Defcon 16 Wrap-up on eecue.com : Dave Bullock / eecue

Last weekend I covered Defcon 16, the world's largest hacker convention for Wired.com's Threat Level blog. Like last year, I was paired with Kim Zetter, one of Wired's best writers and an all around cool person.

Zetter wrote all the serious articles, which I provided pictures for. These articles included:

• E-Passports Signed, Sealed, Delivered -- But Not Like You May Think
• Researchers Crack Medeco High-Security Locks With Plastic Keys
• French Reporters at Black Hat Booted from Conference for Hacking Fellow Reporters
• Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking -- Updated with Recording from Hearing

I did end up writing a few features that weren't hard news, but were still fun to write and shoot:

• A First Ever Look Inside The Defcon Network Operations Center
• Exclusive Defcon 16 Badge Sneak Peek
• The DefCon 16 Mystery Challenge
• Images From the 16th Annual DefCon

The Defcon NOC piece ended up on the front page of Slashdot, Gizmodo, Hack A Day, BoingBoing and more. Some of the other pieces I wrote also got picked up on various other sites.

I had a great time this year at Defcon, it was my 8th Defcon and I can't wait for next year. I'm looking forward to working with Zetter again and getting another tour of the NOC!

A screen-grab (hosted by flickr) from my Wired.com piece in which I toured the Defcon Network Operations Center.

Posted on: Tuesday, August 12th 2008

Category: Security(38)