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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?"
IT industry?
without USING A DAMNED ACRONYM
See the irony in the post?
Free XBox, PS2
Omg! There's a suicidegirls password on that board!
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.
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]
Buy a Nintendo DS Lite
...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
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
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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
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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.