DEFCON

I'm toying with the idea of heading down now that I live in the rough vicinity, and am particularly interested in the Hack the Sea village. I even briefly thought about putting in for a talk there when I found out about it in June before the demands of daily life bitchslapped that idea right out of my head.
 
Just got back home.. Great convention. Here are a few pics if anyone is interested.

Waiting in swag line, guy in front of me had mariokart on his back that people could play
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That was the official badge this year. Has a board on the back with some LEDs that bleed through when you "pair" it with other people and other types of badges. So pairing with the goons (security), other humans, speakers, vendors, press, artists, and variety of other types of people will eventually "level" you up. Pretty cool idea and it got people interacting with people.

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Some swag

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Highend SDRs for sale in the vendor area.

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Some people were able to reverse engineer the badge and read how successful have been in leveling. I had 28.57% of the flags unlocked by this point. My wife had 42.86%, so she was cheating on on me with other badges apparently.

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Waterfall from an SDR that was broacasting at the wireless village. Pretty cool they were embedding images into the RF broadcast.

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Met Jack from the Darknet Diaries podcast

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Got to pull in about 7 gigs of packets from the defcon free wifi. Happy I wasn't on the Wall of Sheep myself

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bit of a necropost...

Anyone heading to BlackHat/DEFCON this year? I'm coordinating with client and company for BlackHat and definitely doing DEFCON.

unless it's canceled this year ;-)
 
Was planning on not going, but last second approval to fund from client made it happen. Trying to get anything at GSA rates is a non-starter. Since DEFCON was actually canceled this year at the Caesars properties, it's moved to North side of the strip at the LVCC. Should be a good trip.
 
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