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Computer underground Digest Tue Feb 7, 1995 Volume 7 : Issue 10
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ISSN 1004-042X
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Editors: Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.BITNET)
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Archivist: Brendan Kehoe
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Retiring Shadow Archivist: Stanton McCandlish
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Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth
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Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala
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Ian Dickinson
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Copy Icecreamer: B. Robbins
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CONTENTS, #7.10 (Tue, Feb 7, 1995)
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File 1--HoHoCon '94 Report (reprint)
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File 2--ANNOUNCE: DEFCON ]I[ INFO (fwd)
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File 3--Cu Digest Header Information (unchanged since 25 Nov 1994)
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CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION APPEARS IN
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 06:54:20 -0500
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From: grayarea@NETAXS.COM
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Subject: File 1--HoHoCon '94 Report (reprint)
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phile cdci212.01
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HoHoCon '94
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December 29, 1994 - January 2, 1995
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Ramada Inn South, Austin, TX
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A Review, released to the Net on 1/25/95
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By Netta "grayarea" Gilboa
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I flew to Austin, TX after spending Christmas with some hacker
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friends. I arrived a day early, unsure if the Con was gonna come off
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and how many people would show if it did. HoHoCon had almost been
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cancelled this year after someone called the original hotel and said a
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bunch of mean, evil hackers were gonna descend on the hotel and that
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several federal agencies would be sending feds there to monitor it. If
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you ask me, some kid's mom said he couldn't go so he decided to try to
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make sure none of us could either. Lame. It also taught me that
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everyone in this community has enemies. Maybe someone just doesn't
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like Drunkfux. Supposedly, right after this phone call the hotel got
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another, this time from Dateline NBC who wanted permission to film the
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Con. Rumor had it the hotel panicked and cancelled. The truth is that
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a regular client of theirs offered to pay higher room rates and the
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hotel stood to make over $20,000 extra by getting rid of us and having
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them there instead. So they used the phone calls as an excuse. I can
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only imagine the hassles Drunkfux went through to find another hotel
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that was empty on New Year's Eve weekend.
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But Drunkfux came through with flying colors and when I got to the
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hotel they told me other people had started to arrive. They gave me a
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list of these people to look at, complete with their real names and
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room numbers. It's possible they would even have xeroxed the list if I
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had asked them to. Uncool. Even more uncool, almost shocking, was that
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the hotel had a clipboard on the counter with people's real names,
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assigned room number and credit card number complete with expiration
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date. It was listed in alphabetical order and I was on the top page in
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the third spot. I freaked. I told the woman behind the counter that
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she must move the clipboard as some of the people coming specialized
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in attacking people's credit and that I would surely be a target given
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my position on the list and my all too well-known real name. She said
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okay but when I returned my luggage cart, some twenty minutes later,
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it was still on the counter. I told her again, nastier this time, to
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move it. An hour later she still had not. I then asked to use a phone
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and was told there was one in my room and another down the hall. I
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explained that I wanted to call right from the counter to cancel my
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credit card and to call the national offices of Ramada Inns to have
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her fired. In a nasty tone she told me she'd move the clipboard. She
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did. However, the next day they threw the pages in the trash and, of
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course, had the clipboard on the counter again with a new list of the
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people due to check in that day. I argued with them again and they
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moved it. A few hours later (surprise!) their trash was invaded and
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they went out and bought two paper shredders. This was a good
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investment on their part although it's a shame it took us to teach
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them that. If you intend to stay at a Ramada Inn anywhere in the U.S.,
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I would strongly advise you not to prepay with a credit card. They
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can't be trusted with your data. We invite readers who may have
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experienced credit card fraud after staying at Ramada Inns (or other
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hotels) to contact us. It was a sobering lesson in how vulnerable the
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average person is in society.
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I had plans to hook up with Stormbringer and Holy Spirit, two virus
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writers I love talking to. Stormbringer had recently retired from virus
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writing after hearing from someone in Singapore who got infected with
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one of his non-malicious viruses. I had read his retirement text file and
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was anxious to talk to him about it. He assured me on the phone all was well
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and they agreed to meet me at Mr. Wasabi for sushi and I ate more sushi
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than I ever had before in one sitting. Then we walked to a coffee house
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and they drove me back to my hotel around 1 a.m.
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I was invited to Novocain and Particle's room so I headed up there and
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ran into Veggie, Onkel Ditmeyer, Count Zero, Buckaroo, etc. Onkel showed
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me his way cool laptop and I finally got to see what an IBM demo looks
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like. These are programs which demonstrate the sound and graphics
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capabilities of a computer. He copied a few of them on a disk for me along
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with some electronic magazines I had never seen. Onkel is the author of a
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well known phreaking program called Bluebeep. We spoke a lot over the
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weekend and I found him brilliant, honest, charming and not afraid of
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girls who know way less than him. He was one of the coolest people at
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HoHoCon this year.
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At 6 a.m. a few of us went downstairs for free breakfast and the
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conversation turned to the various women who hang out on #hack. There
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was some dissing of one girl who has slept her way around the scene and
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in the past had given a number of hackers herpes without telling them
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first. Eeks. I tried to get out of the guys I was eating with what she
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had that I didn't (besides herpes). I message most of her old lovers on
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IRC but none has ever made a pass at me. We talked about the other girls
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on IRC, who has slept with whom, and how they got treated afterwards. We
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talked about why people might have slept with those particular girls at
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the time they did and I suddenly felt both very lucky and better about
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myself that the one hacker I had slept with was a decent choice. Quality
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might beat quantity. To know for sure, I guess I'd have to ask the girls
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<wink>.
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We picked up a bunch of food that was apparently not included in our
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free breakfast coupon. The waitress didn't know how to handle it and
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neither did we. I offered to put the food back and she finally agreed to
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let us eat it. I suggested they put up a sign to warn others and, of
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course, they didn't. Later I heard they let us all eat the bacon and other
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food for the rest of the Con. I never made it back down there again even
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though for American food it was pretty good. I was pretty tired and so
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headed off to sleep when we were done chowing down.
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I woke up Friday afternoon when Particle and Novocain knocked on the
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door. They had a car and took me to a chinese restaurant nearby with a
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killer buffet. When we got back there were many people in the lobby
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listening to a tape of prank phone calls made by Phone Losers of America.
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I wanted the tape bad as it seemed highly appropriate for us to review.
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I was promised a copy which materialized in under an hour. W0rd! For all
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the shit I take for it, there are advantages to being press.
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I felt pretty comfortable with all of the people I was talking to and
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since my room was very close to the lobby I invited everyone there and
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even left the door open for others to enter my room (which almost
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everyone who passed by did). It was kind of odd where they had situated
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me. You could watch my door from the counter where people checked in. I
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had asked for a smoking room but got dealt non-smoking instead. I
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inquired about changing it and was told some crap about all the rooms
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being accounted for already. It crossed my mind at the time that maybe
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some feds had purposely put me there but I discounted my gut feeling and
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remembered most hackers thought I was too paranoid about things. I told
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people to go ahead and smoke in my room with no ashtray. They did. All
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told about 15 people were in there and one of them pulled out a toy
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to show me. It was a box that hooked up to your telephone which allowed
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you to change your voice into that of a male, female or child. I had seen
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these boxes before in catalogs. They sure work great! I made two calls
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with it, one to a friend and one to my ex-husband. I snickered at how
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surprised they'd be when they heard my message and later regretted not
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telling either or them to save it so I could hear it back. Honestly,
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playing with this legal box was every bit as cool as great drugs or sex.
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I vowed to buy one. Watch out!
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Talk turned to dinner and people started to leave my room. Particle was
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the last one out and he showed me something about how the hotel room locks
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worked. Hackers spend hours trying to figure out how things work and
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although I had little interest in the subject it was clear Particle was
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struck by the techonology and not the idea of breaking into someone's
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room. I started to organize people who were willing to eat sushi. Just as
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we were about to leave Particle and Novocain were gathering everyone into
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a room to tell people to chill their behavior. It later turned out that
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Particle had played with another lock after I made him stop touching
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mine. He had the misfortune to be seen by a member of the Austin Police
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Department who wisely agreed not to arrest him in exchange for Particle's
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agreeing to talk to people in an attempt to curtail the usual HoHoCon
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hotel destruction. I should have attended this talk although I had no
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idea at the time why it was being organized. But I was starving and
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the people I took to eat sushi were not those who would consider trashing
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a hotel. Laughing Gas, Thumper27, Slyme, El_Jefe and I checked out Kyoto
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sushi which was good but expensive for what you got. I spent part of dinner
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wiping the free space on the hard drive on my laptop. I had never used
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this feature before, but had been told about it at the con and it sounded
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like something I should start doing regularly to protect other people's
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privacy so that erased E-mail and articles were truly erased. It was a
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good thing I had sushi to eat to keep me busy as it took a good twenty
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minutes to do on a Pentium laptop with a 500+ meg hard drive.
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When we got back to the hotel I ran into Drunkfux who had cut his
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hair and dyed it bright red. I hardly recognized him but it looked great.
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It was clear by the police presence in the lobby that the Con had
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officially started. We were told that signs hung on room doors (I had
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put up a copy of one of the magazine covers with a small piece of scotch
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tape) would be taken down. This made it much harder for us to find each
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other (I'd estimate we had 90% of the hotel's rooms) but so it goes.
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Some people were told specifically that they could not use their modems
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and for hours on Friday night the phone lines were so busy with modem
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usage that there was no way to make an outgoing call or to receive an
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expected incoming one. All sorts of security guards appeared. The ones
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I spoke with were police officers too. I'd guess there were 1-3 dozen
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around at all times and apparently hotel personnel were told they were
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all on duty until we left and none of them were able to go home for the
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rest of the weekend. I wish I could say this was utterly unwarranted.
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But some lamer broke the lock on the door to the hotel's phone system.
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And remember that another person had trashed the hotel's garbage and
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must have made a mess or been spotted.
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The hot party that night was in Erik Bloodaxe's room. Loki, Ice-9
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and Ophie were staying with him and Loki was in charge of the door.
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He made sure to keep me out just as he does when he acts like a bully
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on IRC. I knew in my heart it was Loki's doing not ErikB's, but that
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didn't stop me from getting majorly upset about it anyway. I went
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downstairs to be alone and Particle knocked on the door a few minutes
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later. I gave him a piece of my mind and then some about how shitty
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some of those in the computer underground are. I went on for at least
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an hour and drew great comfort from the fact Particle thought I was not
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crazy and that things are as awful as they seem sometimes. Finally
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he told me that since I kept claiming to love hackers despite all of the
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grief, there were dozens of nice ones out there who would be thrilled to
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talk to me if I'd only leave my room and go try to have a good time. W0rd.
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I took his advice and had a good time in the lobby with the other rejects
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from Bloodaxe's party. The conversation was so good it was hard to tear
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away to go to sleep. I went to my room at 4:30 a.m., got under the covers,
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thought about sleep for 10 seconds. Then I pulled out my laptop and wrote
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a speech to deliver to the crowd the next day.
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The two people I had counted on to wake me up didn't show and it was a
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stroke of luck that made me jump up at 9:45. The speeches were supposed to
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start at 10 a.m. and even though they surely wouldn't start till later I
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was selling magazines and was due there pronto to claim my table. It took a
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luggage cart to get all those magazines downstairs. I shudder to think what
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my life will be like when I have 30 issues to lug around instead of six.
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The folks from Fringeware were selling books and T-shirts and someone else
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had old Atari game units and cartridges. People came by to say hi and to
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buy magazines. I plugged my speech and told people not to dare miss it.
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It was impressive that Drunkfux had gotten so many original speakers
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on such short notice. They mostly said what the crowd wanted to hear and
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shared thoughts on digital cash, the regulation of the Internet, recent
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laws, etc. Damien Thorn showed a video clip to the tune of the current
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rock hit "21st Century Digital Boy" which had cellular phones, scanners,
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etc. in it. It's part of an upcoming video that looked awesome. Veggie
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talked about dealing with the media after an old text file of his was
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used to harass a BBS sysop who got more than twice Phiber's jail sentence
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just for having a file around.
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Someone sent Erik Bloodaxe to talk to me as part of my speech referred
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to him. It was an uncomfortable talk and I was probably correct in feeling
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that half the room was watching us and not whoever was speaking. I told
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him he could pay me back in print or elsewhere but that I was going to
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go ahead with what I planned to say and he surprised me by saying that
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what I had written was fine and he even added to it. He also told me
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that Loki had gotten too drunk and had been a pain in the ass to room
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with the night before. He assured me that although way too many people
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had been in his room, and way too many had tried to get in after it was
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full, it had not been his intention to keep me out. I felt bad that I
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even cared, and that he knew I cared, and that he and I even had to
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discuss it. I was unhapy that he had no intention of staying to hear my
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speech or the fight with Loki that he knew was coming but didn't
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mention to me. We left things with the fact that we'd go out for dinner
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or something the next night with Ophie (who also had an early flight)
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after the bulk of the Con was over. It occured to me then it would never
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happen because plans are hard to keep at Cons but I mentioned it in my
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speech anyway.
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My speech went over very well. It was about what's been going on at
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Gray Areas since I spoke at HoHoCon last year. It was also about the
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behavior of certain elements of the community and how that behavior has
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affected me. And it was a stern warning about some busts that are coming
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down. I know a few people got the message. I could tell from the gasps
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and laughter at key points. But perhaps the highlight of the speech was
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the confrontation between Loki and I when he chose to bully me before
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anyone else could ask a question. I answered his accusations and managed
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to do a decent job even with no warning. Whatever he hoped to accomplish
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clearly wasn't working and from somewhere deep inside of me I found the
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courage to ask the entire room to vote on whether or not they really
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never wanted to see me on #hack again. The only vote opposed in a room of
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about 250-300 people was Loki's. Hours later I regretted not thinking to
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ask how many people never wanted to see Loki there again. Four people had
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come up to me and told me they would have voted him out. Loki left the
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room with his tail between his legs and ran to IRC. By the time I got on
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hours later word had spread a story that I picked a fight with him and
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he had won. The proof is in the videotape which will be available soon
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from Drunkfux. It's highly recommended for both friends and foes of mine.
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Drunkfux said demand for this portion of his footage was very high. I
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promised to give him better footage and an even better speech next year.
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Later Count Zero wrote this about my speech in Cult of the Dead Cow:
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"Grayarea gets up and begins to read off a pre-prepared speech on her
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laptop. Her speech is too quick for my alcohol-byproduct-sodden synapses
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to register accurately. I keep staring at her dress...bright tie-dye...
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mesmerizing...it's actually quite cool. Suddenly, Loki gets up in the
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audience and the accusations fly back and forth between them. You kicked
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me off IRC. You called my office at work. You are doing this, you are
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doing that. Both are getting into this verbal slugfest in a major way.
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I feel the bad karma in the room hanging heavy like blue-green cigar
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smoke. "Can't we all just get along??" I yell, but noone seems to hear
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me. I don't know who is right or wrong (it's probably somewhere in
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between...the truth's always gray, right?), so I don't hypothesize. All I
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do know is that I'd never want to piss off Grayarea...she's damn strong
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on her convictions and won't take shit from anyone. I think she'd look
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better up there wearing a big ol' leather jacket with studs...terminator
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style. "One tends to assume that people wearing tie-dye gear are quiet,
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meek, very soft spoken, non-confrontational types....it is a camoflage
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that suits her well," I think. Bahaha! I liked your comments, Count Zero.
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And I did hear you yell that.
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After the speeches I sold more magazines thanks to Loki who
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inadvertently made way more people interested in me. Bahahaha! Some of
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them said they liked or loved my dress, some of them hugged me and some
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of them signed up for subscriptions and gave me their data. I then
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headed off for dinner at yet another sushi restaurant. Laughing Gas
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and Slyme came again along with Mr. Spock who agreed to lose his sushi
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virginity to me and jokingly said that way he'd get mentioned in my
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review. I thought he was one of the three kewlest people I hung out with
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at the Con. I hope I get to spend more time with him at a Con in the
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future and I'd even be willing to go try his favorite type of food! The
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sushi place we picked was awesome. I was sorry I hadn't found it
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sooner. It's almost too bad HoHoCon will be in another city next year.
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I also wanna mention the elite, Jak_Flack, who drove us to the restaurant
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when cabs were scarce on New Year's Eve. He didn't want any sushi or
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any money. He even got lucky and gave a ride to people who probably
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would have done the same thing for him under the same circumstances.
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Thanks.
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After dinner I did what Drunkfux begged us not to do. I spent New
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Year's Eve on IRC. I messaged Mr. Spock, in fact, who was typing from
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the other side of the room. I also messaged some hackers I talk to all
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the time. Some were lonely and glad to see me. I thought a lot about
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loneliness. Some of us prefer to be with computers than people. Some of
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us can open up more easily to people on a computer. And some of us need
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computers around even when we're with other people. I was typing from an
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account at hohocon.org and there were several people in the room having
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fun with their "site" as X and Y tried repeatedly (and succeeded) to get
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root there. I had never seen root before from the position of the person
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protecting it. I should have paid way more attention but I got too caught
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up in having conversations. I should also have paid more attention to the
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people in the room with me. Loq and Fool were there and they seemed really
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kewl but I got too lost in IRC. Oh well, at least I wasn't hopelessly
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drunk. And I wasn't kicked or banned once. People were delicate with each
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other on IRC. They were often drunk, vulnerable and more likely to reveal
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things when conversing. Those who were on were more than willing to talk
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to anyone who showed up. People apparently intend to make public the
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hohocon.org logs. If they include IRC chats it would be very shallow. I
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will never again take the chance and IRC from a Con again. Although I have
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mostly come to terms with the fact that I am a semi-public figure and
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people will always want to see whatever I type on the Net, but it's not
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fair to expose the words of the people I messaged.
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I dragged myself off IRC about 4:30 a.m. and went downstairs to clean
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off one of the beds. Novocain and Particle had checked out of their room
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and were gonna stay in my room for one night. I was thrilled at the idea
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of having company. But when the bed was empty it looked tempting and I
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lay down for the 90 minutes till I was due to meet them at the breakfast
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buffet. Next thing I knew it was Sunday afternoon. Oops! I wondered where
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they had slept. Apparently they hadn't wanted to wake me so they slept
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in another room. I felt bad but at least their stuff had been safe which
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is all you really care about at a Con. SORRY! Next time, guys, wake me.
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I stumbled into the lobby and joined the conversations that were going
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on. A hotel employee asked if we'd mind moving to the conference room and
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we agreed. We figured the room was bugged just as the hotel phone lines
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had been. But we weren't talking about anything secret and a few of the
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hackers answered all of the questions asked by the cop/security guard who
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hung out for about half of the time we were in there. It was a very fun
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time there on the floor chatting with Voyager, Ophie, Onkel Ditmeyer, lgas,
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Deadkat, Drunkfux, etc. There were way more people but I'm drawing a blank
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on specifically who. I went upstairs to get more magazines and ran into
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Bruce Sterling. He was growing facial hair and looked great. He said he
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felt lousy which shows what I know. I hugged him before he said he felt
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lousy. We talked about the book he is working on. Then Ophie and I went
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off to be interviewed about female hackers and the treatment of women by
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hackers. It could have used Cori and Noelle but it made some good points.
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We came downstairs and I saw Drunkfux at work videotaping an interview
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with the guys from TNO in Colorado. This was priceless footage of them
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discussing how a group decides policies and handles politics and how they
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have applied political thought to hacking. I was sorry I had missed half
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of it and sorry I had spent so much time socializing with them that it
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had never occured to me I didn't know much about their group and I should
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have interviewed them too. I hope Drunkfux includes every word of their
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interview in the video.
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Ophie brought up the idea of photos and so I grabbed my camera.
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Everyone there got into it and I got a whole roll of film of people
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hugging and kissing me, looking at porn mags with Ophie and generally
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playing around somehow. They came out great. If you want yours passed
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around or published, let me know. Until then, they're private.
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Slyme and I headed back to Mr. Wasabi for dinner but to our surprise
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it was closed! New Year's day turned out to be a bad day to try to find
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places open to serve food. We should have stayed at the hotel. We finally
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ended up in a bar which served food, ordered hot chocolate and consoled
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ourselves on the lack of sushi. Back at the hotel a bunch of us went
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room hopping and tried to determine who was left. My flight was at 7 a.m.
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and I had no intention of going to sleep and taking a chance I would miss
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it. Several people had flights at 8 and 10 a.m. Others were staying on
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for 3 more days to get better airfare rates. I heard ErikB had left with
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Ophie and he told me later they had asked the hotel and had been told I
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checked out. One room we ended up in had a console copier running. I had
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heard about them but never seen one and was told it was okay if I
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photographed it. I went downstairs for my camera.
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I hadn't been alone once since arriving in Austin. While this wasn't
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always planned, the thought did occur to me that my room might be watched
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and that law enforcement might be interested in any of the many people
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I was seen talking to. I had mentioned a controversial interview we had
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coming up with ILF and although I thought I was being overly paranoid, I
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was still nervous I would be questioned about it. But it was 12:30 a.m.
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or so and I felt too silly asking for someone to run downstairs with me.
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So I went alone. But as I was closing the door and checking it was locked
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I saw someone head down the hall towards me and I knew instantly something
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was about to be up. Hackers are right when they say you can't fully
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understand this until you have lived it. He asked if I was Netta and I
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said yes and then he reached towards his pocket. I knew he was going for
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either a gun or a badge and there was nothing I could do about either.
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It turned out to be a badge and as he got close enough so that I could
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see it read "Austin Police Department" I thought to myself "Kewl, it's
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not the Secret Service." He asked me to accompany him to a room and,
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holding my camera, I did. He told the two "security guards" that we'd be
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leaving the door open. I had asked whether he was the guy who had
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called me last March and he said no that he was his partner. I wondered
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whether I was under investigation or whether they had no one else to ask
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for information or whether they just wanted to meet me after talking to
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me voice. It didn't occur to me to ask. I thought several times about the
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fact I was supposed to be out with Bloodaxe and Ophie and that if I had
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made it a point to leave with them this wouldn't be happening. I wondered
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who else APD had questioned who had not told anyone. I wondered if they had
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even questioned someone about me. I also feared people would come looking
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for me and see me in that room and think I was talking to the police
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voluntarily. That I had sought them out. God forbid they should think I
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was telling the police about the console copier.
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The whole thing only took about 8 minutes and the officer asked me
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nothing I had a problem answering. He treated me with respect and didn't
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press me to say anything I wasn't comfortable saying. I offered to give
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him some of my magazines at the end of the conversation and he walked me
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to my room and was clearly planning to wait outside. I invited him in and
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he watched me pull issues from three suitcases. It was apparent nothing
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illegal had gone on in my room. I'd lay odds it was the cleanest room
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there too. The day before, for example, my trash in the bathroom had
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been dumped at least three times. None were by me or when I was in the
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room. The only thing I couldn't answer, and it was simply from nerves,
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was what I had done on New Year's Eve. The answer came out that I didn't
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remember and since I stammered it, it must have looked like I had seen or
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done something I shouldn't have. But all I did was IRC and eat sushi and
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I do that so often I didn't even remember when asked. New Year's Eve had
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been almost like any other night.
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Anyway, I got the console copier photo (hint: I could use a detailed
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article on how they work to run with it). We then moved on to other rooms
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and I ran into Drunkfux and Damien Thorn. I did a long video interview
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with Drunkfux, who would have made an excellent journalist. He resisted
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the idea of asking me petty questions about who I like and don't like in
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the scene and who I'd sleep with if I could. I would have answered
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anything he asked in the spirit of the HoHoCon video tradition, but
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instead we got into more serious issues and people who think Drunkfux is
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shallow or a less-than-serious dude due to his IRC reputation will be most
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surprised.
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Then Damien did an equally long interview and Drunkfux got eleet footage
|
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of me closing my eyes when the talk got too technical. I did almost pass
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out as it was 3 a.m. or so and I felt really comfortable being with them
|
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but I snapped to attention just in the nick of time as Drunkfux had the
|
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camera aimed on me and Damien was making a joke. Damien took it in stride
|
|
but I think it was the first time anyone had ever had the chance to listen
|
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to his most eleet technical tips and was bored. I hope he knows I love him,
|
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like most hackers, for the person he is and not for the skills or trophies
|
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he has. I was transfixed as he told Drunkfux his beginnings in the computer
|
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underground and his views on laws, ethics, writing, etc. I just don't lust
|
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to know what model of phones he respects most or what gadget he's tested
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last. Luckily for you, Drunkfux did the interview, not me, and he did ask
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lots on that sort of stuff. After they were done Damien and I went out to
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some fast food burger joint. It was dirt cheap and tasted like cardboard.
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We had a great chat, as usual, and then went to the airport with Slyme who
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had slept the night away and missed everything. My flight was first and
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they walked me to the gate and made a fuss over me and it was the perfect
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ending.
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I can't believe I now have to wait till June (and go to Georgia, of
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all places) to see some of you again. Oh well. In the meantime, happy
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Valentine's Day to you and whoever you netsex and/or fantasize about.
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Happy April Fool's Day in advance too. Just prank someone else this year,
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okay? <grin>.
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(Sample issues of Gray Areas are $7.00 each (U.S.) and $10.00 each
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(foreign) from: Gray Areas, Inc. P.O. Box 808, Broomall, PA 19008.
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E-mail addresses are: grayarea@well.sf.ca.us or grayarea@netaxs.com or
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grayarea@mindvox.phantom.com. PGP key is below. Use it.)
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 01:05:37 -0600 (CST)
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From: David Smith <bladex@BGA.COM>
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Subject: File 2--ANNOUNCE: DEFCON ]I[ INFO (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
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DEF CON III Convention Update #1 (1.xx.95)
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August 4-6th 1995 @ the Tropicana in Las Vegas
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READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE &
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This is _not_ the professional sounding announcement. Use that one to con
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your boss / employers out of the cost of the trip. The professional
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announcement will be available on the ftp site and other more serious mailing
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lists and news groups, etc. This is the k-RaD kriminal shout out to all u
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el1te haquer types that aren't in jail to attend 'da def con. werd.
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READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE & READ & DISTRIBUTE &
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What's this? This is an initial announcement and invitation to DEF CON III,
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a convention for the "underground" elements of the computer culture. We try
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to target the (Fill in your favorite word here): Hackers, Phreaks, Hammies,
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Virii Coders, Programmers, Crackers, Cyberpunk Wannabees, Civil Liberties
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Groups, CypherPunks, Futurists, Artists, Criminally Insane, Hearing Impaired.
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WHO: You know who you are, you shady characters.
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WHAT: A convention for you to meet, party, and listen to some speeches
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that you would normally never get to hear from some k-rad people.
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WHEN: August 4, 5, 6 - 1995 (Speaking on the 5th and 6th)
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WHERE: Las Vegas, Nevada @ The Tropicana Hotel
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So you heard about DEF CON II, and want to hit part III? You heard about the
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parties, the info discussed, the bizarre atmosphere of Las Vegas and want to
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check it out in person? You want to do weird shit _away_ from the hotel
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where you could get me in trouble? Then you're just the person to attend!
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Sure it's great to meet and party with fellow hackers, but besides that we
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try to provide information and speakers in a forum that can't be found at
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other conferences. While there is an initial concern that this is just
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another excuse for the evil hackers to party and wreak havoc, it's just
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not the case. People come to DEF CON for information and for making
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contacts. We strive to distinguish this convention from others in that
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respect. Plus this year we have official DEF CON GOONS(c) who will pummel
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you until you pass out should you cause problems for other con.friendly
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people! Big Brother loves you!
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What's been said (Only the good stuff will be quoted, of course)
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Stevyn - "Why can eye say, it was intense! . . . the whole con just kicked
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ass! I totally recommend you check out the next one."
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Gail Thackeray, Prosecutor, "It's partly an entertaining party, it's
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partly a fashion statement. But it's mostly something about which the
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business world has no clue."
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Wendy Murdock, Boardwatch, "Def Con represents the tug-of-war that has
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always been present - people strive to get that which is just out of
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reach, aggravating governments and breaking rules in the process."
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WHERE IT IS:
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The Tropicana has rooms reserved for the convention. Rooms are expensive.
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They are even more expensive if you don't book under the convention. If it
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is to expensive for you, please see the section below on Las Vegas www sites
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that
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can provide you with information on other nearby hotels that are cheaper.
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Check-in is 3pm, check-out time is 12 noon. Remember there is an 8% sales
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tax in Vegas.
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65$ Single or Double room, Midweek (Mon-Thurs)
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90$ Single or Double room, Weekend (Fri-Sun)
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350$ One-Bedroom Suite (Call for Availability)
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The Tropicana, 3801 Las Vegas Blvd. So., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109
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(702) 739-2581 or (800) 468-9494 or (702) 739-2448 (Fax)
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Held in three conference rooms at the Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas, DEF CON
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promises to be interesting. The Tropicana has a huge pool (largest in the
|
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world? Anyway, lots of cool movies have been filmed with this pool in them)
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and in August Vegas should be about 100(f) degrees at one in the morning.
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What do you care? You'll be wired on caffeine and not sleeping anyway. There
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are numerous attractions in town from the strip bars to the local COs in case
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you seek distraction.
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The Tropicana is located right on the "Strip" with the other three corners of
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the street occupied by the MGM Grand (Largest hotel in the world), the
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Excalibur, and the Luxor (The big sense-net pyramid). If you can afford it
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I totally recommend spending some extra time in town.. there are too many
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cool things to do, especially if you have never visited. Heck, last time I
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got to rent and fire uzi's and MP-5 machine guns (OK, so you can do that for
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free in Los Angeles) see some strippers, and drink 1$ bottles of imported
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beer. What a place! Now you know why I chose Vegas for a location.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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This year there will be a number of special events going down, including:
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[> Haquer Jeopardy [> Spot the Fed Contest [> Voice bridge
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[> Giveaways [> A Red Box Creation Contest [> A Video Room
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[> Cool Video Shit [> Scavenger Contest [> Who knows?
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COSTS
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Because of the increased costs associated with the convention this year, the
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price of admission will be 30$ in advance (See the end of this announcement
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the address to pre-register to) or 40$ at the door. This will include
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your goovie 24bit color name tag and a conference program.
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Don't forget to factor in Hotel costs, (The more people you crash with, the
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cheaper it is) gambling, food, gas, bail, etc.
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SPEAKERS
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This is a partial list of speakers for this year. More are being invited
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or waiting to make plans. As this list changes further announcements will
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be made. This should give you a flavor or what to expect, though.
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[> Winn Schwartau, Author of "Information Warfare" and "Terminal Compromise,"
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is a consultant to government and the private sector regarding enterprise
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and national security concerns. TOPICS: "Information Warfare, the year
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in review" (Comedic) and "Tempest Attack Videos."
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[> Len Rose AKA Terminus is root at Bar Net, the largest internet provider in
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the world. Sun Microsystems and HP are some of their customers.
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After the legal fiasco Len faced years ago (as partially chronicled in
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"The Hacker Crackdown." This will be his first chance to speak of his
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experiences without the threat of having his parole revoked. TOPIC: To
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be decided later.
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[> Chris Hall of Executive Protection will be demonstrating a fully
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equipped "A-Team" van, a fully loaded spy mobile with all types of cool
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interception and surveillance goodies. Last year his talk included an
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overview of surveillance techniques. TOPIC: To be decided later.
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[> Sarah Gordon, AKA Theora, a veteran of DC II will be presenting another
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speech this year. Last year she organized a round table discussion
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with Phil Zimmermann and Presence, and revealed that the Anonymous
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remailer anon.penet.fi was compromised. TOPIC: Not Announced Yet.
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[> Curtis Karnow, former federal prosecutor and attorney focusing on
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intellectual property litigation and computer law. TOPIC: Agents in the
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telecommunications context, and "smart" software that we 'trust' to do the
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Right Thing. The specific issue is legal liability and responsibility for
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the actions of intelligent agents, and then spinning off to chat about the
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liability for artificial intelligence generally.
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Speakers will be talking Saturday and Sunday, and maybe Friday depending.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
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So you think you're so damn smart, eh? Think your shit doesn't stink?
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Right. Think you got one up on the Feds, huh? Well, now's your chance to
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prove it smarty-pants. Winn Schwartau will take command and moderate.
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! A N N O U N C I N G !
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H A C K E R J E O P A R D Y
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That's right. You can now prove how smart you really are. Get up on stage
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and question a few answers, pile up the points . . . and win big!
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You know the game. You know the rules. Now all you have to do is have the
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guts, get up on stage in front of your peers and the narcs and show us all!
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When? After Dark Tangent's opening speech (which we're all really looking
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forward to . . . [yawn] HACKER JEOPARDY starts!
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MIDNIGHT - DAY 1 of DEFCON.
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If you wanna play . . . show up. If you don't wanna play, don't show up.
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There will be three rounds of three people. Just like real. The winners of
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each round will go into the Finals and the winner of that will win 25,000
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units of some foreign currency! From Dark Tangent himself! Plus:
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- A t-shirt three sizes to small for the women
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- No t-shirts for the men.
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- Silk jackets for everyone.
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- One Heineken per player per round at DT's expense.
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- Round trip directions to Hoover Dam
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- Phiber Optik's home address
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- Eric Bloodaxe's Blood Samples
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- And more . . .
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Contestants will be picked at random from a pool of those who want to play.
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If you don't wanna play, don't enter the contest. Only the elite survive!
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FEDS: If you get picked to play, and we ask you what your job is, YOU HAVE
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TO TELL THE TRUTH! If you don't, our custom Fed-O-Meter will detect your
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lies and off to the casinos you go!
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Potential categories for questions include:
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- - Famous Busts - Famous Narcs - UNIX Bugs - Telco Tech - "Hacking"
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and beware of the killer daily double. Bribing the judge is acceptable.
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So, in the inimitable words of Al Bundy . . . LET'S ROCK!
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3rd ANNUAL SPOT THE FED CONTEST
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Spot the fed, win the shirt
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"Like a paranoid version of pin the tail on the donkey, the favorite sport
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|
at this gathering of computer hackers and phone phreaks seems to be hunting
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down real and imagined telephone security and Federal and local law
|
|
enforcement authorities who the attendees are certain are tracking their
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every move.. .. Of course, they may be right." John Markhoff, NYT
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Basically the contest goes like this: If you see some shady MB (Men in
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Black) earphone penny loafer sunglass wearing Clint Eastwood to live and
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die in L.A. type lurking about, point him out. Just get my attention and
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claim out loud you think you have spotted a fed. The people around at the
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time will then (I bet) start to discuss the possibility of whether or not a
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real fed has been spotted. Once enough people have decided that a fed has
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been spotted, and the Identified Fed (I.F.) has had a say, and informal vote
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takes place, and if enough people think it's a true fed, or fed wanna-be,
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or other nefarious style character, you win a "I spotted the fed!" shirt,
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and the I.F. gets an "I am the fed!" shirt.
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Note to the feds: This is all in good fun, and if you survive unmolested
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and undetected, but would still secretly like an "I am the fed!" shirt to
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wear around the office or when booting in doors, please contact me when no
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one is looking and I will take your order(s). Just think of all the looks
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of awe you'll generate at work wearing this shirt while you file away all
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the paperwork you'll have to generate over this convention. I won't turn in
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any feds who contact me, they have to be spotted by others.
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TELEPHONE CONFERENCE BRIDGE
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For DEF CON III there will be a dial in conference set up. If you are
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overseas, or just too poor to make it to the convention this year, you can
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still get an idea of what is going on and participate. One part of the voice
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conference equipment will allow you to listen to the convention room
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microphone, another will allow you to ask questions during the Q&A sections
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of peoples speeches. A general conversation area will be up so you can chat
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with others at the convention, or just others dialed into the bridge.
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As more technical information and phone numbers become available for the
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bridge I will post them in future convention updates.
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Navigate through the voice mail maze and get free phone sex! Impress others!
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SPOOAH DOOPAH RAFFLE GIVE AWAY!@#
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Throughout the convention, between speakers and events there will be a raffle
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giveaway in which if your number is drawn, you win the prize. Last year's
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giveaway included an ancient kaypro monochrome portable, a roll of Sprint
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"security" tape, "Computer Warriors" evil anti-virus cartoon, a 240 meg IDE
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HD, and other elite things.
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>> All the prizes given away are donated by other convention goers, so if <<
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>> you have any stuff to give away, please save and donate it to the con! <<
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RED BOX BUILDING CONTEST
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While we don't encourage or condone the use of toll fraud devices, we do
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encourage creativity and expression of thought. We combine these and come
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up with a red box creating contest. The final device doesn't have to
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produce the real red box tones (Can't have people getting arrested) BUT it
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does have to produce some tones like with the stock crystal. This contest
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is inspired by last year's give away of a red box "Big Red" that looked just
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like a big pack of Big Red gum, but really was a red box. Elite! There was
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also a little girl's doll that was a red box, but the switch for that one was
|
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hidden under the dress and, well, it just wasn't given away.
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Come up with unique ideas! With just a Hallmark card and some spare time you
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can create an elite 007 style tone generating device! What will you win if
|
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yours is chosen as the most k-rad beside the envy of fellow hackers? You'll
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get a tee shirt and the cost of admission to the convention refunded PLUS
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some as-of-yet undecided prize. I bet you just can't wait to burn your
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fingers with your soldering iron now!
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THE VIDEO ROOM
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In one of the rooms a LCD wall projector will be hooked up connected to a
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VCR, and people can bring flicts to play. Stuff like Max Headroom, War Games
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etc. You know, the cool cheesy stuff. Also some "hacker" videos will be
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shown. If you have something you wanna show, bring it along. When the
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projector is needed in the main conference room it will be swiped for the
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duration.
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COOL VIDEO SHIT
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At this time we are working to see if a T1 connection is possible. If it is
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there will be a cu-see me connection set up with multiple video cameras in
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various locations. Images will also be added automatically to a WWW page for
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people to snag. As all this works itself out there will be further
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announcements. No, there will be no "Hack our server" contests, and there
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will be "Security Professionals" with "Diagnostic Tools" to "Correct" any
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people who may case the network problems.
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SCAVENGER CONTEST
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A scavenger contest is being planned. The person or group with the most
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number of items on the list wins the prize. (Prize undetermined as of yet)
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and there will be a few follow up prizes. Don't forget to carry massive
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amounts of water as you run about the concrete jungle, dehydration can
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happen just crossing the street. This is a contest for only the most k-rad.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
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DEF CON III will be planned right up until the last minute, with problems
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being fixed and new things being added all along.. a sort of work in progress
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that you get to witness in person when you show up. Hopefully it won't be
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too messed up when presented to the public. What can you do to help?
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- -> We are looking for people to speak on Personnel Information Gathering and
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selling. Hopefully a speaker (who could remain anonymous) in this area
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has experiences in gathering and selling such information. If you know
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of such a person, please invite them to contact me or let them know we
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are looking for such speakers.
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- -> We are looking for some people to submit artwork to be used in the
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convention someplace. It could be a poster, or in the program. Black
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and white art would be eligible for the program only.
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- -> Articles and interesting ftp sites, www pages, mini FAQs, etc. are all
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wanted for the program. Quality articles that are informative and apply
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to the theme of the convention. Scanner frequency lists,
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MORE DEF CON INFORMATION
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The World Wide Web Page is located at: http://dfw.net/~aleph1/defcon
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FTP Site: ftp.fc.net /pub/defcon
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Mailing lists: mail majordomo@fc.net with the following statement in the body
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of your message: subscribe dc-announce This will set you up on the mailing
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list and you will receive updated information, information on the other
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mailing lists offered, etc. I suggest joining the dc-stuff list just so you
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can talk and plan with other people going to the con to coordinate rides,
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sharing of rooms, etc.
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Voice or Voice Mail: 0-700-826-4368 from a phone with AT&T LD.
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E-Mail: dtangent@defcon.org (The Dark Tangent)
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Snail Mail: 2709 E. Madison #102, Seattle, WA, 98112
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BBS System to call for info if you don't have net access:
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Alliance Communications - +1 612 251 2511 - USRobotics HST DS 16800
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NUP: New World Order
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Underground Information for Security Professionals and interested parties.
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Formerly ASU Underground in Tempe, AZ (602) & Radio Waves in MN (612).
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Associated Electronic News Network from American Justice Federation
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International Information Retrieval Guild Distro Site, Electronic Frontier
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Foundation MEMBER, and Phantasy Magazine Distribution Site.
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INFORMATION ABOUT LAS VEGAS
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NEWS GROUPS
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Please note the following newsgroups may or may not be designated for local
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distribution (Distribution: Vegas and/or nv), and is intended for all
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systems in the Las Vegas area or those interested in same on the same level
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as the la, ca, ba, ny, nyc, and other similar local higherarchies:
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vegas.bi Talk for bisexually natured persons
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vegas.config Configuration discussions for the higherarchy
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vegas.food Anything about food in Las Vegas
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vegas.for-sale For Sale/Want ads (no commercials, please!)
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vegas.general General discussion
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vegas.jobs Jobs offered and wanted in Las Vegas
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vegas.motss MOTSS community talk
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vegas.personals Personal ads - any nature
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vegas.singles Talk for singles
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vegas.test Group to test post to
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WWW PAGES about Las Vegas, Hotels, Things to do, etc.
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HTTP://www.infi.net:80/vegas/online/
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HTTP://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~iew/index.html
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HTTP://www.best.com/~rdc/roger/vegas.html
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HTTP://www.intermind.net/las.vegas.on-line/homepage.html
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STUFF TO BUY
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Stuff is for sale from DEF CON I and II in case you are interested. From the
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first year we have audio tapes (4 90 minute tapes) for $20 and the second
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year (10 90 minute tapes) for $30. Descriptions of these tapes are below.
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DEF CON I Tapes (4) include the following speakers:
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Ray Kaplan, Curtis Karnow, Gail Thackary, Dead Addict, Dark Druid, Judi Clark
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Dan Farmer, and Dr. Mark Ludwig.
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DEF CON II Tapes (10) include the following speakers:
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Phillip Zimmermann : Keynote Speaker, PGP.
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Gail Thackary : Response to Mr. Zimmerman and Privacy issues.
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Chris Hall : Electronic Surveilance.
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Curtis Karnow : Recombinant Culture, Crime in the Digital Network.
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Dr. Mark Ludwig : Virus Creation Awards and What to do when the Feds come.
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Judi Clark, Mara, Fen and Marianne in a Round Table Discussion.
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The Dark Knight : Hacking in the U.K.
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Sara Gordon, Mark Aldrich, Phil Zimmerman: Internet and PGP privacy concerns.
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Annaliza (Torquie) : The European Underground scene.
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Mark :
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Mark Lottor : Various cellular topics.
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Winn Schwartau : HERF guns, Van Eck, Information Warfare
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Peter Beruk : The role of the SPA, general Q&A.
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Padgett Peterson : Anti-Virus writing, Cleaning up other peoples messes.
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The Jackal : A basic radio overview with Q&A.
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Artimage : Underground spoof and give aways.
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Stephen Dunifer : Radio Free Berkeley and pirate media.
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Damien Thorn : Random Cell information from the late night tech talks.
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SHIRTS are still available to buy. The ones remaining are long sleeve white
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with the choice of two styles. Both styles have a three color logo on the
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front (Red, Gray, Black) with "DEF CON". The back is either a list of
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strange grep key words and "inside" keywords with "Why? Because I can." at
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the top. Back #2 is the same back as DEF CON I with the old and "new" 4
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Amendment as stated by J.P. Barlow with "Protect your rights, Encrypt your
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data..." at the top. The back on this style is two colors.. black lettering
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framed in light gray for better definition. Shirts are $20.
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SHIPPING : If you buy anything, please include 2.90 for priority shipping.
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LAST AND LEAST
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OK! Your almost ready to go. Now here is an E-Z to follow checklist of
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things you should take care of before throwing caution to the wind and
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bailing out to the dangerous and sexy-wrong world of Las Vegas. In the
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words of one famous (and abused) phone system: "Sit up straight, PAY
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ATTENTION, Listen to what your being told. (Now try again)" (Whoever can
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identify that phone system first gets in free)
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StUPh 2 D0 b3fore the C0nvent1ion:
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_ Check out inpho about Vegas so you know what you wanna do.
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_ Get a hotel room or some crash pad.
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_ Bring $40 for admission or pay $30 in advance.
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_ Bring your PGP key on disk to key sign with others.
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_ Bring Laptop, laplink, serial, and bizarre gender changer cables.
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_ Bring things to donate for the give-away raffle.
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_ Leave massively incriminating evidence at home.
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_ Police scanners can provide hours of fun in Vegas.
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_ Bring interesting videos to play in the video room.
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_ Caffeine and snacks are fun to eat.
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_ Don't forget any drugs or medication you may need.
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_ You won't need saline for your contact lenses, you won't be sleeping.
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_ Anything you promised your friends you would bring for them.
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_ Join the mailing list and arrange rides or rooms with others in advance.
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MY PGP KEY
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This is the unsigned version
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My signed version is available on the public key-servers
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- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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Version: 2.6.1
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mQCNAy6v5H8AAAEEAJ7xUzvdRFMtJW3CLRs2yXL0BC9dBiB6+hAPgBVqSWbHWVIT
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/5A38LPA4zqeGnGpmZjGev6rPeFEGxDfoV68voLOonRPcea9d/ow0Aq2V5I0nUrl
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LKU7gi3TgEXvhUmk04hjr8Wpr92cTEx4cIlvAeyGkoirb+cihstEqldGqClNAAUR
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tCZUaGUgRGFyayBUYW5nZW50IDxkdGFuZ2VudEBkZWZjb24ub3JnPg==
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=ngNC
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- -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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WHY IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT SIGNED?
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Well, last year it came to my attention that some unknown person in
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California had modified an announcement and was having people mail their
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pre-registration money to them instead. It was actually pretty funny. Only
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one person was fooled and lost 10$. Not bad. I knew something was up when
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he said he had pre-registered for 10$ and had the receipt I had supposedly
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mailed back. I am never that organized! To avoid potential problems like
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this one please verify this announcement!@# My key is available for
|
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verification on public key servers, and my key-id is 46A8294D. The
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other key you will find on servers may be my older 1284bit key, which is
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still good, but just not used to sign this text.
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END ANNOUNCEMENT ---------------------------------------------
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Version: 2.6.2
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iQCVAwUBLx9EqstEqldGqClNAQF+tQP/fVRMKLwHOjPFiizoFFVR0gjMnP/J/L24
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1DhCJvw6ePaFAwuVHoRYenYulvoJVcRGnL+Do8ZXNqZ1Hz0oGQjcb7A0sW5BxJi6
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VL6CCKIM8oCnsQQYlxvUn+omaVDXqfjcKNnehLTg0jrLAOjMUBaO9mt392MHN+Tb
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Icw0yVEHU1g=
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=Jq1x
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-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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