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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. Team Tsunami by blackrobe28 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the pic sites has several photos of team Tsunami locked into an epic FPS netgame, complete with multicolored LAN cables and cans of soda, right before showcasing the team learning how to use REAL firearms at one of Nevada's many target ranges.....

    One might doubt the wisdom of issuing sniper rifles and live ammunition to Counter Strike junkies.

    --
    Blackrobe "The Original TechnoWeenie!"
  2. Re:Electronic Civil Disobedience speaker said WHAT by jcr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks like this putz wants to get some attention by getting stupid followers with minimal script-kiddie skillz to attack RNC web sites.

    IHMO, it's the stupidest idea since the republicans decided to exise the word "french" from capitol hill menus.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  3. Re:Electronic Civil Disobedience speaker said WHAT by javaxman · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Although I can see the argument that some sort of electronic attack on the RNC cold be a valid form of civil disobedience, I definitely have to agreee with you that this guy is just lame lame lame, for the following reasons :

    1) The best you can propose is a DDOS attack? I mean, come on! That's just stupid, and causes collateral network slowdowns as well... how about something useful, like getting into the servers, redirecting to other websites or plain ol-fashioned defacing of main pages? A DDOS attack... it's just so lame...

    2) The guy can't even write a decent call-to-arms. "undemocratic will of the people" ? Did someone proofread this crap?? ;-)

    And no, I am not advocating that anyone should hack into any computer system, anywhere, because that would be wrong and illegal. No, really...

    Besides, individual bodies actually showing up in person all at once would be much more convincing and newsworthy than a website being down for a few minutes. If you want to disrupt the convention, I'm guessing a whole bunch of protesters showing up in person would be more effective than shutting down a website.

  4. Re:Electronic Civil Disobedience speaker said WHAT by jcr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although I can see the argument that some sort of electronic attack on the RNC cold be a valid form of civil disobedience

    No, it's not. If the clown doesn't like what the RNC has to say, his right is to comment on it, and try to draw attention to his counter-argument. Trying to shut someone else up by flooding out their web sites is just wrong.

    individual bodies actually showing up in person all at once would be much more convincing and newsworthy than a website being down for a few minutes.

    Only trouble is, showing up in person actually takes some guts, which is not at all in evidence in this kid's call for a DDOS attack.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."