Ideas for Defcon 15

[TheCotMan]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Actually, I was thinking about this... The people that run the Wall of Sheep could provide this service. ]:>

[theprez98]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

Actually, I was thinking about this... The people that run the Wall of Sheep could provide this service. ]:>

Don't make it *that* easy for them!

[psypete]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

all joshing aside the PTC's last effort was fairly secure, if not a little less than robust over the token ring network (there were quite a few outages over the last con I attended).

the servers auto-created passwordless unique local users which were exclusive of one another (and deleted after log-out), and the terminal servers themselves were locked down to prevent mischief. the clients were X-over-SSH to prevent X snooping incase someone actually brought a PCMCIA token ring card. the OS itself loaded from an internally-mounted floppy drive. heh i even left a "root" prompt on one of the floppy os's and watched some endeavoring hackers try to find out how it worked - to no avail :(

i said fearless because i know some asshat will figure out a way to break the system and put GOATSE on all the terminals. the *point* is if you want to check Slashdot or get on IRC for 30 minutes it's handy. only those with true grit (And we are chalk-full of that man!) or true stupidity will enter their passwords...



... but seriously, i know some of you loony geeks have a basement full of monitors and PC's. it should be possible to ship a pallet of 8 of them via truck/train/plane in less than a week, so reply fast. if it doesn't work out you've still found a creative way to get rid of your crap.

[Thorn]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

all joshing aside the PTC's last effort was fairly secure ...

That may be true, but you're missing the point.

... but seriously, i know some of you loony geeks have a basement full of monitors and PC's. it should be possible to ship a pallet of 8 of them via truck/train/plane in less than a week, so reply fast. if it doesn't work out you've still found a creative way to get rid of your crap.

Again, the point is being missed.

The point is that it is really late. Those of us running events have been coordinating with the DefCon staff for months just to get the appropriate amount of square footage, and even now the staff is working hard to do last minute juggling to accommodate the space needs of all known events. Ditto for the data connection. Our coordination with the NOC crew goes back months ago to make sure our connection needs were met.

[TheCotMan]

Re: Ideas for Defcon 15

You can start planning for next year. I believe there was an announcement that the contest/events floor space has been filled and the skyboxes were done too-- though I don't remember if the skybox notice was posted here.