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DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 178 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Defcon is not the place I’d want to wear something like that and make myself a target. Of course, I’d be embarrassed to wear them anywhere, but afraid at Defcon.

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  • [–] 98 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Shit, I’d be scared to go anywhere near defcon with any device.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Eh, it's not that bad

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

    Random files appearing in the downloads folder on my phone has only happened once
    ¯\(ツ)/¯

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Let me guess, it was an iPhone? Someone just used AirDrop and you might've allowed everyone sending you files.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It was Android :-) WiFi, NFC and BT turned off. It was Android 12 I believe, back in 2022.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Did you use a "supplied" charger while there?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Nope - aware of juice jackers, so I only used my own cables and adapters (even have a USB condom).

    I'm generally pretty security aware, but my only theory of how it landed there is some cellular exploit. Whether it was a crafted MMS, a custom cell site, or something else I don't know.

    I did use mobile data for some ubers, but that was off-site.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I was afraid walking into the room with the wall of sheeple just bc I was wearing a button down in spite of being the sole sponsor of the hackathon. I (as instructed) left my watch, phone, laptop etc at hotel and only brought locked down Chromebook and lived in sweaty terror every keystroke. All while they were stoked and loving the sponsor not just buying a logo, and sent me back with like 500 bucks in swag easily to share back home at the office. Still.... Terror.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Fortunately most of the attendees are genuinely good folks, so generally what really happens is just that some data gets scraped and everybody has a bit of a laugh at one of the talks.

    I know worse happens, I just think it’s worth mentioning it is actually a group of mostly awesome people.

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