10/12/2023 0 Comments 2017 defcon badges![]() The dialer aspect of the badge was a refreshing throwback. This feature adds a unique covert method to communicate with your new friends and fits in with the story extremely well. You could state "I would like a taco, " and that message would be relayed over to the agent of your choice(if they were within range). After you built your badge, it could be pairing with IR to other agents which would allow for you to send RF messages to them wirelessly. There are a hundred stations in the Hardware Hacking Village but lines quickly form and who has time to wait for a soldering station? A quick 40 minutes after receiving mine it was assembled, flashed, and ready to start speaking with other agents.Ī particularly interesting feature on the badges is the IR and RF pairing. The Darknet badges taught me how to solder, and now I bring a soldering kit to DefCon just to rapidly assemble the Darknet badge. The Darknet badge was one component of these quests. At DefCon, agents of the Darknet fight to gain reputation points as they learn new topics and explore quests ranging from breaking ciphers to building simple exploits. The DC Darknet is a group of challenges based on the books Daemon and Freedom written by Daniel Suarez. While users were busy trying to attack each other on an individual level, AND!XOR and DC801 were fighting to control the entire botnet infrastructure. Fortunately, this seems to have cleared as I got home. Throughout the weekend AND!XOR and other groups dueled for the control of the botnet and our badges. I am seriously sick of him spinning around. Suddenly badges are attacked just by walking through the area! Even after reboot badges just started another iteration of the Matt Damon video clip disabling the user interface for a minute. This cascading virus is exciting because there is an IOT mesh net architecture that a virus happily hopped along. They were able to infect one badge, which would wirelessly reach out to attack another's within range and so on. The problem was that DC801 took advantage of this "feature" to hijack the command and control architecture. For example, maybe AND!XOR wanted to start off a Hypno-toad dance party or maybe Rickroll a room. One hidden feature of the badge is an actual botnet feature that allows the AND!XOR creators to propagate commands across the badges. The truly devious would launch another attack as soon as the victim cleared the first one. The loser's badge sadly broadcasting their shame. Suddenly, badge owners were in a race condition with each person trying to hack the other guy first. In particular, a successful attack would render the victim badge temporarily unusable as Clippy, BSOD, or a Rickrolling took over for a minute. How freaking cool!Ī much more well-known feature on the badge was the "Botnet" which allowed badges to fight each other as you develop exploits, patch your badge's services, and launch attacks. ![]() If two compatible badges were near each other, they would flash each other's logos back and forth between screens. They are also cross compatible with many other badges from the regional DefCon groups like DC801. The Bender badge has a host of unlocks available to get additional characters, screensavers and a wireless module to interact with other badge owners. This new badge was a huge step up from last year. This year's badge was a huge step up, and it features a full-color LCD screen, a host of LEDs and my favorite character from Futurama mixed with the cult classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My favorite badge! Last year I fell in love with my little Bender badge after being a winner of the grand elevator rush of DC24. Although I was far from getting all of these unofficial badges at DefCon, there were three that caught my eye. Often these badges have secret competitions and groups to teach people how to deconstruct and find hidden achievements in their hardware. Fortunately, attendees had many choices to display custom badges that bling, communicate, and even fight from unofficial sources. While unforeseen circumstances caused this year's official badges to be rushed into production, attendees did have a nostalgic combination of throwback badges paying homage to conferences of the past. While DefCon has been known to have interesting conference badges, the 25th iteration had an unexpected explosion of intriguing unofficial electronic neck swag. The hunting for and gathering of coveted badges has become a new tradition and this year's #badgelife built on that tradition.
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