Festival of Dangerous Ideas - URBEX Talk

madmaw · 27 Jun 2014, 7:20 pm

Just in case anyone feels like doing something cultural, there's a talk on urban exploration at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

http://fodi.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/place-hack

Aydun · 27 Jun 2014, 8:03 pm

madmaw wrote:Just in case anyone feels like doing something cultural, there's a talk on urban exploration at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

http://fodi.sydneyoperahouse.com/events/place-hack

Cool, thanks for sharing! Looks like it could be rather interesting.

DeScent · 28 Jun 2014, 8:07 am

Bradley Garrett is cool.

Bradley Garrett - Place Hacking

Scarecrow · 28 Jun 2014, 4:29 pm

DeScent wrote:Bradley Garrett is cool.

Bradley Garrett - Place Hacking

Everyone who he explored with in the UK had warrants out for their arrests, with his thesis used as the evidence.

http://theconversation.com/urban-geogra ... ence-25961

There are others as well, who had left the country by that point. If they ever go back to the UK they would be immediately arrested as soon as they step off the plane.

No+Pro · 28 Jun 2014, 4:47 pm

How to Lose Friends and Incriminate People might be a better name for his talk

Aydun · 28 Jun 2014, 7:49 pm

Scarecrow wrote:Everyone who he explored with in the UK had warrants out for their arrests, with his thesis used as the evidence.

http://theconversation.com/urban-geogra ... ence-25961

There are others as well, who had left the country by that point. If they ever go back to the UK they would be immediately arrested as soon as they step off the plane.

Did you read that online? I'm curious to hear where.

This is a pretty interesting read/listen:
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE ... 5&rssr=rss

Scarecrow · 04 Jul 2014, 5:18 pm

No it wasn't online. One of the people involved told me about it when he got back to Australia.

Shoe · 10 Jul 2014, 7:20 pm

Bought a ticket.

No+Pro · 10 Jul 2014, 7:58 pm

you could throw a shoe, shoe

theedge · 17 Aug 2014, 9:47 pm

Was discussing this was Aydun the other day. The Iron mt (deliberate abbr.) thing pretty much amounts to corporate espionage on a huge scale - in fact it's probably impossible to quantify. Lots of data that could even be used for things like litigations, mergers and stuff. Plus you are dealing with "Uncle Sam" and all of his big corporates. Look at what's happening as a result of wikileaks. So I can understand the heavy-handed approach.

Shoe wrote:Bought a ticket.

How was the seminar? Worth the money? Apologies if it's a stupid question

Shoe · 21 Sep 2014, 2:53 pm

Shoe wrote:Bought a ticket.
How was the seminar? Worth the money? Apologies if it's a stupid question

Skipped it to go abseiling.

theedge · 22 Sep 2014, 9:24 pm

Shoe wrote:
Skipped it to go abseiling.

The real thing is always better

You certainly have lots of money to throw around

. Hope you got a refund.

Taco · 18 Nov 2014, 11:30 pm

Here's the talk if anyone was interested
http://youtu.be/p_VDYrvnvLk

timdole · 19 Nov 2014, 5:55 am

Taco wrote:Here's the talk if anyone was interested
http://youtu.be/p_VDYrvnvLk

I've never liked the term "urban hacking" as hacking implys breaking in, something which I personally avoid doing, but eh, each to their own.

DeScent · 19 Nov 2014, 8:23 pm

thanks for the link Taco