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The atmosphere seems to be so rife with paranoia that it looks best not to take any digital device with you there.
by iwwr 15y ago
The atmosphere seems to be so rife with paranoia that it looks best not to take any digital device with you there.
- JonnieCache 15y agoA pen and paper would probably do just fine for taking the odd note. However I'd probably take a cheap old laptop off ebay, bought for the event and then discarded afterward. I'd feel I was missing out if I wasn't able to at least dip a packet sniffer into the famously hellish torrent of exploits I've heard so much about. I'd never take any of my personal machines though.
- khafra 15y agoOne year I took a pocket-sized notebook and a slide rule. The next year I took an iPhone and a eee PC. I experienced the same level of hacking both times.
- scarmig 15y agoWow, what'd they do to the slide rule?
- jevinskie 15y agoSpeaking of packet sniffers, DEFCON would be, by far, the best event to try out a Wireshark packet dissector 0-day!
- marcinw 15y agoThere's plenty of those to go around...
- jconnop 15y agoThat's a little extreme. Unless you expect them to get into your low level hardware (BIOS etc), just format it clean afterwards.
- shin_lao 15y agoAlways have an obscure old phone with almost no feature (except voice and text). Generally the OS is so minimal that there's little room for an exploit, and by little room I mean that you will not have enough memory to add your rootkit.
- eli 15y agoThe Motorola RAZR (and probably similar phones) have serious exploits and backdoors. See: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
- ugh 15y agoYou hopefully also don't have any phone conversations or send any text messages you mind becoming public? GSM is thouroughly broken.
- ZoFreX 15y agoIf you're in the UK, take a phone with a Three sim card in it, they can't connect at all without 3G.
- arethuza 15y agoIs 3G really that much more secure than GSM? http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013.pdf http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013.pdf
- ZoFreX 15y agoFrom what I've been told, yes, but I could be utterly wrong.
- ugh 15y agoThat works for you, it won't work for everyone. UMTS and LTE don't have the capacity to replace GSM, not even close, they can barely keep up with the growth of additional demand. GSM is broken and here to stay for a long, long time.