Heh, when I was at defcon 2 years ago you had to walk about two blocks from the Rio to get any decent cell signal. They really need to add a few more towers or micro towers to the hotels.
You move the vm to the new datastore then change the drive size in the vm settings. Most modern operating systems will allow you to extend the used drive space in it's drive manager. If not, boot the vm with a gparted live cd iso and extend it that way.
There's like 5 of them, and I'm pretty sure they all went to Defcon. I've also had sites or other certificates expire because of a missed email, or no email from the provider at all.
Yea, my bag always makes them do that, then I usually hear "Bag check!" They root through it for a couple minutes while I put my shoes back on, and hand it to me. I did find they get pissy when I point out stuff they didn't look at....
I've had chainmail shirts go through the x-ray machine, they didn't seem to worry about that either. I don't think you're going to hurt the x-ray machine.
I've flown with multiple laptops and other electronics gear. They're pretty used to seeing this kind of stuff. It's the bodged together hacks that make them nervous. I've flown with this, and once I told them it's just a computer they were cool with it.
No, the deauth works against the mac address. If you cloned the mac of the legit access point your deauth will kill both access points. There's really no reason to clone the mac of the real network, 99% of people don't check that anyway.
It's in the virtual machine settings. In there is the network settings. Should be set to bridged, pretty sure this is the default though.https://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/network_configure_ws.html
That's the guy! Pretty sure he's the one fucking with my clients... Though he's using an old macbook pro, so I'm actually not all that worried. At least it's an intel mac!
Acer support will send you a recovery disk for a smallish fee. There "should" be a recovery partition as well, though I've had both good and horrible experience with those.