Clocking On

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2021, Nov. 11, 2021, 9 a.m. (60 minutes)

<p>A nerd's eye view of time and timekeeping...</p><p>Moves are finally afoot to secure time! Well, to secure what we consider to be the current time. Or, to be more specific, to secure how we distribute what we consider to be the consensus of what is the "current" time. And by "we" I mean The Internet. And by "current time" I mean time measured by Atomic Clocks, accurate to within 1 second every 100 million years. Or thereabouts.</p><p>So that's nice...</p><p>But what does that actually mean?<br>Why do I care?<br>Is it enough?<br>Is an 0-day that skews time still an 0-day or does it disappear up its own paradox?<br>Only time will tell...</p>

Presenters:

  • Adam Laurie / Major Malfunction - Global Associate Partner and Lead Hardware Hacker, IBM X-Force Red   as Adam Laurie
    <p>Adam Laurie, a.k.a. &ldquo;rfidiot&rdquo; is IBM X-Force Red's Global Lead Hardware Hacker. Adam has four decades of information technology and security experience. Before joining IBM he launched several companies, one of which brought to market Apache-SSL, the first secure open source web server. He went on to pioneer the concept of re-using military data centers housed in underground nuclear bunkers as secure hosting facilities and also built satellite music transmission sites and the world's first CD ripper "CDGRAB.&rdquo;</p> <p>Adam has been a senior DEF CON goon ("Major Malfunction") since 1997 and is the point-of-contact for the London DEF CON chapter DC4420. He has given presentations on forensics, magnetic stripe, EMV, InfraRed, RF, RFID, embedded systems, glitching, terrestrial and satellite TV hacking, and, of course, Magic Moonbeams.</p>

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