Garrett Gee

At Defcon, I bought an EVDO antenna from one of the vendors for $30. The dealer stated that I could see up to 2x the upload and download speed. After doing tests in a few cities, I can say that the antenna does increase speed.
Here are the results from my tests:

Las Vegas - 44% increase in downloads, […]

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Just like always, Black Hat was great. I got learn a bunch, and met a lot of interesting people. Most of the speakers were excellent, but some of them could use lessons in public speaking.
I did have an issue with a lousy training class, but the Black Hat staff quickly helped me change into one […]

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The vendor area seemed to grow a little bit more this year, and there was no shortage of SWAG from them. I am happy to see vendors showing up at a conference like this, as it allows us to talk to them in a more open environment.

I have no idea who printed the ‘I am […]

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A conference wouldn’t be complete if there weren’t vendor parties at night.
The best one I attended was the SPI Dynamics party at TAO. They had an open bar serving top shelf liquor, and they had an assortment of appetizers like sushi, lobster and shrimp dumplings, chilean sea bass, and kobe beef sliders.
Other parties […]

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After the Premature Ajax-ulation talk by Bryan Sullivan and Billy Hoffman, they announced a contest of who can place a SPI bumper sticker in the best, most creative place during the conference.
I wasn’t planning on participating in this event, but someone saw that I had a camera, and he needed help in his entry. I […]

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Joe Grand did an awesome job on this year’s Defcon badges. There is a LED array allowing custom text to scroll, and there are expansion options like a triple-axis accelerometer, and a 2.4GHz RF tranceiver. The schematics were on the Defcon cdrom, and it is very hacker friendly.
There were five different badges - Goon, Human, […]

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