The Hugh Thompson Show October 5, 2007

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Technology night show on the new AT&T TechChannel (http://techchannel.att.com)

Friday October 5th and/or Saturday October 6th.
15 Penn Plaza, near Penn Station
10:30am - 4pm, whole or half day seats available.
Free tickets, Free Lunch and more, continue to read
email hugh.thompson.show+[email protected] for Tix
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Be part of an interactive audience at The Hugh Thompson Show, a TV
tech-variety show taping in NYC on October 5th and October 6th. Our
host, Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, is a world-renowned expert in application
security and has co-authored five books on the topic. In 2006, he was
named one of the "Top 5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security" by SC
Magazine. Famous technologists, entertainers, musicians have graced the
stage of The Hugh Thompson Show and October's shows are going to rock.
Our live band is lead by the musical talents of Steve Poltz and the
chemistry between Hugh, the band and the guests should not to be missed.
Lunch is served to all audience members and interaction between Hugh and
audience members is encouraged.

What follows are short descriptions of our network, The Hugh Thompson
Show and a list of our special guests for each day.

For free tickets, e-mail us at hugh.thompson.show+[email protected]
just provide your name and date(s) you'd like to attend.
Friday October 5th or Saturday October 6th.

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AT&T Tech Channel Overview

AT&T Tech Channel ( http://www.att.com/techchannel/) is a first-of-its kind
video Webcast that provides a single source of technology news and
original programming for people interested in technology, produced by a
dedicated team at AT&T.

AT&T Tech Channel represents the new way people will watch TV. Built
around a core community of people interested in technology, this site
demonstrates AT&T's capabilities with next-generation entertainment.
Programs produced out of two AT&T studios - in Bedminster, NJ and New
York City this network will be watched by millions of viewers over a
broadband connection and will provide the public with ongoing
technology-related programming.

Programs on AT&T Tech Channel:

* Tech Channel News

* The Hugh Thompson Show

* Random Access Theatre

* Daily Byte

* Behind the Byte

* Trumpeter Swans

* Corporate Corner - notes industry leaders lectures

The Hugh Thompson Show

Created for the AT&T Tech Channel and hosted by famed internet security
expert, Hugh Thompson, this AT&T program combines Hugh's zany
personality with his professional background making Hugh the driving
force behind this series.

Styled after a late night talk show, each program is taped in front of a
live audience and consists of a comedic monologue, a tape package,
studio guests, audience participation and a live band. For our guests
the fun starts the minute they enter our studio. The Hugh Thompson Show
band, lead by the musical and lyrical talents of Steve Poltz, actually
writes an original song for each one of our guests as they enter the
staging area.

While the focus of the program is technology and security we take a
broad approach to these subjects through a diverse list of informative
and entertaining guests. Prior bookings include renowned scientists and
authors Bill Cheswick, Steve Bellovin, creators of the Firewalll,
Whitfield Diffie, Howard Schmidt and Tom Wheeler. Controversial public
figures like Richard Stallman have also joined our list of interesting
guests. Comedians Nancy Giles and Pat Dixon as well as music artists
Jonathan Colton and Karen Jacobsen have entertained the live audience at
The Hugh Thompson Show.

The Hugh Thompson Show has explored the underground worlds of voter
hacking, US mail fraud, ID Theft and data recovery. In the immortal
words of Hugh Thompson... Love the Bits and they'll Love You Back.

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Current Guest Line-Up for October 2007 HT Shows

Friday October 5th:

11am
Mike Wesch: Cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction. His famous video "Web 2.0 – The Machine is Us/ing Us" went viral on Youtube – check it out

12pm
Mari Frank: ID Theft victim and spokesperson for Uni-Ball the only gel pen that uses penetrating ink that can not be erased. Check out these websites for more info on Mari: http://www.identitytheft.org/mari.htm - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/frank.html

1pm lunch

1:30pm
Drew Curtis: Founder of www.Fark.com – a news aggregator who puts a funny spin on the headlines of the day. Check out his popular site www.fark.com – He also just published a book "It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News".

2:30pm
Dan Lyons: The Fake Steve Jobs – need I say more – check out his blog at http://fakesteve.blogspot.com – Dan is a senior editor at Forbes magazine and was recently outed as the Fake Steve Jobs by the NY Times – Hugh and I knew it for months and kept our mouths shut because Dan was in the midst of publishing a book that he is releasing this November called: "Options" check out this review in CNet - http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9779631-37.html

3:30pm
Tony Calvano: Founder of Landmark Signs – Tony's company runs 80% of the hi-tech and low-tech signs in Times Square – Known as the Mayor of Times Square – Tony is also responsible for the set-up and installation of the News Years Eve Ball. Check out his signs at http://www.landmarksignsny.com/welcome.html

Saturday October 6th:

11am
Dan Egerstad: He is a 21 year old hacker who just made headlines when working as a security researcher collected sensitive e-mail from embassies worldwide, published user names and passwords to highlight need for encryption. Read this article in PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137004-page,1/article.html

12:00pm
TBD

1:00pm
Lunch

1:30pm
TBD

2:30pm
Peter Neumann: Renowned computer scientist – all I can say is check out his bio online – he is also an accomplished musician and will be performing a piece that he wrote on the keyboards in our studio at the end of his segment. Bio: http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/

3:30pm
Whitfield Diffie : is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. He works at Sun Microsystems and is a real cool dude.

Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, which went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

In 1991 he joined Sun Microsystems' SunLabs-West research facility (in Mountain View, California) as a Distinguished Engineer, working primarily on public policy aspects of cryptography. As of January 2004 Diffie remains with Sun, serving as its Chief Security Officer, and as a Vice President and Sun Fellow.

Check out his bio & picture at: http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=412 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie

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