Garrett Gee

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, Press, [...]

It seems that lock picking keeps growing each time I go to Defcon. There were vendors, LPCON 5, and the lock picking village. In the lock picking village, there were a bunch of demo stations setup to practice on. But because it was so crowded, it seemed like you could only get advice if you were lucky [...]