[Defcon 16] Welcome to the DEFCON Badge Hacking Contest

[Kingpin]

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Ah, yes, the puzzles have begun. It's so tempting to say more, but that would spoil the fun... :)

See everyone at con!

Joe

[LosT]

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To echo what Joe said, don't make any assumptions and just have a good time.

See you all when you get here.

1057

[LosT]

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Bonus points for anyone who can find 'mini Joe Grand' at Defcon.

LosT

[whopis]

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* The only "expansion hardware" we will be giving away this year are USB connectors and some 2x3 headers for the BDM port.

When and where will you be giving away the USB connectors?

[Cross_]

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The weird japanese qrcode reader didnt work, nor did .. scanlife? .. some other qr code scanner for windows mobile.

Probably because it's not in qrcode ;)

I really wish there was a working datamatrix online decoder. Or at least a win32 executable.

[LosT]

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You will just have to wait and see....

1057

When and where will you be giving away the USB connectors?

[Voltage Spike]

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Damn, and I had my TV-B-Gone code all ready to go... Guess I'll have to think of something better.

Oh, and reading the damn instructions is killer on eyeballs. Visiting the forums just after reading those columns, I thought someone had changed the classic theme to "ugly striped".

[Voltage Spike]

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Oh, and reading the damn instructions is killer on eyeballs. Visiting the forums just after reading those columns, I thought someone had changed the classic theme to "ugly striped".

Those that don't wish to lose their vision can find a much more readable version on the CD in plain text format. (Well, I guess readable depends on the font settings in your text editor, but you got me.)

[pdx6]

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Since the new badges were delayed, we made our own hackd badge (that is open source): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agra7hyBv3k

[ebroder]

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I've been trying all day to download the devkit from media.defcon.org, and I can't pull down more than about 150 MB of it because the server disconnects me and doesn't support byte-range transfers. Does anyone have a copy they could put on a server that doesn't suck?

[nak]

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Hi, I don't know what I am doing wrong, the HHV is closed for the night and I just got my mini-usb connector soldered on.

I can't seem to get the "Freescale JM60 GUI" working (the usb symbol has been red). I've been able to get some output from the badge by connecting through hyperterm:

Welcome to the debug terminal...

Entering TRANSMIT mode.
Sending TV-B-Gone power off codes.
Sending TV-B-Gone power off codes.
Power off code list complete. Repeating!

The port being used is COM6 (or 5)... I can't find any settings for the Freescale software so I don't if the software is looking at COM1 or something, any help would be cool, I think I'll go party hard now

[charliex]

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did you put the badge in bootloader mode by holding down the button and inserting the battery(it'll want to install the new drivers which are on the cd ) the two outer leds will light

[mzkatt]

Question re: the Cool Badges...

Since I was one of the unlucky ones who is stuck with the 'uncool' badges, is it going to be possible to get one of the 'cool' ones? I am happy to pay shipping...

[nak]

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did you put the badge in bootloader mode by holding down the button and inserting the battery(it'll want to install the new drivers which are on the cd ) the two outer leds will light

Yeah, I did try that, the computer will pop up an un-recognized USB device bubble from the system tray. The only time XP asks for drivers is when it is in 'normal' operation mode. It also doesn't open a serial port when in bootloader mode (BTW).

[submarinerm]

Re: Question re: the Cool Badges...

Since I was one of the unlucky ones who is stuck with the 'uncool' badges, is it going to be possible to get one of the 'cool' ones? I am happy to pay shipping...

I am also one of the people still sporting the cool 'temporary' badge. I don't need no stinking blinky badge, but it sure would complete my experience of my first BH/DC. I'm wearing THE Adobe On Air shirt (it was free).