Chumby Co-Inventor to Keynote at LCA

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Chumby Co-Inventor to Keynote Linux Conference

linux.conf.au, Australia's premier open source conference, have announced the first of four keynote
speakers for 2013. Andrew "bunnie" Huang is best known as the lead hardware developer of
open-source gadget "Chumby"*, a device designed from the ground up as an open source gadget,
complete with open source hardware, and whose designers encourage hackers to get into the device
and make it their own. He is also the author of "Hacking the Xbox"^, a book about reverse
engineering consumer products and the social and practical issues around doing so.

bunnie is currently a Research Affiliate of the MIT Media Lab, technical advisor for several
hardware startups and MAKE magazine, and shares his experiences manufacturing hardware in China
through his blog. He takes what he calls a "push-and-pull" approach to open hardware. He
contributes original open designs, as well as liberating closed designs. He recently released an
open implementation of a man-in-the-middle attack on high-bandwidth digital content protection
(HDCP), a method of copy protection used by many media outlets, which enables overlays on encrypted
video without circumventing copyright controls.

The keynote, titled "Linux in the Flesh: Adventures Embedding Linux in Hardware", embraces the idea
that Linux is not just for desktops and servers, but exists, in one form or another, in millions of
smartphones, routers, set top boxes, and other hardware appliances that we encounter in everyday
life. bunnie will share some his experiences with embedding Linux in various hardware clients, the
interplay between hardware and software architecture, system planning for embedded applications,
and the challenges of hardware manufacturing and building a business selling physical goods.

For more information on the talks scheduled to be presented at linux.conf.au this year, visit
https://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule. 

* http://www.chumby.com/
^ http://hackingthexbox.com/

= About linux.conf.au =
linux.conf.au showcases the best of open source and community-driven software and hardware, and
it's coming to the Australian National University from 28 January to 2 February, 2013. The
conference provides a great opportunity for open source developers, users, hackers, and makers to
share their ideas and further improve their projects.

= Contact =
Michael Still (Conference Director)
+61 2 6140 4546
media@lca2013.linux.org.au