Defcon is a mere one week away! Are you going? You should be. Quit your jobs, drop out of school and dump your girlfriends so that nothing will stand in your way of making it to Defcon to hang out with some of us other Phone Losers. Move to Nevada permanently if that’s what it takes. If all goes well, you will be able to meet 3/4ths of the entire Cacti Radio DJ staff, including Rob The Hyena, RBCP and Laugh Track Matt! Rob says he’ll even be doing a special edition of The Prank Show on Saturday night. Other people who claim they’re going are Rappy McRapperson, Sudo, afreak, DBK, RogueClown, Jenn, blu3b0y, Jammie, ApprenticePhreak, i-ball, lmnk, Evie, gnnr, and a bunch of other people who have messaged me, but I can’t remember. This is going to be a fairly huge meetup, so be sure to track us all down and say hello.
Defcon 19 will be at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, from August 4th to August 7th. Admission is an outrageous $150 per person, so bring lots of badge counterfeiting supplies with you. A few of us aren’t even buying admission into Defcon since there will still be plenty to do on the outskirts of Defcon. And if you buy some of us enough beer, we might even loan our Defcon badge to you so you can get in for a bit. So don’t let the entrance fee deter you! Come to Defcon! Visit defcon.org for official Defcon information and visit PLA’s Defcon planning thread on the PLA forums to make plans with us.
During this week’s Phone Show, r0xy called in and asked for some donations to help her make it to Defcon this year. Surprisingly, a lot of people took her seriously and sent in some very generous donations to help her make it and it looks like she’ll actually make it. A ton of thanks goes out to everyone who is helping to make this happen, including Tombstone, Spacebison, Trevor Burdick, pfelon, Richard H., Rob The Hyena, podjackel and, of course, ME! She hasn’t quite met her goal to make it from Texas to Vegas, though. If you’d like to help out, send anything you can to rbcp@phonelosers.org and I’ll forward it to r0xy. If r0xy happens to not make it to Vegas, all money will be refunded. But at this point, it’s looking likely that she’ll make it, so thanks a ton everyone!
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! Following us on Twitter will help ensure that you can effectively stalk the PLA while you’re at Defcon. RBCP’s twitter will likely be updated often, just as it has been at previous Defcons in recent years. You can keep an eye on PLA’s twitter, but that probably won’t be updated at all. You might also try following Jenn, Jammie, RogueClown, afreak and i-ball. I guess we could all hashtag #phonelosers too, but I’ll probably be too drunk to remember to do that. I’m sure I’ve forgotten people, so if you’re the type likely to be getting thrown out with us, then post your Twitter link in the comments below!
Oh, and one last thing…bring your PLA book with you! Trevelyn had the amazing idea of turning his copy of the PLA book into sort of a yearbook, having all of his PLA colleagues sign it. This is pretty much the best idea ever, and we should all steal it. I’ve already had my personal copy signed by a couple of people and I’m looking forward to having it signed by a lot more.
So far the Defcon 2009 PLA attendee list includes RogueClown, notlist3d, RijilV and RBCP. Are you planning to go? Take a look at our Defcon planning thread in the forums and let us know if you can make it too. You might want to arrange some ride and room sharing there too.
DEFCON 17 will be held July 31 – August 2, 2009, at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Defcon is a fun environment for all ages where you can make explosives, trash hotel rooms, stab hookers and drink until you die of alcohol poisoning. See you all there!
Just one last quick reminder – if you’re going to be at ShmooCon this weekend, look us up. Quite a few people from the PLA Forums will be attending, including RTF, Trevelyn, Rogue Clown, RBCP, tully, vixen and Magus.
If you were at Defcon this past weekend, then you may have noticed PLA paraphernalia laying around on a few tables. We gave away lots of free PLA Media DVDs, t-shirts, buttons, stickers and business cards. If you were the lucky recipient of any of these items, then congratulations! Lots of thanks to the vendors who traded me their t-shirts for PLA t-shirts. And thanks to our sponsors in the sidebars and all of you who’ve purchased PLA merchandise in the past. It’s because of you that I can continue to give away so much free PLA junk.
A few years ago, in 2004, Big-E, RTF, Judas Iscariot, Murd0c and I-baLL all gave a presentation at the Hackers On Planet Earth convention for PLA’s 10th anniversary. Thanks to Legend813, the full video of this event is now streaming on megavideo.com. You can click here to watch it, or see it below…
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Thanks, Legend!
10/27/2007 EDIT: Megavideo keeps being a bunch of cocks and taking down Legend’s videos. He’s giving up on putting the HOPE video up since he’s done it twice now. So instead of watching that, take a look at Legend’s collection of videos and pictures.
Legend’s YouTube page More than 200 videos here. Watch Legend do all kinds of wacky things, such as shop at 7-Eleven!
As if you don’t have enough reason to attend Rubi-con this year, the staff at Rubi-con has decided to make this the most memorable hacker convention ever by organizing a massive pie fight in the hotel’s lobby. The plan goes something like this – everyone attending Rubicon this year should try to bring at least one pie. Friday night there will be a social engineering contest and points will be awarded to those who can trick local bakeries into bringing in carts full of pies. On Saturday evening everyone will converge in the lobby with their pies and on the signal we all start throwing pies like a bunch of lunatics! Rubicon will be awarding prizes for the most comical-looking hits to the hotel staff. This year’s Rubi-con is one that should not be missed! (A good pie recipe for those who don’t know how to cook pies can be found here.
This year’s Rubicon will be held in Detroit’s Holiday Inn from March 28th through March 30th, 2003. Tickets are an outrageous $50 per head but if you donate 2 dozen canned goods to the staff they’ll give you a 75% discount. This also works for a 32% discount on the cost of your hotel room so be sure to bring 4 dozen cans of food for each person that’s attending with you. Besides the official Rubicon site there is also the unoffcial Rubicon site which has a lot of good information. You can view the PLA Crew’s past few years of pictures here. That page will soon contain some preparation info for the upcoming Rubicon. Once again, Microsoft founder Steve Wozniak will not be giving the keynote and neither will Defcon’s Dark Tangent. We also have information from a very good source who is quite sure that LOD’s Erik Bloodaxe will not be giving the keynote either. Keep watching Rubicon’s website for updates.
Once again, it’s the time of year when you need to drop everything you’re doing and start making plans to attend Rubicon 5 in Detroit, MI. This year it will be held at the Holiday Inn from March 28th through March 30th, 2003. Tickets are an outrageous $50 per head but if you donate 2 dozen canned goods to the staff they’ll give you a 75% discount. This also works for a 32% discount on the cost of your hotel room so be sure to bring 4 dozen cans of food for each person that’s attending with you.
Besides the official Rubicon site there is also the unoffcial Rubicon site which has a lot of good information. You can view the PLA Crew’s past few years of pictures here. That page will soon contain some preparation info for the upcoming Rubicon. Once again, Microsoft founder Steve Wozniak will not be giving the keynote and neither will Defcon’s Dark Tangent. We also have information from a very good source who is quite sure that LOD’s Erik Bloodaxe will not be giving the keynote either. Keep watching Rubicon’s website for updates.
Start saving your money, quit your job, leave your girlfriend and plan to attend Rubicon this year. It will be held just outside of Detroit, Michigan from April 5th to April 7th. Founder/chairman of Microsoft Steve Wozniak will NOT be the keynote this year. Most of you probably know him better as the guy who invented the Blotto Box back in the 60′s or as Cap’n Crunch’s weird roommate on the early 90′s NBC sitcom, “Phreak Me Out”. But it’s pointless to tell you all this now since he backed out of his appearance there. You can click here to learn more about Rubicon. Mention “phone losers” at the door for dirty looks from the Rubicon staff.
UPDATE: MexicanBob Points Out Wozniak Mistake If you’ve read our Rubicon announcement (over there on the right) and if you’re not a complete moron, you probably noticed that most of the things in that paragraph are obviously a joke. A self-proclaimed geek named MexicanBob, wrote me the following email:
On the main page of your website, you have listed: “Founder/chairman of Microsoft Steve Wozniak will NOT be the keynote this year.” The founder and chairman of M$ is Bill Gates, not Woz. Steve Wozniak was one of the cofounders of Apple Computers. He designed and built the Apple I. It is an insult to every computer geek on the face of the planet to mention
the name of the great Woz and the putrid name of M$ on the same line. -MexicanBob
This is actually about the 3rd email like this I’ve gotten. You’d think people would know that neither Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates invented the blotto box. And that there was never a sitcom with Cap’n Crunch in it called Phreak Me Out. But noooooooooo…. This reminds me of the old PLA issue where I gave out a “secret code” you could punch into any pay phone in the world and it would make all the money come out of the phone. People emailed me for years after that, telling me that they tried the code on every pay phone in town but it just didn’t seem to work. Wake up, people – this site has a lot of parody and humor in it and not everything you read is going to be 100% true!
Now that that’s out of my system, everyone go to Rubicon this year, okay? I’ve got the new 2002 Payphone Coin Return code which I’ll be handing out to everyone who wants it so it’ll definitely be worth your time to attend this year.
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As if you don’t have enough reason to attend 
Start saving your money, quit your job, leave your girlfriend and plan to attend 
