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Over the weekend the Defcon 16 Hackers convention was on ........ they love to get together and think about doin the unthinkable........ one group at the meet discussed how to hack into and turn off peoples pacemakers........ er........ thats not really funny is it.......? ...... The City of Boston Transport Authorities had an injunction against a group of MIT students who were about to present the beginers guide as to how to travel for free in Boston......... by hacking your way to free rides for life on the cities Metro.......... It was all fun and games for the 8000 attendees who like this stuff........ "Hackers shared ways to crack everything from mobile telephones, computer games and social networking websites to electronic hospital records and high security locks used at the White House. A cavernous room was devoted to a non-stop "capture the flag" contest in which players hunched over laptop computers battled to seize and keep control of a network set up for the game. Nightly "Hacker Jeopardy" drinking games required teams of players to correctly answer geeky computer questions with those giving wrong responses punished by having to guzzle beer."......... It sounds like nothing much has changed since I went there a couple of years back....... ... all around the hotel where it took place was displayed ...... just stuck up randomly on printed out sheets....... the passwords..... private info....... credit card and bank details of hackers attending..... info that had been hacked and exposed by their colleges it was displayed on the wall like a scalp...........suffice to say I was too scared to log on even once or ever use the ATM machine in the hotel....... hehehehe.....

Cheers Jez XX