I thought you might be interested in a new local hacking conference going on in Chicago. It is being held April 23rd, 2010 at a local bar. Tickets are on sale now and a speaker lineup has been posted to the website.
Talks to include: Hacking with GNU Radio, How Everyone Screws Up SSL, 30K Ft Look at Wifi, Trolling Reverse Engineer with Math, War Driving
for Warehouses, Dr. Evil's Guide to Web 2.0, Beholder WIDS Tool, Where did all those damn packets go?, Forensic Fail, Hacking the Skillet, Virus Writing Techniques, and Stratagem 1.
Most of the talks are by DEFCON, Black Hat, ToorCon, ShmooCon speaker alumni. More than half the speakers are from the Chicago area.
Tickets include a tshirt, a badge, and a 2 hour afterparty.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in attending.
Hope to see you there!
--Nick