On December 28, 2008, Francesco “ascii” Ongaro presented the conference “Tricks: makes you smile” during the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3), organized by the Chaos Computer Club and published on media.ccc.de. Included among the official talks of the event, the presentation explored advanced and unconventional techniques for penetration testing, and was listed in the official program alongside world-reference presentations such as MD5 considered harmful today and Security Nightmares 2009. Ongaro’s talk obtained 52 official views according to the event’s archive data.