Dan Learns Stuff

During the DEF CON 26 DC101 Panel , someone (probably highwiz) asked one of the n00bs they brought on-stage, "What makes you a hacker?...

Plenty has gone on in the past year. Here's a quick rundown: - Learned how to quilt. 104 patches from my tour-guiding days on a lap qu...

A friend returned from San Diego Comic Con 2018 with an RFID bracelet used to track users in the Amazon Fire TV experience (on Twitter, #Fir...

Above is Dan Kaminsky's keynote at the inaugural DEF CON China.  It was nominally about Spectre and Meltdown, and I thought it was im...

Update: Plume added, rebuilt using thread and pipe cleaners to keep it upright and separate strands, removed plasticard sticks and zip ties...

For Toxic BBQ 13 (DEFCON 25), we returned to the OFBC to see if we could improve the design and add some needed table decorations. ...

In the tradition of doing something snazzy for the DEF CON Toxic BBQ , I created a bottle opener that would both mount magnetically as well ...

I took Ethan to the event run in parallel with DEF CON, R00tz Asylum .  I think he had a blast as they covered a lot of traditional hack...

I viewed StarWest 's Virtual Conference offering again.  This and the affiliated Better Software conference are run by Techwell.  A fe...

This post is part of a series about building electro-mechnical PIN-cracking robots,  R2B2 and C3BO . This is a proof of concept for @Jus...

Note: This is part of the  Project Write-up  for OFBC: One Fluorescent Beer Coaster After months of effort, we had a circuit, PCB and shel...