Blackhat/Defcon Report

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge [ed. note: part of OSTG along with Slashdot] is running its concluding piece on the week-long Blackhat/DEFCON hackerfest in Las Vegas. Want to know how little our police/intelligence agencies seem to have learned from their failures prior to 9/11? Or how a very large goon known only as Priest prevented outright political violence at a DEFCON presentation on Civil Disobedience? Or which of the two conferences is right for you? It's all here in the Blackhat/Defcon: Final report." Reader M. Curphey writes "The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) announced at Blackhat the release of a 'Threat Classifications' document. This document attempts to clarify web security terminology such as Cross Site Scripting, Session Fixation, Cookie poisoning, and HTTP response splitting (to name a few)."

Comments

Crimethinc

[evslin]

Questions were asked about what "going over the line" meant. Assclowns like Crimethinc are exactly what you'd want to point at and say "that's what I'm talking about." Disagreeing with the government (or even just Republicans) is one thing, but going around encouraging people to vandalize websites/etc is something else.

Jesus. No wonder he looked like he was expecting to be arrested.

Re:Just one thing that very few learn...

[wayward]

To paraphase Gene Spafford when he talked about the idea of hiring hackers as security experts, an arsonist isn't necessarily well-qualified to be on a fire department.

Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence

[smooth wombat]

how is it that the half of America which owns guns is never the one calling for violence?

You've never heard of militias, have you? Listen to some of the right-wing crud that they spew and you'll see how wrong your comment is.

Southern Michigan Regional Militia
Militia of Montana

Those are just two to get you started but feel free to do your own research.