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This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just FYI, you need very little skill to clone the WiFi access gateway of a hotel WiFi, and then blast their SSID from your router, to lure close guests into your honeypot. Once people are on your malicious gateway, the fun starts.

In a hotel with hundreds of hackers on alcohol, it's not unlikely for people to fuck around.

There is also no requirement to be a "good guy" to attend the conference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is also no requirement to be a "good guy" to attend the conference.

Correct. But it's kind of the inevitable outcome that only "good guys" attend. Why would any bad actor go there and risk being exposed / caught...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Defcon is a useful resource for networking and learning. It being run by and for good guys doesn't mean bad guys don't find the event useful. The vague risk of "getting caught" is probably worth taking, regardless of whether that risk is tangible, especially if they follow proper security practices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In short, untreated mental illness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully that would get flagged. If you start broadcasting that will show up under rouge ap detection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Right. And then they locate it and search the rooms nearby. Exactly what their disclaimer is about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Isn't also a game at defcon to spread a harmless package to as many devices as possible?