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Defcon 14 Full of Amazing Hardware Hacks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-and-brightest dept.

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."

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  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: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

  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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)

  8. 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.