Back from Defcon

I spent this past weekend at Defcon 15. This is my 8th year going to Defcon and the conference keeps getting better. I got to meet up with some people I haven't seen in a few years so that was excellent. This year I mostly went to non-technical tracks, I went to what I would consider 'geek' tracks. My favorites were:

• Creating Unreliable Systems, Attacking the Systems that Attack You
• GeoLocation of Wireless Access Points and "Wireless GeoCaching"
• Being in the know... Listening to and understanding modern radio systems
• http://www.radioreference.com/
• Hardware Hacking for Software Geeks
• http://www.sparkfun.com/
• Satellite Imagery Analysis
• http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Front/tofc.html
• http://eyeball-series.org/
• http://digitalgeography.co.uk/
• http://wikimapia.org/

I got some great info from the "Hardware Hacking for Software Geeks" talk. I'm planning on building a micro-controller driven camera that acquires location via GPS and submits photos via Bluetooth. This probably already exists, but it should be fun to build. Wikimapia is also a really cool site. Highlights of the weekend included the first Defcon wedding and an undercover reporter being outed.