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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."
Yes, but does it contain 0xDEADBEEF?
That's infuckingcredible.
That's what I thought ... hit refresh a couple of times.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Been done already I'm afraid - I present the iFrige (work safe link).
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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.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
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Wow, IPv6, now using base-27?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
How ironic, a hacking site DoS'd...
Site is down. you would think a room full of hackers, they could fix it. lol.
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That fridge is undoubtedly hosting this website...
Sigs are for Terrorists.
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.
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.
I have the doomed life of a PC gamer and a MS hater...
You find item: AOL install disk
I thought what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?
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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All the food in the fridge is now baked. DoD'ing fridges, the geek way of cooking?
$ whoami
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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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.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Don't click on it then...
What would a mongoose do?
I hear Taco will be giving a presentation on state-of-the-art DDOS using blogs. The sample victim site apparently is defcon.org...
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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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.
That's what it sounded like when it flew over your head.
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Whats a luser of slashdot? Do you mean like a faggot of fucking?
Here's a temporary mirror for the DEFCON rockets section:
http://ankur.homelinux.com/defcon.html
didn't it start with "war dialing".... i mean come on, tech doesn't care about politics.
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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
There are ads on Slashdot? Where?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
MAKE has a couple of photos of Joe Grand's PCB/PIC/LED badges in their blog.
Freenet has already been mentioned. (Here's a link.) Funny that Ian Clarke is involved in both.I've never seen anyone use it though.
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.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
What does united end with?
Actually it's called Beehive/Cobweb: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/
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!
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!!!!
... All in all if you paid for Defcon this year YOU GOT RIPPED OFF!!!
It was also fun that the first day they kept it shut down until 11-12 saying they needed a "safety inspection"
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?
Words are power, words shape reality. As you yourself recognise by posting AC. Too frightened to even commit your words to a slashdot account.