Goto Berlin Day 1
Sam Newman trying to confuse us all at the Goto Berlin Part of the Rails Girls Summer Of Code scholarship is also getting free tickets to a conference of your choice. So I went to my first developer's conference ever: The Goto Berlin ! Such a nice conference! At the beginning I thought, I will be there all by myself, but it turned out I knew a lot of people there and it felt like a cozy community gathering with really good catering and interesting talks. I can totally relate to this. First Talk: The Hacker The first Talk I went to was called " Hacking the Internet of Things for Fun & Profit " by a young hacker, Ruben, from the Netherlands. It was very impressive to see how easy it is to hack things. Ruben first showed us how he hacked a controlling system for the street lights in a place in California. It felt like a really simple step by step tutorial guiding us through his typical procedure of hacking into something. He of course calles himself ...