Unlock Your Brain, Harden Your System

Context

The purpose of the Unlock convention is to give an open and free playground where people can discuss the implication of new technologies in society. Unlock is a balanced mix convention where technical and non-technical people can meet and share freely all kind of information. The convention will be held in Brest - France in November (07-08.11.2025). The most significant new discoveries about computer network attacks and defenses, open-source security solutions, and pragmatic real world security experience will be presented in a 2 days series of informative tutorials and talks.

Friday 7 November will be devoted to workshops.
Talks will take place on Saturday 8 November.

We would like to invite you to submit papers, and workshops proposals for selection by the Unlock technical review committee.
All proposals and speakers must comply with our code of conduct.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Software engineering and security
• Social engineering
• Honeypots/honeynets
• Spyware, phishing and botnets (distributed attacks)
• Newly discovered vulnerabilities in software and hardware
• Electronic/digital privacy
• Wireless networks and security
• Attacks on information systems and/or digital Information storage
• Electronic voting
• Free software and security
• Assessment of computers, electronic devices and information systems
• Standards for information security
• Legal and social aspects of information security
• Software engineering and security
• Security in information retrieval
• Network security
• Malware analysis and reversing
• Forensics and anti-forensics
• Offensive (and counter-offensive) information technology
• Mobile communications security and vulnerabilities
• CSIRTs, incident analysis and response
• Information security and data mining
• Threats exchange and sharing

Ethics and AI

Unlock Your Brain Harden Your System pays particular attention to ethics and academic integrity. We expect all contributors to adhere to a rigorous code of ethics in the preparation and presentation of their work.

While the subject of Artificial Intelligence is of course of interest for conference topics, on the other hand, and in order to guarantee the authenticity and originality of contributions, we ask that abstracts, proposals and presentations submitted to the conference be written by the speakers themselves. Furthermore, the use of AI to generate content must be clearly indicated and justified within the strict framework of a research methodology.

Any undisclosed use of AI for writing proposals or presentations will be considered a breach of our code of conduct and may result in rejection of the submission or other appropriate action.

We encourage all participants to adhere to these principles to maintain a high level of academic and professional integrity.

Evaluation of submissions

We would like to remind you that all abstracts submitted are evaluated by an independent selection committee made up of around ten people with different profiles, experience, sensibilities and employers. Submissions are ranked exclusively according to the votes awarded by this committee, guaranteeing a fair and transparent selection process. An invitation to submit does not therefore constitute acceptance.

What's more, any sponsorship action does not entitle the sponsor to a special treatment from the selection committee. Finally, once decisions have been taken, it is not advisable to try to influence the committee to reverse its decision. The committee's decisions are based solely on the perceived quality and relevance of the submissions.

Speakers’ privileges

• For the selected talks/presentations/papers, authors will get a free access to the conference
• One speaker per talk/workshop
• Travel costs will be covered
• Accommodation will be provided (up to 3 nights during the convention)
• Lunch, beverages, and more during the all days of the convention

Language

The languages of the conference are French and English.

Publication and rights

Authors keep the full rights on their publication/papers but give an unrestricted right to redistribute their papers for the Unlock convention and its related electronic/paper publications.

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the hack.lu conference, whose values we share, and which has allowed us to draw inspiration from their call for papers.

You can enter proposals until 2025-06-30 00:00 (Europe/Paris), 2 months, 3 weeks from now.