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Burner everything: laptop, phone, clothes. There's not as much black hat activity at DEFCON as most people think, but it's not worth the risk.
by zioto 11y ago
Burner everything: laptop, phone, clothes. There's not as much black hat activity at DEFCON as most people think, but it's not worth the risk.
- twright0 11y agoThere's not a lot of black hat activity, but there's plenty of good- to neutral-natured messing about. The "Wall of Sheep" is a great example; if you send something that looks like a username/password on the public wifi, someone will put it up on a big display (though they'll obscure some of the password field) along with the other 'sheep'. Not "black hat" but definitely not the kind of thing you want on a real account. As for burner clothes, the only thing I've ever heard is to not wear company-branded clothes - wearing an obvious Google t-shirt is a great way to attract attention you may not want.
- Natsu 11y agoSpeaking of which, I've long wondered how hard it would be to make the wall of sheep display ASCII art or something by letting it sniff bogus credentials....