How Haunters Void Warranties
Reeves Smith details halloween makers or how haunters void warranties, social engineer and find the joy of creativity.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Halloween makers or how haunters void warranties, social engineer and find the joy of creativity. A short path down to what a community of makers that mod hardware, special effect and mood you in order to scare the shit out of you just one night a year.
Vulnerability Analysis
These people comprise electrical engineers to housewives and personally I've learned to solder better, faster because of it. Reeves Smith has been working with hardware for security's sake for 12 years, making open source WIDS and the like.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
He found a community of makers that live for nothing but Halloween and thought their spirit of creativity was a lot like the creativity seen in parts of the security community. He currently works for Tenacity Solutions Inc.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
as a SNSE and is a Mac Fan Boy. Facebook:
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