The first rule of Def Con, the conference attended by some of the world’s most talented hackers, Black Hat and all: Don’t use the Wi-Fi.
Just ask this woman. Her email and partial password were projected on a wall along with those of dozens of other unsuspecting victims. Adding hacked passwords to the so-called “Wall of Sheep,” aka the wall of shame, is one of the conference’s weirder traditions. The organizers offer one-on-one tutorials to victims, but none came forward.
We emailed a bunch of emails on the wall. This 28-year-old graphic designer from Utah agreed to tell her story on the condition that we preserve her anonymity — or what remains of it.
