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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. pictures by SKPhoton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Defcon was great. plenty of pictures are up for your post-Defcon viewing enjoyment.

  2. Fight! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Anyone know what happened in that fight they mentioned in the tomshardware article? I read this earlier and I was curious.

  3. Spot the Fed... by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...hehe, i gotta love a tradition such as this: both parties being good sports and enjoying the moment. You know the agents consider being "assigned" to Defcon to be treat - it's fun. New stuff, new tech, new ideas, new kids breaking the system, just good ol' fun as i see it.

    Oh lord, the oh-no-it's-not-fun-it's-against-the-law crowd will come out on this one. Seriously though, know thine enemy, what good fortune that you can enjoy the company of said "enemy". Hell, the Defcon kids enjoy knowing the "Feds" are there and will be watching. This is the cat and mouse that i admire and enjoy.

    i'm serious, good to see this tradition is still going strong. May both parties always be present, enjoy and learn....and i mean that, both parties. Happy hunting :)

  4. Knows what he's talking about by carbolic · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Humphrey is totally in the field with his Tom's Hardware write-ups. Remember when he was the pilot Warflying over LA?

    Later that day, I talked to the fed who got nabbed in that spot the fed video. He was running Kismet when he got called up. Others around him whispered "He can't be a fed, he's running Kismet". Don't be fooled. I think some of these fed types dig technology as much as any hacker.

    The Bluesniper rifle by the guys at Flexilis is so cool - I built the bluetooth gear for them from the kits on my bluedriving.com site. And I had a chance to look through the scope at DefCon, but didn't get to bluesnipe anyone with it yet.

    The Shmoo Group has another rad wireless sniper rifle they showed at DefCon. (I think the Flexilis guys got the bag on Shmoo this time for walking in the first day carrying the rifle.) Check out Shmoo's build-it instructions: LINK

    --
    Carbolic
    www.bluedriving.com

  5. SSH Attacks by Nishi-no-wan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Was this conference the reason behind a large increase in SSH attack attemps over the past two weeks? The past few months had been relatively quiet in regard to SSH attacks (I was wondering if I'd been cracked and they weren't being reported any more), but I've been getting multiple attempts pretty much daily for the past two weeks. What's up?