Meshtastic @ DEF CON 33: Event Firmware Now Live
Meshtastic collaborated with DEF CON, Darknet-NG, the Lonely Hackers Club, and other prominent groups heavily involved in the event to ensure this year's firmware is even more successful than last year's. 🛰️
⚙️ Key Features:
• DEF CON 33 splash screen
• Optimized event mode for dense mesh environments with tuned telemetry & GPS intervals
• LoRa Modem_Preset: SHORT_TURBO (capped at 3 hops)
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• Three encrypted channels preconfigured:
▫️ DEFCONnect (MQTT uplink enabled)
▫️ HackerComms (MQTT receive only)
▫️ NodeChat (MQTT receive only)
• MQTT Configuration:
▫️ Broker: mqtt.defcon.org
▫️ Topic: event/defcon33
▫️ TLS and encryption enabled 🔐
▫️ Username: public
▫️ Password: 31337
▫️ Only Channel 0 has uplink enabled by default
⚡️ Flash the firmware at https://defcon.meshtastic.org
📝 Full userprefs:
https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/blob/event/defcon33/userPrefs.jsonc
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