Re: DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked!

["Basan" <basan () gmx us>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: -= Glowing Sex =-
> Sent: 08/10/11 10:56 AM
> To: coderman
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] DEF CON 19 - hackers get hacked!
> times are a changing... but, i see now what tyou mean... still, i just dont
> know why people even INSTALL or, accept anything at a defcon meeting, ofc
> someone will try to make some name, mining for data, is stealing an id
> nowdays, so there would be GREat potential for one device, to connect to
> some network, and rescan for other weak/known exploits... then you have an
> army :)

To my knowledge, I was watching people's devices getting popped with little to no interaction by their part. If memory 
serves me correctly maybe someone did an apt-get update on their machine, but outside of that just the usual browsing 
and remote work.

> but, intersting about 4G... i have not yet to see that haxd so, 1 point for
> that but, thats prolly coz ui aint really been looking at that side of it

It was impressive. Essentially if you had a device on and near the Rio during (and for some time after) DEF CON, you 
had a high chance of being compromised.

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Basan - Your friendly fire-breathing chicken monster

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