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DDDDDoS
December 31st, 2008 · Germany, Hacker culture, Photos
Another historic first from 25C3, the first-ever (confirmed) Dual Dunkin’ Donuts Distributed Denial of Service (DDDDDoS) attack.
Two Dunkin’ Donuts stores near the conference center in Alexanderplatz were simultaneously flashmobbed by hundreds of hackers, temporarily interrupting normal donut delivery. It would appear that the stores did not have adequate caching implemented, although local mirrors were available.
Happy New Year’s, everyone!
Photos and video courtesy the 25C3 wiki:
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Two-thousand and Eight was Filled with Win
January 1st, 2009 · Germany, Travel
Ok, well, not really. For most people, it was probably kind of terrible, what with the entire global economy teetering on the verge of collapse and everything. I am sympathetic, and if 2008 was a crap year for you, at least you can take comfort in the fact that 2009 will might suck less.
But what’s the point of having your own blog if you can’t be totally navel-gazing, indulgent and self-centered? This is the time of year when every media outlet on the planet publishes a year-in-review piece. So here goes: this was a sweet year for me—graduating, getting the Watson, all the campaigning paying off with Obama’s election, driving and camping down the Baja peninsula in Mexico for spring break. I hope next year lives up.
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Europe is tiny
January 3rd, 2009 · Sweden, Travel
So it only took us one day to get to Sweden, and it wasn’t like we were exactly hauling ass, either. I always forget how close everything is in Europe. It took us only about 2 hours to drive across Denmark.
It turns out I’ve gotten suddenly and pretty miserably sick. What I assumed was a combination of new year’s hangover, caffeine withdrawal, and sleeping on a hard wood floor is actually a proper illness with headache, fever, cough, stuffed up nose. I’m trying not to let it ruin my experience, but I do feel awful. I’ve just been sleeping constantly.
The hacklab here in Malmo is called “The Research Department” and it’s a cool place. They do a lot of electronics projects and phone hacking. Strangely enough, they don’t have internet at the hacklab, because “if we had internet everyone would bug us to fix it when they broke it.” I’m posting this from a little 3G cell modem thing somebody brought.
Alright, anyway, back to sleep.
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100 Posts!
January 6th, 2009 · Sweden
According to WordPress, this is my 100th post. I wish I had something more substantial to say in it. I’ve spent most of the last 3 days huddled in bed drinking tons of water and taking ibuprofen. My Swedish hosts have been very kind and patient.
Yesterday, we had an an Alien movie marathon. Aliens is still the best one, because it’s that much more frightening seeing a crack marine squad get picked apart (“Game over, man, game over!”), plus Ripley becomes a total, uncompromising badass in that one.
My host also picked up some cool old phone equipment from a nearby electronics store to play around with. I tried to follow what was going on, but I’m really not feeling 100%. I hope tomorrow will be better, the local hackers are having a meeting at some coffee bar because their normal hackspace is being used for a punk show. I’m going to go if I feel up to it (to the hacker meeting, not the punk show. Definitely not up for a punk show.)
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