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Defcon 12

was July 30 - Aug. 1, 2004 at the Alexis Park Hotel & Resort


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Weaknesses in Satellite Television Protection Schemes

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Tony Arcieri

PDTP – The Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol

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Jay Beale

Locking Down Apache

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Adam Bresson

Identification Evasion

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Jamie Butler

VICE—Catch the Hookers!

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Jon Callas

How Do We Get The World To Use Message Security

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Tzi-cker Chiueh

Program Semantics- Aware Intrusion Detection

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Ian Clarke

Freenet: Taming the World's Largest Tamagotchi

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CrimethInc

Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Republican National Convention

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Greg Conti

Network Attack Visualization

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Gene Cronk

IPv6 Primer

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Michael Davis

The Open Source Security Myth—And How to Make it A Reality

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Dead Addict

Hacking the Media, and avoiding being Hacked by the Media

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Dario D. Diaz

DMCA, Then and Now

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Roger Dingledine

Tor: An Anonymizing Overlay Network For TCP

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Maximillian Dornseif

Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Tell— Hidden Data In Document Formats

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Elonka Dunin

Kryptos and the Cracking of the Cyrillic Projector Cipher

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Charles Edge

Hacking/Security Mac OSX Server aka Wussy Panther

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D. Egan

MySQL Passwords— Password Strength and Cracking

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Rakan El-Khalil

Information Hiding in Executable Binaries

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FX & Halvar Flake

We Can Take It From Here

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Peter D. Feaver & Kenneth Geers

The First International Cyber War

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Seth Fogie

Attacking Windows Mobile PDA’s

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Foofus

Old Tricks

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Scott Fullam

Introduction to Hardware Hacking

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Geoffrey & Mark Farver

This Space Intentionally Left Blank

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Sarah Gordon

What Do You Mean, Privacy?

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Joe Grand

Advanced Hardware Hacking

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Rachel Greenstadt

Tools for Censorship Resistance

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Grifter, Russ Rogers & Tierra

Project Prometheus

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Lukas Grunwald

RF-ID and Smart-Labels

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Nathan Hamiel

Down with the RIAA, Musicians Against the Recording Industry

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Seth Hardy

Subliminal Channels In Digital Signatures

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Deral Heiland

The Insecure Workstation

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h1kari

Smart Card Security

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Thorsten Holz, Maximillian Dornseif, Christian Klein

NoSEBrEaK—Defeating Honeynets

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Cameron “nummish” Hotchkies

Blind SQL Injection Automation Techniques

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IcE tRe

Virus, Worms and Trojans: Where are we going?

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Robert "hackajar" Imhoff-Dousharm & Jonathan "ripshy" Duncan

Credit Card Networks Revisted: Penetration in Real-Time

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Dan Kaminsky

Black Ops of TCP/IP 2004

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Jesse Krembs & Nicholas Farr

The Hacker Foundation

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Adam Laurie & Martin Herfurt

Bluesnarfing—The Risk From Digital Pickpockets

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j0hnny long

Google Hacking

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Lucky 225

Phreaking in the Age of Voice Over IP

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Kevin Mahaffey

Smile, You’re on Candid Camera!

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Nick Mathewson

Snake Oil Anonymity

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Rebecca Mercuri & Bev Harris

Hack the Vote: Election 2004

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Doug Mohney

DIGEX—At the Dawn of the Commercial Internet

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Brett Moore

Shoot the Messenger

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Todd Moore

Cracking Net2Phone

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Robert Morris

The History of the Future

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Brett Neilson

The Advantages of Being an Amateur

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Ne0nRa1n

Better than Life - Manipulation of The Human Brain With The Use of Machines

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n0namehere

Real World Privacy, How to Leave Less of A Trail in Life

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Nothingface

Automotive Networks

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Sean O'Toole

Mutating the Mutators

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Laurent Oudot

Digital Active Self Defense

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Dr. Larry Ponemon

The DEF CON Surveys

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Michael T. Raggo

Steganography, Steganalysis, & Cryptanalysis

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Michael Rash

Advanced Netfilter; Content Replacement (ala Snort_inline), and Port Knocking Based on Passive OS Fingerprinting

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Len Sassaman

Mixmaster vs. Reliable

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Jason Scott

Digitizations And Documentary

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Wendy Seltzer & Seth Schoen

Hacking the Spectrum

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Sensepost

When the Tables Turn

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The Shmoo Group

Wireless Weaponry

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spoonm & HD Moore

Bubonic Buffer Overflow

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Peter Silberman & Richard Johnson

A Comparison of Buffer Overflow Prevention Implementations and Weaknesses

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Joshua Teitelbaum & Peter Leung

CryptoMail Encrypted E-Mail for All (Including Grandma)

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Richard Thieme

Quantum Hacking

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Ian Vitek

Exploring Terminal Services, The Last 12 Month of Research. Or, The Evil Admin And His Tools

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Kathy Wang

Frustrating OS Fingerprinting with Morph

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Wavyhill & Andre Goldman

Toward a Private Digital Economy

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Paul Wouters

Windows WaveSEC Deployment

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Panel: Meet the Fed

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