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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 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, do
    Those who can't, teach
    Those who don't know how, supervise
  2. 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)