“I’m like, well, I also didn’t include Alaska and Hawaii. But three different government officials had objected, insisting that China’s outline must include Taiwan. Jeff Moss, DEF CON’s founder and owner, originally submitted an outline of the US and China on a motherboard. “I guess when you’re in a controlled state that’s just what you do.”Įven the conference's logo had gone through government approval. “I was surprised at the number of agents they had,” she told BuzzFeed News.
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In the mornings, before any talks started, Valerie Thomas, who volunteered to run a workshop on how to bypass building security and stayed at the conference’s hotel, woke up to see several dozen men in black suits receiving security instructions they were assigned to stand in the hallways and at entry and exit points all day. Though they could tell it was a Chevy Cruze, and assume its age, they couldn’t tell for sure, because all identifying marks had been covered with heavy black tape to obscure the model. The two men running the car-hacking village were in China before they learned they would, indeed, be provided a rental car to mess with.
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While the lock-picking village let you try your hand at various padlocks, government officials had objected to instructors bringing in handcuffs they didn’t want imagery of people breaking free from custody.
What you wouldn’t notice was the Chinese government’s presence lurking just beneath the surface. Just outside, two dudes in jeans and T-shirts plugged a laptop into a sedan and invited you to try your hand at hacking its console. Upstairs, instructors in small rooms offered hands-on classes on soldering computer chips, social engineering (the art of convincing someone to do what you want, like clicking a phishing email), and picking locks. At first glance, you couldn’t see much of a difference between DEF CON, the notoriously rowdy American hacker conference, and its newly formed franchise in Beijing, where in May China hosted its first hacker conference.įamous American speakers still gave technical talks while bathed in neon green light.
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