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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 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).
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
Creating an Unhackable Server via the Slashdot Effect!
Wow, IPv6, now using base-27?
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
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.
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
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.
I hear Taco will be giving a presentation on state-of-the-art DDOS using blogs. The sample victim site apparently is defcon.org...
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?