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The Defcon Pass Location: Sonterra Apartments Liquid filled and uber-c00l! - 115 1599 IMG
Reunited Location: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Clare had been in France for too long, and this was the first they had seen of one another since she had left. Aren't they cute? - 115 1600 IMG
The Defcon Program Location: Sonterra Apartments - 115 1581 IMG
George's checking balance Location: MGM Grand Here you see the ensemble of the hotel phone, a defcon pass, and an ATM slip showing that George's checking balance has just jumped up by $20k, as his parents are buying him a new car. - 115 1568 IMG
Wireless heaven Location: Alexis Park Hotel Who needs to pay attention to the talk on renegade wireless networks when we've got our own right here? - 115 1572 IMG
It's Hot, and the Day is long Location: Alexis Park Hotel Many of the talks were located in a tent on the roof of the hotel that was, in theory, air-conditioned. Right. - 115 1579 IMG
Heading to the black and white ball Location: MGM Grand George and Doug went back to the Alexis Park for the Black and White Ball (which turned out to be a bust), while Drew, Ali, and I got ready to go see George Carlin. - 115 1563 IMG
File sharing Location: Alexis Park Hotel There was no love for copyright law on the DC9 LAN, that is for sure. - 115 1562 IMG
Pirate radio gear Location: Alexis Park Hotel The FCC who? - 115 1573 IMG
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Hacking challenge Location: MGM Grand A private hacking party that turned out to be not so 1337. Didn't want to take the paper around with me, so I took a picture and tossed it. - 115 1574 IMG
Intelligent, Adaptive IP IDS Agents Location: Alexis Park Hotel This guy was so full of himself. Good talk, though. - 116 1602 IMG
George Carlin ticket Location: Sonterra Apartments - 115 1554 IMG
Big M&Ms Location: Las Vegas Strip We went out to see the sights on the strip after we got to the hotel. We still hadn't seen or heard from Drew, whom I was expecting at 10:45 or so. It was about 11:00 at this point. - 115 1561 IMG
More Bruce Location: Alexis Park Hotel I'm currently working through another of his books, Applied Cryptography I got interested in it after reading Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, in which one of Schneier's algorithms is used. Schneier also submitted a proposal to use his own encryption, TwoFish, as the new national standard ("AES"). It didn't make it. - 115 1571 IMG
Bastille Linux Talk Location: Alexis Park Hotel Turns out the head programmer for Bastille (Jay Beale) is Drew's running partner out east. He gave one of the better talks. It's hard to find geeks who can speak. - 115 1565 IMG
Ford Excrement Location: On the way back to the MGM Grand Sometimes people take the SUV thing too far. - 115 1592 IMG
Carlin himself Location: MGM Grand It was a pretty funny show. - 115 1560 IMG
Bruce Schneier pimps Secrets and Lies Location: Alexis Park Hotel After a really boring talk about hacker profiling from some guy who used to work at the FBI, the real fun began. Bruce Schneier got up and delivered on long slashdot comment, in response to many questions from the audience. Of course, not before he told us about his new book. - 115 1559 IMG
Nice place to live Location: Off the Las Vegas Strip I'm sure I would feel very secure about my living arrangements at a place like this. - 115 1557 IMG
Late night Ad hoc wireless network Location: MGM Grand - 115 1575 IMG
Taking a break Location: MGM Grand A long day at Defcon had worn us out. - 115 1598 IMG
More zzz for George Location: Houston Airport We had a two hour layover in Houston, and George took advantage of the time while I watched Clockwork Orange - 115 1556 IMG
Late night Ad hoc wireless network Location: MGM Grand Drew finally showed up at about 1:15am. It turns out his plane *left* at 10:30. Oh well. We all gathered in my hotel room with a bunch of wireless cards and did a bit of hacking on each other. It was a great chance to practice playing with my new iBook. - 115 1567 IMG
Getting ready for more hacking Location: MGM Grand Morning comes to our intrepid group. - 115 1566 IMG
The Limo driver's card Location: En route to MGM Grand Apparently the driver offered more than just transportation services. - 115 1590 IMG
Carlin's warm up act Location: MGM Grand Hard to expose properly without flash. At least I had something steady to rest the camera on. - 115 1597 IMG
Preparing entertainment for the plane Location: Las Vegas Airport We did eventually get seats, so I lined up some entertainment for the plane ride. Little did I know I would collapse into unconsciousness as soon as we boarded. - 115 1558 IMG
On the way to the Alexis Park Location: Las Vegas Strip In the morning, we made our way toward the Alexis Park and DefCon 9. - 115 1587 IMG
Waiting in line for Carlin Location: MGM Grand Luckily we already had tickets; we just had to wait to sit down. NO PHOTOGRAPHY ALLOWED INSIDE THE THEATER :)