Man DefCon has changed since I was a regular.
Back when all tickets were sold by cash only
A hacker conference is upset that someone "hacked" their badges.
and put unwanted code into the firmware.
Users are (meant) to be hacking these boards.
That is the entire point isn't it?
Have guys who did it come in in, talk about the exploit, share how they
did it.
Then the corpDefCon can talk about what they missed and how to avoid it.
Have a talk "How DefCon got hacked"
Have some fun for f-sake.
Tangent man, come on.
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Unfortunately, shortly before the talk was set to take place DEF CON became aware that unauthorized code had been included in the firmware we had paid Entropic Engineering to produce,
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You have to get into something cool before it has a reddit dedicated to it otherwise the killjoys will infest it and their calls of "actually!" will ruin all your fun.
A hacker conference is upset that someone "hacked" their badges. and put unwanted code into the firmware. Users are (meant) to be hacking these boards. That is the entire point isn't it?
Have guys who did it come in in, talk about the exploit, share how they did it. Then the corpDefCon can talk about what they missed and how to avoid it. Have a talk "How DefCon got hacked"
Have some fun for f-sake. Tangent man, come on.
"" Unfortunately, shortly before the talk was set to take place DEF CON became aware that unauthorized code had been included in the firmware we had paid Entropic Engineering to produce, ""