Defcon 18 Badge Hack

So, once again at Defcon 18 I joined up with my friends from Optimized Tomfoolery to hack the badge. And hack we did! Kingpin has a (not so safe for work) video of our demonstration at the official judging in the Hardware Hacking Village. You can see my Defcon forum avatar badge, my ever present Toughbook, and I’m wearing a t-shirt from the unofficial...

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Defcon 17 Badge Hack

Defcon 17 Badge Hack

At Defcon 17 I competed with some friends in the badge hack contest. Friends had a home built Geiger counter,shown here with a hacked EFF “cat looks at butt” sticker. We interfaced it to the badge along with a wireless link and developed firmware that would allow the Geiger counter badge to send truly random bits to a PC for cryptographically secure...

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