You might want to take a roll of aluminum foil just in case....
What a funny thread....
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Keith Smith
--- On Fri, 4/19/13, Derek Trotter <
expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Derek Trotter <
expat.arizonan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I'm Attending Defcon this August, advice?
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
Date: Friday, April 19, 2013, 10:51 AM
It seems to me that if I were to go, I
should take the following precautions.
Don't bring my cell phone. Find a pay phone.
While at the event keep my credit card in a steel container such
as an altoids tin.
Bring cash just in case the altoids tin is not enough.
Take notes using paper and pencil.
On 04/19/2013 06:45 AM, Stephen wrote:
sounds like there are allot of people that attend
to be a jerk to others... sheesh...
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Lisa
Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>
wrote:
Laugh!
If you take that Ubuntu install to DefCon and connect
to the network there, every place you connect with/to
authenticate to/with will be endangered. All of the
sites you visit irregardless of protocol (encryption)
will provide login/password and URL to others listening
and MITM'ing. A VPN is your only partial protection
(depending on what your using - no PPTP and easily
encroached router firmware). Just do DefCon,there is
enough to do, write about and learn while there. If you
must work, get a room across town (in a cheap fleabag
and drive over) although it should be noted that ANY
protection you would make for DefCon needs to be made
EVERYWHERE or you risk pwnership.
Someone brought a huge demagnetizer to DefCon 6,
carrying it around in their backpack; everyone was
stranded since they couldn't pay for their hotel or
food, taxi's as about 800 cards were wiped.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM,
Phil Waclawski <phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu>
wrote:
I already know not to bring your
regular cell phone, and bring a "burn" phone
instead, and I'm bringing a laptop that will be a
fresh kubuntu install, locked down etc with nothing
on it that I care about.
Is there any reasonably secure way to use the
internet at defcon, or is that a pipe dream? I
personally had just figured to use the laptop for
offline work (some blender training etc), but I am
curious.
Also, I will have to use my credit card to pay
for the hotel, but that will be the only time I
use it (I plan on using cash as much as possible
at the event). Thankfully my credit card does not
have rfid, but that doesn't make it less
vulnerable to shoulder surfing and other problems
(fake card readers etc).
So, I've had a bit of advice from Chris Lewis,
but I'm curious as to what others think ;)
Phil Waclawski
MCC CIS Faculty
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