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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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Its not a real convention hangover unless your first words after getting up are "oh yea, I married that chick last night". Which is not likely given the male/female ratio at Defcon.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Is there another field that has as many useless acronyms and busswords as the IT industry?
I mean, hell, you can't even describe it without USING A DAMNED ACRONYM.
Sheesh.
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I need one of those where I work. Each time you appear on the list, you get docked $50 from your pay :) Now to get it past the management.
Omg! There's a suicidegirls password on that board!
DEFense CONference
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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
Where are the obligatory 100 pictures of weirded out booth babes?
What? It's not that kind of convention?
Crap. That's not much of a convention at all then...
Moo.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Defcon was great. plenty of pictures are up for your post-Defcon viewing enjoyment.
depends : my left or your left ?
defcon stands for DEFinitely CONned out of a social life.
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!"
I only disagreed with a few points raised on it. For example, where it [an error occurred while processing this directive], it was kinda dumb.
On the next page, the analisys [an error occurred while processing this directive], again, very dumb.
Overall, a good article. But in the next time, I think we could see [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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...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
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.
I liked it when the guy figured out the phone number that they were using in the voip speech. He called up and yelled "owned" on the phone that was attached to the PA system, I fell out of my chair
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
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."
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.
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
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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.
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.
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i'm sorry, i'm just sleep deprived... but bitter. yes. very bitter.
You'all might not want to skip this site: bluejackQ.com
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
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Seeing theKR1PT0 Car parked out back of the hotel was pretty cool.
The bumper stickers are the best part.
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?