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GeekNews.org: Day Three of Defcon

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 1, 2000

“I decided to camp out in the Uber Haxor track today as a
friend of mine was presenting a paper. The most memorable of the
talks were Palm Data Protection by Adam Bresson and 8-bit redux:
Microcontroller hacking by Phil King.”

“The Palm Data Protection talked about the potential problems of
having your Palm have infrared networking turned on, and how it can
be a pathway to hacking. Most of the problems have to do with the
simplicity of Palm OS. An interesting talk that anybody with a Palm
should review when it makes it onto the Defcon media site.”

“8-bit redux : Microcontroller hacking was a great talk. I
learned something from Phil about how to present, if you can make
the talk FUN, people will really respond to it. I enjoyed this talk
a whole lot and I mention it down below in the Grothe Awards
section.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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