Ask Slashdot: Favorite Thing Out of This Year's Black Hat?

Nerval's Lobster writes "This year's Black Hat conference wasn't just about the NSA director defending his agency's surveillance practices (and getting a bit heckled in the process). Other topics included hacking iOS devices via a modified charging station, eavesdropping on smartphones via compromised femtocells, demonstrating a password-security testing tools that leverage AWS (and 9TB of rainbow tables) to crush weak passwords, and compromising RFID tags with impunity. What was your favorite news out of Black Hat?"

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Re:Why is it even called "Blackhat"?

[TWiTfan]

When the head of the NSA--an agency absolutely notorious for lying to the American people, subverting the U.S. Constitution, and generally screwing over every freedom we the people have--can address the conference and not be immediately and universally booed the fuck offstage, you know you're not dealing with the same crowd that used to be there.