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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."

6 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. SuicideGirls by xenostar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Omg! There's a suicidegirls password on that board!

  2. 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
  3. Spot the Fed error by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
    The feds that are "caught" take everything in stride and everyone has a good laugh. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
    Obviously this breaks some sort of natural law.
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    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  4. pictures by SKPhoton · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  5. 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.

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    Blackrobe "The Original TechnoWeenie!"
  6. 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)