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black hat / defcon parties 2009

in the interest of not biting the hand that feeds (or waters…) us, i’ve reduced the list to a simple listing of the available parties on a given night, unless it’s been cleared with the party host. note that most (if not all) of them are private, and you will need to be on the list / know the secret handshake to get in.

tuesday (07/28/2009)

  • Speaker Party

wednesday (07/29/2009)

thursday (07/30/2009)

  • Securosis/Threatpost Disaster Recovery Breakfast
  • Syngress Tweetup
  • Core Security
  • SecurityTwits
  • Microsoft
  • Security B-Sides
  • McAfee
  • NetWitness

friday (07/31/2009)

  • AR

saturday (08/01/2009)

  • I-Hacked / PaulDotCom
  • EdgeOS

shoot me a message @jcran if you’ve got something to add to the list.

Courvoisier

Defcon MBTA Madness!

Wow, the MBTA is in deep shit. If you haven’t heard about this, 3 kids from MIT did some analysis on the MBTA fare system and found out how bad it actually is. We’ve (jabra + quine + myself) debated whether the card is actually storing $$ value, and it turns out it is. Check out this VA report published by Wired and the corresponding article. So now they’ve been issued a restraining order, and weren’t allowed to talk at Defcon. Here’s hoping they get off of this, as it has ramifications for security research:

Marcia Hoffman of the EFF (Stolen from Wired):

“Basically, what the court is suggesting here is that giving a presentation involving security to other security researchers is a violation of federal law,” she said. “As far as I know, this is completely unprecedented, and it has a tremendous chilling effect on sharing this sort of research. . . . And we intend to fight it with everything we’ve got.”

I’ll post more info on the highlights from BlackHat / Defcon soon.

/me heads off to buy an RFID cloner + pay EFF dues.