sorry for no links yesterday folks, jet lag was still kickin in. but thankfully, eliot put up an article on how to finally use that damn cvs camcorder! bout time right?

so before i throw you lotsa links, let me say this:

i am out of all merch aside from a few shirts.

i came back from, vegas to over 300 envelopes bulging out of my mailbox. i still havent even gotten to them yet.  so stop sending SASEs until we get more. thanks people!

LINKAGE!
printer that cuts its own paper for you. oragami anyone?
inject audio into insecure handsets. oooh the possibilities

it’s monday again. another new week! but wow, we have some serious recapping to do.

defcon 13 has come and gone and boy has it been a blast. we saw a lot of great and horrible talks, met tons of cool people, gave out tons of stickers and t-shirts and pins, and also got hacked! w00t!

we still have a few shirts (and tons of stickers) left though. we’ll let you know how you can get your hands on the in the next few days!

Defcon has really been great despite being a bit dissapointing in a lot of ways. It made me get back into my hacking roots that are so much fun to do. For instance, while we were hanging with the dudes over at rackspace, I created this nice little php page making it very easy to test Movable Type installations for the default username and password. I like it, it’s very fun. Just copy and paste the www.cfrirgrg.com/mt.cgi address in the box. No HTTP:// is required (don’t do it) so it’s easy to paste from the google results. i plan on improving it and eventually automating it.

what the hack was also over the weekend too. it took place all outdoors and was probably better than defcon. if you went, we wanna know.

then there’s the whole up-in-arms-over-this cisco exploit that came out that could “bring the internet to it’s knees”…ouch. the guy who found it quit his job at his security firm so he could bring attention to it and now he’s screwed basically.

props to this guy (rich) for shoving us to in-n-out burger too. he also exposed us to “the weight lifter” if i recall right. we don’t thank you for that. we also want to thank corey, dirk, jason s., ryan, justin (blogcadre raps), justin (lettingusstayathisplace), torrone, mike (same), jason c. of course, and all of you guys who came up and found us and said hi!

this is one of the most insane things i’ve seen in a long time. this guy obviously had a very formal event (read: prom) to go to at one point. chances are he was desperate for attention which resulted in his coke can tux. that’s right. he ran a can drive with his readers and friends to get the cans to make this monstrosity. he then went and mashed, molded, melted, and sewed a series of coke cans together to create this coke can vest for his event. great work and extra points for being original and a loser.

thanks [com]

The ATM machines here at Defcon all now have Defcon logos and stuff on the screens. There’s also a talk on hacking ATM machines. So therefore, we’re guessing the ATM machines have been compromised so for every dope using them and getting hit with the $2.00 fee: Pshhhh….go fsck yourself.

This ball was being shown from DC*480. It’s a remote control ball that has a camera and processor. It can throw itself anywhere and only took the team 3 days to build…with 6 months of planning of course. I got a turn to try it out and you rotate the X and Y axis to make it move. It takes random screenshots too of what it sees. I love it. Great project.

Yours truely.

(Sexy) beast of burden, Eliot

See you there. We’ll have some shirts today and some more tomorrow.

check em out!

we’ll be selling them today and tomorrow of course at defcon. $100 a piece.

not. they’ll be free, just come find us and find out how you can get one.

to find us, just look for us with the hackaday t-shirts. we’ll probably be rocking a sticker and a pin or two as well. we reccomend getting them ASAP for several reasons…one being that we just don’t have a lot of them.

so come on. hit it up!

The Zeus room at Defcon contains tons of cool merch and items. Everything from custom segways, to wardriving cantennas to your t-shirt swag. Some of the cool things you’ll find there though are the more cheaper items. For example, lockpicking kits are being sold and you can lockpick a doorknob and bike lock to try it out. It’s pretty hard. They also have a stand with all kinds of used hardware. I mean tons of cool stuff. Like above, there’s used “as-is” laptops for sale on the cheap. This is perfect for the sub-$100 laptop contest we had! There’s tons of used Sun servers, Cisco routers, and other great techno-crap.

There’s also a plethora of t-shirts, stickers, and other dumb fun crap. A book stand contains books on all topics from ethereal to shell scripting to identity theft. It’s great. You can win some great prizes too like t-shirts and iPods.

And yes. We know we got “hacked” or whatever you want to call it. Twas expected of course. No biggie. We appreciate other hackers not being malicious. That’s what makes a hacker good and not bad. Don’t forget that. We also appreciate you guys stopping by today and grabbing swag and saying hi. It’s been a great time so far. Tomorrow we’ll have t-shirts for sale! So get ready to get yours!

 Vegas has been great. Look above, how neat.

I got in from hanging with Phil Torrone and Jason Striegel last night. We woke Eliot up. Then he woke me up.

The conference starts in an hour. My pass broke already. We’ve got about 5 pins left and a ton of stickers. If you want a pin, you have to give us something in return! We’d love to see a hack.

So come meet us at The Alexis Park/Resort/Dump and chat with us.
We’ll be hollerin back. Later!

CISO was taking Q&A at Defcon. A lot of the questions were directed torward corporate security issues and how testing is done. A lot of jib jab about hackers and the patriot act ensued. Cool questions, but a bit long if you ask me.

me (vince)

him (eliot)

Hey! The swag is already out and in full force. Defcon is great, but beware about photos, here’s what our man with the master plan Jason C. says:

“We’re 10 minutes into the event and the first privacy/freedom of speech debate has started. The topic was, of course, photos. An organizer went off a long tirade about not taking pictures of the speakers or audience without their permission and that the press would have their film taken if they did. They did says that you could take pictures of the backs of people’s heads without permission. So, since many of you have always wanted to see the backs of 500 sweaty nerds in a tent

when the box office opens for tickets, we’ll be there (we = me. eliot gets in late. torrone might be there with me)

we suggest you meet up with us. the t-shirts got lost with UPS, but they’ll be getting a new order here by saturday for us. so no worries! defcon visitors will get some!

expect more posts today. jet lag kills. don’t IM me unless you ARE going to defcon.
if you will be going to defcon, send us a tip or comment with a way to get in touch with you and we’ll let you know whats up. meet us before defcon then come ask us Q&A and show us hacks tomorrow!

plenty of stickers to give out still!

let’s talk defcon.

first off, the t-shirts were “delivered” yesterday. except they either:

A. got stolen within a one hour window of no one being home in my mother’s town which has like no crime.
B. UPS screwed up hardcore. probably true.
C. I dunno.

So UPS says they got delivered, but they didn’t. This is a huge problem. So most of today I’ll spend remedying the situation. Second, will you be at Defcon? Let us know. Come by and say hi to us, meet up, talk with us, and all. It’ll be Me, Eliot, Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc. co-founder/CEO), Phillip Torrone (hackaday creator), and Jason Striegel will be there as well. We’ll have t-shirts, stickers, and a very limited number of pins to give out. Bring your hacks too! We wanna see em!

Also, my flight to Vegas is Thursday and I’ll be getting there SUPER early at 10:30am I believe. Would anyone from the area want to meet up? Show me around? Go to Defcon registration with me? Let me know. Eliot doesn’t get in until 10pm I believe.

So needless to say, don’t expect the usual links until next week. Instead, expect post after post about Defcon. Yes, we will be using color pictures too. Don’t cry. We’ll be throwing a few contests too so you can score a hackaday prize pack.

So as I spend the final 24 hours packing, etc., keep an eye out for us in Vegas. We’ll be 0wning it. Trust us. We’ll throw a poll up too probably.

5 last minute links for ya’ll!
#1. Google maps again. This time, find cellphone towers.
#2. Microsoft be checkin…for yo’ pirated copy a windows fool. Sucks for a lot of us I’m sure.
#3. Homemade headphones. Just like mom makes em. [cyanoacry]
#4. This wi-fi light is incredibly awesome. I mean just look at it.
#5. Actual flying star wars ship models. Insane.

Also, congrats to reader [j guillory] for being the first with a great quality, MPG version of the All-American Rejects performance on Letterman. He’s won himself a prize pack with a t-shirt, stickers, and some buttons! Congrats! You can view the video here (if it’s still up). Great performance. All runners up (like 3 others) will get extra stickers and buttons in their next sticker SASE.

Also note I’m no longer giving out buttons. I have about 20 left that we need for Defcon. So sorry folks, stickers for now. Buttons will be re-ordered probably. We also will be selling t-shirts soon. Maybe even packs. Like a t-shirt, sticker pack, and a few buttons for a good price. Exciting eh? Go read the HOW-TO, watch the video, and sit back for Defcon. <3