Rick Hill, Senior Scientist, Tenacity Solutions, Inc. was one of the featured speakers at DefCon14 this year. He gave a presentation on WarRocketing, which discussed "the design, launch, and recovery of a rocket whose objective is to network stumble 50 square miles in less than a minute."
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