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feds spying

bstring — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:35:43 GMT

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006-07-19-data-mining_x.htm
http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/13891/28/
http://www.searchlores.org/ritz__3.htm

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Vinyl Vanna Contest Aug. 1st. Deadline

Banasidhe — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:30:31 GMT

http://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=7671

Pass it on!!

At this rate, as I'm the only entry (albeit for Beer Betty), I might wind-up being Vinyl Vanna.

Do you REALLY want that?!?!?

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HAs anyone heard that DefCon is canceled yet?

nme — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:14:42 GMT

It's that time again, for someone to post that defcon was cancelled because of the misfortune of someone everybody recognises and now it won't be happening... ANy news, they are my favoite posts...

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defconspace@hotmail.com - Anyone know how to reach the Space Cowboy?

eyesblue — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:41:15 GMT

Sorry to spam the whole list, albeit there is not much traffic right now anyway.

Anyone know how to reach the fellow at DC13 with the Jungle Juice Bug Sprayer, called Dallas, space cowboy, or formerly at the address defconspace@hotmail.com?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Blue

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i get a error msg

bstring — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:07:52 GMT

i get an error msg when i try to delete a thread
Either the tribe you have requested could not be found on our system, or you do not have access to this page

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It says in the first testament God granted us free will, which means freedom of choice, and heresy in Greek means choice.

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:43:07 GMT

In the first testament God granted us free will, which means freedom of choice, and heresy in Greek means choice. Go figure the church is fucked up, in the name of corrupt power in the name of it’s wound inflicted hatred of hate breeds hate contributing to divide and conquer creating two monsters other then the popes, Hitler and Stalin and then Nixon and President Bush who’s noses are as big as Pinocchio’s the biggest mother fucking liars in the world for us human rights activist lie too only because the extension of our nose is really the oppressors nose in order for us to protect the lives from neo nazis like president Bush and Maoist alike.

Galileo is the Ann Frank book of scientists or heretics who survived out of countless other thinkers being heretics too in which Galileo escaped the ignorant clutches of the catholic church and gave birth to Einstein’s somewhat freedom of choice versus the other heretics who burned at the stake beings Jews and Pagans or Eco tribes alike. Remember never judge a book by it’s cover after all in one of the Matrix movies just because some of the guys look cool on the outside obviously they were evil and doesn’t mean they are pretty in the inside after all beauty is skin deep so good health to all for you are what you choose to eat unless you are in a De Facto segregated community of the ecology within and without.

Remember kids
organic food not bombs
quality instead of quantity
Peace trees vietnam
Animal rights in other words dont overexpliot the animals for profit or greed and don't expliot them either.
equal rights
human rights
Robin Hood, bold outlaw of the Sherwood forest
Pirates of the Caribean
Taking from the greedy and giving to the needy
thou shalt not covet meaning land too which is to be shared in the name of thanksgiving for it is greedy to keep it all to yourself.
Greenpeace
Amnsesty International
Tribal Rights
and once and maybe again most jews were originally desert nomads
Like druids and jews alike they both spoke to trees kindly in trance but their religous rights and shrine built to decorate the trees was cut down by christians and the ecology was plowed down for more greedy kingdoms of maya the churches themselves.

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Some people’s Pinocchio nose is really the extension of the oppressor for the people lying to protect lives from the oppressor or destruction of the first amendment are only there for our freedom.

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:46:06 GMT

Some people’s Pinocchio nose is really the extension of the oppressor for the people lying to protect lives from the oppressor or destruction of the first amendment are only there for our freedom. For we can only live in an honest world in a just society where everyone is treated equal and that there is freedom. Meaning no De Facto segregation of the ecology within as well as without for this kind of segregation leads to war, famine, plagues and disease for we live in an unjust society where our equal rights are being raped from us and unjust laws are being preserved. Ask a judge if he thinks Hitler was an M.D. and hopefully the judge will say “no he is no M.D.” then why are judges just as ignorant including congress when every failure should be held confidential with an M.D. and that the M.D. knows the cause of suffering which is not going to come from one M.D. alone to answer that question. Low and behold God made us in the image of God or universe and we are a form of sacred geometry so we are organic matter and spirit and since everything else that has its original organic geometry is also mathematical too. So are the scales of justice and the mandala of Yin and Yang, which is not uniting good and evil, it is uniting feminine and masculine meaning if you split the two you mine as well
end pro-creation severe the medical staff which represents DNA the spiraling serpentine ladder that the universe itself reflects and the splitting of an atom and contribute to Romeo and Juliets syndrome. For even the Star of David is sacred geometry of yin and yang and the balance of justice and to separate the two is contributing to genocide. You can imagine God is mathematical which doesn’t mean you have to think on terms of numbers for example to throw a basketball in a hoop which some of us thought was the dumbest mathematical question in math some us ever heard. Einstein mentioned once that he wanted to know god’s thoughts after all wouldn’t it make sense because some math is actually brilliant and it’s numerology is fascinating especially when it deals with sacred geometry and how all life is created and formed as well as formless.

Hugs not war
Organic food not bombs
Greenpeace
Amnesty International
Citizens Commision on Human Rights
Jewish Coalition of Religious Freedom
Animal Rights meaning no animal should be overeplioted or explioted or thrown into extinction meaning all of creation as well.
Dr. Rath
Tribal Rights
Peace Trees Vietnam
NASA Bio-Home research

for our health is our basic human right
all in the name of thanksgiving which should be practiced everyday.

Thank you if you read this cleary or fairly.

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Anyone Have Pictures of the Defcon 13 Black&White Ball

eyesblue — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:35:33 GMT

Hi, I was the Jason styled DEFCON13 hockey mask drunk at the B&W ball. I know there were loads of pictures taken, but I never got one of my costume. Anyone have a picture they could mail to me?

Thanks All!
-Blue

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more human rights violations on children getting a lobotimy and abused through electro shock therapy

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:19:48 GMT

http://www.cchr.org/speakout/index.htm

http://www.cchr.org/issues/electroshock/index.htm

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Hugs not war meaning why does the government protest against gang violence and drugs when it medicates children with suicidal, homicidal drugs or government pharmaceuticals

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:57:55 GMT

Hugs not war meaning why does the government protest against gang violence and drugs when it medicates children with suicidal, homicidal drugs or government pharmaceuticals becoming the biggest drug pushers the government itself and contributing to gang violence through forced drugging and then drug testing us in competition against our drug of choice using the term “no contact unit” in hospitals meaning no hugs or massages.

to research on psychiatric abuse look up

http://www.cchr.org/

to research tribal rights, their culture and vegetation to be preserved look up

http://www.survival-international.org/

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our freedom of speech is being impaired by psychiatric abuse. The government has become the biggest drug pusher and this is not even the only government too.

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:07:44 GMT

You are what you eat. We should demand labels on our foods and oppose the human rights violation of forced drugging by the government which impairs our speech against our free will, in which we did not choose and are even lied to, being told that the psychiatric drugs don’t have any side effects when M.D.s prove this is lie. How many people were forced by the government’s drug pushers of this legal speed or sleeping pills especially during voting hours? We should have freedom of choice shouldn’t we?

EVERY CHANNEL YOU WATCH IS TAKEN AS A POLL EITHER YOU WATCHING OR NOT IS VOTING
JUST AS MUCH AS WHAT YOU BUY.

Overexploitation and exploitation go hand and hand on the scales of imbalance or unjust
Do to de facto segregation leading to all kinds of abuse and neglect. For even when you buy quality organic supplements you could make an educated guess that if it is in Latin instead of it’s native tongue and even then would you know if the ecologist being eco tribes are getting anything back in trade or above minimum wage just to pay rent for land that came from their ancestors anyway and have to remain as squatters until capitalist force them to overexploit a product.

Would it be better to know why non-organic food is cheaper after all why don’t you check out national geographic, modern slaves and see what Taco Bell was up to and hopefully stopped today.

We must be reverent to the creatures of the Earth and if you would ask an ecologist they would tell you that all creatures have a role so wouldn’t you guess to be an activist like Noah and even Buddha who attended to a wounded duck after his brother shot it with an arrow. Not only that but what about all the eco tribes who if they were drug addicts they would plow down all the forest just to create an agriculture that would not only overexploit and exploit their ancestral spirits meaning all creatures and the trees too they would have died away and eventually it would have been become just wasted land. So shall you become like Noah but not identify with pride or ego for it is our reverence to mother earth to preserve it when god created us in the universes image we are to do it’s job here on earth in case something happens. Shall we be free to celebrate thanksgiving by equal trade and equal rights to enrichen our cultures and health for variety is the spice of life, the spice must flow. Also if you knock out the bottom of the pyramid of the whole balance diet in your own ecosystem within and without it will crumble. So you must show reverence to all parts of our the universe and not be alienated from the truth for if it is alien then you are isolated, segregated.

So instead of giving only once a year and on Christmas where not only do you neglect the other days but you also cut down a tree instead of planting one. In the name of thanksgiving we should share as in one consciousness by sharing but if you are Christian then you probably killed of the European eco tribes and numerous Jews who spoke to trees as well and also both would attract farm animals throughout there history especially to get rid of the spreading of rodents in efforts to prevent a plague but no now people bomb their houses with harmful man made chemicals which slowly kill off all life like chemical warfare itself. For even the eco tribes in Europe like the druids themselves besides the Jews spoke to trees and believed they came from the trees and decorated the trees to which was all corrupted by Christianity itself. In Thailand Buddhist decorate trees they know where their ancestors hide in to keep vibrant and if they are demons who supported Maya or greed and destruction of the earth we could imagine a local chasing them out of the tree maybe with fireworks. So if you are alive today like the scrooge story which was probably stolen as well by the christians and even then you should give your heart out every day and not expect anything back, after all isn’t giving better then receiving. Otherwise you are just trying to covet the other person but you can’t buy love. Again in the scrooge story a ghost appears screaming in his head and scrooge assumes either it’s a demon or his imagination which is strange because why should one experience be divided by another. The ghost says that he can no longer do what scrooge being alive can do and if he contributes to the end of scrooges life he just may end up being worse and more speechless which is where Buddhist believe exist as the hungry ghost realm where greedy people go.

After all chemist made an artificial sweetener called aspartame that lowers the serotonin causing people to crave more quantity foods rather then invest in quality foods or organic labeled foods. www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/

Act Now
Greenpeace
Amnesty international
Human rights
Tribal rights www.survival-international.org
Animal rights
Balance
Dr. Rath www.dr-rath-foundation.org/
Citizens commission on human rights www.cchr.org/
Jewish coalition of religious freedom www.religioustolerance.org/istook97.htm
Wangari Mathai first environmentalist to win a Nobel peace prize and is she is a women’s rights activist as well.
www.accaglobal.com/news/centenary/kenya

George Washington Carver
Martin Luther King
Thomas Jefferson

Remember Freedom, Justice and Equality
Not united in greed we trust to blow up the planet but united through ecology we trust to provide a future for our children

Act NOW

and don't contribute to de facto segregation where only one product is available for it will for sure lead to all kinds of abuse

the bigger the stock the bigger Pinocchio’s nose gets
after all quality is also better then quantity so shop wisely or just grow it in the backyard and save some gas.

Nasa bio home research, our government’s environmental approach to finding evidence that our eco system is very important.

www.permanent.com/s-ce-nas.htm

www.plantris.com/bio-wolverton.html

www.ssc.nasa.gov/environme...earch.html

www.harmonyhomeconstruction.com/ai...htm

home.marssociety.org/tech/te...tual.htm

please also check out peace trees Vietnam

www.peacetreesvietnam.org/

May there be Greenpeace
Organic food not bombs
Hugs not war

I even talked to a Buddhist monk who says Buddhist monks have been working for NASA

You can imagine if they can stay awake for 3 days in a row without falling asleep or taking breaks for food, meaning a fast and being completely happy and aware
And if Tibetan monks can heat their bodies in cold temperatures below zero and melt the ice around them when only having a loincloth on you can imagine the fun they could be for NASA space travel.

May all sentient beings throughout the universe be liberated from suffering through our ecology within and without and preserve LIFE.

Thank you

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equal rights in an unjust world, De Facto Segregation of our ecology within and without

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:03:05 GMT

Overexploitation and exploitation go hand and hand on the scales of imbalance or unjust
Do to de facto segregation leading to all kinds of abuse and neglect. For even when you buy quality organic supplements you could make an educated guess that if it is in Latin instead of it’s native tongue and even then would you know if the ecologist being eco tribes are getting anything back in trade or above minimum wage just to pay rent for land that came from their ancestors anyway and have to remain as squatters until capitalist force them to overexploit a product.

Would it be better to know why non-organic food is cheaper after all why don’t you check out national geographic, modern slaves and see what Taco Bell was up to and hopefully stopped today.

We must be reverent to the creatures of the Earth and if you would ask an ecologist they would tell you that all creatures have a role so wouldn’t you guess to be an activist like Noah and even Buddha who attended to a wounded duck after his brother shot it with an arrow. Not only that but what about all the eco tribes who if they were drug addicts they would plow down all the forest just to create an agriculture that would not only overexploit and exploit their ancestral spirits meaning all creatures and the trees too they would have died away and eventually it would have been become just wasted land. So shall you become like Noah but not identify with pride or ego for it is our reverence to mother earth to preserve it when god created us in the universes image we are to do it’s job here on earth in case something happens. Shall we be free to celebrate thanksgiving by equal trade and equal rights to enrichen our cultures and health for variety is the spice of life, the spice must flow. Also if you knock out the bottom of the pyramid of the whole balance diet in your own ecosystem within and without it will crumble. So you must show reverence to all parts our the universe and not be alienated from the truth for if it is alien then you are isolated, segregated.

So instead of giving only once a year and on Christmas where not only do you neglect the other days but you also cut down a tree instead of planting one. In the name of thanksgiving we should share as in one consciousness by sharing but if you are Christian then you probably killed of the European eco tribes and numerous Jews who spoke to trees as well and also both would attract farm animals throughout there history especially to get rid of the spreading of rodents in efforts to prevent a plague but no now people bomb their houses with harmful man made chemicals which slowly kill off all life like chemical warfare itself. For even the eco tribes in Europe like the druids themselves besides the Jews spoke to trees and believed they came from the trees and decorated the trees to which was all corrupted by Christianity itself. In Thailand Buddhist decorate trees they know where their ancestors hide in to keep vibrant and if they are demons who supported Maya or greed and destruction of the earth we could imagine a local chasing them out of the tree maybe with fireworks. So if you are alive today like the scrooge story which was probably stolen as well by the christians and even then you should give your heart out every day and not expect anything back, after all isn’t giving better then receiving. Otherwise you are just trying to covet the other person but you can’t buy love. Again in the scrooge story a ghost appears screaming in his head and scrooge assumes either it’s a demon or his imagination which is strange because why should one experience be divided by another. The ghost says that he can no longer do what scrooge being alive can do and if he contributes to the end of scrooges life he just may end up being worse and more speechless which is where Buddhist believe exist as the hungry ghost realm where greedy people go.

Act Now
Greenpeace
Amnesty international
Human rights
Tribal rights www.survival-international.org
Animal rights
Balance
Dr. Rath www.dr-rath-foundation.org/
Citizens commission on human rights
Jewish coalition of religious freedom
Wangari Mathai first environmentalist to win a Nobel peace prize and is she is a womens rights activist as well.
www.accaglobal.com/news/centenary/kenya

George Washington Carver
Martin Luther King
Thomas Jefferson

Remember Freedom, Justice and Equality
Not united in greed we trust to blow up the planet but united through ecology we trust to provide a future for our children

Act NOW

and don't contribute to de facto segregation where only one product is available for it will for sure lead to all kinds of abuse

the bigger the stock the bigger pinnochio's nose gets
after all quality is also better then quantity so shop wisely or just grow it in the backyard and save some gas.

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cheaper phone bill, internet, earth friendly, womens rights

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:00:54 GMT

www.care2.com/
www.earthtones.com/

dont let children be neglected by there mothers for work
support womens worker rights
prevent unplanned pregnancy
vote for the pill and hopefully will it be natural in the future

because poor establishment
poor pre-production as well as in movies
not thinking about the consequences
what it takes to fund it.
The greed that contributes to selfishness, genocide, poverty, and theft in so many ways
poor blue prints

will for sure collapse
if the roots are not deep enough in the
earth the tree like people will fall in unexpected bad weather
like global warming
please also look deep enough to know the cause of suffering

thank you
greenpeace, hugs not war, organic food not bombs, and real unity through ecology.
Buddha left his kingdom of maya which was greed and stopped being sheltered from the reality of people suffering. Buddha quoted to question authority and find out what the cause of suffering is. He sat under a neglected tree called the Bodhi tree.Before he died he took his best friends to the forest, grabed a handful of leaves and said, compared to this, we still should have the whole forest to expand on. Namo medicine Buddha
Namo medicine bodhisatva.
Mindfullness means letting go of your traumas, fear, fear of heights, water, fire, but not to forget the cause of suffering, and if you are to approach a real doctor hopefully an M.D. or a natural pathic physician, witch doctor, or a shaman they will ask you what the cause of suffering is by asking about your medical history which should be confidential.Anthropologist are like doctors two who study history of evolution of man and devolution.
Sidhartha also predicted communism which is in sanskript and
hopeing we would not contribute to the 7 day war which would destroy the plannet.

Be, Bumble bee loved and become awake, be one with the ecology not maya. The sleeper must awaken. The riivers are
our bloodstream they like us must flow and not be damned. A native american indian leader once brought all the tribes together
in unity. That is where benjamin Franklin got his idea from. However we are to unite through ecology not maya, the kingdom
or greed.

The 1st amendment should respect our right to practice our spirituality in the deserts , the mountains, near the rivers, the waterfalls, the hot springs, the canyons. We have a right to peacefully asemble and protest to. After all nature is our temple and our body has a neglected ecology within which is our temple too and there is to be no divisions. For divisions are walls of ego which is maya.

www.cchr.org/

report psychiatric abuse, protect your children from the government. The government wants to compete against nature
contaminate your foods and contribute chemical warfare on our
own citizens, by allowing chlorine which scars our arteries.Chlorene was used as a nerve gas in world war two.
certain herbs may get a chance to heal your body, hopefully its organic. If you have a pool and there are leaves in it, leave it in there, they are probably cleaning the water up.

my new email is mark5072@sbcglobal.net
thanks again

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DEFCON IS CANCELED

shatter_old_profile — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:23:25 GMT

At least, at the Alexis Park.

Defcon 14 for the Alexis Park is canceled.

The new location will be forth coming after DT makes the announcement. I do know where it is, and it will be VERY nice...

So for now.... Wait for it....

--S

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DJ Jackalope says HI // starts own Tribe, more at 10.

dj_jackalope — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:18:14 GMT

DB Cooper showed me that tribe.net exists tonight, so I figured I would start a tribe myself and see who was crazy enough to join it. http://tribes.tribe.net/dj_jackalope. There ya go, I'll be waiting.

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mellowest defcon yet?

limbo — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:58:08 GMT

I got this strange vibe at DCXII, a mellow vibe. for hours at a time there was hardly anyone around the pools. hardly any pointless vandalism. much fewer assholes (no ripper!! woot!). none of the crackdown feeling of the last 2 cons. i actually got to meet cool new people...

so while i'm no expert on defcon (only been going since 8) it feels like defcon is definitely changing. or maybe it's just me.

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shackin' up

Cereal — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:07:06 GMT

Hey guys, I know I'm asking for a big favor from some people I hardly know, but I NEED a floor to pass out on during DefCon 13.

I'm going out there with my local DefCon group (530/707), but they all pulled strings to skirt room costs, so I'm stuck with no place to crash.

Like I said, I just need a floor to crash on, and a bit of financial compensation isn't a problem.

Please don't make me sleep on lawn chairs!

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DEFCON IS CANCELED

shatter_old_profile — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:17:03 GMT

Jeff's being denied re-entry into the country after being in Amsterdam this week. Details to follow.

This is bad.

--S

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Joshua "Pac-Bell" Cohen 1978 - 2005

shatter_old_profile — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:57:28 GMT

http://darkstar.frop.org/pac-bell/

... ... ... ...

...

--S

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Call for DEFCON Capture the Flag Organizers.

shatter_old_profile — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 05:47:59 GMT

Call for DEFCON Capture the Flag Organizers.
- -----------------------------------

Wanted:
An evil large multinational corporation, or...
An nefarious group of genius autonomous hackers, or...
A shadowy government organization from somewhere in the world

To:
Host, recreate, and innovate the worlds most (in)famous hacking contest.

Why:
For everlasting fame, intrusive media interviews, the respect of your peers, or the envy of your enemies.

Do you have what it takes and know what we're talking about?

The Story:
After taking it to the next level, creating a spectators sport out of geeks sitting at their keyboards 0wning machines, and fabulous recognition around the world, the Ghetto Hackers have retired their Root Foo as the hosts of DEFCON's Capture The Flag. Our contest is not over, merely in transition to the next keepers of the flame. This is the opportunity you and your crew, company, or government has been waiting for.

You too can pour your heart, countless hundreds of hours into planning, producing, and executing the world's most famous contest of hacking skills. Like all of our contests, they are run by volunteers.

Our intent is to make a game that's fun for its participants. While the Ghetto did a fabulous job of allowing CTF to be a team and spectators sport through scoring visualizations, commentators, game updates, et cetera, this is not a requirement. They took it to a new level in one area, and you can take it to another. The heart hacking has many facets.

Your constraints:
You must design a cool contest. This contest could have a multiplayer/team aspect, but does not have to. Your contest can be based on previous games, but shouldn't be a mere replication of previous games. You can determine the teams/participants before DEFCON, or at the conference. You can have multiple contests (for example, one contest with individuals, one with teams). You determine the constraints, size of teams, allowing remote teams to play, and more.

You design the network topology. You determine the rules. Your group will determine the winner, and the losers. The idea behind this CFP is not to ask people to reproduce past Capture the Flags, but to have your group reinvent and create something new, based on the same ideas of creativity and energy. Challenge your friends!

You MUST:
Clearly communicate the rules to the participants before the contest, set up clear eligibility requirements (if any) before the conference, set up the network, provide any infrastructure that you wish to be part of the game, referee the game while it is taking place, create a scoring system, and determine winners. The easier it is for contestants to understand how to win, the more fair the contest will feel. The contest must end no later than two hours before the end of DEFCON (5pm Sunday) in order to provide time for final scoring and the awards ceremony.

Your contest MUST NOT:
Interfere with the DEFCON networks (ie: it must be a separate network), interfere with the 'live internet', involve non-consensual parties (ie: anyone who hasn't explicitly agreed to take part in the contests), take bribes that are not equally shared with the DEFCON staff.

In the past network traffic on CTF has been captured for later forensic analysis by groups such as shmoo, and Source Fire and shared with the community to further ids and network sniffer developers. Expect that we will give access to those wanting to capture traffic while not actively participating in the contest.

Suggestions:
Allowing 'lone gunman' to participate (not require group play). This could be a separate contest, or they could participate in competition with teams (handicaps for teams, perhaps)

Allowing 'outside players', perhaps a VPN connection with one representative at DEFCON, the rest of a shadowy team located elsewhere in the globe.
Incorporating non intrusion/defense techniques to the game - stenography, covert communication channels, riddles/puzzles, social engineering, hardware hacking, radio direction finding, etc.

A 'theme' (like forensics, covert channels, attacking, defending, application security, host security, etc.) that would be announced beforehand with the contest focused around the theme.

You will be judged:
On any innovations or revolutionary enhancements to the game.
On the feasibility of your team getting all the work done (note: we will publicly humiliate you if you get accepted and fail to perform!).
On the amount of fun (as measured in FunMeters) that participants will have.

Resources we can provide:
Badges to the conference and access to the CTF area for setup on Thursday, the day before the con.
Physical space roughly equal to that which has been provided at past DEFCONs.
Tables for participants to use.
Screens and LCD projectors to display data with.
Network connections from the net if necessary.
Some network gear and power strips - please let us know early what you need so we can plan for it.
Prizes for the winning people or teams.

Research pointers:
If you haven't been to DEFCON before, you should understand the environment your contest must operate in! http://www.defcon/ will get you started.
These may help give you an idea about past contests, what has worked, and what hasn't. Ceazar gave a presentation on running hacking contests at Black Hat Asia (learn from a master): http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-asia-04/bh-jp-04-pdfs/bh-jp-04-eller/bh-jp-04-eller.pdf
Shmoo's CTF sniffing project: http://www.shmoo.com/cctf/
DC 10 Rules: http://www.DEFCON.org/html/DEFCON-10/dc-10-post/DEFCON-10-ctf-rules.html
DC 11 CTF Announcement: http://www.DEFCON.org/html/DEFCON-11/events/dc-11-ctf-teams.html
White paper on a teams participation: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~crispin/discex3_autonomix_DEFCON.pdf
Ceazar briefly discusses CTF before GH ran the contest: http://www.antioffline.com/10/ghettohackers.html

While there is no formal submission form to fill out, you should address as many of these issues as you can. This will be a two way process if you make the initial cut. We want you to succeed as much as you do! Think long and hard if this challenge is for you and your friends, then contact ctf at defcon dot org with your proposal.

A discussion area has been created on the DEFCON forums (http://forum.defcon.org/) under the DEFCON 13 Events section to cover new ideas, ask for feedback, and get an idea of what is going on.

Thank you,
The Dark Tangent

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Defcon 12 Black and White Ball Sets

db_cooper — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:02:30 GMT

other's incompetence will hold this back no longer....

all of the mp3s in http://www.lostafterdark.com/dbcooper/ are the defcon 12 live sets which i verfied and uploaded.... please get them while you can....
this link maybe linked on defcon.org near the end of the week.... feel free to spread this link to your friends!

(I only uploaded the mp3s to the directory and I am going to leave it at that!)

please enjoy the very good music!

Who loves ya baby?

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How to download on IRC

bstring — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:04:28 GMT

http://www.searchlores.org/irc_vvf.htm

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Weak CGI update for 2004

bstring — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:55:28 GMT

http://www.searchlores.org/sosnipo.htm

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Toys

bstring — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:57:03 GMT

http://www.shomertec.com/index.cfm

TOYS

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Nuclear Launch Codes

bstring — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:14:30 GMT

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/27/007.html

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Page in binrev.com radio show

bstring — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:43:16 GMT

http://www.pimall.com/nais/news/n.telcomb.html

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One day away!

quellish — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:04:49 GMT

Come on, you know you're psyched.

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One Week and Counting

shatter_old_profile — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:45:15 GMT

Tick tock tick tock...

--S

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DEFCON is canceled.

shatter_old_profile — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:21:09 GMT

Defcon is canceled. AP will NOT be issueing refunds for rooms unless you cancel your reservation within the next 72 hours..

Jeffs in Jail in Indictment.

Sad sad day.

--S

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Oops I was drunk

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:31:19 GMT

So a top Bush admin while drunk tells Chalibi, basically an Iranian inteligence asset, that the US has broken Iranian crypto, the crypto that lets us keep up with how much intel in the middle east? Pass the aspirin ..

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Proposed Network Intrusion Detection Project

Sat, 29 May 2004 01:42:11 GMT

I have been dallying about (during occasional boughts of sobriety) with a proposed NIDS architecture I have for no appearent reason other than potentiaol copywright infringement Enterprise Defender. Biggest add ins to traditional NIDS are the low and slow enumeration and reconosaince detection engine and the conflugalizor, where the data conflugalizes. Would appreciate any feedback. -uv
___________________________
Enterprise Defender Architecture
By
Ed Donegan
danceslikewhiteguy@hotmail.com

Defender System Synopsis

Problems: By the time many attacks are detected by traditional systems, servers may be rooted or the damage may have already been done. Critical data such as the network traffic during the incident will likely have been lost. Additionally, any single NIDS sensor or HIDS agent may not have seen the entire relevant picture. Many NIDS devices are already strained from a capacity standpoint and are ineffective when large amounts of sniffer data is required. Viruses move fast than people do for many reasons; for instance, viruses get to bypass change control, and viruses don’t have to schedule phone conferences. Low and Slow scans have always been hard to detect and despite preparedness, attacks by virus variants and day zero attacks continue to wreak havoc on networks. The accurate picture of what attack initially compromised the network and what kind of spread has occurred often isn’t available for hours or days.

Solution: The Wayback machine aggregates network tap sniffer data and stores it in a pools it on disk for five minutes while pre-processing occurs on the data in real time. The entire network picture can be seen, so that some attacks, such as distributed scans and web gateway or middle-ware based system attacks become visible in their entirety. . The Wayback machine also provides a storage buffer of the network data as other Wayback modules perform NIDS preprocessing.

The Wayback machine enhances IDS performance and accuracy by passing scrubbed normalized and appropriately sorted data streams to the sensors. The LASER Sights detect Low and Slow Scans and the revolutionary event correlation system is capable of discerning variants as well as common causes of false positives and false negatives customer networks. The correlator engine is the most advanced, capable, and operationally efficient in the NIDS network security product space and provides its analysis in real time.

Defender Modules

WayBack Machine: Sniffer system stores full packet data on high I/O speed duplexed disk arrays. Data is aggregated from the network taps and then written to disk. The WayBack machine uses off the shelf technology special purpose server with multiple I/O paths internally for multi-controller disk activity and fiber channel or SCSI external I/O for data paths with the other system servers.

HyperDrive: If a network attack is detected, data output to forensic channel B can be accelerated to full I/O speed.

ByPass: Do not pre-processed data, pass all data to load balancers.

Discombobulator:

Security Dissasociator: Data is examined for telltale signs of encryption such as recognized key exchange activity, certificates, exchanges of security association tables, PGP keys, etc., Monitors the health and propriety of encryption use in accordance with definable corporate requirements. Checks for suspicious negotiation activity such as invalid or bad server certificates.

Tunnelor: Checks for propriety and health of tunnel oriented activities. Checks or appropriate tunnel destination and ports based on user definable criteria. Also checks for suspicious use of tunnels such as multi-protocol tunnels (IP in IPX) or irregular data contained in ICMP or UDP packets, or other incongruity in data and packet types. May also watch for non-VPN activity to devices which by policy require VPN or SSL Or SSL activities on unusual services.

Networker: All modules report suspicious activities to the Conflugalizer.

VLAN Debugger: Builds tables of VLAN ID’ (802.1q and ISL) and IP networks. Checks for consistency of IP network information. Also checks for other signs of network trouble such as unexpected use or presence of CDP, unusual or potentially malicious spanning tree activities, or router and switch hacking attempts.

NetChecker: Examines network infrastructure communications for attacks against the network or network health problems that may arise from compromised systems. Routing protocols, keyed/unkeyed OSPF/RIP/EIGRP announcements and activities are watched for sudden topology changes or bandwidth problems, malicious or accidental route injections, address space irregulatities such as internal space “sourced” from the outside or vice versa, suspicious ICMP or SNMP activity, etc.,

Reassembler: performs network and TCP layer fragmentation reassembly. Layer three reassembly Off/On/ and TCP reassembly Off/Unix/Windows/Learned Host Detection. Suspicious use of fragmentation sent to the Conflugalizer for possible alarm.

PAD module. Identifies spoofing attempts designed to defeat firewall rules by hackes. Runs directional checks on source address space at key network sensor locations such as ingress and egress points of network, data center, DMZs, and critical IP networks. By referencing internal source space with source MAC addresses of acceptable router ports for the space to be sourced from, the PAD module provides important detection of common IP spoofing attacks. Address space coming from invalid network locations is alarmed on.

LASER Sight: Low And Slow Enumeration and Reconnaissance detection engine.. Low and Slow scans have been the bane if IDS since the genesis of IDS. Meaningful amounts of historical data traditionally required to detect low and slow scans of generally cost prohibitive, particularly on busy networks.

Unlike traditional IDS the LASER module does not depend on captured historical data. The LASER tracks packet types instead and stores only the number of packets, not the packets themselves. Binary counters can easily track vast numbers of packets in relatively little space. Packets are classified by type. Session Layer packets, SYNs, ACKs, RSTs, etc are counted along with source, destination, and port data. TCP session datagrams are counted and tracked as well. User customizable algorithms scan the tables and look for things like a very high ration Session to TCP packets from one machine, or high ratios to various ports or destination machines. Optionally, incomplete Session establishment could be tracked or subnetting information could be entered in the algorithms or the tables for network segment analysis.

Load Balancer: Off the shelf technology from Alteon, TopLayer, etc., sends load balanced data from the Wayback machine preproccessors to the NIDS sensors. Data streams from selected multihost systems can be sent to specific sensors or data can be load balanced by protocol and applications to reduce IDS rule sets and attack proccessing. Data can also be load balanced by source/destination networks.

Conflugalizer:. This Event Correlation engine for the first time in the NIDS technology market space provides true event correlation capabilities to the customer. It gives the operator instant information of the event causality. The event correlation subsystem collects and analyzes the data required to give the complete and accurate picture o the event. Information including virus behaviors, the corporate network, its topology and deltas, servers, servers by business units, systems administrators and system administration accounts and time slots are tracked and analyzed in real time.

Negative data is collected from other systems, such as legitimate SMS distribution activity; patch or change control planned activity and planned network and system changes. Suspicious activity is measured for co-variance with known explanations such as system administration on designated systems in designated times and co-variance with known attacker behavior. In alerts, both the best positive correlation are reported and the best negative correlation given to assist in quick assessment of potential attacks.

The positive/negative and false positive/false negative accuracy of IDS is dramatically increased over traditional systems, and in the event of an alarm, the analyst starts with information other companies may not have for days or weeks in after the fact analysis.

Correlated attack data then feeds the Alarms and Forensic Channel C data paths.

Security Descriptors: Security Descriptor Technology forms the heart of advanced correlation and security capabilities. Traditional signature and definitions only contain limited information on an attack. General signatures can sometimes find a variant but litter pagers with false positives and meaningless data while narrow definitions miss attacks and variants. Neither provides the information to secure the network from the attack.

Security Descriptors use normalized data structure to catalog the complete attack. The vulnerability exploited, the executables launched, services or processes launched, registry and file modification, the accounts used, the escalations or deltas in privileges, the code in the attack itself, the media and method of propagation, log files affected and entries into the files, the OS’s, versions, patch levels vulnerable, and the applications attacked all go into the Security Descriptors stored within the Conflugalizer’s database.

SLADAR Targeting and Telemetry System: SLeuth Activity Discovery And Reconnaissance. When an attack has been identified the SLADAR module attempts to discover information about the attacking machine(s.) This would include DNS and network registry of the machine, host network, and ISP, as well as information about the full IP path.and other ISPs in the path back.. Contact information for the responsible parties would be immediately sent to the IDS alarm system, the correlator, and added to the Forensic C channel. Targeting and telemetry data on the host and vulnerable points in the intermediate network path are transmitted to the GUNS. Out-Of-Band.

GUNS: Gigabit Upstream Neutralization Systems. In case of a serious commerce threatening attack, GUNS, with executive authorization and enabling, would attempt to fire back at the attacking systems and take them offline. The GUNS would be placed at high bandwidth colo’s through the country. Because the GUNS would be off company network, no company bandwidth would be consumed by the counter attack. If the company network is completely disabled, the counter attack can still be completed. The colo networks would be non-convergently pathed with the enterprise ISP or each other. and burstable frame CIR rates. The GUNS themselves use gig network cards to make full use of available bandwidth. In the event there is a need to actively stop an attacker the GUNS would use the following modules to interrupt the attacking host’s activities.

Packet Pummeling: Raw Bandwidth: DDOS the DDOSers from off the network remotely operated GUNS. With multiple high bandwidth colo’d guns most attacking systems, even in a distributed attacks could be taken off line by the GUNS by simply flooding the attacker NICs.

Packet Stream Annihilation: Attack the packet streams . Attack the network infrastructure carrying the attack with black holing, ICMP unreachable, TCP resets, forged ICMP quenching, etc.,

Stack Attacks and OS Assassination: Utilize available information from the SLADAR system to discover and attempt appropriate attacks against the attacking host to gain control of it or take it off line,or set DDOSing machines upon each other..

Burner: Writes to CD concurrent data channels of detected incidents including all traffic to host in the five minutes before the attack on the A channel, cleaned up data stream on the B channel, and alarm data on the C channel. Data from the B Channel is subject to a five minute delay unless the HyperDrive is engaged. All data written is time stamped by the system clock and MD5 stamped

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http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/rules.htm

bstring — Thu, 06 May 2004 02:33:38 GMT

http://www.cybercrime.gov/rules/rules.htm

BAHAHAHAHAHA

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Good Stuff

bstring — Fri, 21 May 2004 18:31:02 GMT

http://www.netline.co.il/CAA_product.htm
I like...

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Hacker Music

bstring — Fri, 21 May 2004 08:00:08 GMT

http://www.mp34u.com/songCard.php?posting=339&by=results

Barcelona - I have the password.mp3
this song kicks hacker ass!

of course my favorite is still
Talking Heads - Life during Wartime

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Terrorist List

bstring — Wed, 05 May 2004 02:59:52 GMT

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1277&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

According to a Mar. 26, 2004 Washington Times article (emphasis added):
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism, the FBI Terrorist Screening Center Director Donna A. Bucella told legislators yesterday.
The database "will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism," Miss Bucella said at a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security subcommittees.

That phrase "nexus to terrorism" is ominous. dictionary.com defines "nexus" as:
A means of connection; a link or tie
Recall the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was sent by the U.S. to Syria to receive torture, simply because an acquaintence happend to witness a lease agreement Arar signed. According to a Nov. 2003 article from the Toronto Globe and Mail (emphasis added):
The riddle of Maher Arar's captivity now seems to centre on a mysterious acquaintance: Abdullah Almalki, a fellow Syrian-Canadian also in his early 30s.
The two men knew each other in Ottawa, before their inextricably linked fates led them to meet up again in a hellish Middle Eastern prison only a few weeks ago.

Back in 1997, both men lived relatively normal lives. They were naturalized Canadians living in Ottawa. In a choice that would later come back to haunt him, Mr. Arar had Mr. Almalki act as a witness for a lease he signed.

[...] A few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, RCMP national-security agents went looking for Mr. Arar and Mr. Almalki to ask them questions. It's not clear what exactly police wanted from the men.

By early 2002, Mr. Almalki's travels to Malaysia and Indonesia were noticed by intelligence agencies, who regard the countries as places where al-Qaeda has footholds. And back at home, continued Canadian interest in Mr. Almalki was clear.

"The RCMP was interested in Abdullah. And when Abdullah went to Malaysia, they basically did a sweep of his family and they questioned them all," said Riad Saloojee, who heads an Ottawa-based Muslim association. "There was a ripple effect in the community -- many people who knew Abdullah socially or worked with him were also questioned."

Even Mr. Almaki wasn't a known terrorist -- his travel patterns just exhibited terrorist patterns. And Mr. Arar was just a casual acquaintence of Mr. Almaki. For this, the U.S. government sent him to Syria to be tortured.
So now that the U.S. government is going to be sharing its "list" with private companies, where torture is condoned by the government for being on the list, it's no far stretch to imagine that private companies will refuse to hire anyone on the "list" and the U.S. will condone or encourage such use of the "list".

And it's not just casual acquaintences that are making the "list" -- political activists are already on it. Recall the case of Nancy Oden from the Sep. 29, 2002 UnderReported.com story Want to fly? What's your "risk score"?. She was a Green Party official who was refused to board a plane.

Soon, only non-blogging registered Republicans and Democrats will be able to get jobs.

http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=239

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Hacking Unix...

bstring — Mon, 10 May 2004 19:23:20 GMT

http://duho.hackaholic.org/pub/hacking_unix-part2.txt

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http://www.gism.net/pastdaily/7-14.html

bstring — Wed, 05 May 2004 08:27:20 GMT

http://www.gism.net/pastdaily/7-14.html

A disertation on Defcon. Vegas pops up out of the desert like a blister on the ass of God. There's this giant expanse of beautiful mountain, canyon, scrub brush, rolling hills. Then, Bang, the Mandaly Bay and all its compatriots come flying out of the valley and into your lap. All the while, these starnge signs on the side of the road keep telling you that the city of sin is still 14 miles away. It looks like you're just a mile or so away. But after 10 minutes more of driving towards the white-heads, you begin to see that the buildings are in fact larger than you first thought, and that most of them shadow the more extravagant buildings.

All the way through the desert, He'd been watching the industrial power lines pick their way through the hills and dales of southern California. These giant sentinals were perfect foreshadowing devices: they were the very embodiment of why He was out here. They not only carried the very life-blood of computerization, they carried the neurons and axioms of telecommunication: the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. Without those wires, not only would the machines go dark, they would also be alone.

The Alexis Park hotel was a strange place to hold a conference; an even stranger one to hold a hacker conference. It was set up like the branch dividian compound. At the center of the complex lay the lobby, pool, restaraunt, and other bits that He hadn't fully explored yet. He expected that the stratification of the structures would facilitate some amazing variance in the party scene.

After a quick shower, He sat and typed these very words. Next door, a cavalcade of young up-and-comers had assaulted Strick and He when they arrived. Frostbite, DC, and Cypris were actually in their car when Strick and He slipped into their parking space. Though neither party had been introduced yet, DC stuck his head out of the driver's side window of the massive white truck and made odd sounds at Him as He unpacked the car. He knew immediately that the occupants of the truck were here for Defcon. The social repugnance of most hackers does not preclude their greetings and introductions; it translates them into strange clicks, pops, whirs, and other anti-social communicative behavior.

His initial take on the Alexis Park did not delve deep enough. Upon further inspection, the facilities seemed to be host to noless than four seperate groups for the weekend. The hackers, of course, took up a large portion. But an equally sized portion of the hotel was alotted to the Olympus Danceathon. Olympus seemed to be aimed at young girls; ballet, tap, and possibly jazz dancers. Most were obviously from the midwest or other equally backwards places. Their mothers clucked like hens and fawned over their breast-budding daughters. Most of the dancers carried bitch-flip style bangs, moussed up to stand out from their tightly pulled back buns and pony tails. All of them knew they were sex-pots in training, and around the pools, they showed off as much skin as they could get away with. At any other convention, this would have been crewl and unusual punishment, but at a conference filled with script kiddies and other people below the statutory rape age, it was simply a god send.

In the lobby the midwest mothers mingled with fat, long-haired coders and mid-twenties laptop-junkies. The warm glow of LCD displays suffussed the mildly darkened room, and the occasional white glimmering apple illuminated those who dared to stand in front of the Mac in question. Twangy half-english was fired across the front desk at the overwhelmed staff as the geeks began to explore their surroundings. The scene was a microcosm twentyfirst century America: The technologically driven mingling with the down-home housewives and their bathing beauty daughters. Throw in a smattering of airlne employees filtering into the hotel over the weekend (the airport is driectly behind the Alexis Park) and the micrcosm becomes a stew of diametrically opposed industries and personalities.

The rest of the Gism.net stickers, and a few odd cables and laptops. Yes, laptops, plural. He'd give them away before the end of the weekend. He wanted to set up a "What the fuck is that?" contest with a strange suction-cup-electrical-device He'd found as exhibit A. Whoever could identify it would win an old Mac Duo 210 laptop. Then, if He could find something else to offer as an unknown item, he'd give away the Mac Powerbook 140.

DC and Strick came back into the room. Strick was already distributing Yak shirts, his own personal trinket of 31337-ness. He enjoyed gifting folks with the shirts in exchange for their friendship and idolitry. It was a good system, and had worked well for a long time now.

Friday night He gambled for the first time. The casino was the Rock Hard... er... Hard Rock, and it was an interesting experience. Along with him on his journey into sin were two extremely innebriated fellow Defcon attendees: Max and Chris. Neither had ever been gambling either.

The Hard Rock is the casino for everyone you ever hated in high school. Those that weren't trying to emmulate Swingers were decked out in the finest that Banana Republic had to offer. When the three of them walked in the entire room seemed to hush itself in quiet awe of the trio of nerds now standing before them. Were it not for the constant glitter of the slots and the rushed dealing of blackjack, the thick-necked jocks and scantilly clad pseudo-whores would have stuffed the three of them into the nearest lockers. Or, more likely, into the nearest slot machine.

But after the inital shock of jock-dom, the three would-be high rollers cashed in their money for quarters and began to insert them into slot machines. Max, the youngest in the bunch immediately tripled his initial investment of three dollars on his first pull. Chris and He were not so lucky, and didn't win money back until four machines later. After five minutes, they were all up on their inital investments. His own investment of two dollars was met with a dour frown when he changed his dollars for quarters at the cash-in girl. It was, perhaps, the smallest amount of money changing she had done all evening.

As they picked their way through the madding crowd, they came upon an interesting new game: casino war. Basically, it was the same war school children played with two decks of cards, except when you tied with the house, you had to double your bet to go to war. They skipped that one and headed to a $10 minimum blackjack table. Max sat down and tried to change his money. They carded him. Max had not informed Him of his underaged status. It was a fairly embarassing situation to be in. The rest of those at the table looked irrate; they glowered and informed Max that he had to leave the casino floor immediately. The three of them were in grave danger of being dragged into the nearest washroom and given a swirlly. They could almost hear the chants of "Nerds, nerds, nerds!" rising above the tumult of sports chatter, rock and roll, and swooning drunked pseudo-whores.

It should be noted that by pseudo-whore, He is refering to that class of female that spends its time around the roulette wheel waiting for the ball to drop on their love-target's number. 36 hits, and the gentleman is assured a fine soft female in his bed for the evening. And all she requires in exchange is a quick money wasting spree through the casino shopping court.

After a few more minutes of ups and downs on the slots, Jake, an extremely underaged and drunken individual, showed up for some quarter based joy. He immediately sat down and doubled Max's money at the blackjack table. Of course, on the hand after that, he lost it all again. But that wasn't the point, he was able to bet, and he was able to win, thanks to his extreme drunkenness and utter lack of exerience.

After another ten minutes of ups and downs at the hands of the one-armed bandits, the three wandered back to the Alexis Park. Max was even, if he didn't count the three dollars he'd lost on the slots. Chris was up two dollars and He was down two. Jake was nowhere to be found. When last seen, he had hit the jackpot on a nickle slot and was awash under sea of 5 cent pieces.

Later that evening, Jake stumbled into the Yak suite, completely incoherent and flat broke. It was an appropriate end to an evening's sinful duties.

Las Vegas is the perfect place for Defcon. Gambling is basically a giant exploit of the human mind. Most people can't do the math fast enough to realize that they're losing. It's a giant buffer overflow. Stuff enough alcohol into them and pass out the cards fast enough, and they won't notice you're screwing them.

And so He was royally screwed. Originally, He started His Saturday evening at the Terrible's. After an hour, He left $10 up on the craps table. On the way back, He stopped by the Hard Rock, made the minimum bet on black, and walked out $14 up on the whole day. Unfortunately, the gambling bug bit him hard and firm in buttocks. After a quick meal at the Alexis Park, He returned to the Terrible's (horrible name, eh?) and decided to bet the twenty dollars he'd originally intended to gamble with. After an hour, He was up $40 on blackjack. The man next to Him was in vaguely the same boat, but with a lot more money on the table. The man intimated that He wasn't quiting until he'd won $500.

"Well, shit!" He thought! "I'm not quiting until I'm up $100!" Unfortunately, this meant He had a long way to go, being only $40 up on His original $20. Thus, His time at the blackjack table ended in a complete and total loss. And, He returned to lose another $10 on the table next to the very one He began on.

Strangely, the rest of His evening was speant wishing He could return to break even. His first time, and He was hooked. He had become addicted to the exploit. Even the lamest of servers doesn't send out requests for further intrusion attempts.

The third day of the conference was technically Sunday, but by Saturday, most of those in attendence had three days worth of drunken tcp based debauchery under their belts. And it would only get worse. To quote Jeff Moss, one of the conference's organizers and a nine year veteran of the event: "Originally, it just started out as an excus to go to Vegas and drink." In that respect, Defcon 9 has held to its roots like a redwood tree.

But the overall tone for this year's Defcon was set early on Friday morning. A blue green minivan (bimbo box) peeled into the parking lot of the Alexis Park Hotel at around around 11 am. The 7 inhabitants of the vehicle spilled onto the curb, some drunk, other's tired, all exhausted. Most of those in the lobby carried bags of equipment, laptops, or tool belts. These seven carried only their clothing (most of it in bags) and stacks of white print-outs.

They had wound their way down the coast from San Francisco along 101, 1, 58, and the infamous 46 that took James Dean straight to hell.

Now, they were in Las Vegas, and the hot-blooded northerners began to feel the sun bring their veins to roiling boils. Sadly, the silver screen has never properly conveyed just how hot the city is. This works in favor of the casinos: the hotter it is outside, the more effort it takes to walk to the next spectacle down the strip.

The population of Defcon, however, would have to walk a long way to get to the nearest slot machines and blackjack tables. The Alexis Park is a "Family" establishment, after all. For the currency laiden debauchery, the 21 year olds would have to walk across the street to the Rock Hard, er... Hard Rock Casino. In the world of Geek warfare, there was no greater irony than the positioning of such an establishment so close to a herd of potential locker stuffing.

The seven residents of the minivan burst into the lobby, alive with life again after their near-coma states only an hour earlier. Immediately, they set to the task at hand: rooting Defcon. Not with the instruction sets from a computer. They weilded the instruction set of humanity: propaganda.

This being the ninth Defcon in as many years, the conference is beginning to show its age. There are more attendees. More hotel rooms. More bandwidth. More rules.

And as a result, more people try to break those rules. Nowhere does this happen as elegantly as at the hands of hackers. The true spirit of hacking lies not only in it's code , pomp, and circumstance, but also in its sense of irony, rebellion, and necessity for poetic justice.

Naturally, the organizers of Defcon did not wish incite illicit activity on the part of the more unsavory (young) element. This is why most of the rules are not stated. Any actual rules would be seen as challenges. So, many minor laws were ignored: under aged drinking, port sniffing Yahoo.com, even selling 5 day old roach infested pizza were fair game. However, the unspoken rules were thought to be sacred.

And so, the seven began to hand out their anti-defcon writings. Each pamphlet contained, not blasphamy, but dogmatic mandate.

"Throw a brick, grease the steps, pull the fire alarm, break a window, hack .mil's from the internal network" The list went on and on. It also said a few words about the overbearing nature of Defcon this year. But that wasn't the point. The goal of the sheets was simply to instill the seeds of thought into the minds of the impressionable.

"Charge stuff to Jeff Moss's room, get the con raided, slash a fed, FUCK DEFCON UP!"

For the most part, the suggestions fell on deaf ears, however. Those that would be most easily persuaded already had their own prank plans. Thursday night, there were two main schools of pranking. The first decided to dump 8 gallons of vegitable oil into the hotel's third pool. The second school wasn't anywhere near as elegant or original: Golf Cart. Preferably on top of Pete Shipley, the guiding father of Dis.org. This plan was as much rooted in alcohol as it was in tradition. Thankfully for most of those involved, the drunken goofball charged with the task of stealing the golf cart never figured out how to get it in reverse, and remained marooned against a wall for several minutes before regurgitating on the steering wheel and retreating to his room.

The vegitable oil went off without a hitch. The pool became covered in a thin slick of grease, and resulted in a viscous layer of liquid vegi around anything that was dipped into it.

The oil incident passed with relative quiet, however, as most of those present at the first night's festivities barely remembered it the next day. That is, until they saw a stewardess running to her room screaming and cursing at her slimmy predicament. None fo the oil brigade were caught.

Half of the flyer handler's were ejected from the hotel, however. Ironically, most of them were well to-do high class programmers, and simply took their party across the street to the infamous Hard Rock.

The hacker scene is an ever changing environment filled with a wide variety of subculture cross over. At its very heart, there is the gothic-fetish-fire-drug world. Nowhere is this more apperant than within the rank and file of groups.

Defcon is a conference of groups. Hackers clump, much like platelets. In the dark recesses of the Internet the digital equivilent of hushed whispers accompany the names of the most 31337 of groups: Dis.org, New Hack City, Cult of the Dead Cow. Almost everyone at DefCon belongs to a group. Whether it's a quiet local conclave of sub-puberty crackers, or a multinational incorporated entity, groups are the lifeblood of the conference.

Of the three previously mentioned groups, by far the most infamous and reputable is the Cult of the Dead Cow. Originally founded in the late eighties, the Cult is an ever changing public relations nightmare. This is precisely its goal. Along with a large number of cryptic BBS postings, obscure press releases, and extremely graphic corporate product introductions, the Cult of the Dead Cow has elevated itself to the status of grand high poobah in the hacker community. Originally a splinter group of the ever-popular L0pht, the Cult expanded itself, member by member until it became the bastion of code and exploits that it is known to be today.

To explain the Cult, we must first understand the L0pht. Another product of the turbulent (and 1200 baud) eighties, L0pht origninally staked out its place amongst the BBS's of Boston, and began to grow more and more 31337 as the years passed. Eventually, in the early 90's, the web sprang up, and L0pht became a bonified web presence. With their T-1 in hand, L0pht began releasing hand-coded exploits for modern networked operating systems.

Eventually, the L0pht's web-boards swelled with sub-cultures, zines, and just plain dirty stuff. Some of this dirty stuff spun outwards into the entitiy that is now known as the Cult of the Dead Cow.

Sadly, the L0pht is no more. While it does still exist in name, it has become a hollow shell of it's former anti-establishment self. At the 2001 RSA conference in San Francisco, L0pht (now known as @stake) held a conference party. Within the confines of the Thirsty bear (a tapas joint known for conference parties) no fewer than 98% of those in attendance wore suits. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

The Cult of the Dead Cow, however, has contnued to exist as a quasi-hacker community for almost two decades now. Recently, it has begun to enter into the software community with it's now infamous Back Orifice. The original release allowed any Windows user with one-time access to a target's machine to control the terminal remotely via a simple command-line. At Defcon 8 in 2000, the Cult released Back Orifice 2k, a refined version of the exploit software that added numerous masqueradeing options. With these new options, BO2K allowed for a near indetectible exploitation system. Even the tcp/ip port could be changed to allow for more easily obfuscated transactions with the end server. In all, BO2K was a masterful piece of hacker code.

Most of this excellence came at the hands of Sir Dystic. Uber-coder Dystic headed up the coding of BO2K, and is currently captaining a new project: Peak-a-booty. Using the currently en vogue peer-to-peer model, Peak-a-booty is intended to allow peoples behind national firewalls to see the rest of the internet. When he introduced to project at HOPE 2K (Hackers on Planet Earth 2000), Sir Dystic stated that the project was intended to free the citizens of China to explore the net without their govermentally imposed restrictions.

While the Cult of the Dead Cow holds sway over the entirety of the hacker community, other groups, Dis.org and New Hack City, continually push the limits of acceptible coding. Dis.org, headed by the messiahnic Peter Shipely (widely thought to be one of the most talented professional hacker in the world) is a band of rag tag rebels who spend most of their time exploiting corporate networks, holding extreme bondage parties, and generally living the dark hacker lifetyle. One member in particular, B-String, is widely known to be one of the most prolific hobo's on the west coast. That's right, he steals rides from Amtrak. It's not uncommon for B-String to appear at the 2600 meeting San Francisco, and then head down the coast on a free-ticket to 2600 LA.

Disorg, or Dis org crew, as their shirts, patches, and stickers say, is the epitome of the black hat hacker culture. While most of the higher eschelons of hacker cliques see the group as deviant and cliquish, there is no denying the skill and talent of some of its members. While a good number of Dis org's posse are confirmed professional crackers/hackers, there is also an outer onion skin of the group that is mainly for show. At conferences like Defcon, Dis org's ranks are bolstered by short skantilly clad women shimmying and shaking up and down the floor, wearing DOC shirts. According to legend, most of these women are part o Pete Shipley's inexorable harrem, but this has never been confirmed.

What has been confirmed is that the majority of the members of Dis org are deviants by nature, and drug use, rampant promiscuity, and fetish/bondage clothing is the rule, not the exception.

Alongside Dis.org is New Hack City, a splinter group of the Cult of the Dead Cow, most accuratly characterized as CDC West. Although the group has dwindled recently, it's members were the driving force behind most of the BO2k Q/A process, and helped develop most of the exploits and customizations the package included. Many members of NHC hold allegiance to other splinter groups. Among them is Ghetto Tech, a small group of stoner/coders who spend their time playing Tony Hawk, messing with DNS, and writing illicit Perl scripts.

Ghetto Tech is not to be confused with the Ghetto Hackers, however.

While Defcon 9 offered some fresh new speakers and interesting discussion tracts, the highlight of the show is still the perpetually confusing capture the flag (ctf) tournament. It seems as though the rules are a direct evolutional descendant from bacteria: hour after hour, the rules expand and contract, mutate and transform according to the stimmuli they recieve. Basically, CTF is a contest to see just who has the biggest hacking balls of them all.

CTF begins when Defcons internal network comes online. Players join teams and stake out entire class C's to defend. From there, the rules begin to get fuzzy, but a rough approximation of gameplay follows:

Two teams, The Ghetto Hackers and the Monkey Boys set up on the ip class C's 10.255.20 and 10.255.30 respectively. The machines at 10.255.20.250 through 10.255.20.255 and 10.255.30.250 through 10.255.30.255 are set up as servers to be defended. Each team allocates it's people to the tasks of Sysadmin or Hacker: Sysadmins maintane the servers, and hackers cut through the opposing force's systems. The job of the Sysadmin is, obviously, to keep the hackers out. The Hackers, however, not only have to get into a hostile server, but also to leave a disk image on the root directory of the server's harddrive.

Of course, it's nowhere near that simple. Within 10 minutes of the game beginning, one team rewrote the entire network's arp tables (databases used to keep track fo whatc machines are where) and routed 90% of the network's traffic through their own systems. Not only did this allow them to watch everyone's activities, it also allowed them to redirect attackers back at their own systems. There was a distinct possibility that any port scanning done by an assalant resulted in a listing of the ports open on the machine he was scanning from. Unfortunately, the team was caught with their hands red, and penalized 10 points.

Alongside the uber-hax0rs playing for teams, a cavalcade of unaffiliated admins and hackers squatted on 10.255.0 and played, not for points, but for the shear joy of being able to hack without repercussions.

And that is essentially what Defcon is all about. 1000's of kids and adults from around the world descend on Las Vegas to get away from the hostile and conservative worlds in which they live. Hacking has become a taboo subject in some circles, thanks to bluntly biased media portrayal. Recently, Frontline, a typically level-headed PBS news program, filmed a documentary on the hacker community. Unfortunately, the program became a near indictment of the hacker lifestyle, casting a dark light on some of the most talented coders and visionaries in the community. It was a tough blow for many in the hacker world who have faught so hard to put a better face on the culture. The Cult of the Dead Cow, for example, gave an hour long question and answer session at Defcon in which they espoused the need for the higher levels of the scene to direct their efforts towards freeing information for those who are restricted from seeing it.

But the hacker world will probably always remain a dark and frightening place for the American mainstream. As long as Dis Org continues to overdose and throw sex parties; as long as script kiddies continue to take down large systems with but a mouse click; as long as the youthful rebelious spirit remains at the heart of the hacker world, mainstream America will never fully grow comfortable with the scene. And this is precisely what the scene wants.

After cutting his losses in the casinos, He returned to the Alexis Park to enjoy His final night in the city of sin. Tomorrow, He would pile into the small, blue-green minivan and head towards San Francisco at upwards of 80 miles per hour. Defcon had been fun, but the whole experience didn't settle well in his stomache. Perhaps it was simply the four glasses of box wine he'd consumed, but more likely it was because of the gentrification that had been taking place all around Him. Defcon was always about rebellion. Yet those that had most completely rebeled against the conference were now portrayed on polaroids on the wall of the security office. Underneath lay instructions to immediately eject any and all persons handing out flyers on the show floor.

He had been asked to help hand out flyers. He had declned, stating that He didn't feel it was appropriate for someone wearing a press badge to distribute the materials. Mark, the one asking for His help, replied with words that struck right to the core of Him: "Sure, it's not the press's place to fight for freedom of speech. Nevermind."

After that, He had to get out of Vegas. The weasels were closing in, and, after all, this was bat country. It was 40 miles to Baker, then one long high speed drag to San Francisco, and safe obscurity. Just another geek in the geek community.

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Traceroute... and more

bstring — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 23:21:04 GMT

http://sarangworld.com/TRACEROUTE/
http://www.samspade.org/t/
http://www.uwhois.com/domains.html
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.arin.net/tools/whois_help.html

Sex Tips for Geeks
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/

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Hacking Game

bstring — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:52:09 GMT

http://quiz.ngsec.biz:8080/

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NEW P4 hack

bstring — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:49:05 GMT

Satellite P4 Card hack released

Downloaded From www.newbigals.com
I take no credit in making this script. I just fixed the line
errors it was getting.

Testing With T911 Loader

THIS WILL NOT HURT YOUR CARD ( For P4Hack Program )

1. Flash your loader with wt2plus xp flash provided.
2. Now Set Programer to 5 open only.
3. Open Winexp set to p2 setting.
4. Now go to program setting and click that.
5. Uncheck: LogTransactions
6. Uncheck: Display Fuse After Each Script
7. Uncheck: Display USW After Each Script
8. Click OK.
9. Close WinExplorer.
10. Unplug your programer.
11. Put your card in your programer and plug back in.
Both lights should come on. This is called ( Pheonix Mode )
12. Open P4Hack.
13. Click Run Script. A box will appear.
Put the number ( 1 ) in the space required.
14. Click OK

During the reading. If you encounter this problem.

Script Error on Line 113
Sc.Read: Timeout Reading Data From Card -
2309 Bytes Requested, 500 Bytes R

Just follow these instructions. It should fix it.

When you get this "Script Error on Line 113
Sc.Read: Timeout Reading Data From Card - 2309 Bytes Requested,
500 Bytes Read

Change the 2309 bytes req. to 500 and save the script.
Then run the saved script again.When you get another error repeat
what you just did, changing the bytes req. to the # you get from
the bytes read. SAVE IT again, Repeat the whole thing saving each
time until there are no errors.
Remember to run the newest saved script each time.

This should run without errors eventually after replacing the #'s
around.

Part 1

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dc2600

bstring — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:59:26 GMT

http://www.dc2600.com/pictures/index.shtml

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Breeding Program

bstring — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:01:53 GMT

THIRD WORLD WANTS NERDS FOR BREEDING PROGRAM!
Poor nations use promise of sex with beautiful, exotic women to lure them over!

DEVELOPING Third World countries are recruiting American nerds -- to mate with native women and produce a generation of studious eggheads!

"The demand for so-called 'nerds' in developing nations has never been greater," explains sociologist Peter Pendlon. "They need lab researchers to battle deadly epidemics, computer wizards who can help to bring their economies into the 21st century, and many other 'science geeks.'"

These emerging African and Asian nations are rich in natural resources and money is no object -- brainy folks willing to work overseas are guaranteed handsome incomes. But the number of American pencil-necks is dwindling, as plummeting math scores demonstrate -- and overseas demand is fast outstripping the U.S. supply, the Washington expert says.

"Third World countries are racing to educate their own people in math and science as fast as they can, to generate their own crop of homegrown nerds, but that will take decades, of course," says Pendlon, speaking at a recent D.C. conference on global trends.

"To accelerate the process, at least 11 countries are quietly introducing 'intellectual-breeding' programs. And to ensure the best gene pool, they've begun to import Americans with proven math and science skills for the explicit purpose of reproduction."

While some countries like Nigeria recruit sperm donors, others entice the often-bespectacled, sex-starved social misfits with promises of a chance to bed down with one or more of "our beautiful, exotic local women."

Nerd recruitment ads are now cropping up on the Internet.

One particular ad cited by Pendlon calls for men "with a minimum I.Q. of 150, science background, glasses not necessary, wanted for sex, salary in high six figures -- guaranteed."

Intriguingly, Pendlon blames the war on terror for the U.S. nerd shortage.

"While nerds are in high demand overseas, the interest in quiet intellectuals has never been lower in America," the sociologist notes.

"Our leaders set the tone. As long as we have a macho president and are waging a war on terrorism, our society will devote its efforts to churning out square-jawed 'jock' types, more comfortable around guns than books.

"You could say that under President Bush, the smart, mild-mannered American nerd is fast becoming an endangered species.

"Perhaps this breeding program is coming just in time!"

Published on: November 26, 2003

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Valuable Publication

bstring — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:21:42 GMT

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0204/mg0204.html

COMPUTER CORNER
#179
Digital Evidence - Trends by: Michael J. Phelan
DEA Digital Evidence Laboratory

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An article in your local newspaper on January 1st undoubtedly contained an annual New Year’s article or column entitled: “What’s In and What’s Out”. The reading of this column in my local paper caused me to reflect on what’s “in” and “out” in the domain of digital evidence forensics. I think it is important to reflect periodically on how things are changing, in order to assess the trends in digital evidence technologies and evidence examination methodologies. The rapid changes in digital evidence forensics can be far reaching, and can affect laboratory equipment and software procurement strategies, design of standard operating procedures, and development of examiner training requirements.

My list for this year was surprisingly large. Much has changed, or is in the process of significantly changing.

End of DOS

DOS based computer evidence examination tools are “out”. GUI based tools using the Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP platforms are “in”. DOS based forensics tools are just too slow to process modern high capacity hard drives. However, you still need to keep your DOS operating system software and DOS forensic tools handy, in case you ever have to access your archived files.

Write Blockers

Software based write blocking technology is “out” and hardware based write blocking technology is “in”, at least in the case of Microsoft based operating systems. Unix operating systems are still best protected from deleterious change by using the native “read only” commands embedded in all Unix systems.

Evidence Copying

Evidence copying using sector by sector copying (physical data acquisition) techniques of entire hard drives is “out”, and copying techniques involving selected files, data folders, or hard drive partitions (logical data acquisition) is “in”. The volume of information now maintained on many business computers or computer networks has become enormous. Physical data acquisition is simply not practical when large servers, computer networks, or data farms/warehouses are encountered.

Evidence Storage Format

Evidence data acquisition involving the duplication of hard drive data is “out”. Copying data into “image” files (consisting of files with all of the hard drive data and formatting structure), that are easily mounted as virtual drives (no hardware interface issues), are “in”. Use of image file formats saves examiner processing time by eliminating hardware complexity problems and simplifying hard drive format access methods.

External Media

External storage media technology continues to rapidly change, and maintaining the appropriate hardware “reader devices” is a constant challenge. Previously mainstream technologies such as floppy diskettes or Iomega Jaz and Zip cartridges are becoming obsolete (“out”), while replacement technologies such as CD’s, thumb drives, memory sticks, and DVD’s are “in”. Surprisingly, however, tape technology continues to play an important role in data backup. In addition, acquiring and maintaining a robust collection of PDA docking (recharging) cradles is becoming essential to laboratory operations.

Potential Probative Information Recovery

The nature of digital communications is changing from file transfers containing documents or e mails, to web based communications containing web based e mail or e commerce transactions. The impact of these changes on digital forensics is significant. Extensive data recovery involving traditional techniques, such as active file browsing or erased file recovery, is diminishing (on the way “out”), and processing (carving) of hard drives for non file keystroke data that is stored on the hard drive as unallocated clusters (i.e., in “free space”) or in the “swap file”, is increasing (“in”).

Evidence Integrity

The technology used to validate copies of the original evidence has significantly evolved. The use of data packet communication algorithms, commonly known as a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), is “out”, and global hard drive or file data integrity checks, known as hash algorithms, are “in”. Hash techniques such as MD 5 have a higher statistical probability calculation of certainty than a CRC check. The purpose of the CRC or hash check is to assess (within a certain degree of statistical probability) that a digital file copy containing binary data is the same as the original file from which it was copied. Such calculations are usually expressed as one in 28, 216, 224, or 264 possibilities that two different binary data sets (such as a file, partition, or hard drive) could have the same hash value. Larger hash value calculations increase the certainty of estimating the uniqueness of data sets.

Forensic Software Architecture

Standalone forensic tools are “out”, and multi functional software examination software suites are “in”. The integration of multiple digital forensic examination tasks such as imaging, browsing, keyword searching, and carving, in one unified software program, has simplified laboratory operations by making it easier to conduct examiner training, coordinate software upgrades and validate the examination software. The integrated tools enhance examiner proficiency by enabling the user to utilize one common set of software commands to process a wide variety of hard drive formats (FAT 32, NTFS, HPS, etc.).

Legal

On site copying of evidence at businesses and professional offices is “in”, and physical removal of the computers to a digital evidence laboratory is “out”. Courts are becoming more reluctant to authorize removal of computers, especially in cases involving businesses where both licit and illicit records may be commingled. Having robust on site backup equipment and software is essential to the effective operation of a digital evidence laboratory.

Questions or comments?

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Dating a Hacker...

bstring — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:32:12 GMT

http://www.grrl.com/hackerboy.html

Hacker boys are a growing breed of fellas you'll probably end up dating at one time or another. They aren't quite as disturbed as a Goth boy or depressed musician, but they do have their annoying moments.

Many people online have their own definition of what a hacker is, but for this dating section we'll make it fairly cut and dry. "Hacker" is a loose term meaning any boy who spends so much time on his computer that he finds it neccessary to break into other people's computer systems (mostly big corporations) purely out of boredom. Sometimes they approach relationships as though there's a reset button nearby. But here's some tips to help you in the quest to capture the heart of your own self-proclaimed cyborg.

Resist the temptation to ask your hacker boy to perform illegal crimes to win your love. Hacking into the phone company to change your phone bill might be romantic at first, but if the Feds come a knockin', you could sharing a jail cell.

Know jargon words such as "phone phreaking" and "black box." This will come in handy when he calls to cancel your dinner plans because he has just been arrested for changing his grades in the University computer room.

Remind him that going to a 2600 meeting does not count as a date.

Beware of the hacker whose secret wish is to become a machine. Lots of hackers have this cyborg fantasy in common. The most they'll probably end up doing is get a tacky tattoo of metal ripping through his arm.

Read books by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Philip K. Dick. Many hackers fancy themselves as cyberpunx and like to discuss topics such as memory implants and information smugglers.

Repeat to yourself at least once a day that it's perfectly fine that you're human. Hackers have a way of treating their girlfriends as would-be fembots. Be yourself.

Don't be angry if your hacker boy spends loads of time on his computer instead of with you. He'll do this a lot because that's what hackers do. (duh). To hackers, computers and time are relative.

Have some used, waterproof clothes to go dumpster diving late at night. An old-school hacker will want to spend romantic moonlit nights snooping around dumpsters behind computer companies and universities.

Encourage your hacker boy to get a second phone line. After all, you don't want to compete with the modem for his attention.

If you expect your hacker to go outside and enjoy the great outdoors, you'll have a long wait. Most hackers like to stay indoors in front of the computer. He may occasionally venture outside to go to a computer swap meet.

Many hackers preach the motto "All information must be free and accessible," but don't assume he means he'll be an open door of communication in regards to your relationship.

If your hacker boy has a slight interest in biogenetics, don't let him talk you into being a techno guinea pig. This means saying no when he asks to implant a tracker microchip in your wrist. Make your pets off limits while you're at it.

Be flexible when it comes to his online pals. He may want to spend hours and hours chatting with his fellow Lone Gunmen about how to take down the NSA rather than chat with you about your day. Just be suspicious if he's partial to sex chats with strangers.

Be prepared to watch movies like Akira, Tetsuo, Hardware, The Matrix and Blade Runner many a Friday night. If he loved Johnny Mnemonic, get a new boyfriend. That movie sucked.

Expect all holiday, anniversary and birthday gifts to come from Fry's Electronics or another Radio Shack-esque store.

Learn UNIX. Possibly C. Don't ask. Just do it. Oh and if you really want to impress him, learn Lex, Yacc and Emacs. Demonstrate Perls of wisdom, weild VI like a wizard and explain why Linux is the only moral OS choice.

Hackers are still deep-down social misfits. This means he'll probably play a lot of Illuminati or RoboRally instead of wanting to go out to a party or dance club. Deal with it.

All contents copyright © 1998-2004 by Bonnie Burton.

DISCLAIMER: By the way, these tips aren't meant to upset the actual punkers, stoners, musicians, ravers, goths and other types who visit Grrl.com. Sure not all musicians care more about their guitars than their girlfriends, and not all stoners eat tons of Ho-Hos, and not all goths wear black eyeliner, and not all ravers take E. But that's not the point. THIS IS IN JEST AND GOOD FUN. Learn to laugh at yourself a little. After all, not only have I dated all these stereotypes, but at different points of my life I was each of these stereotyoes myself -- except for the Redneck, that is.

http://www.grrl.com/hackerboy.html

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Webtv's dialing 911 Hilarious

bstring — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:26:07 GMT

Alleged WebTV 911 hacker charged with cyberterrorism

By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Feb 26 2004 8:45PM

FBI agents arrested a Louisiana man last week for allegedly tricking a handful of MSN TV users into running a malicious e-mail attachment that reprogrammed their set-top boxes to dial 9-1-1 emergency response.

According to prosecutors, David Jeansonne, 43, was targeting 18 specific MSN TV users in an online squabble when he crafted the script in July 2002, and sent it out disguised as a tool to change the colors on MSN TV's user interface. Though the code didn't mass-mail itself to others, some of the recipients were sufficiently fooled that they forwarded it to friends, for a total of 21 victims.

Known as WebTV before it was acquired by Microsoft, MSN TV works with television set-top boxes to allow users to surf the Web and send and receive e-mail without using a PC.

The boxes connect to the Internet through a local dial-up number. The malicious script changed the dial-up to 9-1-1. If a victim didn't go online again after being infected, the box would summon help anyway when it tried to make an automatic daily call to the network at midnight.

The code also crossmailed itself to the 18 targeted users, so it would appear in some cases to have come from someone the victim knew. Additionally, it posted victims' browser histories to a particular website, and e-mailed their hardware serial number to the free webmail account "timmy@postmark.net."

According to an FBI affidavit filed in the case, Jeansonne was undone when cyber sleuths at Microsoft's MSN unit searched e-mail logs and found that the "Timmy" account had previously sent beta versions of the malware to Jeansonne's MSN TV account. Microsoft pillaged Jeansonne's e-mail, and found messages between him and an online friend that suggested Jeansonne was responsible for the hack. In December, the FBI raided his home and seized his computers.

Jeansonne is charged under a provision of the federal computer crime statute that dispenses with the requirement that a computer crime cause at least $5,000 in damage to qualify as a federal felony in cases where the attack caused "a threat to public health or safety."

Playing it safe, prosecutors included a second count in the indictment charging Jeansonne with causing over $5,000 in damage.

According to court records, the hack resulted in police responding 10 times to false alarms at subscribers' homes, either in person, or by phoning them back. It's unclear what happened to the other 11 calls to 9-1-1.

In 2000, the FBI issued a public warning about a Windows virus circulating in the Houston area that similarly phoned for help though victims' modems.

Jeansonne appeared in federal court in New Orleans last week and was released on $25,000 bail. Another court appearance is scheduled for Friday. The case is being prosecuted in the San Francisco Bay area, where Microsoft's MSN TV unit is based. A company spokesperson said nobody was available for comment Thursday. Jeansonne could not be reached for comment.

Correction: The original version of this story reported that Jeansonne was charged under the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act. In fact, the "threat to public health or safety" language was added to the computer crime law by the 1996 National Information Infrastructure Protection Act. The "cyberterrorism" provisions of USA PATRIOT reorganized that section of the statute without changing its substance. SecurityFocus regrets the error.

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Blackhat trainging

Greg — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:56:27 GMT

Has anybody here taken any of the backhat training. I will be at the event coming up in July at Las Vegas, but wanted to know if the training is worth my time. already tried the SANS training, but though I would give backhat a shot this year.

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Intruvert IDS

Greg — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:24:53 GMT

Has anybody here used this. I would like to hear some experiences with the manager and tuneing rules.

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Wargames

bstring — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:00:08 GMT

Remember how the awesome strength of the Slammer Worm ripped apart our global information infrastructure? Hospitals went off-line, cell phones didn't work, classified CIA documents were e-mailed to elementary schools, and our precious data streams were contaminated by enemy bits. Worst of all, a Canadian election was canceled. In the ensuing chaos, hackers stole 12,000 credit card numbers and sold the information to the Taliban so terrorists could order chemical weapons on eBay.

Of course, none of this happened. But you'd never know it from statements by departing cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke and the usual technology-challenged members of the media. Slammer was certainly inconvenient, taking some businesses and part of the Korean phone system off-line for several hours, but it was not the killer worm one might have expected from reading the headlines. In our current antiterrorist frenzy, the attack on Microsoft SQL servers came to embody everything we fear about so-called information warfare. Its global penetration of computer networks caught everyone off-guard and hinted at possible future devastation.

Brian McWilliams, a smarty-pants journalist from New Hampshire, satirized the national mood by sending out e-mails in which he pretended to be an Islamic terrorist who had launched the worm. He even fooled Dan Verton, a former U.S. marine intelligence analyst, into writing a big, splashy story about it for Computerworld magazine. Verton was so eager to swallow McWilliams's fake tale that he didn't even bother to check the headers on the e-mail he got from McWilliams – had he done so, he would have discovered it originated in North Carolina rather than Pakistan.

Most people, including policy makers, know so little about computers that they're tempted to associate the "black box" of a computer with the "black box" of terrorism. It's interesting to note that Sami al-Arian – one of the first U.S. residents arrested under suspicion of terrorist activities as a result of our newly relaxed domestic intelligence-gathering laws – happens to be a professor of computer science. Knowing something about computers makes you an extra-suspicious character. Just ask John Ashcroft, whose recently drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 contains a section about "the unlawful use of encryption." As Kevin Poulsen reports in SecurityFocus, Ashcroft wants to set up prison terms for anyone who "knowingly" encrypts any "incriminating communication" related to a federal crime they're committing.

OK, a federal crime is a federal crime – already illegal, already carrying the promise of a prison term with it. Why the additional punishment? It's part of the intelligence community's infatuation with identity profiling. If you've got a law implying that encrypted communication is what the bad guys use, then anyone who has the modicum of technical knowledge required to use PGP crypto on his or her e-mails could conceivably be placed under surveillance. Crypto users fit the "terrorist profile." You know, the same way people attending mosques fit the terrorist profile – which might be why Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert Mueller has directed field agents to start counting local mosques and worshipers. Allah help you if you try to send encrypted data from your mosque's computers!

It's funny how we mistrust technology and computer know-how and at the same time worship it. Who at the Department of Defense doesn't love the sleek, curvy Predator, an unmanned (i.e., largely computer-run) surveillance plane that can deploy Hellfire antitank missiles? And who at the DOD doesn't secretly hope databases will deliver us from terror? While Congress is happily stomping all over John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness data-dredging plan, President George W. Bush is nevertheless pushing for a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, whose mission would be like TIA's: to data-mine global information systems for early warnings of terrorist activity. While some techies will be detained for using crypto, other techies will secure the nation.

This would be a good time to remember that one of the first geek hero movies was also an antiwar movie. WarGames (1983) is a weirdly anti-Reaganite film about how a plucky little hacker named David teaches the military-industrial complex that War Is Bad. We begin with David hacking into an automated nuclear weapons deployment system, which he mistakes for a cool video game. When he starts playing, David discovers that (gasp!) the game is real! The plot is your typical hacker-meets-secure system scenario, with one twist. David doesn't save the world. The computer stops the impending nuclear disaster: After playing thousands of simulations, it determines that nobody can win a nuclear war and shuts down. In WarGames a computer learns what the nation's human cold warriors could not: that we shouldn't engage in war, because everyone will die. And that would be bad.

This is a pretty cheerful viewpoint when you consider all of the ways in which our current government is simultaneously demonizing and deploying technology in the service of war. It makes me wonder if humans secretly hope their machines will take over and create perpetual peace. Or perhaps, more pessimistically, we'd rather have machines take responsibility for what we're doing to ourselves.

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Jumping on a switch

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:50:45 GMT

Has anyone experimented at all with using packet crafting to alter the layer 2 encapsulation on a packet to jump firewalls or ACLs? It would seem that if some of the network discovery tools (fast spanning tree, VLAN trunking negotiation,) could be simulated, and run through possible scripted tag guessing, it might be possible to 1) discover an enormous amount of enterprise network topology from one network switch, and 2) create the possibility of using tag changes to hop networks inside the switch bypassing external security devices and sensors? As I recall, one of the encaps, .Q or ISL, uses encryption in the frame, though I forget which (it a bald thing.)

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Orkut exploit?

bstring — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:13:28 GMT

I just learned a cool new trick on orkut. Apparently if you compose a message to either friend of friends or to a community you get a list of everyones email address more about this can be read about at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/01/insecurity_at_o.html
anyone have any thoughts on this?
B-$tring

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European Hackers on NPR

shadowvex — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:33:21 GMT

They are doing some show today at 3PM PST (I know not much notice..) on Romainian hackers....

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Old Worms

bstring — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:12:56 GMT

Microsoft Windows Vulnerability Being Exploited Right Now
author: pdxtech
Important message to windows users about a vulnerability that is current;y allowing windows machines to be compromised.
As this is being posted attacks are being run against networks to find machines that are vulnerable to an exploit that was announced about a month ago. If you notice any strangeness, particularly if you get a message that your machine is restarting than your machine has been compromised. Note, any firewall should prevent this exploit, as will having applied the critical updates via windows update. Take this as a recomendation to patch your system and install a firewall. I want to post this because I've already heard of home systems being compromised.

For more information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980
http://sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/8205.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100547.htm

Removal instructions for compromised computers:
1) As an administrator, kill any instances of "msblast.exe" that may be running.
2) Delete %SystemRoot%\System32\msblast.exe (%SystemRoot% is your C:\WINNT or C:\WINDOWS directory)
3) In the registry, check the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" for an entry called "windows auto update" set to "msblast.exe". Delete ONLY the entry containing "msblast.exe".
4) Patch IMMEDIATELY.

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Anon Email

bstring — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:08:22 GMT

Weekly Anonymity Communique #1: How to have a secure email relationship.
author: clamydia
This is an article that details a step-by-step process toward starting a pretty secure online corespondence with another entity. The steps detailed in this tutorial rely upon having some sort of secure conversation with the entity beforehand, such as meeting in person or talking over anonymous email. Instructions preceded with an asterisk (*) and which are underlined are not necessarily necessary, depending on the level of observation/surveilance you believe you may be experiencing.
Get a phonebook. Look up the locations of all the cyber cafes in your city. *Call them all from a random payphones that are not in your neighborhood. Ask them if they allow cash payments for anonymous access (meaning: can I pay you in cash and you don't ask me for my ID or anything like that...). Highlight the ones that are cool. Pick one at random and go there. Bring a floppy or blank cd (most cyber cafe computers have cd burners nowadays, but the programs you need to download are pretty small; I think they might fit on a floppy).
Once you are online, go to www.yahoo.com and start up a new account. Obviously, you don't want to give them any real information about yourself. In case they have a filter for bogus zipcodes, you can go to http://www.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.htm to find out the zipcode for whatever bogus city you entered in. --Note: the reason I chose yahoo is that I know from experience that they do not require you to have a previously existing email account to start a new username. Some email prviders do (and then they send your new username/password to the email you provide), and this could theoretically lead back to you if the preexisting email address you give them has your info associated with it.-- This new account is your relatively anonymous doorway to sending email.

Now you are ready to send an email. First use your encryption software to encode your message (make sure you use your friend's public key!!). Save your encrypted message into a text file. Use a nifty program like S-Tools to embed this new text file into a bmp or gif image, or perhaps a wave file. Save the new file it creates as whatever (just don't name it something like "secret_file.bmp"). Send it as an attatchment in an email to your friend, putting something like "funny image" in the subject line and something like "this is fucking hilarious" in the body of the message. Of course, this is only if the image file is actually a funny image. I think you get the point; you want the subject line and body to relate to whatever the pic or audio file is, so that the whole thing looks like normal, boring corespondence.

About Encryption
Here is info on steganography and various programs that will do it for you. The S-Tools link on this site is down, but below is a place where you can download it.
Click here to get S-Tools. Download the latest version (the one with the largest version number in the filename)

This scheme will not work unless your friend has encryption software and S-Tools to extract the message from the image file, so obviously, you need to talk to your friend before doing any of this. Another thing you can add to this scheme would be to use anonymous remailers to send your message, thereby making it hard to even track it from the yahoo server to the recipient. Also, you want to go to a different cybercafe every time, picking them at random. Don't use library or university computers, because they require a library card or student id card for access, and these trace back to you.

Another reason for using yahoo mail that is not immediately apparent is that since the outgoing traffic from yahoo's mail server is so intense, it would be difficult for anyone to indiscriminately filter outgoing SMTP packets and stumble across yours. If anyone is filtering outgoing packets from yahoo, then they are probably only looking at emails that contain keywords like "bomb" or "i wanna kill the president" or "i love allah" or "I don't like animal testing" or shit like that. And, if your friend has an anonymous yahoo account, then the email isn't even going to be sent over the internet (as far as I know); it is going to be sent internally amongst the yahoo servers, meaning that the chances of someone filtering those packets is considerably lower (except for the fact that 'they' may be filtering packets sent from the cybercafe you are using). There can be safety in numbers, if you play your cards right. If you add this to the fact that your email just looks like "innocent" corespondence from one friend to another on the surface, you end up with a pretty powerful method for securing your conversation. Another plus is that yahoo accounts are easy to set up, which makes them disposable. When you've used one for awhile, and you want to get rid of it, just delete everything in every folder, then subscribe that address to a bunch of newsletters and spam sites, let the inbox fill up with spam beyond its storage quota, and then cancel it and start a new account. It seems to me that yahoo is likely to completely delete the data in an cancelled, over-quota account, simply because they don't want to waste their server's hd space with a bunch of spam mail from a cancelled account. Even if they don't, anyone going through it afterwards is going to have a whole lot of spam to sort through...

This tutorial is not meant to be the end-all-be-all to online security. I'm just trying to get peoples' brain juices flowing. This article is meant as an example of a method to doing stuff without being noticed, and you can certainly use this scheme, but there are a plethora of ways to be anonymous on the internet. Maybe you are thinking, "well I have nothing to hide, so I won't worry about it". Well, maybe you don't have anything to hide, but the fact is that the more people there are who encrypt and hide their messages and use anonymous emails, the larger that anonymous pool is going to be, and the harder it is going to be for unscrupulous people to sort through it all and spy on the people who do have somthing to hide. Don't just encrypt your stuff for your own sake, do it for the sake of everyone else out there.

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New Tribe!

bstring — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 23:15:05 GMT

join the http://petershipley.tribe.net/ to get the lastest updates on shipley sightings!

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Power Chart

bstring — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:26:04 GMT

Q: How much does it cost to run a computer 24/7?
A: Cost of 24/7 on a home PC.

Part 1

There has been much discussion about this very topic and there are many who give their opinion, however there is nowhere that gives the facts for potential users to read this information which they can then show to those who may complain about the use of Electricity.

Lets start by explaining the simple principles of Electricity and the power consumed.

As we all know, electrical circuits consume power (va), one Watt of Electricity is also 1va. Calculating the voltage in a circuit and multiply it by the current used arrives at
this figure.

Example 1:

Circuit A has a supply rated at 12V (Vn) and measurement shows it draws some 4.5A (In) from the supply. To determine the power rating of the circuit you simply multiply
the Voltage by the Current thus..

P = Vn * In = 12 * 4.5 = 54 watts or 54va

Now we understand that, there is one important point to make at this stage. If you alter the Voltage, you will also alter the current drawn from the circuit, however the power will remain the same at 54va.

Example 2:

P = Vn * In = 200 * 0.27 = 54 watts or 54 va.

If you are wondering about the 0.27, then that is the current drawn from the circuit. As I said, the power must remain constant for the circuit, so by increasing the voltage
you are reducing the load taken from the circuit.

If you have any doubts about this then do the calculation in reverse.

Example 3:

In = P / V = 0.27A

Part 2:

Now we have the basics out of the way, lets go on to the important part of cost.

Lets assume you turn your monitor off manually when not in use, so we can just concern ourselves with the actual computer itself.

Please bear in mind these are rough figures with regards power used and only as an example. The maths are correct, but the power used by each users machine will depend on the hardware and the setup of the machine.

Your computer has a 300W (300Va) PSU and runs at 120V, therefore it will draw some 2.5A from the supply

Remember Examples 2 and 3 above.

300 / 120 = 2.5 where

300 is the maximum power of the PSU
120 is your supply Voltage.

There are things inherent in all electrical circuits that have a bearing on the actual power used and these are called losses. They occur due to electrical circuits being far from perfect and take the many forms. The average PSU in a computer will operate at about 80% efficiency due to the nature of the circuits employed. This means that for the PSU to deliver 300W (va) as rated then it will actually draw about 375W (375va).

Now we have that information, we can begin to look at a more accurate cost running calculation.

Whilst we know that your Computer will not run at full PSU load, if ever, we will use the full load to give the MAXIMUM cost that should be seen to any user.

Your PSU, as we have shown above, uses 375W (va) of electrical energy from the supply. Therefore to do the cost calculation is rather simple.

Example 4:

Power used at maximum (Pmax) = 375va

So now calculate the total power used in 24 hours,

P(max) * 24hrs = 375 * 24 = 9000va or 9000W (9Kva or 9Kw)

If you pay, for example, 10 cents for each unit of electricity, then your cost of running the machine is :

9 * 10 = 90c per day

If you wish to know the monthly cost, then calculate as follows:

90 * 7 * 4.3 = 2709c or $27.09 per Calendar month.

The 4.3 in the above equation is the multiplier required to calculate any figure on a calendar month basis.

Now we all know that electricity costs vary across the nation and from supplier to supplier. If you have a look at your last bill, you should see the unit cost of electricity clearly indicated on there. This is the figure you need to use to calculate the approximate cost of running a PC 24/7 for a month.

Some of the information at the top of this in Part 1 may seem a little irrelevant to the cost calculation, however that is information that you can use to calculate all sorts of
costings if you know the rating of various pieces of equipment.

Part 3. Estimates:

The following are based on the following figures.

That all of the PSU's run at 80% efficiency, about average, and that each Kw/h of electricity will cost $0.06c per Kw/h.

Please note that you will need to adjust the calculation for your given tarrif of costs from your electricity supplier. This information will be available on your electricity bill.

235w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 293w

In one calendar month this would consume 211.6632 Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $12.70

300w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 375w

In one calendar month this would consume 270.90 Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $16.25

350w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 437.5w

In one calendar month this would consume 316.050Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $18.96

400w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 500w

In one calendar month this would consume 361.20Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $21.67

450w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 562.5w

In one calendar month this would consume 406.35Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $24.38

500w PSU

Assumed maximum demand due to losses. 625w

In one calendar month this would consume 451.50Kw/h

at a cost of 0.06c per Kw/h, the maximum cost is $27.09

As you can see the costs escalate incrementally as you would expect. These costs do not include the cost of running a monitor, however as this is not on 24 hours a day these costs are minimal, a few extra dollars a month. The figures quoted above are only if the machine is running at maximum potential load at all times. In most cases the machine will probably consume only about 50% of the estimated maximum and thus cost, however this will vary due to hardware differences and usage. The maximum you can use is listed above and is accurate for consumed power, actual cost will vary with supplier costs per Kw/h.

Hope this is of help to those whose spouses, partners or parents are concerned about the cost of allowing a machine to run 24/7.

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Defcon is going the way of 2600

bstring — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:13:14 GMT

and both of those are dead or dying.

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Ghent passing away 4 pm PST Sunday the 26th

peter_shipley — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:43:09 GMT

Announcement passed on from Priest:

It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you
of the passing of a very dear friend and brother.

Ghent aka Branden Hancock died of injuries
sustained in a motorcycle accident.

At approximately 4 pm PST Sunday the 26th on the
way back down to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara
and in the company of two good friends, Hollywood
and War God, he entered into a turn on a local
highway and drifted into the dirt turn off at the
side of the road. He attempted to break and bank
back onto the road but was unable to bleed off
enough speed to prevent a loss of control that
ended with the bike and himself going off the
road and over the embankment. He fell twenty feet
and landed face down on several large bolders.
When Hollywood and War God reached him he was not
breathing and had no pulse. CPR was performed for
25 minutes by both Hollywood and EMS personnel.
At that point EMS declared him dead at the scene.
At this time the actual cause of death is not
known but it is believed based on the trauma
observed that death was instant and that he did
not suffer.

He is survived by his mother and younger sister.

Ghent was 26 years old.

At present the family is still working out the
details and a subsequent message will follow
regarding services. I am acting as the point of
contact and will pass any messages to the family
on and will answer any questions I can. Please do
not contact the family directly.

Ghent passed with friends and doing something he
loved.

Priest

----

Ghent will be laid to rest Monday Nov 3, at 2pm.
All are welcome.

It will be held at :
Luyben Family Mortuary
5161 Arbor Rd
Long Beach CA 90808
562-425-6401

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Mobile Phone Surveillance

Schadowe — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:26:52 GMT

Is there a device to monitor conversations off of a cell phone covertly?

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Thermal Camera

bstring — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 05:21:25 GMT

I want one... where can a civilian get one.

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