Anyone going to DEFCON 17 this year?

dynamik

It's July 31st-August 2nd in Vegas: DEFCON Hacking Conference - The Hacker Community's Foremost Social Network.

I'm in!

tiersten

Hmm... If I had earlier notice then probably... Maybe DEFCON 18

dynamik

tiersten wrote: »

Hmm... If I had earlier notice then probably... Maybe DEFCON 18

That's a pretty weak excuse given that it's an annual event

Here's last year's thread: http://www.techexams.net/forums/off-topic/30537-defcon-16-a.html#post207312

Edit: I just re-read that thread. Unfortunately, I'm still a noob...

tiersten

dynamik wrote: »

That's a pretty weak excuse given that it's an annual event

True >< I always forget about DEFCON until it is a bit too late. It will mean going to Vegas twice in a year tho since I'm usually at CES...

qp81

can we get a caravan started? maybe a separate thread?

Talic

tiersten wrote: »

True >< I always forget about DEFCON until it is a bit too late. It will mean going to Vegas twice in a year tho since I'm usually at CES...

Whats wrong with going to Vegas twice a year, we're a great town to be going to multiple times Don't be listening to Obama, he changes his mind way to often to really give credence to.

This post does not reflect the bias that I live in Las Vegas and by no means that we need money due to being one of the hardest hit cities in the recession due to the foreclosure crisis (we were one of the fastest growing states/cities in the USA) and the drop in tourism that always happens during recessions.

On a more serious note, I'm not sure if I'll be going to DEFCON myself. I'll probably be out classed due to not being a 133t haxor.

qp81

sigh..... did you have to do it in l33t sp3a1< ? taht's sooo k1dd13 :P

I still believe in the old school meaning of the word

PC509

As do most of the community that are over the age of 20.

Times are a changin'!

I'd love to go, and I want to go to Vegas anyway. I've been wanting to go for the past 15 years, just never did. Now, I'm getting far enough into my career and knowledge that I might gain quite a bit by attending... Wonder if I'll get laughed at for being a Windows Admin?!

tiersten

Talic wrote: »

Whats wrong with going to Vegas twice a year, we're a great town to be going to multiple times Don't be listening to Obama, he changes his mind way to often to really give credence to.

This post does not reflect the bias that I live in Las Vegas and by no means that we need money due to being one of the hardest hit cities in the recession due to the foreclosure crisis (we were one of the fastest growing states/cities in the USA) and the drop in tourism that always happens during recessions.

No. You've got me wrong. There isn't anything wrong with Vegas itself and I actually quite like the place It is more of a can I afford to go to Vegas twice in a year thing LOL.

the_Grinch

Wish I could

JDMurray

I will definitely be at Defcon 17 in two weeks. I'm hoping to get my amateur radio license there too this year. I have a need to legally blast 1500 watts of signal power out of my 802.11 equipment.

veritas_libertas

That is some serious wattage. I love Amateur Radio! Packet and A.P.R.S. especially!

tiersten

JDMurray wrote: »

I'm hoping to get my amateur radio license there too this year. I have a need to legally blast 1500 watts of signal power out of my 802.11 equipment.

No encryption on the link tho if you do use the amateur radio rules and you have to broadcast your callsign every 10 minutes or so.

JockVSJock

The last one I went to was back in 2004, and it was awesome. A few of my friends are going this year, wish I was going as well.

Should be a good time by all.

Would like to hit BlackHat as well...

snadam

I will actually be in Philly around then...go figure!

Tryntotechit

I am expecting my first born around that time. I am planning to attend one of these days.

JDMurray

tiersten wrote: »

No encryption on the link tho if you do use the amateur radio rules and you have to broadcast your callsign every 10 minutes or so.

That is true only for FCC Part 97 amateur operations. 802.11 falls under Part 15 for unlicensed wireless devices and has no such requirements.

tiersten

JDMurray wrote: »

That is true only for FCC Part 97 amateur operations. 802.11 falls under Part 15 for unlicensed wireless devices and has no such requirements.

If you're pumping out 1500W then you have to follow the part 97 regulations which forbid encryption (or at least encryption without publicly disclosing the key) and require the callsign broadcast. You can't classify the device as conforming to part 15 whilst using the part 97 power limits.

tiersten

Looks like they relaxed the requirement for no encryption back in 2003. an amendment made to Article 25.2A (1A) at the 2003 World radio Conference no longer specifically prohibits the use of encryption and other strong security measures on transmissions between Amateur Radio stations within the same jurisdiction.

You still need to conform to the regulations about broadcasting your callsign in clear, no commercial traffic and the decency rules. Not that the last two anybody can actually check since they're allowing encryption without disclosing the key now.

Forsaken_GA

I wish I was going to Defcon, unfortunately it's right smack in the middle of our datacenter move, so no one is getting any time off.

JDMurray

The Defcon 17 media archives has just been released! Anyone who missed D17 can now relive the darkest moments of hacker enlightenment.

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-17-archive.html