Defcon’s Infamous Wall of Sheep
Take K. Rose’s advice… If you’re going to Defcon, don’t turn on your laptop.
Anyway, this would be a good place to test your laptops security. Just make sure that you got nothing of value on it, and for good measure format it afterwards. As you can turn on your laptop, don’t be an idiot and transfer passwords over the network in clear text. People who throw out plaintext passwords on a insecure wifi network are just stupid. Wasn’t it Patrick Norton the one who said don’t turn your laptop on anywhere near Defcon? Best thing to do is just VPN to a machine outside with strong encryption….
If I go to Defcon for sure I’ll turn on my laptop, I’ll submit every phony password and username to make people think WTF!!!, ah the beauty of POST and GET requests.
One of the biggest issues at Defcon the last couple years has been rouge access points. It’s quite simple to spoof MAC addresses and over power genuine signals. Imagine hearing people whine after showing up on the wall of sheep will be awesome. Lots of people were taken by the wall of sheep, including Winn and even a Fed was spotted by reading the header from an email that was captured.
Five letters.. HTTPS…