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DEFCON 12 - After the Hangover
DECula writes "Humphrey Cheung has written an excellent article for Tomshardware about what WAS Defcon 12. The combination of talks about a BlueSniper antenna and BlueSnarfing was a good match."
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DEFense CONference
[n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
DEFCON stand for anyways?
In the Government it stands for: DEFense CONdition or DEFense readiness CONditions
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Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who don't know how, supervise
Odd that they'd mention the BlueTooth rifle, but not mentioning the Shmoo 802.11 rifle..same idea, much sexier design, dangerous power levels...like, 13 Watts. They claimed that it was dangerous to stand in front of or behind it while it was on.
Read all about AirPwn, the best wireless remote goatse display app ever used at a Defcon, here:
http://www.evilscheme.org/defcon/
At Defcon 12 this year my cow-orkers and I brought along a little piece of code called "airpwn." Airpwn is a platform for injection of application layer data on an 802.11b network. Although the potential for evil is very high with this tool, we decided to demonstrate it (and give it its first real field trial) on something nasty, but harmless (compared to say, wiping your hard-drive)
airpwn requires two 802.11b interfaces, one for listening, and another for injecting. It uses a config file with multiple config sections to respond to specific data packets with arbitrary content. For example, in the HTML goatse example, we look for any TCP data packets starting with "GET" or "POST" and respond with a valid server response including a reference to the canonical goatse image.
(Hugs toast!)
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
There is a story about the miners strike in England 1983-84, that the [fascist] state tried to have automated tape recorders to record any miners strike conversations, but everyone was talking about it then, and so the tapes ran out.
From the Article:
'The volume of information being seized for forensic analysis has mushroomed. It is not uncommon to see multiple terabytes of storage being examined. Agents said that some cases are approaching the petabyte range. Usually is because of emails and email attachments. Only with the development of better search techniques can the evidence be examined, as it is physically impossible to read every single email in many of these massive cases. [an error occurred while processing this directive]'
Sounds like a challenge to blow their storage capacity and search capacity, blow your Broadband upload and download limits, you know you want to, it is for a cause (the development of better search algoriths of course, or sedition, or both).
I reckon they store everything and look back at their logs when something crops up through less automated means.
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For those curious about the Electronic Civil Disobedience hubub, the Inquirer has a couple paragraphs on what happened.
Negative... It started as the Wall of Shame and then was changed to the Wall of Sheep.
The reason was there was a guy walking around with a "I F*** Sheep" Shirt. The guys thought that the people who sent cleartext passwords were like a herd of sheep. And the name stuck...
Humphrey Cheung
Editor - www.tomshardware.com
Webmaster - www.not5150.com (300+ Extreme Videos)
The fight was crazy. Basically the kid told the crowd to go to the Republican Convention and "Fuck up their shit" via any means possible. He told everyone to hack the website, use DDoS attacks, etc. He must be a fucking moron to start talking politics at a hacker convention.
Basically, the crowd got pissed at his anti-free speech talk and started giving him shit. Security cut the talk short, and the crowd mobbed the stage to start firing questions at this punk. Eventually, 1 guy got nose to nose with the speaker, which is when he was wisked away by security.
You'all might not want to skip this site: bluejackQ.com
Um, hello, if you were actually there, you'd know that "Shame" was crossed through with a red slash, with the word sheep above it to the left.
Anyone who was a supposed "Veteran" would know that, I sat about 5 feet from that projector.
I think 1. You need to get your eyes checked... or 2. You actually didn't go.
Here is a screenshot from the projecting laptop.
http://www.not5150.com/wallofsheep.png
Also if you RFTA'ed, You would see that I interviewed the guy who made and coded the wall.
Humphrey Cheung
Editor - www.tomshardware.com
Webmaster - www.not5150.com (300+ Extreme Videos)
Seeing theKR1PT0 Car parked out back of the hotel was pretty cool.
The bumper stickers are the best part.