Note: For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, the @ sign identifies another person on Twitter, i.e. when I say @BluePlasma I’m indicating that BluePlasma is also a Twitter user, and it ensures that he will see that particular update. The hash mark (#) identifies a tag, which allows Twitter users to search for similar Tweets regardless of the source. RT stands for Re-Tweet, and is simply me reposting something someone else wrote, to spread the word. Every update with #defcon would appear in the global defcon search. The few posts from other users are prefaced by that user’s name in brackets before the update.

Wednesday

• Packing for DEFCON. Where did all these transformers come from?

• Pre DEFCON movie of choice? Swordfish, naturally.
• Toothbrush: check. Soldering iron: check. Drill press & corrosive chemicals? Check. #defcon

Thursday

• Truck is loaded. Gassing up, then picking up @BluePlasma.
• Tank is full, windows clean, tripometer reset. Vacation has officially begun. #defcon
• Just left kingman, hoover dam here we come! #defcon

• Finally here, photos to come. #defcon

• I know you haven’t been out of your cage in a while #defcon attendees, but fanny packs went out of style in 1985…
• Waiting for the FPGA talk to begin, supressing urge to stab geeks who talk out of their @$$.
• Just missed out on an FPGA giveaway because I didn’t keep the signs of my exponents straight #defcon
• FPGA talk a dissapointment, #defcon is out of badges now, glad I got mine ealy.

• #defcon badge made hackable. @BluePlasma has the bootloader working.

• At #defcon Toxic BBQ, center table.

• Back from the bbq, almost got to beat the crap out of an asshole. There’s always tomorrow…
  • [leahshanker] @zanfar What happened? You too? Lol
  • @leahshanker Pretty sure it was the same asshole. You’re missing all the solder fumes over here
  • [leahshanker] @zanfar en route to the electro palace lol

Friday

• Back at the Riv. Not enough sleep & the coffee isn’t working. Free breakfast nice, though. #defcon
• Hanging out at the hardware hacking village. Riv skybox 210. #defcon
• Change of plans, checking out the badge talk with @leahshanker
• Thinking of moving the Electro Palace “Lite” to the HHV this afternoon. Watch #hhv for details #defcon
  • [leahshanker] @zanfar That’s what I’ve been saying! Catch ya at HHV later
• I know you love anonymity #defcon, but its time to grow up and require pre-registration.
• #defcon : a charlie-foxtrot hasn’t been this well reported on since Vietnam
• Back to #hhv, now with tools! #defcon
• RT @Blueplasma: @zanfar @blueplasma on the way to the #hhv at #defcon. We’re bringing equipment and here to help, the Big Scott and the Skinny Asian
• Thanks to @BluePlasma ‘s superior situational awareness, we avoided the #defcon hallway of death. RAWK!
• Back from #hhv @ #defcon. Now its time to write some C…

• Naps good. Walking to the riv. Fences are higher than they look #defcon
• Just played with a real-live PDP-11/70. Three-phase-powered computing = geekgasm!
• is declaring tomorrow officially “tweet in hex” day. #defcon
• Benihana open until 10 #defcon #thegreatfoodsearch
• Hilton fail, I shouldn’t have to search for an ATM in a casino. #thegreatfoodsearch
• @leahshanker @shankmasterzero Start thinking of alternate food ideas.
• Benihana was delicious #thegreatfoodhunt was a sucess. Next up; hacker karaoke
• Android flashlight app makes decent replacment for a lighter #defcon #hackerkaraoke
• There is something very right about singing Frank’s My Way while in Vegas #defcon #hackerkaraoke

Saturday

• Done for the night. See you bright and early tomorrow (today) #defcon
• [leahshanker] @blueplasma Brekkist?
  • [blueplasma] @leahshanker Yahar, awaiting RedBeard’s shower completion, then we be plundering our inn’s hot breakfast line
  • I’m up, I’m up. Breakfast, then #defcon. Coffee too. Lots of coffee.
• @leahshanker in track 1, save you seats?
• #defcon parking meter talk was well done, almost enough hardware content
• Quadrotor talk is awesome. “We started with a minipc, but needed real-time data, so switched to a MCU” #defcon improving.
• Quadrotor talk the best of #defcon. Real-time X, Y & Z control with heads- up display and inertial nav. #defcon awesome.
• @leahshanker @shankmasterzero We have saved seats, and are camping Adam’s talk. 4th row, center chairs.
  • [blueplasma] @zanfar omw Thank you!!!
  • @leahshanker just kicked us out we have line space now, though.
• 6th row center for Adam Savage, close enough to see his bad haircut. #defcon
• Just found a ttl-compatible gps reciever with external panel-mount sma connector that outputs nema messages and a 1hz pulse for $30! #defcon
• A. Savage talk too short, nothing I haven’t already heard. Heading to “Hacking the Smart Grid” in 18 min. #defcon
• Humor? From a #defcon presentor? Laser keylogging promises to be good.
• Laser Keylogging: best talk at #defcon, even if the presenters have girls names…
• Step 1; go to laser keylogging talk at #defcon. Step 2. Step 3: profit!
• Calling yourself “social engineers” makes you neither less of a grifter nor an engineer #defcon
• Back from #defcon for the day, at the hotel eating homemade spaghetti. Tomorrow @BluePlasma and I will be at the #HHV helping out.

Sunday

• Turn on TV to see the opening credits for Lethal Weapon 4. Awesome! #ImTooOldForThis #defcon
• Hanging out at the #hhv. Helped @joegrand solder, so we’re #defcon approved now If you want to learn hardware, see @BluePlasma or I.
• #defcon is over, little disappointing, but not bad overall. Next year: real attempt on a black badge. Cigars & The Strip tonight.
• #defcon tricks to gain followers: insult @donttrythis ‘s hair or that @joegrand needed your help (sorry Mr. S, it was just the camera angle)