{"id":698,"date":"2009-08-05T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=698"},"modified":"2009-08-07T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T07:26:18","slug":"defcon17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Defcon17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got back from Vegas and will share some experiences with you….<\/p>\n

Lets start with the US lockpick championships: <\/p>\n

\"Jgor<\/p>\n

And the winner is … JGOR!<\/h4>\n

From the fifty participants that attended the US lockpick championships<\/a> at the Defcon17 conference, JGOR stood out. It was impressive to see his ‘cool’ way of picking<\/a>. While his opponents<\/a> were nervously raking and rapidly moving the tools in and out the lock he was just calmly picking. Setting one pin at the time yet opening locks<\/a> in impressive times (like 17 seconds in the finals<\/a> on a lock others did not open). To me it is clear the best man won. Second best<\/a> was Schuyler Towne<\/a>, third was a draw between Chris Pentacoff<\/a> and Tokey<\/a> (from France!). <\/p>\n

By winning the US lockpick championships Jgor won a full paid plane ticket to the European lockpick championships in Turkey<\/a> next year. It will be interesting to see how well he does there.<\/p>\n

Deviant<\/a> and Babak<\/a> (Toool.US) did a great job organizing the lockpick village and the various lockpick games. One of the things I admire from Babak and Deviant is their eye for detail<\/a>. Take for instance the locks<\/a> used in the games. These locks are connected to an electronic timer<\/a> that stops when the lock is opened! <\/p>\n

Fun:<\/h4>\n

It is always fun in Vegas. Renderman<\/a> introduced me to one of his friends who had a little problem with some of her locks<\/a>. I seem to be losing my touch as I was not able to open<\/a> the simple lock. Maybe it was the jetlag? After hearing the story, my dear wife Charlotte found an appropriate t-shirt<\/a> for me at the vendor area two days later. Other fun was meeting<\/a> some famous people<\/a> in vegas.<\/p>\n

The vendor area:<\/h4>\n

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As you can see on the video above, there was lots of activity at the vendor area. There even was a stand selling bumpkeys (using a slightly NSFW booth-babe). Check the youtube video<\/a> for details (and a good laugh). <\/p>\n

Public and private talks:<\/h4>\n

I only visited one presentation. Obviously it was the one by Mark Tobias and Tobias Bluzmanis<\/a>. Han and I spoke with them<\/a> before the presentation and learned about the details of their attacks<\/a> on some of the electromechanical Cliq locks. Pretty impressive things<\/a> they have come up with. They did not go publicly into details on how to bypass these expensive ‘top of the line’ high security locks. Han and I know the Cliq system well as we did conduct our own research for a year now too. And we will go into details when we discuss our research at our presentation at HAR next week. Interesting times we live in ….<\/p>\n

Dangerous place:<\/h4>\n

Defcon is a dangerous place. At least for those that are not computer savvy. The famous ‘Wall of sheep’<\/a> was showing (parts of) login data of those not using SSL or other types of encryption when popping mail or transferring files etc….<\/p>\n

But even when Defcon is a dangerous place … we all made it back safe. Now preparing for HAR! Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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