Connecting the bits, one byte at a time.
Welcome to RomHack Bẏtes, our series of technical meetups designed as the official road to RomHack Camp 2026. We aren’t just waiting for October; we’re building the momentum now.
Bẏtes is a space for the community to gather, share research, and deep-dive into the “how-to” of hacking before we all meet at the Camp. Think of it as the technical fuel for our journey toward the Camp.
What happens when you stop asking telecom operators for permission to talk? Since the 1990s BBS era, Metro Olografix has believed communities should be able to communicate on their own terms — and today that belief runs on LoRa radios, 868 MHz, and a growing mesh of battery- and solar-powered nodes.
In this talk, we’ll walk through the Off-Grid project: the hardware in your pocket, the Meshtastic protocol carrying encrypted messages from node to node, the experiments pushing us toward Reticulum, and the very practical question of how a handful of devices becomes a resilient infrastructure.
No prior expertise required — just curiosity about what a network looks like when nobody owns it.
| Date | Friday, May 8, 2026 @ 18:30 CEST |
| Where | Digimetrica office – Via Moscarola, ing. D. int. 143, Città Sant’Angelo (PE) Note: On-site attendance is free. Just come and join |
| Language | Italian |
| Speaker | Metro Olografix |
For our second stop, we moved to Milan to explore the shadows of network protocols. Network-based covert channels exploit communication protocols to conceal data, much like steganographic techniques embed messages in unstructured data. By hijacking legitimate traffic, these channels provide a stealthy means of communication and data exfiltration.
In this session, Andrea Ercolino demonstrated how high-level programming languages and open-source libraries like Scapy can be used to inject covert data into IPv6 packets without disrupting application-level communication. This technique is highly versatile, affecting on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and commercial cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Vultr.
| Date | Tuesday, March 24, 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Speaker | Andrea Ercolino |
For our inaugural session, we went behind the scenes of one of the most intense challenges of the year. The fibonhack team – the masterminds behind the RomHack Camp CTF – pulled back the curtain on how they designed, built, and executed the “From Dusk Till Dawn” project.
“What are the real challenges behind running a CTF at scale? We aren’t just talking about the flags; we’re talking about the architecture, the failures, and the lessons learned when the sun goes down.”
| Date | Friday, February 20, 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Speaker | fibonhack |
