Applied Signals Analysis and EW Judo

Bring your Flippers, HackRFs, SDRs, Spectrum Analyzers, Phased Array Beam Steered Passive Radars, broadband directional antennas, and we'll bring ours to train you for a couple of hours. We'll have some of the latest applied signal techniques and equipment in practical exercises there, as well as discussions of real world applications at the front lines of the Ukraine war. We will do our best to answer any questions on radio systems including on protocols, SDRs, antennas, techniques, and tools, and help train on practical use and problem solving.

About the Presenter: Jonathan Andersson

Jonathan has a background in embedded systems design and began reversing radio systems using GNURadio in 2009.  He demonstrated the Icarus DSMX drone interception system (presented at PACSEC), researched RF vulnerabilities in industrial cranes and a wide array of other targets, and created the Capture the Signal (CTS) contest presented at several conferences globally.

About the Presenter: Dragos Ruiu

Dragos is the organizer of Canada's and Japan's oldest, most technical, information security conferences at CanSecWest and PacSec, for 21 and 17 years respectively. He started out as a computer dinosaur from back when computers used paper tape (P DP11) and along the way has worked on supercomputers used by various government agencies, as well as working on network monitoring systems for HP for 7 years, picking up an Emmy along the way for the MPEG digital video analyzers used for the first HDTV stations. He does security audits for mission critical systems, and has organized infosec conferences in Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Hong Kong, as well as starting the PWN2OWN competition. More recently since the pandemic he has been focusing on helping conferences pivot their technology and rationalize their systems for virtual on-line formats, including the NASFiC 2020 conference, and the recent 2020 Hugo Awards at ConNZealand.