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DEFCON 12 - After the Hangover

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flushing-the-toxins dept.

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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  1. Re:what does... by natron+2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    DEFense CONference

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  2. Re:what does... by 5m477m4n · · Score: 5, Informative

    DEFCON stand for anyways?

    In the Government it stands for: DEFense CONdition or DEFense readiness CONditions

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    Those who can't, teach
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  3. Rifles by gclef · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:Rifles by carbolic · · Score: 4, Informative
      These two rifles are very similar - it's what's hooked up to them that matters. The Shmoo group used a Wi-Fi system with a 27 dB amplifier, while the Flexilis group used a Class 1 Bluetooth USB adapter modded with a cable and bluedriving software. (Note: I put together the wireless hardware used on the the Bluesniper rifle.)

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  4. AirPwn by Twid · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!)

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    - "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
  5. Electronic Civil Disobedience by Eightlines · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those curious about the Electronic Civil Disobedience hubub, the Inquirer has a couple paragraphs on what happened.

  6. Re:Wall of Sheep by not5150 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

  7. Re:Fight! by cexshun · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.