singh

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Conference and Workshop

on

“Exploring Internals of Mobile Technologies”

Objective:

Bringing together the technical/hacker community and individuals interested
in mobile devices to explore mobile devices internals and capabilities

Scope of Conference and Workshop

Our proposed topics/areas which we hope to have discussions on are:

-Hardware Hacking (Board/Chips Capabilities)

-Operating System Internals (Hardware/OS Interfacing)

-Software Development Kit (MRE, etc.)

-Forensic Analysis

-Understanding of Mobile as Telecommunication Device (2G/3G, etc.)

-Understanding Mobile/Devices Internals

-Working with JTAG/UART Ports

-Porting Open Softwares on Mobiles/Hardwares

Expected outcome:

1. Understanding of mobile devices internals and capabilities

2. Documenting mobile devices capabilities and internals

3. Publishing of blogs on knowledge generated

4. Exploration/Speculation on research/development avenues

Agenda of The Workshop:

I. Core Talks

Tea/Coffee:

Time: 9:00 - 9:30 AM

1. Arduino Board Capabilities and Playing Around It!

Objective: Understanding Arduino board capabilities and playing with it

Speaker: Sudar Muthu

Level: Introduction

Duration: 1 Hour

Time: 9:30 - 10:30 AM

2. Initiatives@CIS

Objective: Discussing the research initiative that has led CIS to become
interested in mobile device internals and capabilities

Speaker: Jadine Lannon

Level: Introduction

Duration: 10-15 Minutes

Time: 10:30 - 10:45 AM

3. Mobile Hacking Through Linux Drivers

Objective: Understanding the Linux kernel & driver internals from the
perspective of reverse engineering

Speaker: Anil Kumar Pugalia

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Duration: 1 Hour

Time: 10:45 - 11:45 AM
<http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/>

4. Hardware Hacking (Board/Chips Capabilities)

Objective: Discuss and explore key areas of mobile hardware

   (power, clock, pin multiplexing, peripherals, etc.)

Speaker: Khasim Syed Mohammed

Level: Introductory to Advanced

Duration: 1 Hour

Time: 11:45 - 12:45 PM

             Lunch Time

Time: 12:45 - 1:30 PM

5. Porting Open Software on Hardware

Objective:

Cover porting examples for each type of peripherals

Cover Android and Linux bringup as an example

Speaker: Khasim Syed Mohammed

Level: Intermediate to Advance

Duration: 2 Hours

Time: 1:30 - 3:30 PM

II. Community Knowledge Sharing/Hacking!

Time: 3:30 - 5:30 PM

5. - Free Slot

6. - Free Slot

Tea/Coffee Time

7. - Free Slot

8. - Free Slot

We are inviting community members to take up Free Slots to share their
knowledge in this section. In this section, any person can propose a talk,
workshop, or speculation about any device for a duration 30 minutes to 1
hour, as long as the topic falls within broader scope of the focus areas
described at the in the “Scope of the Conference and Workshop” section of
the workshop objectives.

Venue, Dates and Logistics:

The event will take place on Saturday, October 27th, at the CIS office in
Bangalore, at the following address:

The Center for Internet and Society: http://cis-india.org/

No. 194, Second 'C' Cross, Domlur, 2nd Stage

Bangalore, Karnataka, India - 560071

The event will be begin at 9 am on Saturday and end in the afternoon around
5 pm. Lunch and snacks will be provided by CIS.

Available Resources:

CIS has purchased 12 gray-market mobile phones with the intent to document
as much information about the life-cycles, hardware, software and content
of each phone as possible. We request that the producers, make and model of
each device be kept anonymous in discussions/publications that take place
outside of the workshop.

About Speakers:

1. Anil Kumar Pugalia

The author is a freelance trainer in Linux internals, Linux device drivers,
embedded Linux & related topics. Prior to this, he was at Intel and Nvidia.
He has been working with Linux since 1994. A gold medallist from IISc,
Linux & knowledge sharing are two of his many passions. Creating and
playing with open source hardware is one of his hobbies, which he
materializes through his company eSrijan, which can be accessed at:
<http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/>

Website: http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/<http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/>

2. Jadine Lannon

Jadine is a research intern at the Centre for Internet and Society. She is
currently working on the “Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in
the Marketplace” research project.

More information on the research project can be found here:
http://cis-india.org/a2k/pervasive-technologies-access-to-knowledge-i...

3. Khasim Syed Mohammed

Khasim leads Open Hardware and Software Initiatives at Texas Instruments.
Blog: http://www.khasim.in/; http://khasim.blogspot.in/

4. Sudar Muthu

Sudar does open hardware as hobby; Arudino is his playground. He is
passionate about programming (particularly web-based) and loves to design
and build web sites/services from scratch. AJAX, Web2.0, Semantic Web,
Comet, RDF or any of those latest buzz-field jargons.

Blog: http://SudarMuthu.com <http://sudarmuthu.com/>; http://hardwarefun.com;

Supporting Communities:

NULL: http://null.co.in/

SecurityXploded: http://securityxploded.com/

Computer Club India: http://computerclub.in/Main_Page

Register at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=d...

NOTE: After the one-day Workshop, communities and individuals will be
invited to visit CIS during working hours to further explore these devices.
We will encourage you to get very familiar with the devices, as we plan to
hold a Hackathon at the beginning of December, 2012. Happy Exploration!*
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