1/2/2023 0 Comments Defcon las vegas![]() You might think that with the heat that sandals would be the thing to go for but most of the time attendees are in air-conditioned halls. I've also seen a lot of people swear at sandals, usually by day three when the blistering really kicks in. Sneakers (or trainers in UK-speak) seem to be a good compromise, and I've seen some people swear by boots. Bsides is the easiest show on the feet, but oddly one of the more confusing to navigate, given the warren-like venue. High heels are also ill advised.Īt DEF CON the queues are worse – much worse – and the distances greater, and opportunities to sit down outside of sessions are few and far between. You spend a fair amount of time lining up and if you think those fancy leather loafers are going to cut it you could be heading for a blistery hell. There is a bus service but it's as slow as a taxi, although cheaper.Īt Black Hat there are three floors and an exhibition space to navigate. Taxis are a very mixed bag – the Strip can be snail-like at rush hour and you need to allow a lot of time for shifting between venues. ![]() Pick your routes between venues carefully as the Vegas sun is crushingly hot at this time of year so walk as little as possible. The geography of the shows are such that you're going to spend a lot of time on your feet and veterans are almost unanimous in the need for good footwear. That's probably overkill for Black Hat and Bsides, but may be underdoing it for DEF CON. Instead rely on a hotspot and VPN, keeping your phone off or in airplane mode until needed, shutting down Wi-Fi unless you need it, and avoiding Bluetooth. In the traditional security tradeoff between convenience and good sense I'd recommend avoiding the main networks, making sure you never auto-connect to a network. ![]() Seriously, just don't leave your hardware unattended. And you can always spot the overly paranoid - they are the ones who cover off their USB ports. ![]() Some insist on bringing burner kit to the conferences, but an unofficial straw poll suggests that these are more for the over-cautious. Now there's a massive effort to keep the network clean and it appears to be working. Bsides is even better, and while the main network comes with a warning just in case, this hack hasn't heard of anyone getting hit.Īttendees trying to hack each other at Black Hat hasn't really happened for years the last incident that got people expelled was nearly a decade ago and was largely harmless, if annoying. In 10 years of hacker camp attendance I've only had one minor case of someone trying to attack another email to my account, and I suspect that was down to accidentally logging onto the main conference Wi-Fi network without the proper precautions. ![]() Yes, some details about vulnerable systems are displayed on the infamous Wall of Sheep, but that's about the limit of it. It's really only DEF CON where people are actively going to be scanning for unsafe machines and flagging them, and even then it's considered very bad form to get malicious about it. But the truth is you're probably going to be fine. It's part of the mythology of the week that everyone has to be hyper-aware of the dangers of being hacked. Black Hat, or at least the training sessions it runs, kicked off on Sunday but the main briefing sessions are held on Wednesday and Thursday. Keen hackers tend to book Bsides (Tuesday to Wednesday) and then move to DEF CON, which runs from Thursday to sometime around the start of the week (depending on how long booze supplies hold out). ![]()
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