“Security researcher Michael Lynn has settled a dispute with Cisco over his presentation on hacking the company’s routers, which was given at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week. The two parties and Black Hat organisers have agreed not to further discuss the presentation, which contained techniques Lynn said could bring the Internet to its knees.” [via] [BoingBoing round up] Link.
So far I’ve learned one important thing: laptops need power. I secured a new power adaptor, but it’s a drag when this happens. Turns out you can indeed get anything in Vegas. The coverage will now resume.
Brian Krebs has a good round up of today’s events. I didn’t get a chance to check out the lock picking area yet, but that will be my first stop now that I can get online and have power again! Link.
It’s at least one billion degrees here in Vegas… I arrived in Vegas and picked up my badge. The booklet is chock full of goodies, it even includes a paper enigma machine. There’s a CD that I need to dive in to, just from a quick perusal — tons of presentations. So far I’ve met a few folks. The big topic of conversation is the Cisco flaw found. Will post more as the conference starts on Friday. Here are some pics for now… Link.
We have the DEFCON schedule in iPod format, but here are some more….This data is available in iCalendar and vCal (PalmDesktop) formats, too. If you like that sort of thing. I think iCal will sync the appointments to an iPod, but I don’t actually know. Link.
Let the coverage begin! Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine will be covering the annual hacker conference DefCon in Las Vegas July 29th to the 31st. If you plan to attend we’ve put together an iPod notes version of the schedule for all three days of DEFCON as well the complete speaker list. If you want to get “live” audio and video coverage from DEFCON click this link and click SUBSCRIBE. This will automatically download the content via iTunes all next week. Link.
Paper Forest is an excellent blog devoted to papercraft models and automata. Shown here, a working paper pipe organ that reads piano-roll-style punch-tapes. [