LayerOne 2025 is coming up on May 24-25 at the Pasadena Hilton hotel! If you or your friends haven’t registered yet, do so before May 24 to save on admission! Register now on the Registration Page

LayerOne 2025
May 24-25, 2025
https://www.layerone.org

Our focus is on learning, fun, and friends. LayerOne offers some of the most unique and interesting hands-on areas you’ll ever see at a conference. Come learn about hacking, technology, security, and more without the high price tag or long lines.

Interested in learning more about these areas? Interested in networking with other like-minded folks? Interested in meeting some of the best and brightest in the information security world? Then LayerOne is for you!

Head over to registration page to get yourself pre-registered for the event. Registration is available on-site but costs more – register online now to save some money! Registration includes access to both days of the event, an electronic badge, breakfast on both days, and a banquet dinner & game night on Saturday night.

• b0t – We’ll Do It Live: Experiments in Self-Modifying Code
• cesi0 – Revenge of the Sol Stealers
• Daryll Strauss – Covert Regional Communication with Meshtastic
• Jack Baker – WINE for Video Game Hackers
• Joe Rozner – Introduction to Fault Injection
• Josh “savant” Brashars – Reverse Engineering Toys into Robots
• m0zy – Microarchitectural Side Channel Attacks
• machinist – Boo Boo Runs Wild: Guerilla Open-Source Manufacturing
• Bronwen “Corvus” Aker – Keeping Things Local – Making Your Own Private LLM
• Sam Bowne – Securing AI Systems
• Vincent Benzoni – Quantum Conundrums: Conquering Quomputing Challenges
• wasabi – Amped up for (Learning) Radio

You can read full details of each talk by clicking the links above or by visiting the Speaker page!

LayerOne is known for being the most hands-on conference around. We want you to learn and socialize by doing! Full details for each event on Events page!

Hands-on villages:

• Lockpicking Village
• Hardware Hacking Village
• Hacking & CTF Village
• Chillout / Gaming Area
• RaiseMe Career Village

Contests & Events:

• Capture the Flag (CTF)
• The Intercept (Hardware CTF)
• Hebocon Robot Battles
• Tamper-Evident Contest
• Demo Party
• Ham Certification Testing

Thank you for your support, we look forward to seeing you soon!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Things are quite glitchy this year. You better get your ticket now before we kernel panic: https://www.layerone.org/registration!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Haven’t booked yet? Head over to the registration page to get your tickets now!

Do you have extensive knowledge of defeats for tamper-evident devices? Or maybe you’ve heard about the tamper contests and would like to try your hand at it? We have just the challenge for you: King of the Seal! Come one, come all – play against your friends!

Here’s how it works:

1. To enter, you must open and close (unseal/reseal) a tamper evident device without visible, tactile, or olfactory evidence that you did so.
2. Turn in your entry to the friendly Tamper Village staff. We will rate your attempt.
3. If you’re better than the current best for that category, your entry will become the new king of the hill! The tampered seal will be placed atop a pedestal and displayed for all to see.
4. Until someone comes and does a better job, you hack. Try again. Do better!

Additional Rules:
* Max team size: 1
* Tamper Evident Staff evaluations are swift and brutal.

There will be multiple seals available for your purview including mechanical and adhesive seals. Old favorites and new challenges will be present for you to play with. The LayerOne Tamper-Evident Contest runs from 10:00 Saturday to 14:00 Sunday!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Today is the LAST DAY to get Early Bird discounts for registration! The hotel room discount is also end soon, so book now if you haven’t!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Back for 2025! The Intercept is a hardware Capture the Flag (CTF) event focused on testing your skills in hardware hacking, reverse engineering, networking, programming, anti-tamper technologies, and more!

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This year’s contest includes challenges related to reverse engineering, hardware hacking, and hardware fault injection attacks. Normally we would let you flounder in a sea of your own despair, clutching at 10 point Discord flags, but this year we recommend bringing the following equipment:

• Probes and jumpers
• Fault Injection tools
• Oscilloscope
• Logic Analyzer
• Power supply

Contest starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday in the Hardware Hacking Village. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CONTEST!

If you are looking for a team to join or friends to make a new team, you can find others interested in our #theintercept channel on our Discord server.

Don’t forget, time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in ONE WEEK. Don’t wait, book now!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff