Glenn Pegden

I love that when told to ‘defragment yourselves’ to maximise seating usage at the #EMFCamp closing ceremony, virtually everyone seemed to get it. In some ways, this is even more ‘my people’ than even @defcon@defcon.social !

Does anyone at #emfcamp #emfcamp2026 #emfcamp26 know who designed this puzzle (which was dropped on the table in front me, but I didn’t see by whom?

@joenash@hachyderm.io That fits even better for 2028, as I’m working on a game too :)

@tautology@infosec.exchange @bloor@bloor.tw I think the 3 of us are old enough when people had the similarly strong feelings over GUIs instead of CLIs, strong typed programming languages and optimising compilers The genie is long out of the bottle, at least with artwork people understand the value of ‘hand crafted’. I can’t imagine ‘artisanal hand-coded web apps’ being a thing anyone is screaming for in the future.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @wdormann@infosec.exchange same here!

@tamonten@mstdn.social excellent, that gives me a chance to sweep it and repack it. Thanks again, it’s was superb!

More from #emfcamp ‘s Bleepie POCSAG network

@joenash@hachyderm.io I know this is a few months too late (this is my first EMF and I only found out this morning you had an on-site arcade), but still. I was going to chuck in my retrogaming/computing stack (MiSTer FPGA, RetroPie with - greaseweal and 3.5. & 5.25 drive in a mini rackmount cab, with a retail CRT TV and a tonne of OG controllers) just to have in our villiage, but if you want it (and I can find room in the car) then you’re welcome to it in the arcade. Also, (again, likely months too late) if you need volunteers (this year or in the future) I’d be delighted to offer my services.

Seems like only 5 mins ago, we were in here buying his first non-baby clothes!

@tamonten@mstdn.social yeah, I’m not against the idea of just buying a new tent, but I know after EMF it’ll just sit in the garage and rot until somebody else has a need for it, so for once I was trying to be a little more sustainable And I’d absolutely be putting it up first, not least because I don’t want to be that guy who has no idea how is tent goes up, in front of a crowd :) Will check calendar once I’m home and can speak to Jill because I know we have some ice hockey in Bradford (and possibly Leeds) this weekend, I’m not not 100% sure what and when, though 75% of the time I’ll be in Gildersome

@tamonten@mstdn.social Sounds perfect, it’s only for me, me everyone keep mentioning for EMF I need somewhere to ‘store kit’ rather than just crash for a couple of hours every night! If you really don’t mind, just let me know where/when is best to pick it up, and I’ll sort the rest And a MASSIVE Thank You!

@tamonten@mstdn.social so it looks like I’m at the rink in Bradford for at least another hour, then off to white rose to buy the boy a suit, so not back in Gildersome until late afternoon. I’m around Gildy tomorrow morning, probably doing roller on the rec, but it’s only 5 mins from home, the back in Bradford for a tournament in the afternoon. If any of that fits, great, but if not, I don’t mind driving out in the evening. The other option is if you’re still at the hackspace regularly, is there somebody there who could bring it to DC151 on Wednesday?

Before I head to Decathlon or Go Outdoors, nobody has a mid size tent they’d be prepared to lend more for EMF Camp do they? I have a couple of ‘festival’ 2-man tents but EMF looks like I need to take a tonne of stuff, so much bigger is better.

Before I take a crack at it myself, nobody is working on putting #EMFCamp on @hackertracker are they?

Anyone at #EMFCamp got a spare DB9 -> DB25 cable (modem cabls, not null-modem) cable to get a fax modem working ? (And yes, I check the swap shop)

@sammachin@chaos.social loved the talk and the hexpansion. You mentioned one existing jail break. I assume there isn’t one (yet) to ignore the RIC on received messages?

OMG! the #emfcamp spiders have mutated!

I just love #EMFCamp , where else could I pop out for a shower and coffee, and come back with a cyclone II FPGA (and help rid the world of a little e-waste)

@tamonten@mstdn.social tent down! would you prefer the tent back here on bringing to you in Leeds?

1st day of the week long Bradford Bulldogs hockey camp. I suspect he’ll look a little differently next Saturday! Glad he’s finally ditched the Crocs for sliders (even if they are mine!)

Every time a vendor asks if I’m going to BlackHat/Bsides LV/DefCon this year! (Though I suspect we’ll be back in 2027)

Last years FOMO was too much too handle, so guess who has just booked to return to DefCon again next year (BTW 30k points is just £390 right now, so that makes the flights £705, not the usual £1200 !)

@jay9@chaos.social Ah! That would make sense! I think I solved all the visible puzzles, but the rfid seemed to lack any data bar the UID. Maybe 4 combine UID should have formed another cipher

@sammachin@chaos.social Ah, I didn’t realise RIC 0 was ‘all’. Is that just in your hardware or a standard (I still have some old pagers, which is would be a fun project to reflash if chancing the RIC was all that was needed). BTW I’ve wanted to demonstrate POCSAG decoding at @bsidesleeds@infosec.exchange for years, ideally letting people learn legitimately and legally, but then arming them with the knowledge that changing the frequency (and ignoring some dated and unenforced sections of the wireless communications act) was all that was needed to snoop on al POCSAG/flex traffic

@sammachin@chaos.social yes, thinking about it, it would be a ridiculous thing to put in the spec and/or consumer hardware (though I am now curious about wether I can get a 90s consumer pager to do it :)

@mainframed767@infosec.exchange Really regret not doing DefCon this year, I’m going to miss my annual bit of phone phreaking nostalgia. I will be back in 2027 though .

@hannahmakes@mastodon.social Yes! Though I never found the star map in the bar, so other than the simple cipher I didn’t solve much. I did have fun though buggering about with the nfc, convinced you had somehow hidden something in the unallocated space. But even the glyph part was the perfect tonic. I was having low-spoons moment and it was exactly the right level of puzzle to get me going again! Thank You so much for making it!

@fastness@mastodon.social @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social oh! I know exactly what was on the rfid, but it never dawned on me that is needed to be read by something specific!

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social Fantastic! Firstly pass on my huge and sincere thanks, it was exactly the brain-tonic I needed of a low-spoons day.

Secondly, I’m curious as to the ‘solution’. I certainly solved some parts with relative ease, but I’m not sure

• Wether I found the natural end of the puzzle
• Wether the RFID I had was misconfigured accidentally
• Wether RFID I has was set up in a way that I simply failed to decode
• Whether I simply missed an obvious ‘next step’ somewhere.