The 1337 BoomBadge has been won by yours truly! Thanks to BMPTS for the awesome work on this! See you next year!
If you are curious what’s on the bottom, and want to know more, check out patents 2,844,902 and 1,288,797.
-darkwind
There was some discussion on when then next meeting is, and where it may be held. Just clarifying that our meeting will be at normal scheduled time on July 1st, at 7pm. We’ll be in our usual location at CESI. See https://new.dc414.org/meetings/ for details!
August’s meeting is up in the air for location, and expect light turnout as many of us are making the venture to Defcon.
See you there!
-darkwind
Our finalized Year of the Hack video is submitted, and trending already!
Thanks to dw5304, and Vlad for cranking this out!
It has begun. #yearofthehack #defcongroups #defcon https://t.co/CPjj02YjQy
— DEF CON (@defcon) February 23, 2016
-darkwind
It’s almost Friday, and as mentioned previously, due to the Holiday falling on a Friday we have moved the meeting to 1/08/2015.
Vlad has a special guest, Dr. Charles Tritt from MSOE will be joining us, and will be giving a demonstration with a TENS unit, somehow facilitating a human-to-human interface. It’ll definitely be a meeting to remember!
See you there!
-darkwind
So a few weeks ago a bunch of us got together to do the 2nd mission at EscapeMKE, titled James Bomb. It was a blast! While I won’t go into detail of the mission, we soared through all parts of it so fast, the host swore we had cheated at multiple areas, and was ready to disqualify us. We found a new and unknown (to EscapeMKE) way to complete one of the tasks that hadn’t been done before, leading us to get to the final step at approximately 18 minutes into the hour. We did prove our method, and were credited appropriately without cheating!
Unfortunately we got stuck on that last step until about 22 seconds remaining, but we did successfully complete it! (damn old touchy equipment)
-darkwind
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
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
Remember that the July DC414 meeting is a few scant days away! This month it’s going to be July 11th, as the 4th was some kind of national holiday (FREEDOM!) Find us at N69W25055 Indiangrass Lane Suite G Sussex, WI 53089
Hey all!
Finally another Basement LAN! Please sign up on the form if you are going. This helps us keep track of attendance and to ensure we will have enough space:
form: http://goo.gl/SmzLyA
Date: June 7th, 2014
Time: 2pm – 12am
Location:
Competitive Edge Software inc
9850 S 54th Street
Franklin, WI 53132
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. 
We then toured the facility again, always a great time to explore the Makerspace! We were able to see this crazy subwoofer in action! 
It’s a booth you sit inside and /FEEL THE G’s/ Here’s Vlad inside:
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!
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:
All in all, another great meeting. See you next month at the Meetupery!
-darkwind