Time to put some rumors to rest...

• First, we didn't all die and get buried in the Nevada desert. I know, it's shocking, but we're all accounted for, honestly.
• Next, which is related to not being dead, the group is not going the way of the dodo. We still meet the second and fourth Thursday of every month at Chipotle's (12560 Artesia Blvd, Cerritos, CA 90703). To make it even easier, you can just type in dc949 on google maps and we'll show up.

Next, we should explain why the site has been offline for several months. Well, we're in between hosts and nobody in the group had any rackspace they were willing and able to share, which is why we were offline. We're online now is because Adam is hosting the site, DNS, etc. from a desktop at his house. So, if you're reading this on google cache because the site is down, it's probably because Verizon changed his IP again and we haven't been able to update the DNS yet. We are working on a proper solution where we'll have our own host in a rack, with our own IP. That'll probably get set up by the end of this year. Until then, enjoy the crappy service courtesy of Adam (but crappy service is better than no service!).

Things we're currently working on include hardware development / hacking. Adam plans on powering the vending machine with an arduino (mega). Frank^2 is busy taking over botnets. Keytops is working on some circuits for his car (fun blinkers, distributor, and possibly fuel injection & full ECU replacement). Others are probably busy with work or working on super secret projects. We may do some more work with UTF-8 smuggling. We may resume some crypto work that we were doing previously. Shmoocon isn't too far off, and if we can think of a contest which is worthy of existing at a con of that calliber, we'll do that. As you should have realized at LayerOne in 2008, DC949 really is a mixed bag of fun. We have some binary reversing ninjas, people with packet-foo, and others who are attacking the new web technologies as fast as they appear. Diversity is they key!