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First-Ever Photo Tour of Defcon's Network Center
Kugrian writes "With over 9,000 hackers, freaks, feds, and geeks attending Defcon 16, the temporary wireless network setup there is considered the most hostile on the planet. Run by a dedicated group of volunteers known as Goons, the basement Defcon Network Operations Center is secured by means of a chain-link fence and armed guard. The 20-megabit connection, which is twice as fast as Defcon 15, runs over a point-to-point wireless link to another hotel that has point-of-presence in their basement. Wired's Threat Level blog managed to secure the first ever photo tour of the Center showing Goons, hardware and sniffer dogs." Reader TXISDude, who was at Defcon, doubts that attendance was as high as 9,000. Update: 08/13 18:14 GMT by T : Dave Bullock, the Wired photographer who shot these pictures, backs up that figure, though: "I interviewed Joe Grand, the badge designer a few weeks before the con. They ordered 8,600 total badges. They ran out of badges. There were hundreds of people with paper badges."
OVER 9000!!!!
...is that they are always humping your legs as soon as you put them in promiscuous mode.
...showing Goons, hardware and sniffer dogs.
These guys must be extremely high-tech if their security dogs can sniff wireless!
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
lrn2octal
It's Defcon 2.0. They're trying to jazz up their image a little bit and make it more inter-webby.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
The dog is to make sure no one sneaks in drugs and gets the router high.
The dog is to keep the techs away from the equipment for change control purposes.
It completely replaces IT management at a fraction of the cost.
Nullius in verba
please don't pee on the routers!! You will void Cisco's warranty.
A bunch of world class hackers set up a wireless network.
What could possibly go wrong?
So, which side of the firewall is the "untrusted" side at defcon? Do they protect defcon from the internet, or do they protect the internet from DefCon?
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Are other colors of makeup safer for APs?
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
right, he's got a job in network admin
Dfcn?
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Yes, but if you say away they may then suspect that you are, in fact, an elite black hat hacker who is staying away precisely to draw suspicion away from yourself, so in fact a real black hat hacker should, in fact, be there or they will immediately be suspected of being a real black hat hacker.
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
So it really is just a series of tubes. Imagine that.
4) Profit!
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que sera, sera?
the significance of a signature is insignificant
Who's to say that that's the real NOC, and not a decoy?