Hir 8
By Asmodian X

DefCon 7.0: Preparation for the Annual Exodus

	<summary>

	DefCon 6.0 Was held in Las Vegas Nevada august of 1998.  A few
months earlier, my self Axon and Frogman had planed to come.  Axon and
Frogman had actually done more planning than I did at that point.  I was
however still early enough to reserve a room and procure a cheap direct
plane to Las Vegas Nevada with days to spare.  As I always say, "Never
Underestimate the power of the last minute."  

	<Objectives>

	As always, it could have gone smoother.  I should have came in
closer to the actual days of the conference.  I also should have prepared
better for the events.  Not to mention for room-mates, food ..etc....
	At DefCon 7.0 I plan to be better equip for the main event, and 
to compensate for problems that may arise.

	<Information on con>

	DEF CON 7.0 will be July 9-11th, 1999, in Las Vegas, Nevada USA. 
The con will be held at the Alexis Park Hotel and Resort. Updates on the
progress of the con will be posted at http://www.defcon.org.  As always,
The early bird gets the worm. 

	<Steps Taken>

	Some of the problems I ran into were purely biological.  When some
ones diet changes, some times gastro-intestinal problems arise.  Im
deffinitly bringing some Pepto with me.  Also, I don't care how cheap the
food is, buy grocerys.  It is also very dry down there, and very hot. <Duh
its kinda in the middle of a desert dude> When you go for a walk, drink
often, and drink water, not beer. 
	Another issue was maneuvering around the city.  Fortunately Axon and
company had driven and I could bum a ride off of them.  But Taxi's are not
cheap, consider going to get supply's en masse. 
	In the way of cash, Don't use credit, just don't, use cash sparingly
, travelers cheqs are a safe bet. You usually need 40$ just for the con. Id
keep 15$ a day for food, keep 50$ for emergency travel cash, 60$ spending
cash is another one.  Bring about 195$ in cash < maybe 40$ in cash and the
rest in trailers cheqs> The rooms will cost about 79$ per night possibly
250ish after taxes.  Then a person can get air fare for around 180ish,
depending on location.  For the cheapest fare, check out www.cheapfare.com
to get quotes and even buy the ticket online.  In the way of cash, Pull
together 600 bucks.
	In the way of a computer system to bring, Im hauling the new and
improved AEGIS.ORG.  A 486SX 33 laptop with a 200 Mb HD 20 Mb of ram with
an external cdrom, zip drive and of course all of the PCMCIA fixins. <ie. 
NIC card ...etc> This Year AEGIS will hopefully join both Axons and
Frogmans Laptops.  We will attempt to do a firewall with the laptops under
one IP address and if there is an attack on the Firewall system, we will
just INIT into a new configuration where each laptop has its own IP on the
hacker subnet in the Capture the flag contest. (Divide and conquer) <the
contest costs 2$ to enter and get an IP>  I will attempt to master a few
cd's with enough pre-compiled hacks and scripts, not to mention tools,
toys and utility's to be able to whoop some major arse.  This next
conference we will also utilize the secured shell for checking e-mail.
	I also Was concerned about leaving my equipment out un-attended
whilst I check out a speaker or two.  I suppose If we set up a kind of
storage locker for holding the equipment whilst we are away that would
solve that problem.  It would have to be either collapse-able or something
that could be carried onto the airplane as carry on luggage..

	<conclusion>

	Hopefully with more planning we will be able to actually 
utilize our time better so that we can get more out of the con.  And
perhaps tack down a few servers while were at it :)

(eof)

