Gallery: Imploding Barrels and Other Highlights From Hackfest DefCon
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Guests open and re-seal envelopes in the Tamper Village at DEFCON 23 in Las Vegas.
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The DefCon Uber badge is given to winners of the various conference contests and bestows the winner with a lifetime of free admission to DefCon. This year's Uber badge, in the shape of a triangle, commemorates the anniversary of the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert in 1945, and Richard Feynman's role in the creation of the first atomic bomb. The badge is radioactive---a Uranium marble sits on one corner, a crystal skull embedded with a small vial of tritium sits on another, and the third contains a tiny remnant of radioactive material said to have been recovered from the Trinity test site.
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The vendor badge at this year's DefCon, which consists of a 7-inch vinyl record with a series of recordings and cryptographic messages related to puzzles that attendees were tasked to solve.
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A lock-picking workshop in the Tamper Village.
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Guests dismantling an interior in the Car Hacking Village.
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Haircuts given out for donations.
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DEFCON 23 attendees work on their laptops.
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A guest dismantling an interior in the Car Hacking Village.
