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The 2007 Defcon badge (currently selling on eBay for $202.50) came with its own SDK, which explains why, by Sunday, a couple of attendees had hacked theirs to play music from their iPods. They were two of some 50 contest winners, of whom the most tired – and wired – were the 20 person team who spent 22.5 hours solving the “mystery box” (the hack required knowledge of cryptography, electronics, lockpicking, literature, and rotary phones).
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This was my first time to Defcon and it was a great time. There are over 7000 people there and there are so many things to do you have to pretty much choose a path and go for it. You could spend all your time in the presentations or participate in the contests and compete for the glory and maybe even the esteemed black badge.
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Joe Grand MAKE author and tech advisory board member out did himself again with this year’s badges – photos and files ahead…
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We don’t need no steenkin’ badges! You might think be the motto out of an event that deals in cash only and never, ever gathers data on attendees to the long-running hacker event because they might have to turn it over to the Feds one day. If you don’t collect it, you can’t hand it over.
[ continue ]Boing Boing
The attendee badges at Defcon 15 can be programmed to display arbitrary words and phrases via their built-in LEDs using nothing but the on-board hardware–once you figure out how to hack them. I just got my wife’s badge for Defcon (they’re not giving out press badges ’till tomorrow) and it is totally and completely awesome.
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