BSides DSM Villages

Hacking Essentials

Explore techniques for lock picking, soldering, hardware hacking, Blue Team skills and Maker spaces!

Lock Picking

Tired of staring at a monitor trying to hack your way through a computer...come try your hand [literally] at hacking hardware! The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers [TOOOL] is set up and ready to give you a new kind of challenge. Gaining access has a different meaning here. TOOOL uses their knowledge to guide you through different types of locks, their vulnerabilities, and how to exploit them. Scrape pin tumblers instead of data!

Learn to Solder

Have you ever been curious about soldering and wanted to learn the basics? Join us in the Learn to Solder village where you can learn the basics and solder a kit. Stop by any time during the conference to watch, learn, or participate!

Hardware Hacking

Technology is slowly becoming part of nearly all devices, so let’s take a closer look at them! Join us in the hardware hacking village for hands-on demos of device teardowns, firmware extraction, reverse engineering, and more! Stop by any time during the conference to talk with other hardware hackers or to join a short hands-on demo of the basics firmware extraction led by Trevor Kems.

Blue Team

Interested in cool Blue Team tools and techniques? Join us in the Blue Team village for tool demos, discussions on techniques and best practices and to just hang out with other blue team members!

Maker Village

Are you passionate about creating? Stop by the maker village to check out all the tools, techniques, processes, and software that can help you make your next big idea! Stop by for demos and to talk with likeminded people that can help you build or hack your next project into the prototype stage.