Black Hat 2008 & DEFCON 16

All my gear packed for Black Hat & DEFCON... and this doesn't even include the Gringo Warrior case that Babak drove with back from HOPE.

Declaring firearms during airline check-in. The helpful lady recognized me, too, and totally had the forms ready for me as i approached her counter.

Q and I Training at Black Hat

Scenes of some parties during Black Hat. Above is a night at the Hoffbrau Haus and then at Cleopatra's Barge.

Casino floor by the Shadow Bar

A penhouse party during Black Hat

Prepping TOOOL matierals for the Lockpick Village. Heh, we had six of us in the room the very first night along with all those tools and construction projects.

Jackalope & me, Q & Ellen, Kari & Babak.

Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms.

Loads of people, many of whom you know. We see INT-80 on the left shot, the right photo features Beetle up front along with Maj. Damon Becknel on the left and Bruce & Heidi Potter on the right. To the back we can see rik, londo, and the top of his little lady's head.

This is the poster that folks saw if they arrived late to the DC Shoot rally point.

We had this totally hot Dutch reporter come along with us to the Shoot. Too bad i didn't get to give any one on one interview.

Babak's lady will kill you fucking dead.

Noid played a lot of Tetris as a young man.

Target destruction submission with a handgun.

Target destruction submission with buckshot.

Target destruction submission with handguns.

Target destruction submission with a 20-round drum on a Saiga.

Marksmanship challenge... winner was L.E.C. who was perhaps the youngest person to attend the shoot.

Team Smoke going to town

Team Tall Boy cooking it up

Team Smoke starts their side dish.

VanSmaq running his huge smoker, independent of the Titanium Chef Challenge.

This dude was wandering all over giving people free cider from his self-contained beverage aparatus. I heard that he hurled at the end of the night, however.

Team Smoke starts to plate.

Team Tall boy is all plated and done.

The judges try each meal

Team Smoke wins the Nintendo Wii.

Q & Ellen at the Microsoft Party

Eric & Sherri, me & Jackalope, Ellen & Q

We're so fucking leet that even the cab drivers know it, baby!

Look at all these happy, intoxicated people at the EFF Sumit.

Rhenium, our academic cooler

Team HeBrew... best attitude year after year.

Steve and John had one of the most frightening contraptions on the scene that day, i must say.

Team Ad-Hoc had a great little chugger cooler.

Rhenium was our first appearance of liquid nitrogen at DEFCON since the very first BCCC

Holy heat sinks, baby!

The crowd eagerly awaits their free beer.

Teams working feverishly.

I choose to not wait and simply shove some dry ice into my can.

... just stand clear of those bubbles

Running a cycle of beer

Renderman had the best rule-bending of the game, by pouring beer right through a bag of ice when his contraption failed.

Team HeBrew had an extra bag of dry ice...

... so they tried the renderman technique.

We we left with lots of beercicle residue, heh.

All Beer Cooling Contraption Contest data and results.

I doubt this photo goes against Hacker Pimps policy... heh, since all you can see of this girl is her round, bouncy ass and not a bit of face. The face of that older gentleman is priceless, however.

Neil & Deviant sharing Jameson 12 Year from paired flasks.

I love that fucking outfit. Heh... and i helped pick it out in Honolulu.

Deviant's radiant manhood makes the ladies all aglow.

It's always a party with Kaminski.

Rhy0t gets ready to go to work.

Lost is still working even at this late hour.

We're all gay for Golgo

That is one fine looking man.

Best takedown of the Gringo Warrior guard... evar!

My artsy shot of Lopey while spinning.

I can't recall whose these fellows were... but i enjoyed their company in the hallway for a while. There's a great video below of them telling the world about Gringo Warrior.

Pyr0's wife was giving out free mowhawks. I was very close to getting in that chair, but people close to me stated that i would look better with my hair the way it is. Ah well, maybe next year.

Steve presses his large, manly tools into service.

Suspend mode enabled.

Lope's art-modded eeePC.

Phew... this cost $225 to get home. ($25 for the first bag beyond one, then $100 each for the rest. Thank jeebus none of these things were overweight.)

I had a fucking blast with the crazy wall-laser drawing creation that people had going at the i-Hacked skybox.

Mouse at the DEFCON Shoot, firing an H&K MP5 submachinegun. She really handles full-auto weapons well, given her small stature. She is one tough cookie!

The soft, soft whisper of a suppressed .22 pistol. If only we had been able to get some sub-sonic ammo, you'd really get the full effect.

I think the Target Destruction contest's "shoot until you have to reload" category was pretty much over the moment the 20-round drum was being attached to the semi-auto Saiga shotgun.

Bill busting up a watermelon with his high-powered rifle. It was this afternoon that inspired me to get my own 7.62 NATO rifle (i picked up a Springfield M1A)

As an official entry into the Target Destruction consts's "single shot" category, Bill took aim at an orange. It's a little hard to see in the video (hence the helpful arrow that i edited in just prior to the trigger pull) but the footage is all that we can submit for his entry... since there was nothing left of the orange afterward.

At one of the skybox parties, i believe it was the i-Hacked party, people had the opportunity to play with a wickedly cool toy... a computer hooked up to a projector and webcam. The webcam watched the wall opposite the large CTF room. Whenever someone shot a bright green laser over there, the computer would register it and then project a drawing line on the wall. You can easily imagine the nature of most of what was drawn.

Many people complimented my methodical free-handing. Here is a video of my rather terrific (if i do say so myself) rendering of Goatse.

These two gregarious characters met me in the hallway outside of some of the skybox parties on Saturday. They stated how terrific they thought Gringo Warrior was. When I asked them to describe the game briefly in their own words, this was their response.

Pyr0's wife was responsible for a lot of the new haircuts at DEFCON. Here she is, giving free mohawks to anyone who wants.

Jackalope spinning at the ball on Saturday night. The music's volume was a little much for my camera, but you can surely capture the whole essence of the situation. Great fucking setup, and a terrific DJ.

Staff and Goons blowing off some steam in the vendor room on the last day of con. As sunday moves on, people just get more and more whacky.

Again, the music was too loud for the camera's built-in microphone, but by re-editing the music myself, I am able to bring yous something of the essence of awesomeness that is a minibosses appearance at DEFCON.

Here's the original war poster, as seen on a postcard that Jackalope and I found in Pearl Harbor, HI.

Here are high-quality versions of my spin on the poster. Many of you saw this at DEFCON...
TIFF with con text | TIFF without con text
[27 MB each]


Scenes of some parties during Black Hat. Above is a night at the Hoffbrau Haus and then at Cleopatra's Barge.

Casino floor by the Shadow Bar	Shadow Bar perhaps?	A penhouse party during Black Hat


This is the poster that folks saw if they arrived late to the DC Shoot rally point.	Group photos		We had this totally hot Dutch reporter come along with us to the Shoot. Too bad i didn't get to give any one on one interview.


Babak's lady will kill you fucking dead.	Fuck yeah.	Noid played a lot of Tetris as a young man.


Marksmanship challenge... winner was L.E.C. who was perhaps the youngest person to attend the shoot.	Fuck...	... yeah!


Team Smoke going to town	Team Tall Boy cooking it up	smoked bird

Go meat!	Team Smoke starts their side dish.	VanSmaq running his huge smoker, independent of the Titanium Chef Challenge.

This dude was wandering all over giving people free cider from his self-contained beverage aparatus. I heard that he hurled at the end of the night, however.	Team Smoke starts to plate.	Team Tall boy is all plated and done.

The judges try each meal	Judging results	Team Smoke wins the Nintendo Wii.


Deviant & Eric.	Phew... this cost $225 to get home. ($25 for the first bag beyond one, then $100 each for the rest. Thank jeebus none of these things were overweight.)	I had a fucking blast with the crazy wall-laser drawing creation that people had going at the i-Hacked skybox.