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- Hir 8
- By Asmodian X
-
- DefCon 7.0: Preparation for the Annual Exodus
-
- <summary>
-
- DefCon 6.0 Was held in Las Vegas Nevada august of 1998. A few
- months earlier, my self Axon and Frogman had planed to come. Axon and
- Frogman had actually done more planning than I did at that point. I was
- however still early enough to reserve a room and procure a cheap direct
- plane to Las Vegas Nevada with days to spare. As I always say, "Never
- Underestimate the power of the last minute."
-
- <Objectives>
-
- As always, it could have gone smoother. I should have came in
- closer to the actual days of the conference. I also should have prepared
- better for the events. Not to mention for room-mates, food ..etc....
- At DefCon 7.0 I plan to be better equip for the main event, and
- to compensate for problems that may arise.
-
- <Information on con>
-
- DEF CON 7.0 will be July 9-11th, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada USA.
- The con will be held at the Alexis Park Hotel and Resort. Updates on the
- progress of the con will be posted at http://www.defcon.org. As always,
- The early bird gets the worm.
-
- <Steps Taken>
-
- Some of the problems I ran into were purely biological. When some
- ones diet changes, some times gastro-intestinal problems arise. Im
- deffinitly bringing some Pepto with me. Also, I don't care how cheap the
- food is, buy grocerys. It is also very dry down there, and very hot. <Duh
- its kinda in the middle of a desert dude> When you go for a walk, drink
- often, and drink water, not beer.
- Another issue was maneuvering around the city. Fortunately Axon and
- company had driven and I could bum a ride off of them. But Taxi's are not
- cheap, consider going to get supply's en masse.
- In the way of cash, Don't use credit, just don't, use cash sparingly
- , travelers cheqs are a safe bet. You usually need 40$ just for the con. Id
- keep 15$ a day for food, keep 50$ for emergency travel cash, 60$ spending
- cash is another one. Bring about 195$ in cash < maybe 40$ in cash and the
- rest in trailers cheqs> The rooms will cost about 79$ per night possibly
- 250ish after taxes. Then a person can get air fare for around 180ish,
- depending on location. For the cheapest fare, check out www.cheapfare.com
- to get quotes and even buy the ticket online. In the way of cash, Pull
- together 600 bucks.
- In the way of a computer system to bring, Im hauling the new and
- improved AEGIS.ORG. A 486SX 33 laptop with a 200 Mb HD 20 Mb of ram with
- an external cdrom, zip drive and of course all of the PCMCIA fixins. <ie.
- NIC card ...etc> This Year AEGIS will hopefully join both Axons and
- Frogmans Laptops. We will attempt to do a firewall with the laptops under
- one IP address and if there is an attack on the Firewall system, we will
- just INIT into a new configuration where each laptop has its own IP on the
- hacker subnet in the Capture the flag contest. (Divide and conquer) <the
- contest costs 2$ to enter and get an IP> I will attempt to master a few
- cd's with enough pre-compiled hacks and scripts, not to mention tools,
- toys and utility's to be able to whoop some major arse. This next
- conference we will also utilize the secured shell for checking e-mail.
- I also Was concerned about leaving my equipment out un-attended
- whilst I check out a speaker or two. I suppose If we set up a kind of
- storage locker for holding the equipment whilst we are away that would
- solve that problem. It would have to be either collapse-able or something
- that could be carried onto the airplane as carry on luggage..
-
- <conclusion>
-
- Hopefully with more planning we will be able to actually
- utilize our time better so that we can get more out of the con. And
- perhaps tack down a few servers while were at it :)
-
- (eof)
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