def con 24 was in 2016 jason claims this event happened there but there is no public record of a major stingray bust at def con that year a felony arrest at def con would have been widely discussed in security communities
"i had the key to the lost room"
"lost" at def con refers to a well known hacker and puzzle master associated with the def con badge challenge however the "lost room" is not a well documented or known space at def con and having a "key" to it is dubious
"i told him you ain’t doing that" but then "i let him do it"
the story contradicts itself jason first says they stopped him but then says they allowed him to do it which makes no sense
"he plugged it in put it on the couch and left"
if he wanted to run an illegal device at a hacker conference why would he leave it unattended no one deploying a stingray an expensive and illegal piece of hardware would be that careless
"you ever heard of a stingray the little diy thing"
stingrays imsi catchers are highly specialized law enforcement tools not "little diy things" while homemade imsi catchers exist they aren’t commonly referred to as "stingrays" in security circles
"it is a felony to operate one"
yes unauthorized use of an imsi catcher is a serious crime but there are no known public cases of someone being arrested for using one at def con
"i dumped all the information off of it"
if the device was running a stingray it would likely have encryption and security measures the claim that they quickly dumped all its data is an oversimplification
"four screws on one side three on the other"
hardware hacking details seem exaggerated and oddly specific as if to sound more authentic
"popped the memory card into my machine"
if someone actually suspected a malicious hacker device they would never just insert a foreign memory card into their own machine that’s a textbook way to get compromised
"took all that to the fbi contact"
def con does have law enforcement attendees but the process of handling evidence and involving the fbi isn’t this casual
"they arrested him"
no public records of an arrest at def con 24 involving an imsi catcher def con related arrests tend to make the news
"they gave me an fbi challenge coin"
the fbi does give out challenge coins but they aren’t typically handed out for random civilian help in an investigation it sounds like a brag with no proof
"he was targeting specific staff members"
this conveniently adds a personal vendetta aspect making the story more dramatic without evidence
chain of custody violation jason accessed the memory card before law enforcement making the evidence inadmissible
also he looks like hes doubting jason but still wants to be his friend lol
