DEFCON badge files ripped!

Many thanks to Klaiviel, Vladimir, and dw5304 for their fast work at getting these badges ripped! We have recorded the contents of all badges that we know of (human, vendor, contest, artist, goon, speaker) and uploaded the contents in both lossy and lossless formats.

If you’d like to listen, please download the lossy file at THIS location.  We have also added the lossless encoding (as best as we can do under the circumstances) at THIS location.  It’s a 119Mb file.

Update: Although we have been told they are all identically stamped, we did digitize every badge we could find. Those have been uploaded as well — just list the folder if you want them. Thanks to those who allowed us to record their badges:

human – white – dw5304
blue – speaker – Jose
green – vendor – duosecurity.com
yellow – press – @techjournalist
clear – artist – DarrenBob
red – goon – Kentzonestar
gold – contest – TombOfTheUnknownGoon

 

-darkwind & vlad

June meetup re-cap

We’re still very much alive and active, no one has bothered to update the website is all. 🙂   dw5304 got us off to a fun start with some Outernet reception, although it was really a demofail.  Still fun to set up a satellite and receive signals!

Klaiviel had an awesome 3d printed brute force machine in the works for combination locks.  Very fast!

We also did a nice sized LAN party on Saturday, lots of fun, booze, and yelling commenced.  Want to join in the fun? Feeling like you missed out? Are you on our mailing list? You should be!  or join us on IRC on freenode at #dc414.

-darkwind

April meeting — salted butter or not?

April brought another great meeting!  Thanks again for the Milwaukee Makerspace for hosting us.  Klaiviel taught us quite a few things about locks, he had his collection out for display.  IMG_20140404_204820

We then toured the facility again, always a great time to explore the Makerspace!  We were able to see this crazy subwoofer in action!  IMG_20140404_234902

It’s a booth you sit inside and /FEEL THE G’s/   Here’s Vlad inside:

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We had to tone it down after threats of the police being called for noise were voiced.  🙂

After that, we went back and saw a cool piece of machinery that Mike put together, cooling a computer and GPU with a dehumidifier!

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We then spent the better part of the evening debating the merits of salted butter, vs unsalted butter.  Seems Faraday really has a strong opinion about it!  here’s this… equation that lays it all out for us:

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All in all, another great meeting.  See you next month at the Meetupery!

-darkwind

March meeting fun!

March came in, and was an awesome time.  Too bad ngharo and vlad missed it.  We were hopping at the Meetupery!

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dw5304 got things started with some radio hacking, with his HackerRF board that he’s managed to un-brick.   We swept some bands, and learned that car FOBs generally work around 300mhz for sending signals.  And Chrysler FOBs have some good output!  IMG_20140307_203527

After that, we had some fun with a giant lock that Klaviel tried his hand at.  This thing is used for some serious security!  IMG_20140307_203610

We also reminisced about previous dc414 meetings, like a certain laser incident, and RF jammers.   W also got to see a neat piece of hackery, an ammo can turned into a self contained power supply, with lithium drill batteries and an inverter.   Awesomesauce! IMG_20140307_213641

Thanks for everyone who came out, and we’ll see you again next month!

-darkwind