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It all sounds so dramatic and exciting! Being called out in a room full of people, realizing you're trapped, running out with dozens of people chasing after you.
OK, I'm uncool. What's Defcon? Some sort of hacker gathering, evidently?
It hardly seems like her safety was threatened. It doesn't look like she handled this situation with all that much aplomb. Not that I'd be too eager to switch places with her.
I just don't understand why she thought she'd find evidence of government agents colluding with "cyber-criminals" at DefCon. She obviously didn't do a damn lick of research.
OK, I'm uncool. What's Defcon? Some sort of hacker gathering, evidently?
One of the largest security conferences in the world.
Hackers, police, academics, corporate IT folks, and media types meet to talk security issues. It is considered neutral ground and no recording of any type is used without the subject's permission.
PS - while we're talking about security, one of the talks was on "Hacking EVDO" (a cellular data standard) using a KPC-650 card. Please be careful and assume that everything you do over cellular data communication is vulnerable to sniffing or man-in-the-middle attacks much like an unencrypted WiFi connection is.
Reading this kind of thing brings out memories of the teenaged me that oh so wanted to go to Defcon oh so badly. Hearing stories about games of "Capture the Flat," "Spot the Fed" and how the Cult of the Dead Cow threw out copies of Back Orifice into the crowds and people gladly accepting while at the same time whispering whether or not the copies were tainted ones considering their source made me sigh like a heartbroken girl who wanted nothing else but to go to a Backstreet Boys concert.
A very dumb reporter. These guys are security experts, they are paranoid, and they are very, very smart. I wonder if this will make it to the program and how NBC will try to spin it.
yeah any intelligence operation even remotely competent runs a dual layer system, one blatant one not so. Not that I'm saying Dateline is contenant beyond busting the nuts of idiotic kiddie pornsters.
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