EFF's excited to be back for another DEF CON with a membership booth in the Vendor area, a contest, and a bunch of talks. Be sure to catch us at the world's largest annual hacker convention in Las Vegas from August 7-10!
Join the Cause
Come find us in Vendor Hall West to learn more about the latest in online rights, get on our action alert list, or donate to become an EFF member. We'll also have our limited-edition DEF CON 33 shirts available! These shirts have a puzzle incorporated into the design. Try your hand at cracking it!
EFF Benefit Poker Tournament
We’re going all in on internet freedom. Take a break from hacking the Gibson to face off with your competition at the tables—and benefit EFF! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Join us on Friday, August 8 at 12:00 in the Planet Hollywood Poker Room. Play for glory. Play for money. Play for the future of the web.
WHEN: Friday, August 8, 12:00-15:00
WHERE (NEW LOCATION): Planet Hollywood Poker Room, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Recording PCAPs from Stingrays With a $20 Hotspot
What if you could use Wireshark on the connection between your cellphone and the tower it's connected to? In this talk we present Rayhunter, a cell site simulator detector built on top of a cheap cellular hotspot. It works by collecting and analyzing real-time control plane traffic between a cellular modem and the base station it's connected to. We will outline the hardware and the software developed to get low level information from the Qualcomm DIAG protocol, as well as go on a deep dive into the methods we think are used by modern cell-site simulators.
WHEN: Friday, August 8 at 13:30
WHERE: LVCC - L1 - EHW3 - Track 1
Rayhunter Build Clinic
Come out and build EFF's Rayhunter! ($10 materials fee as an EFF donation)
WHEN: Friday, August 8 at 14:30
WHERE: Hackers.Town Community Space
Protect Your Privacy Online and on the Streets with EFF Tools
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been protecting your rights to privacy, free expression, and security online for 35 years! One important way we push for these freedoms is through our free, open source tools. We’ll provide an overview of how these tools work, including Privacy Badger, Rayhunter, Certbot, and Surveillance-Self Defense, and how they can help keep you safe online and on the streets.
WHEN: Friday, August 8 at 17:00
WHERE: Community Stage
Rayhunter Internals
Rayhunter is an open source project from EFF to detect IMSI catchers. In this follow up to our main stage talk about the project we will take a deep dive into the internals of Rayhunter. We will talk about the architecture of the project, what we have gained by using Rust, porting to other devices, how to jailbreak new devices, the design of our detection heuristics, open source shenanigans, and how we analyze files sent to us. It's everything you didn't know you wanted to know about Rayhunter.
WHEN: Saturday, August 9, at 12:00
WHERE: Hackers.Town Community Space
Ask EFF
We're excited to answer your burning questions on pressing digital rights issues! Our expert panelists will offer brief updates on EFF's work defending your digital rights, before opening the floor for attendees to ask their questions. This dynamic conversation centers challenges DEF CON attendees actually face, and is an opportunity to connect on common causes.
WHEN: Saturday, August 9, at 14:30
WHERE: LVCC - L1 - EHW3 - Track 4
EFF Tech Trivia
Join us for some tech trivia on Saturday, August 9 at 7:00 PM! EFF's team of technology experts have crafted challenging trivia about the fascinating, obscure, and trivial aspects of digital security, online rights, and internet culture. Competing teams will plumb the unfathomable depths of their knowledge, but only the champion hive mind will claim the First Place Tech Trivia Trophy and EFF swag pack. The second and third place teams will also win great EFF gear.
WHEN: Saturday, August 9, 19:00-22:00
WHERE: Contest Stage
Looking for Help?
As in past years, EFF staff attorneys will be present to help support the community. If you have legal concerns regarding an upcoming talk or sensitive infosec research that you are conducting at any time, please email info@eff.org. Outline the basic issues and we will do our best to connect you with the resources you need.
Read more about EFF's work defending, offering legal counsel, and publicly advocating for technologists on our Coders' Rights Project page.
