The talk abstracts have been posted under the "schedule" section of the site.  We still don't have a finalized schedule but we will have one fairly soon.

In other news, a new member of the NC2600 Forums, chill, has taken it upon himself to organize an unofficial CarolinaCon shootout event.  He gave us these details to post:

The shoot is going to be held Friday, March 19th at Noon. If you would like to come shooting, you must RSVP with me. We will initially meet at the hotel in the parking lot before heading out. The shoot is going to be taking place on private property, so there are no limitations on firearms or fire rates. I don't care if you bring a fscking flamethrower, it's all good. If you have never shot a gun before and want to come try it out, you are more than welcome, but you must adhere to 3 rules:

1. Listen to us. We like shooting, but we like being safe and alive even more.
2. Have consideration. Ammunition costs money. Beer and other miscellaneous things will be accepted as donations if you turn out to be trigger happy terry.
3. BRING EAR PROTECTION! WHAT? I SAID BRING EAR PROTECTION! (ie. earplugs, although we may have enough for everyone)

To RSVP: please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We are not officially sponsoring the shootout event but we think it's a cool idea and we hope that those interested will have fun.  Please contact chill for more information and not the CarolinaCon staff.

We haven't had all of the con information in one spot yet so we're going to change that and post it all in one location:

When: CarolinaCon will be March 19th (7pm-10pm), 20th (10am-10pm), and 21st (10am-4pm)

Where: Holiday Inn at 4100 Glenwood Avenue; Raleigh, NC 27612

Cost: $20.00 for admission, the $20.00 covers all three days

The current list of speakers and talks is as follows:

• We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Shawn Merdinger
• Locks: Past, Picking, and Future - squ33k
• Cybercrime and the Law Enforcement Response - Thomas Holt, Professor Farnsworth
• You Spent All That Money and You Still Got Owned - Joe McCray
• Something Smells Phishy: The Evolution of Social Engineering - Chris Silvers and Dawn Perry
• It's Not A Vulnerability, It's A Feature - Deral Heiland
• The Search for the Ultimate Handcuff Key - TOOOL
• The Art of Software Destruction - Joshua Morin and Terron Williams
• How the Droid Was Rooted - Michael Goffin
• Smart People, Stupid Emails - Margaret McDonald
• Mitigating Attacks with Existing Network Infrastructure - Omar Santos
• OMG, The World Has Come To An End!!! - FeloniousFish
• Physical Manifestation of Software: Microcontrollers 101 - Nick Fury
• Protecting Systems through Log Management and System Integrity - David Burt
• Why Linux is Bad for Business - wxs
• Hacking with the iPhone - snide
• Metasploit - Ryan Linn