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dannyp's avatar
16 years ago
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dannyp
dʎuuɐp
I'll be there!
DaGr8Gatzby's avatar
16 years ago
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DaGr8Gatzby
Drunk by Myself
Man ... I hate that you live near Vegas.
dannyp's avatar
16 years ago
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dannyp
dʎuuɐp
https://www.defcon.org/

Actually I don't anymore. But I'm visiting near Vegas!
ozntz's avatar
16 years ago
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ozntz
toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
damn if i thought about it I would have gone... I have the last week of Aug of woot
nny's avatar
16 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
I'll be there again.
nestor's avatar
16 years ago
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nestor
nestor
i be in the united kingdom.
dannyp's avatar
16 years ago
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dannyp
dʎuuɐp
i didn't see any dude in a respirator there

i was all ready to register my handle as openfly to thwart you

which speeches did you see?
parties attended?
nny's avatar
16 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
I had my jacket on for a bit. Said "Evil".

I went to a bunch of parties.

Friday I think I hate a hackerpimps for a bit, then rolled along over to some other skybox party... ended up at HHH party.

Saturday I hit the IO Active party for a bit... but all the IO Active guys I knew had crashed already... So I went over to the 303 party and eventually ended up at challenge for a bit before calling it a night.

Hell of a con.

I really only attended the defcon beer cooling, and the hacker jeopardy (my friends team almost won, got beat by another friends team buwahaha).

I had a ball. Was hoping to do more badge hacking just didn't have the time.
dannyp's avatar
16 years ago
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dannyp
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I didn't know there were any parties on Friday, shit. I was at IO for most of the evening Saturday, but went to the skyboxes after.

Did you try the cooled beer?

As for the badge I soldered on the miniusb connector and the 6 pins. We tried getting the badges to transfer files on sd cards with no luck. The tv power-off feature works though :) I haven't messed around with the IDE on the cd, as I don't have a cd drive.
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16 years ago
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nny
M̮͈̣̙̰̝̃̿̎̍ͬa͉̭̥͓ț̘ͯ̈́t̬̻͖̰̞͎ͤ̇ ̈̚J̹͎̿̾ȏ̞̫͈y̭̺ͭc̦̹̟̦̭̫͊̿ͩeͥ̌̾̓ͨ
We got it transferring once we were pulling debug info off the USB.

You needed to format the memory card in DOS command prompt.

And you needed to set the file for sending Read-Only.

We actually transferred a couple files during the con.

I also added USB for a couple of friends. A lot of folks destroyed their badges trying to add the USB connectors. It was something of a debacle. Also the hardware hacking village was a mess. I stayed in the wireless hacking village when possible.

The code on the badges was pretty ugly. I broke out the spi interface off the SD slot, I was going to hook it up to the jacket and quickly write some code for it... but getting the dev environment up and operational was a righteous pain in the ass. Would have been easy though. The jacket uses SPI between the atmega168 and the max6952.

=P