Top 14 Things I Learned at DefCon 6 =================================== Feedle did this... Blame him. The original can be located at http://exo.com/~feedle/. The second part of a series of bad jokes I tend to collect when I go to conventions. You may not understand many of these jokes, but trust me. Taken in the right context, they're funny. I put in links for some of the places only because I'd like to find them next year... 1. The first telephone installed in Las Vegas was at the Golden Gate Hotel. The first telephone call may very well have been to order more phone service. 2. Carolyn Meinel is still a media whore. 3. Sometimes you can get router passwords just by listening to a boring speech. 4. Good party: hotel security knocks on the door asking you to knock it off. Great party: hotel security can't figure out which room the party is actually in because it's spilled out onto the entire floor. 5. Rum and Cokes + RoboRally are a good mix. Zima and Herbal X + a hundred other drunk hackers aren't. 6. Always use ssh when telnetting in from a con. 7. Never fall asleep at somebody's hotel room party. 8. For whatever reason, a new-age bookstore seems out of place in a Las Vegas stripmall. (Psychic Eye: Corner of Russell and Pecos, just west of the Pecos is an excellent example) 9. The New York: New York Hotel and Casino is a really good place to have a seizure. However, it's a bad place to find a drink of water. 10. I still don't like Swedes. 11. Dead puppies? No, WAREZ PUPPIES aren't much fun. 12. Food? Fatburger, Fatburger, Fatburger. (It's on Charleston, west of the strip about three miles, or on the strip around Tropicana) 13. The best way to get lots of people to show up for your session is to have DefCon goons throw out free stuff first. 14. Jackie Gaughan has to be pretty cool to let 2,000 drunk hackers come in and trash his house.