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#308 – An Interview with Samy Kamkar

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Welcome, Samy Kamkar!

  • Samy was a big fan of 2600 magazine when getting started. Chris learned that HOPE was started/sponsored by them.
  • He started Fonality, a VOIP phone service, with some friends
  • Projects
    • Evercookie
    • LED projects
    • Samy Is My Hero
    • Drones/SkyJack
    • USB driveby
    • RollJam
    • OpenSesame (using the IMme hack from Mike Ossmann)
    • ProxMark
    • MagSpoof
  • That last project will potentially be featured on the current season of Mr Robot. So cool!

Comments

  1. john says

    July 26, 2016 at 7:09 pm

    we’re not worthy! 11111111

  2. Dale Scott says

    July 27, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    Great interview! I loved Sammy’s enthusiasm and his learning methods were inspiring.

  3. anon says

    July 30, 2016 at 4:37 am

    Samy is my hero!

    Seriously though this is a fun interview so thank you both.

  4. ru4mj12 (@ru4mj12) says

    August 4, 2016 at 11:10 am

    I know they don’t exactly occupy the same space, but what does Samy think of newer PBX/VOIP technologies like FreeSwitch as a replacement to Asterisk?

    HOPE seemed like it was a lot of fun. Fortunately, the talk I wanted to see on (lime)SDR is available!
    http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hopeconf/videos/130824120 (starts at 1:46:12)

  5. scott burr says

    August 17, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    I was left stunned by this episode, this guy, in my eyes is a total genius, some of the stuff that he is doing just blew me away. Stunning, just stunning.

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