is horrible at keeping people’s information secret. The talk was given by Tom Keenan who presented some interesting facts I wasn’t aware of, for example as far as Privacy goes, the U.S. And no I am not talking about PRISM, these are local government databases that organizations might post up in an attempt to be more “transparent” but unfortunately end up being used by personal information thieves or even marketing agencies to sell products and form profiles. Second talk was about government systems sharing open information in public databases and the ways in which these may reveal WAY too much about the average person. These puzzles range from cryptography to hardware hacking and beyond. There are also numerous puzzles involved with the badges, many of which have required interaction with other people at the convention who have different designs that help to complete the puzzles. For those of you who don’t know, every year there are new badge designs that all DEFCON attendees receive. It was given by the creator of the badges Ryan Clarke, also known as LostboY.
I first headed to the opening ceremonies talk which was in the largest track room of the convention, it was a nice look into this years badges, what mysteries they “might” posses and some history behind what inspired their design. I also bought a little black book that I have been using to keep notes on all the talks. I bought a pin for my badge that looks like a Jack Daniels label and a shirt of the same. This was the first day that the talks actually started, I started out the day by hitting the vendor area, a place that I am usually very excited about. If you decide to head out here next year, make sure you don’t have any reason to call home. With all of the wireless hackers making everything more “interesting” our conversation usually consisted of 2-3 min of clear speak then cutting out and the “beep beep” I heard as the call dropped. Loud techno music and a smoke machine, while dozens of attendees dance or stand around and enjoy the music.īeyond the loud bass thumping I couldn’t drown out in my room (from the parties that I was too tired to attend) calling home to talk to my wife was a challenge on its own. I ended the night by checking out the first DEFCON party, which was held in an emptied out (of chairs) track room. The badges are very neat and as with the badges at DEFCON every year, they have multiple puzzles and purposes that might not even be discovered by attendees until months after DEFCON ends. I waited in line for about an hour and a half and once I got my badge, we spent the next few hours just trying to figure out exactly what we were looking at. I got up SUPER early (for me anyway and considering I traveled back in time 2 hours when I landed in LV) in order to head downstairs from my room in the Rio to purchase my DEFCON badge.Īfter waiting for 30 min to get a coffee from one of the two Starbucks in the casino, I took the walk to where the line for badges started. Well, rather than doing what I did last year and just list the talks and describe them, here is a little story about my adventures in hacker land.
If you read my post last week about some of the Malwarebytes team heading out to Las Vegas for DEFCON 21 then you might be interested in how it went.
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