I'm Attending Defcon this August, advice?

[Phil Waclawski]

Well, I'm attending it in the hopes of learning about how some of these
attacks work, and how to defend against them. Helps me teach my students
better practices (and myself as well).

To be honest, I had planned on having an old laptop with a brand new
kubuntu install on it (no data I care about) and just doing some blender
work and note taking offline, and never connecting it to a network while at
the convention.

However, I'm curious, if I set up an ssh tunnel to a server I've already
established a Key system with, wouldn't ssh throw up a huge warning from a
man in the middle attack not having the right "handshake"? At that point
I'd only be hosed if I was dumb enough to say "connect anyway"?.

Phil W.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:30 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 19. Apr, 2013 schwätzte Alan Dayley so:
>
> moin moin Alan,
>
>
>  Why in the world would anyone actually attend a conference where you KNOW
>> people are going to attack your electronics and data? Erasing everyone's
>>
>
> It's in the city where people pay to let someone steal from them, so it
> fits the theme.
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/**online/blogs/culture/2013/01/**
> video-the-art-of-**pickpocketing.html<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/01/video-the-art-of-pickpocketing.html>
>
>
>  credit cards? For the lulz, I guess. It sounds like a bunch of very smart
>> trolls getting together to see who can out-troll who. I would just
>> be collateral damage in such a group. I guess it's an effective way to
>> keep
>> the non-trolls and newbies out of the "defcon club." Or maybe it is a from
>> of hazing.
>>
>> And, if I HAD to go, cash, pen and paper is all I would bring.
>>
>
> Make sure to keep them somewhere safe ;-).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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