Sunday, July 29, 2012

Defcon 20 wrap up

Wow, and that was a party! My first and the last held ninja party, and what an experience.
Dual core, dj jackalope, and minibosses were amazing! Meet quite a few people, including a Red Hat teacher, a Web application consultant, 2 guys who had worked together on a few projects including XBMC, voip, mesh networking, a college student that is trying to build a defensive blog/wiki, saw Snubs and i86, and a set of brothers interested in the raspberry pi and they have a Hackentosh running. So it was great to meet so many technical people.

Got back to my room at the Rio at 3 am and slept till 10:30 am, showered, cleaned the room, and checked out.
On our way to the conference ran into Darren Kitchen of Hak5 and talked for a bit on mesh networking, like what the ninja telco did this year or with Android meshing. So that was cool. 
I looked at what was on my schedule for today and decided that I wanted to go to the sky talks, since they aren't recorded, and got some great info. I will post my notes on the block when i have time. 
So I got a few more bawls energy drinks, a physical Bitcoin, and a Defcon hat.
When to a sky talks about how network sucks, because people don't take the time to configure their own setup, which had a follow up WIFI village talk about making your own mesh networking using 2.4 spec, 802.15 which will be made available soon to play with.
The next sky talk was about how any device that is wired has a radio frequency that you think gives off, enabling you to sniff it with some specially made equipment.
And the next talk was about mobile pen testing framework, to test to see if your network has unsecured mobile devices.
After that we jumped into the car and have been on the road since. Traffic has been bad, but for now we are moving.
More to come lots of data to throw up here over the next few days.