Press Coverage
- ABC News with a picture of AJ and Deth Veggie. By Angie Bluethman.
- Hackers turn up heat at DEF CON V, from the Secure Computing Security Newsletter. By Holly Knox, Internet Security Editor
- ZDNet's Hackers invade Vegas. By Robert Lemos.
- Netly News If you build it, they will Con. By Declan McCullagh - Local Copy
- The Site's Fear and Hacking in Las Vegas by Joel Deane.
- Crooks Hook Clueless Hackers by Joel Deane.
- Special to the Mercury News West magazine It takes a hacker to catch a hacker Four parts, by Jonathan Littman.
- Here are the pictures from the article thanks to Lockheed for scanning them.
- Computer World's Fear and Hacking in Las Vegas (Common article title, eh?) by Michael Schrenk. - Local Copy
- The Vominator's heart wrenching experiences at DEF CON V.
- Krusty's TDYC review of DEF CON V.
- Soul to Squeeze writes about the con.
- Lockheed's account of what the hell happened.
- Thanks to Ophie for sending this Comic from Computer World.
- TekLord and Plucky's review page for DEF CON 5. - Local Copy(scroll to near end of document)
- What Plucky, TekLord and Zytek did.
- DefCon V Adventure: System Failure Debut, by pinguino.
- This piece, called Hackers Do Vegas ran in The Australian on August 2.
- Hacker Lessons learned by Matt Willis and told at DEF CON 5, written by Sharon Machlis for Computerworld 07/21/97.
- Ira Winkler Spy Catcher talks about what he had to say at DEF CON 5, written by Steve Ulfelder for Computerworld, 08/11/97.
- Hackers swap secrets on cracking computers By Angie Bluethman of the Associated Press.
- Count the Cliches in a recent story published by the Associated Press.
was July 11-13, 1998 at the Aladdin Hotel & Casino (Since blown up!).
Speakers & Presentations
encoded in m4b audiobook formatCdC
Cult of the Dead Cow
Live performance and drink creation with Swamp Rat, Deth Veggie, Lady Carolyn, A.J., and an unidentified "herd."Hear it! (m4b audio)
DT
The Capture the Flag Contest and beer updated
Hear it! m4b audio (Beer Contest Update) (CTF Results and Closing Ceremonies)Mudge & Hobbit
The system administrator from the L0pht and the author of netcat in action!
Watch Mudge and Hobbit explain why CIFS is a load of CACA, random SMB CIFS stuff in Microsoft products, and all you ever wanted to know about cracking passwords.Hear it! (m4b audio)
Sameer Parekh
Why Cryptography is Harder Than it Looks, Part two
A look at implementation and production problems facing people and companies wishing to develope and distribute strong encryption.Hear it! (m4b audio)
Se7en
What the Feds Think of us Hackers.
In his experience talking with federal agents Se7en has gained an understanding of the perception hackers have in the government and industy. [NOTE: Se7en has since been found out to be full of crap]Hear it! (m4b audio)
Ken Kumasawa
Teledesign Management - Phreaking in the 90s - The perspective from the industry.
Hear it! (m4b audio)Dan Veeneman
Low Earth Orbit Satellites
are nearing the launch stage, and this talk will cover the different systems that are planned and some of the services they'll offer. A bit on GPS that wasn't covered last year as well as the ever popular question and answer section.Hear it! (m4b audio)
Ira Winkler
Lamer Test
Ira contends that there is so much lameness among hackers that even an eliteness of 10% would be amazing. Take his Lamer Test and see if you pass!Hear it! (m4b audio)
Clovis From the Hacker Jeopardy winning team. He will discuss Issues with Security and Networked Object Systems, looking at some of the recent security issues found with activeX and detail some of the potentials and problems with network objects. Topics will include development of objects, distributed objects, standards, ActiveX, corba, and hacking objects.
Hear it! (m4b audio)