Deviant's DEFCON 10 Photos

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Hehe... this fountain has been 0wn3d with a purple food coloring exploit.	Pics of me and Renderman with Simple Nomad. To anyone who's never read Simple's "Widdershins" piece, you really should. Being there to hear it at DC9 was absolutely stunning.
My finest compliments again must be stated about the Ghettohackers and their organization of this year's Capture the Flag hacking competition. Not only did they have a real-time "stock price style" scoreboard set to techno music, but they also had a dizzying array of cartoons, old time commercials for beer and coffee, and "news breaks" reminiscent of the film Blade Runner.
Above is a panoramic video shot of the CTF LAN area and a whacky cartoon with a pounding techno soundtrack.	The realtime stock-price-style scoreboard was a cool addition to the CTF competition.	This is a clip showing one of the "Blade Runner" style news breaks.
The DefCon "Wall of Sheep." If you check your email or VNC to your home computer over a non-encrypted link, you're a moron and will likely be listed here.		Nate Rotschafer, a student at the University of Nebraska gave a pretty good talk about biometric devices.
These are clips from Nate's talk. He covered aspects of many types of devices and he also discussed attacks on these systems that can be performed by capturing data as it is passed along the wire. Neat stuff.
My flyer about hacking one's TV was certainly not the only one posted at the con. This flyer advertised a link to a site selling X-Box mod chips.	A shot of the DefCon vendor area.	It takes us geeks a while, but by the end of the con more and more people were getting into the pools.
To escape the Nevada sun, people started jumping in the pool regardless of what they were wearing.
	We chose to escape the sun by watching movies on DefCon TV. Whoever can identify the film seen in this clip, email me. First one to do so wins a prize.   :-)
These two photos were from V1RU5's kick ass talk on malicious code, worms, trojans, etc. The videos below are also from this panel. Lupo is always one of my favorite speakers when i get to see him.
V1RU5 was also on the team that won the DefCon scavenger hunt. Yes, that is an airline life jacket they're holding up on stage.		The Dark Tangent... the one responsible for DefCon. He was very pleased with how it's grown and how well this year went.
The winning team for Hacker Jeopardy was the Detroit Crew. They jumped ahead in final jeopardy by getting the correct answer to the port math question. The answer... 31337.	The Orange Team won this year's Capture the Flag competition. They took a severe drop in the score rankings at one point in the game, but they never lost hope and came out on top.
I have to say, if you've never tried to socially engineer your way into first class... try it! It wasn't that hard. I expressed concern over an "injured knee" that I had "suffered while on vacation" and asked if there was any way to be moved to an aisle seat or bulkhead section where I could keep my leg straight. I was told that although there were no such options in my section, for a minimal fee they could seat me in first class since there was an opening. I was given priority over frequent flyers and other persons who wanted to upgrade.		I nearly lost it when they offered us beverage service prior to takeoff. Free beer? Uhm, could you come back to me? I have to think about it.    :-)
A shot of the Vegas strip visible on takeoff.	I was totally in awe of the comfort and the view. I knew the exhilaration Homer Simpson felt over his ride on the Duff blimp.	The first course of our meal (not counting the cocktails, nuts, and rolls that we were served just after takeoff.)
I chose the Mushroom Ravioli for my entrée. The other selections were an Old Fashioned Meatloaf Sandwich or a Chicken Fajita Salad.	For desert I went with chocolate, caramel, and Bailey's Irish Cream over vanilla ice cream.	This was easily one of the best Cons that I have attended.