Defcon: Badges

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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, Press, Speaker, and Uber. Cutwaway Security has pictures of them all here. Gizmodo also has some good pictures here. Credit to the above picture also goes to Gizmodo.

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And here is Joe trying to fix a Human badge. One complaint is that they didn’t have enough human badges for everyone, and I actually knew a bunch of people that didn’t get one.

Defcon: Lock Picking

It seems that lock picking keeps growing each time I go to Defcon. There were vendors, LPCON 5, and the lock picking village.

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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 (read: you were a chick).

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These two pictures were from LPCON 5, in the time trail event.

Last year’s hot topic was bumping regular locks. This year’s hot topic was bumping a Medeco M3 high security lock, which is supposedly un-bumpable. Martin McKeay got interview and record Mark Tobias and Jennalynn on this very subject.