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I heard that there was a hack that went on whereby someone was on the phone in the elevators at the Rio and their entire conversation was played over the speake
by X-Istence 15y ago
I heard that there was a hack that went on whereby someone was on the phone in the elevators at the Rio and their entire conversation was played over the speakers in the elevator bank. Friend of mine said he was in the elevator at the time and that it was hilarious. Could have been a bluetooth hack though.
Also plenty of people on Sprint's network had full bars but could make absolutely no calls and data was extremely slow, but about half a block from the Rio everything worked perfectly again, now it could well be that they were handed off to a different tower, but people on AT&T and T-Mobile weren't having the same issues.
DefCon this year was awesome. Plenty of fun to be had, and as more and more people start carrying around cell phones that are more powerful these attacks will continue to be developed and continue to be exploited.
- bonzoesc 15y ago> Also plenty of people on Sprint's network had full bars but could make absolutely no calls and data was extremely slow, but about half a block from the Rio everything worked perfectly again, now it could well be that they were handed off to a different tower, but people on AT&T and T-Mobile weren't having the same issues. I was definitely having the same issues on AT&T. Falling back to SMS instead of voice or Twitter for communication worked a lot better for coordinating things, although the lag was an issue.
- ssharp 15y agoI was in Vegas this past week, but not for Defcon and I was on the Strip, not at the Rio, and still had flaky service. However, I've always had flaky service when on the strip. I am able to make calls, but it would delay before the phone started ringing, texts messages would hang longer than usual, and 3G data transfers were painfully slow. But again, nothing out of the ordinary for that part of town.