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"It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times". Pearl S. BuckComment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
For the outdoor area we re getting a bunch of kiddie pools and chairs. Bring your rubber duckies!PGP Key: https://defcon.org/html/links/dtangent.htmlComment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
hell ya.. I'm semi disappointed that this hasn't already been trumped by the community yet. Maybe it just took a little breaking in at the new venue?
.. has anyone seen those infomercials for the $700 portable hot tub systems?
...if it gets me nowhere, I'll go there proud; and I'm gonna go there free.Comment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
well, at least with rubber ducks we wont get banned from the riv for coloring the pool waterComment
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When you say Rubber Duckies I think or short antennas for a Motorola.Comment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
This is like..... reallyreallyreallyreally last minute, but does anyone wanna take a week to throw together a Public Terminal Cluster like at hope? I volunteer to set up the terminal servers in bsd or linux and network the crap with network boot/remote X. Someone just needs to provide a pallet of monitors and $20 Pentium-1 computers with VGA, floppy and ethernet (though ether cards are cheap if you can find a bargain bin)
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note that you only need like 8 of these terminals and a stable internet connection for it to be a success. if the wireless stays up most of the time a decent 802.11b or g card like a 200mW orinoco, i'd bet 8 machines would be in use most of the con, mostly for the fearless to use mail, ssh, blog and the likeLast edited by psypete; July 20, 2007, 07:46.Comment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
fearless is right. i've always sort of just scratched my head at those sort of setups, since i could never imagine who would be silly enough to use them. maybe if you had a bunch of machines without hard drives that would only run live distros from disc or thumb drives that would be one thing... but the HOPE-style terminal clusters i've always just assumed were some sort of giant social engineering trick that attempts to harvest names and passwords from users who are stupid enough to create a temp account using the same credential pair that they use elsewhere in life.
at defcon i think that it's best to do all we can to encourage people to un-plug. if someone desperately needs to blog or check mail, let them do it in their room or on a shitty web-enabled handheld device... something that is quick, dirty, and not conducive to long-term time pecking at a keyboard whilst one misses out on the talks, events, parties, orgies, and other whatnot that only comes once a year for many folks."I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
- Trent ReznorComment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
It is really late, and deviant's comments aside, you're going to have to do an awful lot of coordination pretty damned quick just to get the physical space and connection/bandwidth. My suggestion would be to do a poll at this year's DC to see if people perceive a need for it (although I have my doubts) and then proceed with setting it up next year if it's warranted.
Agreed. My impression of those machines at HOPE was that I wouldn't trust using them any further that I could throw one.Thorn
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine AirdComment
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Re: Ideas for Defcon 15
Where did I put those in-line USB and PS/2 keyloggers?....
Of course, I am not sure how useful it would be, if much of the typing includes people's own rendering of ASCII-Art Goatse images and "I am teh 31337 hax0rz! ph33rm3!"Comment
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I wonder how much of the 100,000 square feet casino gaming area we could cover in a ten minute time period?
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