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Defcon 14 Full of Amazing Hardware Hacks

nTrfAce writes "Defcon 14 is taking place right now in Las Vegas. You know it's serious when you see things like an IPV6 enabled refrigerator with an IP address of 1337:sec:badd:a22:DEF:C012::14. And of course using a rocket for war driving, er WarRocketing. And Joe Grand has created the absolutely coolest Defcon badge ever out of a PCB, PIC, and LEDs."

95 comments

  1. Living in the fridge. by EnsilZah · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but does it contain 0xDEADBEEF?

    1. Re:Living in the fridge. by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes! Help! I'm suffocating!

    2. Re:Living in the fridge. by EnsilZah · · Score: 1

      Heh, good thing it has an internet connection you can post from then.

    3. Re:Living in the fridge. by middlemen · · Score: 1

      Yes, but does it contain 0xDEADBEEF?

      And for those people who don't eat beef, it contains 0xF00D.

    4. Re:Living in the fridge. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Only 0xBADF00D

    5. Re:Living in the fridge. by SheeEttin · · Score: 3, Funny

      And 0x00C0FFEE?

    6. Re:Living in the fridge. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 1
      And 0x00C0FFEE?


      In the fridge? Wouldn't it get cold?
    7. Re:Living in the fridge. by r.jimenezz · · Score: 5, Funny
      Yes, but does it contain 0xDEADBEEF?

      Hey!! Stop posting my WEP key on Slashdot!

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    8. Re:Living in the fridge. by CommunistHamster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, but nobody wants hot coffee anymore

    9. Re:Living in the fridge. by Kennego · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ha, reminds me of debugging in Visual Studio and having a bad memory address be 0xbaadf00d

      That was hilarious the first time I saw it...

    10. Re:Living in the fridge. by Poltras · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

    11. Re:Living in the fridge. by Onan · · Score: 3, Funny
      And 0x00C0FFEE?
      Fine, but remember the cardinal rule: 0xDECAFBAD.
    12. Re:Living in the fridge. by waferhead · · Score: 2, Informative

      "
      Living in the fridge.
      (Score:5, Funny)
      by EnsilZah (575600) Alter Relationship on Saturday August 05, @11:51AM (#15852367)
      (http://ensilzah.deviantart.com/)
      Yes, but does it contain 0xDEADBEEF?"

      Ah, an old Amiga user.
      (Mungwall--an excellent memory testing tool would bracket partitions of memory (Amiga had no VM) and fill it with 0xDEADBEEF)

    13. Re:Living in the fridge. by smart.id · · Score: 1

      That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage! Prepare Spaceball 1 for immediate departure! And change the combination on my luggage.

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    14. Re:Living in the fridge. by noz · · Score: 1

      It certainly doesn't have any 0xC0EDBABEs.

    15. Re:Living in the fridge. by l33t+gambler · · Score: 0

      Heh

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    16. Re:Living in the fridge. by ajs318 · · Score: 1

      What about 0x000df118?

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    17. Re:Living in the fridge. by SheeEttin · · Score: 1

      And 0x000F11E7. Doesn't quite spell filet, does it?

  2. An IPv6 enabled fridge? by NsOmNiA91130 · · Score: 1

    That's infuckingcredible.

  3. Website Toast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like the website was running on one of those badges.

    1. Re:Website Toast by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Informative

      That's what I thought ... hit refresh a couple of times.

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    2. Re:Website Toast by simontek2 · · Score: 1

      Site is down. you would think a room full of hackers, they could fix it. lol.

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    3. Re:Website Toast by Novalight_2550 · · Score: 1

      Ah, nothing ever really changes does it? /. still hits them harder then the ground hits an egg dropped from 12,000 feet. It's a shame, i wanted to seem some pics of what they did, or at least get more detail.

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    4. Re:Website Toast by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah ... too bad nobody has figured out how to serve Web pages via some kind of swarming technique ala Bit Torrent. Now that would be interesting.

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    5. Re:Website Toast by generic-man · · Score: 1

      That would suck. You could only visit a web page if it were popular enough to have a swarm surrounding it. Whatever happened to the elitist "everything popular must be bad" attitude I've come to expect from Slashdot?

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    6. Re:Website Toast by imroy · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's called Freenet (with fproxy), but the privacy precautions of Freenet add so much to the load times that most people wouldn't find it a viable solution.

    7. Re:Website Toast by magetoo · · Score: 2, Informative
      Well, there's always Dijjer. (site, Wikipedia article)


      I've never seen anyone use it though.

      Freenet has already been mentioned. (Here's a link.) Funny that Ian Clarke is involved in both.
    8. Re:Website Toast by Tracy+Reed · · Score: 1

      Actually it's called Beehive/Cobweb: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/

  4. IP enabled fridge? by also-rr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Been done already I'm afraid - I present the iFrige (work safe link).

    1. Re:IP enabled fridge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But this is different! It has IPv6! And that's cool! Because it's new!

    2. Re:IP enabled fridge? by csplinter · · Score: 1
  5. Oooh by Aladrin · · Score: 1

    Some of those would be really great to have attended. In particular:

    Remote Pair Programming and Test-driven Development Using Open Source
    Advanced File System Hiding and Detection
    Hacking Malware: Offense Is the New Defense

    The first of those almost seems not to belong with all the others, though... Just plain programming with no hacking slant? Amazing.

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    1. Re:Oooh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, DefCon kinda follows a similar pattern of the post-bubble job market. Ratherthan L33th4x0rd00d presenting on the topic of MacOS rootkits (replete with handicapped public-speaking ability), a lot more serious well-credentialed indivduals are there speaking about more serious topics (generally guys that are a lot better at being on stage presenting advanced technical topics).

    2. Re:Oooh by prostoalex · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Advanced File System Hiding and Detection

      This was mainly about Windows NTFS having certain bits reserved for almost every type of files out there. Basically, the guys from Lockheed Martin created a tool for hiding data in those places and then recovering it.

    3. Re:Oooh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Pair-Programming was actually very good. The same presenters did a talk on Saturday about finding buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in code. Very good stuff, both times.

  6. Unmentioned DEFCON Presentation by Jazzer_Techie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Creating an Unhackable Server via the Slashdot Effect!

    1. Re:Unmentioned DEFCON Presentation by Darundal · · Score: 1

      Really? I thought it was "The Slashdot Effect and DOS attacks; or how I learned to stop pissing off the man and get away with it."

  7. Do I spot an "S" there? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny
    You know it's serious when you see things like an IPV6 enabled refrigerator with an IP address of 1337:sec:badd:a22:DEF:C012::14

    Wow, IPv6, now using base-27? :o
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    1. Re:Do I spot an "S" there? by Olmy's+Jart · · Score: 5, Informative

      NICE CATCH!

      I was going to complain it wasn't a global unicast address (2000::/16 - 3fff::/16) but yours was better. I suppose they meant it to be 5EC instead of sec which would have been more 31337.

      Oh well... Good job...

      Damn... Even got mod points and I can't both mod and post/reply... Sigh... >;-P

    2. Re:Do I spot an "S" there? by gkhan1 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Damn... Even got mod points and I can't both mod and post/reply... Sigh... >;-P
      Don't worry, I'll mod him up for you.
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      Ahh, crap....
    3. Re:Do I spot an "S" there? by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 1
      (2000::/16 - 3fff::/16)

      ... which happens to be equivalent to 2000::/3, but yes, the "s" pretty much takes the cake.

  8. Defcon Slashdotted by maccam94 · · Score: 1

    How ironic, a hacking site DoS'd...

  9. Hackers DoS'd by oskard · · Score: 4, Funny

    That fridge is undoubtedly hosting this website...

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    Sigs are for Terrorists.
    1. Re:Hackers DoS'd by SeaFox · · Score: 3, Funny
      That fridge is undoubtedly hosting this website...

      And now it's been put "on ice".
    2. Re:Hackers DoS'd by Servo · · Score: 1

      So if the fridge doesn't respond to ping, does that mean the light is off?

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  10. Slashdot wins by PHASER8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Defcon should call up slashdot and ask where to send the award for the 'DoS attack' war game since obviously they won by ./'ing the defcon site.

  11. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?

    1. Re:WTF by clambake · · Score: 1

      not when it's strapped to a rocket.

  12. Badges by xrayspx · · Score: 2, Informative

    The WarRocketry was really cool, and the badge hacking contest promises to be pretty competetive. Major Malfunction (speaker for magstripe hacking), has already made his into an IR emitter. TV-Be-GOON. There is also a small bot area where they are doing computer controlled weapons targetting. I watched that for a while yesterday, the results were very mixed, but most of them had the right idea.

    1. Re:Badges by xrayspx · · Score: 1

      Dammit, photos of the badges are here: One, Two, Three.

    2. Re:Badges by AB3A · · Score: 1

      Feh. You want sophisticated badges, you should have been at the Atlanticon QRP sessions a few years ago. Those badges had IR configuration and data broadcasting, they were configured with morse code, and had stuff like callsigns moving across the displays. What does this DEFCON badge do besides blink?

      There are far more nerdly badges out there...

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  13. Slashdotted fridge by kolme · · Score: 4, Funny

    All the food in the fridge is now baked. DoD'ing fridges, the geek way of cooking?

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    1. Re:Slashdotted fridge by piepkraak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The Kolme is a waterway in northen France, and the area around the belgium Verune. In a long forgotten past the rivers Ijzer and the Aa flowed via uncountable sidetracks in the sea. When in the 11th century the coastarea was tranformed into land (`polderen'), the sidetracks were digged into the water-flow-controlsystem.

    2. Re:Slashdotted fridge by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Not likely. In order to DoD a fridge, you must
      not be near it during the initial attack, but
      also must be ready to move in quickly to determine
      if there is anything worth salvaging.

      There usually isn't after a DoD attack.

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    3. Re:Slashdotted fridge by kolme · · Score: 1

      Thanks a lot! Curiosity was killing me :)

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      $ whoami
  14. Coming soon... by frostoftheblack · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is an Internet startup like Last.fm. Instead of one that uploads your most recently played tracks, it uploads your most recently eaten food. You'll have to build sensors within the refrigerator that automatically grab the barcode of the product whenever it's removed from the refrigerator, and queried against a database.

    Anyone got pliers?

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    1. Re:Coming soon... by generic-man · · Score: 1

      The now-defunct Icepick house had a food display on its website: every time someone removed an item from the fridge or threw it away, they scanned a bar code and it went on the web. Hook up a web services interface to your neighborhood grocer's inventory system and you've got a fully integrated e-kitchen.

      dot com.

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    2. Re:Coming soon... by John+Hasler · · Score: 1

      > ...it uploads your most recently eaten food.

      I had an entirely different image from that then you intended...

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    3. Re:Coming soon... by frostoftheblack · · Score: 1

      Haha well in that case, we would need defcon to actually wire a NIC into a human, that way we could control the diaphragm. The ping of death would have a whole new meaning I guess...

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  15. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by Hemmer · · Score: 1

    Don't click on it then...

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  16. Slashdot briefing by Frightening · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear Taco will be giving a presentation on state-of-the-art DDOS using blogs. The sample victim site apparently is defcon.org...

  17. Best team name ever... by horati0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    ..from the list of capture the flag qualifiers:
    our wives are pissed
    Works on so many levels.
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  18. "WarRocket" ... kind of sick expression right now? by fantomas · · Score: 0, Troll

    ok I've always thought "War(Driving/Walking/Hula-hooping...)" a bit of a crap term for checking out wireless connections (yes I know the film heritage) but mmm.. WarRocketting.. I am probably having a humour-failure here but this strikes me as slightly *sick* right now don't ya think seeing as what's happening in the Middle East?

    Can't we agree something a little more neutral/relaxed than "War" to describe checking out wireless signals?

    Maybe I'm just old and don't think War=Fun.....

    (sorry, grumbly old man rant over, please get off my lawn pesky kids...)

  19. SWOOOSH by Frightening · · Score: 1

    That's what it sounded like when it flew over your head.

    [or]

    I love the smell of Anonymous Cowards in the morning. Smells like...mod points.

    [alternative]

    Whats a luser of slashdot? Do you mean like a faggot of fucking?

    1. Re:SWOOOSH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0



      Actually, I think you missed the joke. We hate you.

      And also, you're not allowed to use the cliches on here with a UID that high.

      But, you are correct: luser of slashdot == faggot of fucking == Frightening (976489)

  20. Mirror by Ankur+Dave · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here's a temporary mirror for the DEFCON rockets section:
    http://ankur.homelinux.com/defcon.html

  21. Re:"WarRocket" ... kind of sick expression right n by wdwillis · · Score: 1

    didn't it start with "war dialing".... i mean come on, tech doesn't care about politics.

  22. my favirote LED badge... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I ordered one with IR led's instead and place it on a hat. I have it scroll "Fuck OFF Security GUYS!" so only the people watching the security cameras can read it.

    Quite fun to get accosted by someone that comes down to ask me about my profanity on my hat to get me looking at them with it in my hand going "What?? this has not worked for weeks." while showing them a blank screen, and I walk away. Security are typically way to stupid to understand Infared let alone CCD camera sensitivity to IR.

    IT's fun. it also set's off movie "camera detectors" everytime.

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    1. Re:my favirote LED badge... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uh, even a stupider than average security guy will assume you've just turned it off, no? And then beat you up in an alley?

      Fun idea but something less provocative seems smarter.

    2. Re:my favirote LED badge... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not everyone has to worry about getting beat up, fortunately.

    3. Re:my favirote LED badge... by DarkOx · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Either that or you are the idot. Think this through, security is going to show up, question you and guess you just turned the thing off and toss you out. Nobody is going care about your side of the story in the first place if you complain about the treatment you get, and they won't beleive you either that there was nothing display becuase the security tape WILL show otherwise. Now you could go on to explain your little prank to them but they hey what was the point again?

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    4. Re:my favirote LED badge... by ken95357 · · Score: 1

      Just don't walk anywhere near the automated weapons systems contest wearing that badge. The targets each had IR LEDs in the center.

      Then again... :-)

  23. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by Vo0k · · Score: 1

    There are ads on Slashdot? Where?

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  24. Alternate badge link by scdeimos · · Score: 4, Informative

    MAKE has a couple of photos of Joe Grand's PCB/PIC/LED badges in their blog.

  25. big damn deal........ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I saw an IPv6 fridge from LG at Future Shop here in Canada like over three years ago for sale...

    IPv6 fridges? pft.. That's soo 2003..

    Get with the times buddy...

  26. Re:"WarRocket" ... kind of sick expression right n by blincoln · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just old and don't think War=Fun.....

    But WarGames (the movie) *is* fun, and that's where the name comes from.

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  27. Re:"WarRocket" ... kind of sick expression right n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have never, ever, seen a sicker display of PC bullshit in my whole life. Get the fuck out of here you faggot bitch.
     
    I seriously mean it, I'm sick of you little limp wrist bitches who cry about stuff like this. It's a fucking word, get the fuck over it.

  28. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"

    Better double check that one. Don't see no "d" on the left.

  29. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by az1324 · · Score: 1

    What does united end with?

  30. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dunno... squid filters it for me. Pages load quicker though...

  31. Re:"WarRocket" ... kind of sick expression right n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's all fun and WarGames, until someone loses an ICBM.

  32. use(less)ful?? by karupa · · Score: 1

    well, defcon never ceases to amuse me. weird creations, some just stupid! but thats where the fun is. Defcon isnt about people working on a consumer usable item. Its just pure engineering and out of the world thinking. And thats why its got some of the brightest and weirdest minds in the world. If you expect something run-of-the-mill, defcon isnt for you.... but yeah, the id badge is one cool idea. practical and cheap enought to be implemented!! good going!

  33. Defcon This year == CRAP! by brainchill · · Score: 1

    The Riv was so full of people that wanted to be l33t3 h4x0rs it was nearly impossible to get into any of the talks. I had hoped that since the venue was theoretically bigger than alexis park that it would be better but with a 6:1 wanna be factor it was worse than ever before!!!!

    It was also fun that the first day they kept it shut down until 11-12 saying they needed a "safety inspection" ... All in all if you paid for Defcon this year YOU GOT RIPPED OFF!!!

    1. Re:Defcon This year == CRAP! by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 1

      I have a black badge. No, two. :)

  34. Hat Profanity by James+Youngman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't understand. Why would anybody ask you about a profanity on your hat? I mean, even if it were visible, who would ever even comment? Do you live in Iraq or Bhutan or something?

    1. Re:Hat Profanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      America, land of the free.

  35. Re:Slaverts=CRAP. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    nited? ited? ted? ed? d?

  36. Advertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does the fridge often get spammed? (of the tin variety)

  37. words are power, and shape reality - you posted AC by fantomas · · Score: 1

    Words are power, words shape reality. As you yourself recognise by posting AC. Too frightened to even commit your words to a slashdot account.