[nycbug-talk] Defcon News Blurbs

[George Rosamond]

Steven Kreuzer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Isaac Levy wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the Vegas airport after Defcon 16 with *lots* of time to kill, and  
>> thought I'd toss some fun tidbits to the list:
>>
>> OpenBSD and PF in the opening paragraph:
>> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/a-first-ever-lo.html
>>
>> FreeBSD jail(8) used again for this year's CTF competition servers,  
>> nobody breaks out yet (more on this to come from me in the future...)
>>
>> An interesting talk:
>> Toasterkit, a Modular NetBSD Rootkit
>> Anthony Martinez Systems Administrator, New Mexico Tech
>> Thomas	Bowen Systems Administrator, New Mexico Tech
>> https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Martinez
>>
>> Also- ran into a fistfull of folks from the NYCResistor group,  
>> hardware hackers who have a space in Downtown Brooklyn:
>> http://www.nycresistor.com/
>>
>> --
>> Excellent content this year- truly stellar.  More fun to post if I  
>> ever get done catching up on my email...
>>
>> Rocket-
>> .ike
>>
>>
>> --
>> PS: IR File Transfer Port on the Defcon 16 badges:
> 
> 
>>
>> The Leaked Story (good pics):
>> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/exclusive-defco.html
>>
> 
> A little off topic, but the slides for the talk about hacking
> the subway system got posted online.
> 
> http://www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf
> 
> The talk didn't happen at defcon because a judge slapped a gag
> order on the presenters.
> 
> Very interesting read
> 

Yes. . . and a number of people signed a letter to the judge about it. . .

The signers include Matt Blaze, Bruce Schneier and Steve Bellovin. . . 
all mention it in their blogs, except Schneier.

Kind of crazy that the 'R' of RSA, Rivest, was their mentor on the 
project, and there's still no respect given. . .

IMHO, I think RSA had more to do with putting Boston on the technology 
map than anything else in the past 35 years. . . maybe I'm pushing it, 
but come on, this isn't the RBN. . .

g