Our finalized Year of the Hack video is submitted, and trending already!
Thanks to dw5304, and Vlad for cranking this out!
It has begun. #yearofthehack #defcongroups #defcon https://t.co/CPjj02YjQy
— DEF CON (@defcon) February 23, 2016
-darkwind
It’s almost Friday, and as mentioned previously, due to the Holiday falling on a Friday we have moved the meeting to 1/08/2015.
Vlad has a special guest, Dr. Charles Tritt from MSOE will be joining us, and will be giving a demonstration with a TENS unit, somehow facilitating a human-to-human interface. It’ll definitely be a meeting to remember!
See you there!
-darkwind
So a few weeks ago a bunch of us got together to do the 2nd mission at EscapeMKE, titled James Bomb. It was a blast! While I won’t go into detail of the mission, we soared through all parts of it so fast, the host swore we had cheated at multiple areas, and was ready to disqualify us. We found a new and unknown (to EscapeMKE) way to complete one of the tasks that hadn’t been done before, leading us to get to the final step at approximately 18 minutes into the hour. We did prove our method, and were credited appropriately without cheating!
Unfortunately we got stuck on that last step until about 22 seconds remaining, but we did successfully complete it! (damn old touchy equipment)
-darkwind
Many thanks to Klaiviel, Vladimir, and dw5304 for their fast work at getting these badges ripped! We have recorded the contents of all badges that we know of (human, vendor, contest, artist, goon, speaker) and uploaded the contents in both lossy and lossless formats.
If you’d like to listen, please download the lossy file at THIS location. We have also added the lossless encoding (as best as we can do under the circumstances) at THIS location. It’s a 119Mb file.
Update: Although we have been told they are all identically stamped, we did digitize every badge we could find. Those have been uploaded as well — just list the folder if you want them. Thanks to those who allowed us to record their badges:
human – white – dw5304
blue – speaker – Jose
green – vendor – duosecurity.com
yellow – press – @techjournalist
clear – artist – DarrenBob
red – goon – Kentzonestar
gold – contest – TombOfTheUnknownGoon
-darkwind & vlad
We’re still very much alive and active, no one has bothered to update the website is all. 🙂 dw5304 got us off to a fun start with some Outernet reception, although it was really a demofail. Still fun to set up a satellite and receive signals!
Klaiviel had an awesome 3d printed brute force machine in the works for combination locks. Very fast!
We also did a nice sized LAN party on Saturday, lots of fun, booze, and yelling commenced. Want to join in the fun? Feeling like you missed out? Are you on our mailing list? You should be! or join us on IRC on freenode at #dc414.
-darkwind
Remember that the July DC414 meeting is a few scant days away! This month it’s going to be July 11th, as the 4th was some kind of national holiday (FREEDOM!) Find us at N69W25055 Indiangrass Lane Suite G Sussex, WI 53089
Hey all!
Finally another Basement LAN! Please sign up on the form if you are going. This helps us keep track of attendance and to ensure we will have enough space:
form: http://goo.gl/SmzLyA
Date: June 7th, 2014
Time: 2pm – 12am
Location:
Competitive Edge Software inc
9850 S 54th Street
Franklin, WI 53132
April brought another great meeting! Thanks again for the Milwaukee Makerspace for hosting us. Klaiviel taught us quite a few things about locks, he had his collection out for display. 
We then toured the facility again, always a great time to explore the Makerspace! We were able to see this crazy subwoofer in action! 
It’s a booth you sit inside and /FEEL THE G’s/ Here’s Vlad inside:
We had to tone it down after threats of the police being called for noise were voiced. 🙂
After that, we went back and saw a cool piece of machinery that Mike put together, cooling a computer and GPU with a dehumidifier!
We then spent the better part of the evening debating the merits of salted butter, vs unsalted butter. Seems Faraday really has a strong opinion about it! here’s this… equation that lays it all out for us:
All in all, another great meeting. See you next month at the Meetupery!
-darkwind
March came in, and was an awesome time. Too bad ngharo and vlad missed it. We were hopping at the Meetupery!
dw5304 got things started with some radio hacking, with his HackerRF board that he’s managed to un-brick. We swept some bands, and learned that car FOBs generally work around 300mhz for sending signals. And Chrysler FOBs have some good output! 
After that, we had some fun with a giant lock that Klaviel tried his hand at. This thing is used for some serious security! 
We also reminisced about previous dc414 meetings, like a certain laser incident, and RF jammers. W also got to see a neat piece of hackery, an ammo can turned into a self contained power supply, with lithium drill batteries and an inverter. Awesomesauce! 
Thanks for everyone who came out, and we’ll see you again next month!
-darkwind