darknet infected about 1500 people with
chlamydia at def con
and i was responsible for about a
hundred of them
let me go back and qualify that
statement see this is the darknet badge
and the badge is used to actually
compete in darknet it's just one part of
it the dark net badge had some pretty
cool hidden features in it
which were part of the contest that not
many people knew about
and it was kind of a hidden challenge
because you could get infected with
the plague influenza or chlamydia
and that one was the most interesting
one gulo and gaori
and command code programmed a lot of
these things in to simulate
real world interactions influenza was
spread
through interactions or bluetooth so if
you came too close to someone and stayed
within that distance for a
small amount of time you could actually
catch the flu on your badge
but the coolest one was actually
chlamydia
see there's two ports at the top here
which
were called add-on ports or saos
with the saos what you were able to do
is purchase one from
a lot of different vendors and plug it
into your badge
and it would just simply light up now
what's interesting is darknet had their
own
it was this one and it was a little tiny
eggplant
and what you could do is plug it into
your badge but this one has a hidden
feature
besides just lighting up about 15
of these had an extra piece of code in
them and you would plug them into your
badge
which now infected the badge with
chlamydia so now when a
clean eggplant entered your badge it
would infect
that eggplant and then spread to other
badges so
you can infect other badges either by
putting in a clean eggplant
into your badge and then that moving
elsewhere
or take your infected eggplant which you
start with and plugging it into
others now something you might be asking
yourself is who would allow
some random stranger to come up like an
eggplant into their badge
well a couple jerks went around claiming
that their eggplant leds weren't working
and try it out in everyone else's badge
which spread chlamydia
throughout all those clean badges which
would then
spread to all the other ones close to
the end of the conference almost
1500 players were infected with
chlamydia besides the flu and the plague
and we learn at least one valuable
lesson which is don't trust anyone who
says their eggplant is clean if you want
to hear about some other shenanigans we
get up to at defcon
hear about how two friends of mine
infiltrated defcon using a urinal cake
or this other video overall don't trust
any hacker who says they have a clean
eggplant
thanks for watching