amishrabbit : photos : The Best of Defcon XV : Zac Franken, who asked that his face not be shown in photographs, demonstrates his Wiegand-protocol hacking tool, which permits him to, essentially, change the functions of this mockup contactless access control system...a type such as you might find in an office building.- powered by SmugMug

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amishrabbit > A closeup view of one of the participants in the Defcon Bots competition, where robotics students demonstrate their prowess at building a "terminator" that can hit targets with a pellet gun.

amishrabbit > One of the robot operators at Defcon Bots tweaks a piece of hardware that helps control his bot's machine gun.

amishrabbit > A projected display at Defcon Bots keeps track of time in each event, as well as a running score for each team.

amishrabbit > Yeah, Defcon has talks, too...at university professor Tom Holt's talk about the "Market for Malware" he describes how phishing trojans modify pages ever so slightly

amishrabbit > Defcon speaker Ne0nRa1n, who with a game developer created a version of Tetris that uses measurements of your heart rate to determine the speed at which blocks fall

amishrabbit > Defcon's projected message board provides a wide array of information, from upcoming talk schedules to personal notes, to jokes.

amishrabbit > In the Vendor Area at Defcon, you can find almost anything for sale, as long as it would be marketable to tinfoil hat wearers. These types of ex-military "seismic sensors" are buried around secret installations to alert security guards about intrusions. Now, you can buy them for your farmhouse for a thousand bucks a set.

amishrabbit > Zac Franken, who asked that his face not be shown in photographs, demonstrates his Wiegand-protocol hacking tool, which permits him to, essentially, change the functions of this mockup contactless access control system...a type such as you might find in an office building.

amishrabbit > Not to be outdone, this Xbox 360 was appropriately dressed for the occasion. It was used to drive the Guitar Hero contest.

Zac Franken, who asked that his face not be shown in photographs, demonstrates his Wiegand-protocol hacking tool, which permits him to, essentially, change the functions of this mockup contactless access control system...a type such as you might find in an office building.