What are people bringing to Defcon?

[mfreeck]

Rejection

Originally posted by blackwave


ACK!... don't you wish that IRL there was a /kick command? I have learned that speaking to these types of ppl isn't often the most beneficial.

Unfortunately, some of the folks were perfectly decent (well, I think), but I just erm, didn't get outside enough for them. I get confused sometimes when people ask what I do for fun. :) Pizza, beer, and a kernel compile just isn't what most people get excited about for a Friday night.

[blackwave]

Re: Rejection

Originally posted by mfreeck
just isn't what most people get excited about for a Friday night.

Tell me about it, people tell me that the day that I lose it and get into a catatonic state, they are going to dress me in brightly colored clothes and push me around in my computer chair...

Little did they know the upperhand would be mine, by that time I would already be inside the machine, and just no longer found use for the shell.. ;)

[mfreeck]

we don't need no steenkin' ungeeks

Originally posted by blackwave

Little did they know the upperhand would be mine, by that time I would already be inside the machine

Then their computer really *would* have it out for them. :D

[R.J.]

Well, I was going to call up the FCC and ask for a list of licensed frequencies in Las Vegas under some technically true pretense or something, but if you have the list, publish away!

[octalpus]

Re: What I'm brining

Originally posted by froggy
I know one things for certain, anyone transmitting shit music on FRS 1 will definitely get a boot in their ass if we manage to triangulate you.

If someone finds the guy who was singing something like "I don't want relationship, I just want you suck my ****" (censored for the under 18 crowd)... please send him my way with a recording of said song. BANG BANG BANG! Damn song was stuck in my head for months. As for the porn soundtrack being broadcast, that was me, thanks to my gratuitous don't-pay-per-view, compliments of Dr. Faustus. =o)

[Grifter]

Freqs

I do, I think either you or someone else mentioned they were compiling a freq-guide for LV.

I think Skroo was trying to get something together. Not sure though. This topic deffinetly requires its own thread.

[astcell]

CAt5 at the con sells for obscene prices, I thought about bringing ands and a crimper and seling cable for $.50 a foot plus $2 for the ends....

[blackwave]

Crayola Chalk 12



I just picked up my box of chalk... almost forgot ;)

[Neural]

now all you need is one of those leet chalk holders that the teachers use in class.

[blackwave]

Originally posted by Neural
now all you need is one of those leet chalk holders that the teachers use in class.

oh no, you made me think of the chalk writers my music teacher used to use to write music on the board!

Item C on this link:

[jenara]

Originally posted by octalpussy
- Yeasu FT-50R
- Laptop (if I don't kill it right before con... I have a bad track record of doing that)
- Lots of clothes and shoes (I'm a chick, 'nuff said)
- Bar tools
- Speakers, lighting, other entertainment items
- Cards with contact info
- My homework (I get back just in time for the final reviews)
- Power inverter
- 802.11b card
- Possibly an omni-directional antenna, if I can talk my old boss out of one for the weekend
- Anything else that'll fit in my bags!

I always pack several days before I leave, and I keep adding things right up to the minute I walk out the door.

you would get along great with bikigrl, sheesh, i'm AFRAID to go through baggage check with her. in fact, i don't know how we are going to carry it all.

i'm a chick but i like to tell myself i'm not as bad as most. It helps that i don't worry about makeup/frilly clothes/multiple hair products. yay for that, at least.

[Apex]

iPaq with Orinoco Gold card for stumbling and email
Yaesu FT-50R
A Pair of Audiovox FRS handhelds
Always bring a spare in case one dissapears
Assorted laptops
one to trade, one to add to the prize pile, one to carry, and one on in the room for file storage. :)
Lockpicks
Mod Rabid Shack handheld scanner (never know what you might hear)
Digital Camera and Video
Misc drives, batteries, CAT5, pcmcia NIC's, etc
Paper and CD business cards
17 feet of 16 guage copper wire
Lots of cigars
And clothing for every occasion

And of course i'll find something to fill in any empty spaces in my luggage. Getting it all thru Checkpoint Charlie will be the interesting part......

[octalpus]

Originally posted by jenara

you would get along great with bikigrl, sheesh, i'm AFRAID to go through baggage check with her. in fact, i don't know how we are going to carry it all.

The difference is that my bag is primarily filled with tech gear... not glitter and fairy wings.

[astcell]

lockpicking defcon 1

You know those Defcon 1 laptop locks? Are those pickable? I wonder what the record is for picking them. Of course you don't want to look TOO good doing it in case anything turns up missing.

Is that right -- "turns up missing"? I guess I should say "Goes missing."

As for luggage, I'll only need one shirt, I'l buy more there. How many folks have a "Spotted the Fed" shirt?

[blackwave]

Re: lockpicking defcon 1

Originally posted by astcell
You know those Defcon 1 laptop locks? Are those pickable?

I think I have played STF almost every year, but never seem to get the right person.. shux.

We all know anything is pickable, but why waste precious time when you can do this...

Try this:
Requirements:

2 long needles
1 Jumper cable with alligator clips on each end
1 tungsten/cobalt carbide wire cutter (found on Gerbers Legend 800 Line)
1 defcon cable lock

... without moving any of the devices get one of the the cable on point A and push needleA through the plastic coating so that it makes contact with the conduit.

push needleA on the opposite side of the cable length. Once needles are secure place alligator clipA on one needleA and alligator clipB on needleB.

Snip the cable in between the needles.

Viola phree laptop, rather the laptop is phree!

The reason this works, defcon locks do not check for changes in resistance when adding the jumpers or compare the resistance with the jumper cable to their own cable.

Better solutions would be to have several wires wrapped by the and wrapped by 2 conductive material layers, then wrapped by the plastic... this way once the needles pierced and made a short between the layers the alarm would sound, or of that was bypassed, once the cable was cut the hot wire would check itself and the alarm would sound since the chances are that the bundle of wires within the cable would not be contacting correctly.