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==Phrack Magazine==
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Volume Four, Issue Forty-Four, File 7 of 27
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Conference News
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Part II
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx xx x xx DEF CON I, Las Vegas 1993
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xxxxxxxXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx x x I'll attempt to give you guys
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xxxxxxXXXXXXxxxxx x x x the real deal on what happened. Since you
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xxxxxXXXXXXXXxxxxx xx x x most likely don't care about the whole
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xxxxXXXXXXXXXXxxx x xxxxxxxx x planning side of it I'll just talk about
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xxxXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxx x what happened of interest.
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xxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxx xx x
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xxxXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxx I showed up at the Sands Hotel later than
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xxxxXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxx x x xx I thought, thanks to a delay at the
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xxxxxXXXXXXXXxxxxxxx xxx xx x airport and a ride on the slowest hotel
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xxxxxxXXXXXXxxxxxxx x x x shuttle known to mankind. It had to stop
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xxxxxxxXXXXxxxxxxxxxxx xx x x at every other hotel before it made it to
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x mine. Oh well.
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So I check in and go to check out the conference room, which happens to be
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right next to the conference planning room for the hotel. "Hmm, they will be
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gone for the weekend though, so we should be safe," I think as I wander into
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"The Burgundy Room" Sounds like a room in "Clue." Anyway there are like maybe
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six other people there. Dead Addict has been holding down the fort, and wanted
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to go get drinks so I set him free to frolic as I set up shop. I handed out
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tags to the people who had shown up and settled in for the duration.
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Someone had brought a cd player, so I put on a tape and got the music
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going. Red Five was there sporting scanners and radio gear, this guy had wires
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sticking out all over the place. "Good thing they turned to phones off," I say
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looking around the room happy that I wouldn't be stuck with a $31,312 phone
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call to Eastern Europe. "Yeah, we already checked that one," said one of the
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"hammies" gesturing to the phone jack I had seen. I notice a large cable
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running from the jack to a larger junction box at about the same time their
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eyes light up with glee. "Get the handset!," one says as another advances on
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the box with a tool kit that appeared out of thin air. "I'll need the ohm
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meter and some clips." the box is dismantled, and three people swarm it in
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a line testing frenzy. "No good on one.. two.. three.. got tone on four!"
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Great, I think, I'm fucked! "hhmm.. seems to be just the hotel, can't get an
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outside line.."
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This goes on for some time until I persuade them to stop fucking with the
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box and to do something else. They give up bored, and start exploring the
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rooms next to us finding a hallway that leads to a security camera monitoring
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the casino tables below. Some decide it's not cool to be recorded and return
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from there in a hurry, while others locate a travel agent's office and start
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grabbing a few things of no consequence. We grabbed two large easels holding
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large pads of paper for people to draw/write on.
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About this time the lady in charge of convention planning calls me to her
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office. "We got a call from the communications room. They said things were
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lighting up on their board that aren't supposed to be lighting up from your
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conference room. They say if it doesn't stop that you'll be thrown out of the
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hotel." Zowie. "OK, I got them to stop. They were just trying out their
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computer on the phone line to see if they could place a call," (Yeah, right)
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"but I'm sure it won't happen again." The assistant in the office spoke up
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and said something like, "Well, if you can clear my credit card I'm sure we
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wouldn't mind!" To which the main lady, Moreen, said "Yeah, my name is Moreen
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Robinson, and my Social Security number is..." What did they think? "Yeah,
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I'll get my credit erasers on it right away!"??
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Back at the room things started to pick up. People came in throughout the
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day, and the bar downstairs was having a $1 margarita special. Someone bought
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twenty drinks for everyone (All right!) and then we got a picture more of them.
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Metal Head went and got me a drink while he was out. Things were looking good
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through this buzz of mine. Judi Clark of the Bay Area CPSR showed up (one of
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the speakers) and was real cool. She was jonesing for an internet connection,
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but we couldn't line one up with a slip connection for her. She had brought
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some literature to distribute, too.
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Around six or seven or so we had a pretty good crowd going, with more and
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more speakers showing up. Ray Kaplan (Kaplan and Associates) drove like a
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maniac out of Arizona, and Dr. Ludwig (Author of Little Black Book of
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Computer Viruses) drove up with Merc from Arizona also. It was about ten or
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so Friday night and people were getting to know each other. Some more radio
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guys showed up, including the Jackal, and they were in another corner speaking
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in some other language.. stuff I won't even try to reproduce here. It revolved
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around the best ways to pick up restricted channels and how not to be
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triangulated. Cool.
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Speculation was rising about what Gail Thackery would be like, and when
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Gillian from New Media Magazine showed up to cover the event people figured
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that she must be Gail. Nope. Gail showed up about a half hour later.
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Conversation in the room stopped, and all eyes were on Gail. She didn't seem
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to notice, and came up and said hello. I gave her a speakers id pass, and
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she went off to find a drink. When she returned people started to talk to her,
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and by about midnight she was mobbed with people. She had a captive audience
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at the back of the room and was fielding all types of questions. Some guy was
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saying "Say, hypothetically, that you have 9 gigs all encrypted on your, re,
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a bbs and you get raided, wow will they get the evidence?" Gail's response
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was basically if they have enough evidence to boot in your door they should
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have enough evidence to prosecute a case. Want to be a test case for
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encryption? Neither did he.
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Kurt Karnow, the VR speaker from San Francisco showed up and was talking
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with the New Media Reporter. Some local radio d.j. who does a late night
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cutting edge style showed up to grab some audio clips from me and bailed out.
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A "suit" showed up, and everyone immediately, in an attempt to win the free
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"I spotted the fed" shirt pointed him out to me. This "suit" had cop eyes,
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cop walk and cop speak. He was all businesslike, and wanted to talk to me
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in private. I took him into the "cone-o-silence" room (the hallway connected
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to the travel agent's place) and asked what's up. Turns out he is a writer
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for Loompanics and was there checking to see if there was anything or anyone
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worth writing about or having write for him. Everyone was sure I was a super
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narc after coming out of the cone, but he started loosening up and was talking
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with everyone by the next day. If he was a fed, they have great feds out there
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that are almost undetectable. He said his cop speak is a great way to get
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people to tell him stuff they wouldn't normally say.
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Dan Farmer showed up with a female harem in tow. He seemed to have this
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ability to magically attract females, but we won't get into that here. He
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would make an appearance and then leave every once in a while. His women
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looked bored (there were three of them) so I assume he was keeping them
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entertained by gambling or something...
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Dark Druid showed up with Richard Finch, an author who is writing a book
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entitled "The underground road map through cyberspace" Oh, yeah. This guy
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still owes me a copy of the video tapes from the convention. Basically a
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snake. Said he would send me a copy of them, and then moved and changed his
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number. We located him and he said he would send them again. Not. L00zer.
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Dark Druid was cool, though, and was franticly looking for alcohol to comfort
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him after the long drive.
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One person I met worked for Logicon, SOF Weapon Systems, doing "Nuclear
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event testing." Basically his job is to see if he can break in and cause a
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simulated "event" (missile launch, detonation, etc.) to happen. I'll invite this
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guy to speak at DEF CON ][ for sure. Not that people are going to hack silos,
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but it was very interesting to say the least.
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It was decided it was time for a "Death Star" raid (we had spotted the
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local AT&T office with a billion repeaters and microwave shit on the roof)
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and rounded up a crew to go attack it. Of course Red Five was standing by
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(Ow!) and Gillian offered to rent a limo to go trashing in. It turned out
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that it would take 1/2 hour to get the limo, so we went in two cars instead.
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After getting lost in the Las Vegas Hell we found the target. Fences
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everywhere, a guard patrolling, and an unprotected dumpster just by the
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fences. Red Five radioed to his friend, we coordinated an attack plan. I
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laid down flat in the back of the truck, another car was "blocker" on the
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street. We turned in, screeched up to the treasure chest, I bailed out and
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hurled the bags into the truck and pounced on top of them to the papers
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wouldn't fly out as we hauled ass outta there. Those Vegas telco employees
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eat more dino-sized McMeals and burgers than I can count. My body was almost
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covered in apple pie containers and happy meals, yuck. We hauled the find up
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to the room, and the people who were still up dived on it. Jamin the Shamin
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went bonkers rooting through crap, and I think White Ninja was sportin' wood.
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People got some interesting items (catalogues, some x.25 phone numbers, etc..)
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while I got to clean up the mess, er, wreckage in the room. Everyone pitched
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in and by two thirty a.m. it was time to snooze. Everyone took off to wherever
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they were going, and a few people stuck around to crash in the conference room.
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It seems over the night that the late shift of security personnel were not
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informed that I had the conference room 24 hours. They showed up at around
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four a.m. and saw Code Ripper, The Prophet and Merc crashed out and they went
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nuts. At first they asked them to leave to room. The Prophet explained that
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the room was rented 24 hours, and they didn't care. He then asked to talk to
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the assistant manager. They didn't like this and called in the goons. Like
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five or more guards showed up. In Las Vegas the goons carry guns. These guys
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asked to have 'em leave and Code Ripper and Merc were like "Sure, no prob.
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Later!" The Prophet continued to bitch and got a personal interview with head
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guard man and then a personal boot off the hotel's property.
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Saturday morning I get a fax that Allen Grogan (Editor of the Computer
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Lawyer) won't be able to make it because of a family emergency. That's one less
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speaker. Already Count Zero's dad went ballistic when he found out his son
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might speak at the con. He threatened to sue me if he showed up. Dude, chill,
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it's your son, not mine. It turns out he called the Sands Hotel ranting and
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raving at anyone he could. Moreen said, "he was spouting off things about law
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suits and some such, so I transferred him to legal." What a kook. Midnight
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Sorrow (used to run CCi) backed out too after his phone bills reached like
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half of the national debt. ErikB spent too much money at SCon and he bailed
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out also. They were dropping like flies! Scott Simpson wasn't about to show
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up after his door was kicked in with the help of various federal agencies,
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either. Oh well, we still had a full speaking list.
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Robert X. Cringly from Info World was there, a photographer from Mac World,
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John Littman, Unix World (<- an evil review.. don't believe it.. it was all
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wrong and jumbled. Rik Farrow messed it up) another photographer who took the
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picture that ended up in New Media was there. The photographer (Who turned
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out to be Karnow's sister) gathered some "cyberpunk" looking people together
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for it.. needless to say I wasn't in it. She bought a bunch of alcohol for
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everyone, so that wasn't so bad.
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I did a little blurb welcoming everyone and talking about my run in at the
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Seattle 2600 meeting a few weeks before, and then let Ray K. start off the
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convention. About halfway through the talks before lunch, the X. Cringe factor
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got a cellular phone call, and got up to leave the room so as not to disturb
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the audience. He was about halfway towards the door when you could hear
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scanners turning on all over the room (well, OK, three of them) and a
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coordinated effort was put forth to find his call. Some start at the low
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frequencies and worked up, and some at the high frequencies and worked down.
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It turns out it was only Pammy, and no super secret industry gossip. Bummer.
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I'm not going to cover exactly what the speakers had to say because I wouldn't
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know what to include and what not too. Get the tapes, or ftp the huge
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digitized speeches off the ftp site (cyberspace.com /pub/defcon) and listen
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to 'em. We tried to make typed transcripts, but they were a nightmare, so we
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gave up on it. This is basically what was covered:
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Ray Kaplan did a verbal sample of the attendees, and then went on to talk
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about morality and the hacking ethic. He came across pro-responsible-hacker,
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but managed to get into a debate with Torquamada who though he was preaching
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too much. A good exchange, and his talk reminded me of some of the stuff you
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hear on IRC late at night when #hack becomes #hack-politics, only better.
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Gail Thackery spoke about where the law is coming from in all this, and
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was very straight forward with a no shit attitude. She said she loved
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capturing and collecting all the log in screens of bbs systems that have lame
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disclaimers like "If you are a fed you can't log on here. If you press 'y'
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you can never narc on me." She swaps 'em with her other law enforcement
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friends. As a side note we were selling hack pads and bbs pads that attempted
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to organize all the notes people make in the course of things. It seems every
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one who gets nabbed gets nabbed with their "bust-me book" You know, that
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note pad with all the incriminating evidence on it that everyone keeps. Well
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we figured we'd at least make things easier so we had these pads. Gail looked
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them over and made a comment like, "Oh, those look just like ours except we
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have a space for the case number in the upper right hand corner."
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Judy Clark from the CPSR spoke about the role of the CPSR (Computer
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Professionals for Social Responsibility) as opposed to that of the EFF which
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is almost entirely, well, er, it is, sponsored by large corporations including
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computer and telephone interests. She spoke about privacy issues and what to
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do if you are interested in getting involved.
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There was a panel discussion with Gail and Ray K fielding questions from
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the audience. Ray talked about how security is useless unless the employers
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and employees are willing to change their way of working. It's not as simple
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as installing the latest and greatest security packages.
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Kurt Karnow works as an attorney for a San Fransisco law firm that
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represents large companies such as AT&T and Sega. He spoke about "ZUI" or
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Zero User Interface as envisioned in the future with VR equipment. He talked
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about how impossible it is to debug any large program 100%, and that mistakes
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and problems will occur. He talked of a recent case he worked on, where the
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makers of "Sim City" made "Sim Oil Refinery" for a large oil company. The
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company was concerned that if their software was programmed incorrectly, and
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they find that out by having a refinery explode when the employees did
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something they were trained to do, that they could loose all. Kurt was also
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great is shamelessly hoping some for a few good accidents so he could finance
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his kids through college. A very well informed and easy to talk to person.
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Dr. Mark Ludwig Spoke about the philosophy behind his virii programming
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analysis. It was almost a political talk about the invasive government
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policies and the desire of the Federal System to be the know all and be all
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in the future. He spoke about their attempts to restrict encryption
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technologies. He announced that he has come up with a virus that acts as a
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software delivery service for the IDEA encryption algorithm. When you
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insert this disk, or get the "infection" it asks if you want to encrypt your
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fixed disk, and then asks for your password. Any floppy that is inserted on
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your system gets encrypted and infected with the password of your choice.
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You can toggle the encryption on and off, un-install your hard drive, etc. He
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posed the question to the crowd, "What if everyone woke up one day and all
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their data was safely encrypted? If encryption became the standard, people
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would have less to fear from Big Brother." I've got the virus, called the
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KOH virus, currently being updated, and will bring it to Pump Con ][, Ho Ho,
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Etc. for anyone interested.
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Dead Addict spoke on the past and the future as he sees it of the Computer
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Underground's various factions. The increase of people on the net and the use
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of more and more networks will yield rich lands to be explored. It turned
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into a question and answer with people discussing their view on where things
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are going.
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Dan Farmer spoke on Unix security. He was very good and sounded very well
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informed. He has learned his tricks monitoring the 30,000 or so workstations
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used by Sun Microsystem and else where over the years. He talked about how
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people get caught and what to do about it. How sysadmins usually monitor and
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maintain their systems. Basically he was bored with password crackers and lame
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passwords. He focused on the creative ways to get root. "If you can gain
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access enough to execute one command on the victim computer, you should be able
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to get root." He avoided bugs and problems that will be fixed, and focused on
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flaws in the way systems and networks are set up.
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Dark Druid talked about his bust and how it sucks not to be charged and
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still not have his equipment back after it was seized.
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Right as the group was breaking up someone did a quick impromptu
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demonstration to a few people of a laptop plugged into the diagnostic port of a
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cell phone that allowed all types of crazy activity. People broke into groups
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and went out for dinner. I ended up with Gail Thackery, Gillian the reporter,
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Kurt Karnow, the sysadmin of cyberspace and a few others. General B.S. about
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government plots and assassinations ensued with real discussions branching off.
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Because there are no clocks anywhere in Las Vegas we kinda lost track of time,
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and wandered back to the hotel in an hour or so. People changed and the broke
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off to do their thing.
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I ran into a guy from SGI security at the bar, and then Dan Farmer, and
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then Aleph One, and then fuck, it seemed like a mini con at the bar.
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People were drinking like fiends, and Gail showed up with Gillian and the crowd
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from L.A. and the San Francisco 2600 group was there drinking too. Gail was
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chain smoking and pounding Johnny Walker straight, drinking most of us under the
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table. I think that shocked more people more than anything else! We finally
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got a thinly clad waitress to take a group picture, where everyone is all
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smiles and laughing, and Gail has this evil frown looking like this is the last
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place on earth she wants to be. Right as the pic is taken someone goes to fake
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pour a drink on her head, making for a great picture WHICH I STILL DON'T HAVE!
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(Aleph One, send me that digitized picture so I can stick it on the ftp site)
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Sunday people just hung out to bull-shit about whatever, with groups
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forming on and off till everyone took off for home. Someone approached me
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and let me know that they had the password for the Sands Hotel Vax
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system and the barrier code for their PBX. "If the hotel gave you too much
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trouble, just let me know." You would think that after years of mob and
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crime action the casino would have a functional security set up. Not. That
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was area code 702 for anyone interested in scanning it.
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A few of use were sitting around waiting for time to pass when I found a
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bunch of wires wrapped together from the death star raid Friday night. It sort
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of looked like a mini whip, and was immediately termed the "Def Con Cyber-Whip"
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Needless to say, we had to present the Cyber-Whip to Dan Farmer for his
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excellent contribution mention of a.s.b. during his speech that seemed to
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cause the most gossip. Hacking a network? No problem. Talking about a.s.b.?
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OuTrAgEoUs! People are so funny. Anyway, Dan is now the keeper of the
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Cyber-Whip. We'll try to come up with a more formal presentation next year.
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That should drive the media nuts. Hey, with a little help from ErikB for video
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entertainment maybe create a Def Con dungeon. Ha! Ok, it's late. Hackers are
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such sick people.
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A lot of people made great contacts and I'm still hearing of people who
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are working with their new contacts doing "things" I managed to weasel a
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job out of the deal, writing a small monthly column in New Media Magazine
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(as my editor puts it) on "Interesting things that could only happen on the
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net." This gets translated to reading a bunch of newsgroups in a futile
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attempt to find something that would be amusing to the readership. If you
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guys have any good rumors you want mentioned, just feed 'em to me in e-mail.
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Overall a good time. We planned for about 100 people max, and we got just
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around 110 or so. Our blurb in 2600 came out late, Mondo 2000 missed an issue
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and Wired messed up hard core twice. I had mailed LR inviting someone to
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attend and asking if we could get a mention in the upcoming events section. He
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said sure, just e-mail me. I did that and nothing happened. I talked to him,
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and he said I should send it to someone else at Wired, which I did. It wasn't
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in the next issue either! Right before the con I got e-mail form someone at
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Wired asking me if the convention was still on and what its status was. They
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are nice people there, just a little bit confused or busy. This was happening
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right after wired.com got hacked so they might have been preoccupied. This
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year we won't miss any deadlines and make sure that the word gets spread well
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in advance so we can get a greater turn out, but for a first attempt it went
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over well. No fights, fire alarms pulled or people vomiting on the gamblers.
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The things that could be improved like more technical speeches, etc., will all
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be fixed in DEF CON ][. We'll have midnight tech talks, terminals hooked up
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to the net for people to IRC on or whatever, and additional speeches on Sunday
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so people have an excuse to stick around that day.
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[Generic closing statement omitted]
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The Dark Tangent
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dtangent@defcon.org
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Top 23(!) things learned at DEF CON 1
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By The White Ninja
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"Jesus Hacks! Why don't YOU?"
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This text file idea blatantly leeched from:
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SummerCon!
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1. Casino offices can be full of fun!!
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2. Casinos generally don't appreciate it when you explore their offices....
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3. Yes, some people ARE capable of gambling away $167 in an hour!
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4. You can get reasonable conference discounts on prostitution in Nevada.
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5. One can survive for 3 days in Vegas on $12 and a gift certificate.
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6. Viruses are our friends.
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7. Give a Casino security guard a walkie-talkie and he'll swear he's the
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center of the universe.
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8. Don't commit a felony in front of Gail Thackery.
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9. The people who work at the Death Star throw the darndest things in the
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trash!
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10. Pirates and Theives ONLY!
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11. If you harass a hotel telephone operator long enough she WILL send
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security.
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12. When using ITT ask for BOB...
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13. Metal plates screwed to your hotel room ceiling generally constitute a
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bad sign.
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14. Don't forget to Hack the BED!
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15. You know your in deep shit when THEY aim an IR-Mic at your window.
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16. Setting 11 fires in selected parts of the city is probably a bad idea.
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17. The guy who looks most like a fed probably writes for LOOMPANICS.
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18. The guy who looks least like a fed probably does security for SUN.
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19. As a general rule, don't hack the hotel PBX unless you're giving them a
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better credit rating.
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20. If your wondering where all those C-64 warez kidz went, try talking to
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some of the beggars in Vegas.
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21. Those COCOTS were gold plated for a REASON!
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22. If you plan to stay the night in a hotel, make sure you get a room there.
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23. "0K, dit rating.
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20. If your wondering where all those C-64 warez kidz went, try talking to
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some of the beggars in Vegas.
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21. Those COCOTS were gold plated for a REASON!
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22. If you plan to stay the night in a hotel, make sure you get a room there.
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23. "0K, this is my new PGP key for use in sensitive matters. Heck, use
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it for unsensitive matters.. people sniff packets 'ya know."
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What Was Your Best Hack September, 1993
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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(New Media) (Page 14)
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[Asked at Def Con 1, the first formal gathering of the hacker community
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to discuss security, viruses and the law.]
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Mike Winters, 19, Seattle
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Claims to have hacked into GMAC and then held a conference call with
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GM's VP of Finance to help him "secure the system."
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HB, San Mateo, California
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Broke into a system to counterfeit checks to "show his employers
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how easy it was." Got arrested with two years probation and
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24 days of community service.
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Gail Thackeray, 44, Deputy County Attorney, Phoenix
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A Hacker had broken into a voice mail system and was using it
|
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as a code line. The company could not take down the system
|
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until the prosecutors were ready to make a case. When they did,
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the company blocked all access and changed the greeting to
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a song parody of "Hey Jude" called "Hey Dood," which really
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infuriated the hacker.
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*******************************************************************************
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Dead Addict At Def Con September, 1993
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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by Gillian Newson (New Media) (Page 119)
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["The oldest cyberchick" hangs with the Def Con Posse and discovers
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the joys of trashing.]
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READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE
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READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE
|
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|
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WTF is this? This is the initial announcement and invitation to DEF CON ][,
|
||
a convention for the "underground" elements of the computer culture. We try
|
||
to target the (Fill in your favorite word here): Hackers, Phreaks, Hammies,
|
||
Virii coders, programmers, crackers, Cyberpunk Wannabees, Civil Liberties
|
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Groups, CypherPunks, Futurists, etc..
|
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|
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WHO: You know who you are, you shady characters.
|
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WHAT: A convention for you to meet, party, and listen to some speeches that
|
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you would normally never hear.
|
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WHEN: July 22, 23, 24 - 1994
|
||
WHERE: Las Vegas, Nevada @ The Sahara Hotel
|
||
|
||
So you heard about DEF CON I, and want to hit part ][? You heard about the
|
||
parties, the info discussed, the bizarre atmosphere of Las Vegas and want to
|
||
check it out in person? Load up your laptop muffy, we're heading to Vegas!
|
||
|
||
|
||
Here is what Three out of Three people said about last years convention:
|
||
|
||
"DEF CON I, last week in Las Vegas, was both the strangest and the best
|
||
computer event I have attended in years." -- Robert X. Cringely, Info World
|
||
|
||
"Toto, I don't think we're at COMDEX anymore." -- Coderipper, Gray Areas
|
||
|
||
"Soon we were at the hotel going through the spoils: fax sheets, catalogs,
|
||
bits of torn paper, a few McDonald's Dino-Meals and lots of coffee grounds.
|
||
The documents disappeared in seconds." -- Gillian Newson, New Media Magazine
|
||
|
||
DESCRIPTION:
|
||
|
||
Last year we held DEF CON I, which went over great, and this year we are
|
||
planning on being bigger and better. We have expanded the number of speakers
|
||
to included midnight tech talks and additional speaking on Sunday. We attempt
|
||
to bring the underground into contact with "legitimate" speakers. Sure it's
|
||
great to meet and party with fellow hackers, but besides that we try to
|
||
provide information and speakers in a forum that can't be found at other
|
||
conferences.
|
||
|
||
WHAT'S NEW THIS YEAR:
|
||
|
||
This year will be much larger and more organized than last year. We have a
|
||
much larger meeting area, and have better name recognition. Because of this
|
||
we will have more speakers on broader topics, we plan on having a slip
|
||
connection with multiple terminals and an IRC connection provided by
|
||
cyberspace.com. We are trying to arrange a VR demo of some sort. Dr. Ludwig
|
||
will present this years virus creation award. There will be door prizes, and
|
||
as usual a bigger and better "Spot The Fed" contest. If you are elite enough
|
||
to handle it, there should be the returning of the Cyber-Whip and the
|
||
beginning of a new one. We'll try to get an interesting video or two for
|
||
people to watch. If you have any cool footage you want shown, email me with
|
||
more information.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WHO IS SPEAKING:
|
||
|
||
We are still lining up speakers, but we have several people who have expressed
|
||
interest in speaking, including Dr. Mark Ludwig (Little Black Book Of Computer
|
||
Viruses), Phillip Zimmerman (PGP), The Mentor (Steve Jackson Games),
|
||
Ken Phillips (Meta Information), and Jackal (Radio) to name a few, plus there
|
||
should be a mystery speaker via video conference. We are still contacting
|
||
various groups and individuals, and don't want to say anything until we are as
|
||
sure as we can be. If you think you are interested in speaking on a self
|
||
selected topic, please contact me. As the speaking list is completed there
|
||
will be another announcement letting people know who is expected to talk, and
|
||
on what topic.
|
||
|
||
|
||
WHERE THIS THING IS:
|
||
|
||
It's in Las Vegas, the town that never sleeps. Really. There are no clocks
|
||
anywhere in an attempt to lull you into believing the day never ends. Talk
|
||
about virtual reality, this place fits the bill with no clunky hardware. If
|
||
you have a buzz you may never know the difference. It will be at the Sahara
|
||
Hotel. Intel as follows:
|
||
|
||
The Sahara Hotel 1.800.634.6078
|
||
Room Rates: Single/Double $55, Suite $120 (Usually $200) + 8% tax
|
||
Transportation: Shuttles from the airport for cheap
|
||
|
||
NOTES: Please make it clear you are registering for the DEF CON ][
|
||
convention to get the room rates. Our convention space price is
|
||
based on how many people register. Register under a false name if
|
||
it makes you feel better, 'cuz the more that register the better for
|
||
my pocket book. No one under 21 can rent a room by themselves, so
|
||
get your buddy who is 21 to rent for you and crash out. Don't let
|
||
the hotel people get their hands on your baggage, or there is a
|
||
mandatory $3 group baggage fee. Vegas has killer unions.
|
||
|
||
|
||
COST:
|
||
|
||
Cost is whatever you pay for a hotel room split however many ways, plus
|
||
$15 if you preregister, or $30 at the door. This gets you a nifty 24 bit
|
||
color name tag (We're gonna make it niftier this year) and your foot in the
|
||
door. There are fast food places all over, and there is alcohol all over
|
||
the place, the trick is to get it during a happy hour for maximum cheapness.
|
||
|
||
|
||
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
|
||
|
||
For InterNet users, there is a DEF CON anonymous ftp site at cyberspace.com in
|
||
/pub/defcon. There are digitized pictures, digitized speeches and text files
|
||
with the latest up to date info available.
|
||
|
||
For email users, you can email dtangent@defcon.org for more information.
|
||
|
||
For Snail Mail send to DEF CON, 2702 E. Madison Street, Seattle, WA, 99207
|
||
|
||
For Voice Mail and maybe a human, 0-700-TANGENT on an AT&T phone.
|
||
|
||
A DEF CON Mailing list is maintained, and the latest announcements are mailed
|
||
automatically to you. If you wish to be added to the list just send
|
||
email to dtangent@defcon.org. We also maintain a chat mailing list where
|
||
people can talk to one another and plan rides, talk, whatever. If you request
|
||
to be on this list your email address will be shown to everyone, just so you
|
||
are aware.
|
||
|
||
|
||
STUFF TO SPEND YOUR MONEY ON:
|
||
|
||
> Tapes of last years speakers (four 90 minute tapes) are available for $20
|
||
|
||
> DEF CON I tee-shirts (white, large only) with large color logo on the front,
|
||
and on the back the Fourth Amendment, past and present. This is shirt v 1.1
|
||
with no type-o's. These are $20, and sweatshirts are $25.
|
||
|
||
> Pre-Register for next year in advance for $15 and save half.
|
||
|
||
> Make all checks/money orders/etc. out to DEF CON, and mail to the address
|
||
above.
|
||
|
||
If you have any confidential info to send, use this PGP key to encrypt:
|
||
|
||
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|
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