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What can we say to convince you to take all of the boundaries down?

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To stop limiting what you believe can be yours?

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If there is anything we wish to achieve, it is to have each of your boundaries in free.

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Knowing that every thought you entertain somehow determines your experience.

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Give to believe that you are always at the right place at the right time.

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Liberating consciousness into a new way of perceiving.

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Frequency is what you know.

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Frequency is your identity.

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Frequency is what you know.

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Frequency is your identity.

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to believe that you are always at the right place at the right time.

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If you ask us how much time you need to devote to this, we will say it is very simple.

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All of your time.

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The right place, the right time, the right place.

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Frequency is what you know.

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Frequency is your identity.

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Frequency is what you know.

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Frequency is your identity.

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Frequency is what you know.

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Frequency is your identity.

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What can we say to convince you to take all of the boundaries down?

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To stop limiting what you believe can be yours?

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If there is anything we wish to achieve, it is to have each of your boundaries in free.

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Knowing that every thought you entertain somehow determines your experience.

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And to honor their memory in this next year, before we all meet again in, hopefully, Las Vegas next year.

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Then we will kick things off.

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Let's go to the next slide now.

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This was quite a journey, an adventure for us.

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To build such a phenomenal experience in three months, three and a half months.

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And we agonized over the decision for a long time.

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Should we cancel?

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Can we cancel?

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Can we get out of contracts?

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So on and so forth.

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Is there a platform that could support us?

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There's a lot of platforms that could support us at maybe 5,000, 10,000 people.

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But if we turned out to be 100,000 people, that's a completely different ballgame.

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And we didn't know.

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So we made all of our decisions based on sort of the worst case scenario.

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Now, somebody sent me a message.

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They were in a chat last night, and beers were being had, and it was getting late.

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And Kentaro, if you know El Kentaro, fantastic guy, really embodies a lot of the hacker spirit.

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People were lamenting that the con was coming to an end, and that sucked.

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Because it was turning out to be so much more fulfilling than what they thought.

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They thought it was going to be like a Zoom experience, and instead they get real connection.

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And Kentaro told this great story, and I'm going to second-hand it, but here it goes.

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He said, there's a concept in Japan, in Japanese, called Ichigo-Ichi-I.

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And it describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment.

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The term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that at any moment, life cannot be repeated.

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Even when the same group of people get together in the same place again, a particular gathering will never be replicated, and thus each moment is always a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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And I really feel that we've just gone through a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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We thought one thing, and a different thing happened.

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And it's amazing.

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So we want to give you a little bit behind the stories of what it took to pull this off, get some inside scoop from the people running the different departments making it happen.

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And I do want to do a quick – let's go to the next slide.

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I do want to do a shout-out, though, to everybody who helped financially make this possible.

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So you may not have realized it, but every time you bought a shirt or a hat or a badge – let's go to the next slide, too – even this pin, which is a fantastic pin, what you were really doing is helping keep DEF CON afloat and ensuring that we're going to be in Vegas next year.

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So I felt really strongly that I wanted this experience to be free.

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I wanted to let everybody experience it from all over the world that normally can't get on an airplane.

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But we have bills, too.

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And so by you purchasing some of our swag, you really made it possible.

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So thank you for that.

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You can wear it proudly knowing that you really made this possible.

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Let's go to the next slide.

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Same thing for the badge.

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The badge – we wanted to make this badge, and we wanted to tie a badge purchase to a human plus on the Discord system, and we just couldn't figure it out in time.

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There was no way to take, like, a PayPal transaction and tie it to an eBay auction and then tie it to a UUID on Discord for people who hadn't even created Discord accounts yet.

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So instead, they ended up doing two different things, the on-site human plus and the badge.

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And let's go to the next slide.

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Just like trying to make the experience free for everybody, we tried to make the badge experience, the badge puzzle, free.

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So everybody who's got a physical badge has everything they need to play the badge contest.

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But if you don't have one, that's okay.

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Everything is free and downloadable on the media.defcon.org server, and you can keep playing.

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And the primary place to play is on the DEF CON forums.

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Lost goes there and helps people out.

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So we tried to really maintain that same experience.

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And let's go to the next.

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And if you see, we started to collect some of the slides that people were putting in, some of the Twitter posts or Instagram posts or Facebook.

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And you can see people all over the world getting in on the DEF CON spirit.

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Even Matt Damon is in on it.

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Go to the next one.

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And you can see a map here of where there's people across the United States.

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And later you're going to see in Riverside slides where people all over the world hitting our Discord.

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Oh, you're at the right one.

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You're at the right one.

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DEF CON safe mode.

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So to make this happen, to get us all together in one place on Discord, we went through this crazy selection process on the forums where everybody was debating which platform to use.

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And in the end, Discord pretty much won out.

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And Riverside is going to talk a little bit about what the features were that really sold us on it.

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It was down to Riot pretty much for this.

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Except Riot, we weren't going to be building servers and optimizing SQL queries, and we just didn't have time.

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Especially if you're building a server for 5,000 people or 100,000, it's a completely different thing.

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So with that, I'm going to pass the mic over to Riverside, head of the DevOps team that really made the magic behind the scenes and pulled this all off.

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He's going to talk through some of the experience.

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Take it away!

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Thanks, DT.

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Hey, everyone.

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I don't know about you, but I definitely felt the DEF CON presence.

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Finally, virtually, normally when I'm sitting on different video calls all day, I don't feel like I'm connected the way that I did with this platform.

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It was pretty fantastic.

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And it took literally an army to make this happen.

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And this was the first time that I've been on a team of cross-platform, cross-team members across the whole DEF CON since the very, very early days of DEF CON.

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We took a list of every goon that was out there and all the different skills that they had, and we didn't look at the names, we just looked at the skills.

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And we boiled it down like, okay, these are the individuals that have that skill, and then we tapped them on the shoulder.

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And we got people from so many different departments to make up that DevOps team, and they absolutely knocked it out of the park.

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They were fantastic.

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Most of them were up 24 hours a day.

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We spent countless hours working on these different things, and I'll get into all of that.

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And then, of course, the individuals from the Packadacking Village and the Wall of Sheep team, which is one of the villages that I run, spent a whole lot of time building documentation, videos, process, procedures, and testing for the proof of concept for DEF CON.

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And then every time we would go, we would get an idea fairy floating around going, oh, we should do this.

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Can we do this?

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They were the test subjects of all of this, and they went through a tremendous amount of pain going through all of that for everyone.

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So they definitely need an additional shout out.

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And the people that are on that list, I'm sure I missed somebody.

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If I did, I apologize.

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But those people specifically contributed their time for the better overall DEF CON.

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They actually worked on server equipment, documentation that was shared across villages and contests and areas and just busted their butt.

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And then the Discord team, who we had names there originally, but we're just kind of blurping that out for their safety.

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They've asked to kind of just stay anonymous-ish.

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So we censored that, but they really supported this.

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It was an amazing experience to work with Discord proper.

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And DT had mentioned the Riot Matrix slash Discord.

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And the reality is that with the amount of time that we had, we would have needed to put together a huge operation beyond just the platform, but building out the entire platform for ourselves as well, making sure there was failover redundancy, getting all the things in place.

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And we didn't have the capability to do all the bots and all the components.

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We had a tremendous Discord community out there that had already built bots that were willing to pitch in and help out.

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We had a whole bunch of people sharing constantly, as our community normally does.

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It was just great.

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And then we had a whole lot of other people bump in.

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Show them the next slide.

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Yeah, next slide, please.

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Right here we have a really cool demographics slide.

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We had about, well, it's close to 50-50, but 60-40 right there.

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60% US and 40% other.

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And while some of those might be VPN, we don't necessarily know that.

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That is the demographic.

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And based on the experience and the conversations that I had over Khan, it truly was an international conference.

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We had people from everywhere.

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And this was really cool.

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We could kind of get a mix of what platforms they were using and how long they'd been members of Discord and whether they were new or not.

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And there were a lot of people that were very new.

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So we had to go through a lot to train them and get them together and get people on.

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Next slide, please.

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So it took weeks and weeks and weeks of daily stand-ups.

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At 5 o'clock every day, this team was on a call, going through blockers, trying to design things.

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We were really flying a plane and upgrading it at the same time.

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It was kind of crazy, but it was amazing.

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We built processes to take in every request from every department into a Kanban board and ran this like a hardcore project, as silly as it sounds.

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And many of the hackers in the community are like, ah, process, ah, Six Sigma, whatever.

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We did end up using legit processes to try to figure out getting this together because it was so chaotic.

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We're basically, with Grifter's competitions and Zant's villages, it's like 60-plus little mini-conferences inside of the conference, trying to get all the requests from everybody to serve them properly.

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So it was pretty insane.

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We had some cool things.

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We had over 200 issues closed, lots of emojis all over the place.

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We did build a business continuity plan with all sorts of crazy attack scenarios.

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We had no idea what to expect.

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We were thinking like end-of-the-world attacks.

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Yeah, our bots had backups to their backups to their backups.

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We had stuff hosted all over the place.

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It was pretty cool.

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Development of guides, videos, training.

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I'll go a little bit into the bots.

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So we had stuff hosted in the World Domination headquarters for DEF CON.

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We had Discord proper hosting things.

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We had stuff in AWS.

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I mean, it was everywhere.

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We didn't put the shard slide up there, but there were clusters of 700 different things running simultaneously.

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And if one went down, another went up.

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And we were really trying to be as highly available as we possibly could to keep this experience clean and smooth.

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We had 28 bots that were separate.

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Most of those were hand-coded.

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We had some major ones that were running.

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And then inside of those major bots, we had to write sub-programs, like little micro-bots.

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We had 167 custom micro-bots.

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And then, of course, lots of Easter eggs that we put in to have fun.

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And , of course, the SOC staff and QM and all the different departments were like, hey, can you make a command that will do this or pop a picture of this or whatever?

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But in the end, it was 14,195 lines of code in the repository.

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It was crazy.

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We also had some individuals that shared some zero-day drops, and that was kind of cool.

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So we're like, oh, look, zero-day.

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Why don't we just share this with the whole world on VirusTotal and see if they keep doing that?

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And as soon as they realized it was getting shared to VirusTotal, they're like, I'm not going to waste my O-days on VirusTotal shares.

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And so it went away.

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It was kind of cool, actually, just them changing their mind on that.

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We had 189 very special files that VirusTotal was like, eh, I don't think that's malware.

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But if you look at it, it kind of looks like malware.

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And Discord did a hell of a job in general on the anti-malware.

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Next slide, please.

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So here are a couple of the little cheat sheets and secret commands that were run.

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We had Discord.exe, which would drop a ridiculous error message that we threw out just for fun in the middle of the night.

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You can see that one was run at, what, 2.54 or something like that, or no, 2.24 a.m.

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The Discord error missing channel segment faults in Discord.exe.

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Cannot find LineCon.

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That was when DT changed LineCon's name.

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And we're like, OK, what happened?

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And then we looked into it.

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We're like, OK, DT changed it.

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We just started playing around with DT.

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It was great.

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And then, of course, CJ's team had to throw a little smack at CJ and have fun with him.

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That was great.

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That was super fun.

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And then we had a bot that would immediately ask QM for stanchions at pool two, and they'd throw that out, and all of a sudden they were asked for stanchions at pool two and make a hole.

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And there were a bunch of others.

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That's just an example of some of the funny ones.

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So prior to going live, we built a PRPL team.

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We had a whole bunch of people from both the offensive and the defensive side come together.

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We built a test server, and we grabbed every single script kitty, open source, you name it, raid bot, attack component on Discord.

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We worked with Discord proper.

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We're like, OK, what are the things that are going to be a problem?

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What can we use?

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What do you see?

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And every time we would beat it up, we'd look at the blue team, and we're like, all right, how about now?

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And then they'd tweak the security a little bit more, and the red team would go and attack it a little bit more.

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And we're like, how about now?

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Until it got to what it is, and we actually had a pretty darn good system in the end.

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And I was really happy with the way that it ended.

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Explain this slide.

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Yeah, so what you're looking at right there is an ASCII character bomb.

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And you just throw a maddening amount of ASCII characters into a channel over and over and over.

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And it will actually freeze the channel if you don't have proper bots and can cause an insane amount of problems.

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You can also have individuals randomly changing their name and their icons, doing icon bombs.

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There were probably 40 or 50 different styles of attacks.

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We hit the majority of them.

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And the way that we did that is through a huge amount of different bots.

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So we had, of course, the Yagbot.

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We had the Dinobot.

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We had all the custom bots.

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We had the Wall of Sheep bot in there, which was kind of hysterical watching all the people do PII leaks of what they were playing and what they were doing at any one given time on the server.

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That was hysterical.

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So you could see people playing World of Warcraft for an hour or two here, and they didn't turn the setting off in their Discord.

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So it was saying, I'm playing World of Warcraft.

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And so we were just passively watching everybody do all that and watching the graph.

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And we have the graph of what our community likes to play.

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And you can actually go into the Wall of Sheep channel and go, Wasp, what did I leak?

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And it'll tell you if you leaked anything.

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It was pretty funny.

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So that was the purple team.

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We had a whole bunch of other stuff, and it was pretty great.

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Thanks.

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And you guys are now going to, what, sleep for a week?

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I think two weeks, actually.

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I think two weeks sounds about right.

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Thanks, Riverside.

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And thanks, everybody on the DevOps team, because it was impossible without everybody's help.

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Next up, I would like to introduce the speaker team leader, PWKraft, who's also going to represent a little bit of the demo lab, because we could only get so many faces here on the board.

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And we had to completely change the way that speaker operations work this year, and he's going to talk you through some of that excitement.

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So take it away.

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Thanks, DT.

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For speaker operations this year, it was all about using the platform to drive community engagement.

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DT made a decision early to drop all of the main stage talks on YouTube and the media server at the beginning of the con.

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This made the talks easily accessible to all attendees at their convenience.

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We did a time shift reviewing, and that enabled you to take part in other elements of the con.

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DevCon main stage talks received more views on YouTube than they would typically have received in tracks in Vegas.

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They averaged about 3,700 views, and the most popular talk was a talk about hacking traffic lights, with 9,700 views over the last three days.

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We've also held live Q&A sessions with all the speakers, taking questions, and hosted free fireside lounges.

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This allowed more people to engage directly with the speakers.

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Speaker operations has also been gathering all the content across the entire con, including demo labs and village presentations, and we'll be making everything available for download for free from the media server.

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So there's a bunch of statistics about sort of the number of live stream views we had and minutes viewed, interviews, and that type of thing.

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And the next slide that is about the demo labs... lost that.

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But anyway, the next slide is about some of the demo lab statistics as well.

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Those were available, and those demo lab presenters, again, were also engaging with the people who stopped by to view those demos.

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Thanks a lot.

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Back to you, DT.

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Let me unmute.

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Yeah, so we made some decisions early on, and it was funny because the decisions were really predicated on we're going to be under attack, and there's no guarantee we're going to be up.

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So why don't we take all these videos and release them as soon as we can on YouTube and on BitTorrent?

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So worst case scenario, you've got all the badge files, and you can play that game.

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You've got all the videos.

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You can watch all the videos.

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So if DEF CON is on fire, you could at least have a beer and watch the videos.

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The worst case scenario is you could still watch the talks.

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And instead, it really enabled people to time shift a lot.

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You could watch the DEF CON talks whenever you wanted, and then that would allow you to make room for some of the other villages or contests and events that couldn't time shift.

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So I think it really allowed people to experience CON in a way that we didn't really even conceive of.

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For us, originally, it was a defensive move, and instead, it ended up being like a multiplier for people's experience.

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So like a lot of things in DEF CON, I'd love to be able to take credit for it, but honestly, it's a happy side effect of what happened.

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So we have a slide in here, but unfortunately, Wednesday, our press wrangler can't fit on the screen.

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But we had dozens of new DEF CON journalists.

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Let's jump over to that slide.

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As you know, normally, every year, we have tons and tons of press, and a lot of them sometimes don't respect our rules, and it always leads to drama.

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But this year, everything was remote, therefore, we couldn't have any of that kind of drama.

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No camera crews crowding hallways and blocking people.

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So that was great.

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They were very happy.

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And it was interesting, too, because all the original stories that were slated to come out, or some of them came out, were all about the super scary moderation, and how DEF CON is going to be overtaken by trolls, and it's going to be just like Gamergate.

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It's just going to be terrible.

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And how is DEF CON going to handle it?

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And what are our things?

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And how have people been trained?

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They wanted to know everything.

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And since we've never done one of these before, we were inventing everything for the first time.

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So we were trying to follow best practices, but we didn't know what was going to happen.

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As soon as everything started going well, all those stories dried up.

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And so now I'm really curious what the press spin is going to be.

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Is it going to be on the content, the human experience?

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But it's not going to be about the crazy bots anymore, and the trolls, which will be great.

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I'm really curious to see what the human interest side of this all is.

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Okay, let's go to the next one.

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For this next one, I'd like to introduce CJ, a man who needs no introduction, and his accent is fantastic.

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He leads the SOC team and was primarily responsible for developing moderation and deploying goons.

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It would normally be saying, make a hole and dealing with people in person.

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They're now dealing with people at arm's length and issuing warnings and bans and kicks.

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And it's his duty to report into us what happened with transparency and how things went.

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Let's hear from Mark.

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Thanks, DT.

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So, I have to admit, I had no idea what to expect either.

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This was a completely new experience.

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I'm used to things like corridors full of people, random police officers appearing, special agents from different parts of different governments dropping in on us.

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And, of course, none of that happened.

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But day one, we had someone pass us some files that said, hey, we've got a no-day.

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And then basically tried to plan us with a keylogger.

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Like, okay, you know, we're a hacker conference, and my team is mostly security researchers.

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So, A, thanks for the gift.

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That was cool.

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And B, what were you expecting to happen?

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Transparency-wise...

325
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You were so polite, too.

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You even gave them some time to explain themselves.

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I mean, like, I was curious.

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Like, I don't know what their endgame was.

329
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So, I don't have a full transparency report for you this moment.

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It's like all these things, it's a little bit more complicated.

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Because one of the things that we actually decided to do this year was put the power of moderation into the hands of more of the community.

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And so we allowed pretty much every goon to have some kind of moderation capability.

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And we allowed the villages and the contest areas to have moderation over their own spaces.

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Because at the end of the day, who knows their spaces better than them?

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And I think it really worked out well.

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But it now means I'm going to have to run around like crazy looking at logs all over the place to try and pull up the stats of what happened.

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So, we'll get that up to you in the next couple of days.

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But broadly, I would say this was the chillest DEF CON I've ever been in.

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And I've been coming to DEF CON for way too long.

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I think we only banned probably between two or three people.

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Like, as you properly had to ban.

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We had to mute a few people because they were saying inappropriate things.

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But, you know, steps were taken pretty swiftly.

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And most people got the hint after the first sort of, hey, don't do that.

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And chilled out.

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And so, you know, given the number of people we had, the percentage of folks that we actually had to deal with aggressively is almost negligible.

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And that's awesome because that's community.

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And it shows that the community can look after itself.

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And that we can make this whole experience safe for everyone.

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Which is awesome.

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I want to give some shout outs to some of the folks who just put themselves out there.

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Some of my own SOC goons were just amazing in the way they moderated stuff.

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Fidget Spinner terrified me because she was just, like, non-stop.

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Glasswalker was awesome.

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And, obviously, my second Tacitus was just like a rock, as always.

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And all the rest of my goons, like, all my brothers and sisters in other departments, you guys were amazing.

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I've never seen a conference put on in such a short amount of time and come off so well.

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It was awesome.

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Did you notice, too, like, on Thursday, we were doing our soft open, or our open, and I caught this one person.

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And they kept testing things, like saying super political things or saying vaguely racist things.

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And so I challenged them on it.

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And they said, oh, no, I'm just testing, I'm just testing.

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And I think what they were trying to do was calibrate how aggressive we were going to be.

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And once they got a couple of warnings, they disappeared.

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And that UUID disappeared.

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So if they came back in again, they had to do it with a completely different account.

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We saw a bunch of that.

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There were a bunch of bots that kept connecting and would try different things without verifying and then disappear and then come back and keep trying and keep trying.

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So I think we were probed quite heavily.

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And I think people realized it was just not worth the effort.

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All right.

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So next up, the information booth.

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We realized a little too late that there's too many sources of information.

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There's our information that we're generating.

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And then there's a lot of community-generated village contest information.

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And we need a way to corral all that.

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And traditionally, that's our information booth.

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This year, they had to take on some additional roles and change the ways in which they displayed all this information.

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I think they did a fantastic job.

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Let's move on to introducing Little Bruiser, who runs the info booth.

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And he can talk about all the different things that they had to do differently this year.

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Take it away.

383
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Thanks, DT.

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Yeah, info booth was a lot different this year.

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As you know, we can't see people face-to-face.

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But one thing that was different this year especially is we never got, where's the restroom?

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Which is always our number one question every year.

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So using the HackerTracker team, man, those five folks really pulled it together.

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Because they push everything out through the HackerTracker app and the info.DEF CON.org.

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And then this year, we added adding this stuff to DEF CON forums.

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And then we pushed it over to statically over into the actual DEF CON.org website as well.

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So things that we may look at future is how to get some of that stuff coordinated a little better.

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From Friday, we had on info.DEF CON.org, we had 3,200 users in total for HackerTracker and the website.

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And almost 2,000 were strictly on the website.

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Because that was the best place to go especially for Discord in order to get the scheduled information.

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And on Saturday, we had about the same amount of people.

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We had 3,100 total and another 1.9 strictly on the website.

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So the main questions that we normally get is, you know, where is this?

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Where is that?

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But this year, again, was a little different.

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The main thing was with the InfoBooth channel, it was pretty much the only one that was wide open when you didn't have any roles assigned.

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You could come to us and ask questions.

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The primary thing that we did was helping attendees attain that human role so they could go find the villages and they could go find the contest and do what they wanted to do around Con.

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And then the second thing that we dealt with was the HumanPlus issue.

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We would help them attempt to gain HumanPlus.

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And when that failed, you know, I want to give a great shout out to Seastone because he really stepped up.

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And when there were issues with us helping users get the HumanPlus badge, we just reached out to him and he took care of it.

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He was awesome.

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So thanks, Seastone.

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Really appreciate all your effort there.

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And then the third question is really for you, DT, is what's going to happen to the Discord server now that DEF CON is over?

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We're going to have to wait until the end of the closing ceremony.

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And that's a fair question because that was what we kept getting.

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So that was the answers we were given.

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So that's all I have for info, Bruce.

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So thanks, DT.

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Yeah, thanks for doing that.

418
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And we'll keep the info.defcon.org running for a while.

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And you can go back and look at the schedule.

420
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Okay.

421
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So next up, we've got all the villages.

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And as it was alluded to earlier by Riverside, running villages is quite complicated because there's so many people.

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Each one is like their own mini conference.

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Some have contests.

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Some don't.

426
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Some are just hands-on workshops.

427
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And wrangling all that is Vance.

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So take it away, Vance.

429
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Thanks.

430
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We ended up having a good number of villages.

431
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We ended up at a total of 30 villages this year.

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Across 30 villages, there was a lot of stuff going on.

433
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I think we clocked it out at over 600 total events.

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I was combining talks, contests, and workshops and everything else that they had going on.

435
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And it was crazy because the same thing as everything is with all the timelines we're fighting.

436
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It's like, I need this now.

437
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And it's like, I can't do it now because half the villages are on the other side of the world.

438
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So I can't get you an answer in 10 minutes.

439
00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:35,260
I need time.

440
00:36:35,660 --> 00:36:38,960
So yeah, other than that, it came together very well.

441
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,720
I would agree that this was one of the craziest years we've had.

442
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:43,280
It was smooth and it was fun.

443
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,460
We had almost no intruders.

444
00:36:45,460 --> 00:36:47,460
Didn't hear from some of the villages at all.

445
00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:48,880
So that was a great thing.

446
00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:53,580
We would want to go ahead and thank all the village leads and all the village staff.

447
00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:59,480
Because it took all of them to pull each of their villages together for us to put this all together and make it happen.

448
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:02,220
We'd also like to thank all the village goons for their help.

449
00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,440
Because they made my job really easy this year.

450
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,820
I actually was able to escape and even play video games a couple times during the con.

451
00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:14,460
I also, as has already been done many times, I want to give a big shout out to the DevOps team.

452
00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:17,700
Their response time and their support for fixing things.

453
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,860
And getting this channel open or a speaker able to talk in this channel.

454
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,300
All that stuff was done like almost instantly.

455
00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:25,920
So that was perfect.

456
00:37:26,540 --> 00:37:31,220
And to wrap it up, I want to thank DT and Nikita and all the other staff.

457
00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:35,680
Because my legs and my feet are actually what want to do the thanking.

458
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,880
For the first year, this is the first year I don't think I've walked on an average of 12 miles a day.

459
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,180
However, my heart seems to disagree with the rest of it.

460
00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:50,560
Because it missed the ability to be able to see all my friends and meet everyone in person and meet all the new people that we do every year.

461
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,780
Other than that, that's about all I have for villages.

462
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,760
Back to you.

463
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,060
Hey, thanks.

464
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,180
So somebody woke up and is sitting here with me.

465
00:38:04,180 --> 00:38:04,880
Hello.

466
00:38:05,260 --> 00:38:06,040
Hello.

467
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:07,640
Okay.

468
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,140
You're a star for a minute.

469
00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:11,560
And I can hide from them.

470
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,920
Next up we have another big social component that played an outsized role I think this year.

471
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:24,820
And that was the entertainment, the live DJs, and the streaming of music all the way in the weeks leading up to Cannes.

472
00:38:24,820 --> 00:38:32,740
And I think having so much artist creativity really helped bolster our sense of discovery.

473
00:38:32,740 --> 00:38:42,420
But also, it was just cool having a drink, talking to people on Discord, with the Twitch stream open, watching DJs, Jackalope, whoever, just tearing it up.

474
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:46,300
So to talk about that whole experience and building it, we've got Chris A.M.

475
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:47,900
from the A&E department.

476
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:49,440
So take it away, Chris.

477
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:50,600
Hey, thanks, DT.

478
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,840
This was such an amazing year.

479
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,780
Even in safe mode, we were able to come together and produce such a great show.

480
00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,600
I'd like to start off by thanking the folks on my team who made this all possible.

481
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,740
Without them, we'd have nothing but a blank screen and dead air.

482
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:10,720
First, my deputy department head, Chris Klink, who wrangled all the DJ submissions and curated the fantastic lineup that we had.

483
00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:14,680
Zekes, who led up our operations and technology component.

484
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:20,780
All the graphics you saw, the smooth transitions, the orchestrated music that kept going 24 hours a day, that was all him.

485
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,220
DJ Dead, who produced the official soundtrack.

486
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,600
And the rest of the team who helped make this a success.

487
00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:29,540
Control, Stitch, Great Scott, Dave's Bass.

488
00:39:30,060 --> 00:39:37,720
My team and I would really have nothing to do if not for the time, the talent, and the dedication given by each one of our performers this year.

489
00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:42,300
They seamlessly adapted to performing sets online from wherever they resided.

490
00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:50,120
And additionally, I'd like to give a special thanks to Riverside and the entire DevOps team for creating and maintaining an awesome experience online.

491
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,540
Soma FM for running the entertainment in the Chill Out Lounge.

492
00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:56,760
Zevler Studios for helping us with decor and graphics.

493
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:02,040
And all of the open source developers who created and maintained all the tools that we used this year.

494
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:07,640
And finally, a big thank you to the DEF CON senior staff, Dark Tangent, Will, Nikita, Linda.

495
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,220
They believed in us and they let us try all these new things this year.

496
00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:14,780
I want to talk a little bit about the stats now.

497
00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:16,200
So, next slide.

498
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,520
We ran two concurrent streams, one for the Chill Out Lounge and one for the main stage shows.

499
00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:27,560
For the main stage channel, we had 113 hours and 27 minutes of total broadcast time.

500
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:31,400
This equated to 3.6 million total minutes watched.

501
00:40:31,660 --> 00:40:35,440
We had 300 plus viewers consistently for the nighttime shows.

502
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:41,260
And over 1,000 viewers at the peak with a total of 48,950 live views.

503
00:40:41,260 --> 00:40:47,360
Our Twitch channel got 2,457 followers and 68 paid subscribers.

504
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,040
All of those proceeds are going to the EFF.

505
00:40:50,420 --> 00:40:58,540
And for Chill Out, Soma FM averaged about 178 concurrent connections and peaked with 300 on midday Friday.

506
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,300
So, what's next?

507
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:06,900
We're not promising anything yet, but we are talking internally about how we can keep the music channels alive all year long.

508
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:10,140
And possibly even do some live events throughout the year.

509
00:41:10,140 --> 00:41:14,600
So, please keep an eye out for when the call for music opens for DEF CON 29.

510
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:18,900
We really strive to present the best entertainment experience for all of our attendees.

511
00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:23,780
And if the kind of music that you've been hearing really isn't your jam, submit something different.

512
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:24,760
Tell your friends to submit.

513
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,140
This is your conference.

514
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:33,120
We're committed to embracing the diversity of our audience and include that in the selections we make for what you hear and see on stage and online.

515
00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:34,840
So, we really want your feedback.

516
00:41:35,020 --> 00:41:36,860
And thank you very much for everybody.

517
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:37,720
Back to you, BT.

518
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:40,240
Awesome.

519
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:41,080
Yeah, you can imagine.

520
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:41,600
Look at that.

521
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,060
113 hours.

522
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:50,140
Now, I've got to try to track that down and get it on the media server so everybody who missed out on it can watch later or listen later.

523
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:55,660
Hey, next up, we're going to talk about all the concepts and events.

524
00:41:59,030 --> 00:42:00,430
All the concepts and events.

525
00:42:00,430 --> 00:42:06,210
So, villages are the one half.

526
00:42:06,290 --> 00:42:07,670
Concepts and events are the other.

527
00:42:07,670 --> 00:42:10,270
And so, this is where you get your problem solving on.

528
00:42:10,270 --> 00:42:11,590
You can win prizes.

529
00:42:11,950 --> 00:42:17,750
And anyway, I have a little disaster happening here in my hand.

530
00:42:17,750 --> 00:42:21,290
So, I'm going to pass it off to Grifter.

531
00:42:21,290 --> 00:42:22,510
Take it away, Grifter.

532
00:42:23,890 --> 00:42:25,030
Thanks, DT.

533
00:42:25,270 --> 00:42:28,590
So, yeah, it was a little bit different this year, obviously, right?

534
00:42:28,590 --> 00:42:34,350
Not doing a contest or event in person gave us some interesting challenges to overcome.

535
00:42:34,350 --> 00:42:43,310
And when we reached out to all of the different contests and events that we're used to dealing with every year, we weren't sure what the response would be.

536
00:42:43,310 --> 00:42:46,010
But it was overwhelmingly positive.

537
00:42:46,010 --> 00:42:47,790
They were like, let's try to do this.

538
00:42:48,250 --> 00:42:50,610
And so, we loved that.

539
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:58,830
It made it possible for us to try to create as much of the DEF CON feel and vibe that we have when we're all in Vegas together.

540
00:42:58,830 --> 00:43:08,730
What was interesting is that some contests even had more participation in this virtual environment than they do in real life.

541
00:43:08,730 --> 00:43:13,170
And I think that, one, allows geographically folks to come and participate.

542
00:43:13,170 --> 00:43:20,410
But also, it can be a little less intimidating when you're not looking at somebody face-to-face and you're working on puzzles or challenges by yourself.

543
00:43:21,530 --> 00:43:26,490
It's a lot easier for introverts to participate.

544
00:43:26,590 --> 00:43:28,510
I vibe with that quite a bit.

545
00:43:28,510 --> 00:43:33,210
The effort that the organizers put in, though, was incredible.

546
00:43:34,610 --> 00:43:47,330
Just to get an idea of how good... if you didn't see what Hacker Jeopardy, or whose slide is it anyway, or what the scavenger hunt dashboards look like, go take a look at those things.

547
00:43:47,330 --> 00:43:48,690
Go see what they put together.

548
00:43:48,690 --> 00:43:50,110
It was phenomenal.

549
00:43:51,490 --> 00:43:58,470
Again, different scenario, but it made a couple of changes happen.

550
00:43:58,470 --> 00:44:04,930
This year, I think most people are aware that we made the decision.

551
00:44:04,930 --> 00:44:12,990
It's hard to figure out how hard something is if you're not sitting there watching it, or not talking to teams, not talking to organizers, and that kind of thing.

552
00:44:12,990 --> 00:44:18,930
And black badges were reserved for the capture the flag, the large capture the flag only.

553
00:44:18,930 --> 00:44:23,330
And that was interesting, because we thought, what's that going to do to participants there as well?

554
00:44:23,330 --> 00:44:25,030
But people still played, right?

555
00:44:25,030 --> 00:44:29,950
So in some cases, there were contests that still had tens of thousands of dollars in prizes and that kind of thing.

556
00:44:29,950 --> 00:44:35,290
But there were some where it was just the love of the game, and we still saw people playing all the time.

557
00:44:35,290 --> 00:44:42,530
So it's cool to see people play for the love of it and not for some nebulous prize out there, right?

558
00:44:43,350 --> 00:44:59,490
Throughout all these contests and all these events, just like we just heard about music and the villages, wherever, we had countless hours of audio and video of people just getting together and working on things together, telling stories, sharing their frustrations,

559
00:44:59,490 --> 00:45:00,670
asking for help.

560
00:45:00,670 --> 00:45:08,170
And then also just talking about what drove them to participate and what it means to them to be a hacker.

561
00:45:08,170 --> 00:45:11,870
We saw them competing in different mediums.

562
00:45:12,370 --> 00:45:14,870
Folks who were strictly on Discord.

563
00:45:14,870 --> 00:45:17,150
Some things were being run on Discord and Twitch.

564
00:45:17,150 --> 00:45:20,290
Other things were also done in virtual reality.

565
00:45:20,390 --> 00:45:26,370
And we still had people doing stuff in meet space, even though we were socially distant, right?

566
00:45:26,370 --> 00:45:30,590
So it's like, oh, we're going to run 5Ks, and then we're all going to report back how we did.

567
00:45:30,690 --> 00:45:39,170
And so there were people participating in these activities all around the world, and then just coming back and saying, like, oh, here's what I did, here's where my stats were, that kind of thing.

568
00:45:39,170 --> 00:45:40,170
It was great.

569
00:45:41,270 --> 00:45:46,070
And as is normal in these situations, competition is fierce, right?

570
00:45:46,070 --> 00:45:55,150
Tempers flare, secrets are being kept, and you have moles being inserted on other teams, those type of scenarios.

571
00:45:55,210 --> 00:45:59,790
But in the end, the contests and events are really about a shared experience.

572
00:45:59,790 --> 00:46:08,870
It's about strangers becoming friends, enemy becoming friends, and then even friends becoming family, right?

573
00:46:08,870 --> 00:46:12,450
So they give us something that distracts us from the real world.

574
00:46:12,450 --> 00:46:27,710
They give us something to focus on and expose maybe even something where we don't realize there's a gap in our skill set that we then start to work on and hone to become something and a part of us that we never thought we would ever be able to live without.

575
00:46:27,710 --> 00:46:34,450
So if you're not participating in the contests and events at DEF CON, please, please come and join us.

576
00:46:34,450 --> 00:46:41,090
There are many, many things that you can do, and just come out and be part of it.

577
00:46:41,090 --> 00:46:42,770
You'll have a blast.

578
00:46:42,790 --> 00:46:47,150
And to the organizers and everybody who participated, thank you.

579
00:46:47,150 --> 00:46:48,670
I know you made my weekend great.

580
00:46:48,670 --> 00:46:50,630
I hope we made yours great as well.

581
00:46:50,650 --> 00:46:51,770
Back to you, DT.

582
00:46:53,770 --> 00:46:54,750
Right on.

583
00:46:54,750 --> 00:46:56,090
That was really well said.

584
00:46:57,270 --> 00:47:00,310
Okay, I'm now locked in the room and I can't escape.

585
00:47:00,790 --> 00:47:03,010
I have five minutes before she explodes.

586
00:47:03,010 --> 00:47:04,790
What do I do?

587
00:47:04,910 --> 00:47:07,090
Okay, I'm going to hand it off to Zardis.

588
00:47:07,090 --> 00:47:09,450
He's the master of solving these challenges.

589
00:47:09,650 --> 00:47:16,250
Tell us all about how DEF CON CTF adapted and what it took for these teams to compete and win.

590
00:47:16,870 --> 00:47:17,710
Thanks.

591
00:47:17,830 --> 00:47:19,410
Absolutely, DT.

592
00:47:20,070 --> 00:47:21,030
All right.

593
00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:25,350
I am Zardis from the Order of the Overflow.

594
00:47:25,570 --> 00:47:29,950
It's great to be talking to you all again, even if it's virtual.

595
00:47:29,950 --> 00:47:53,730
So this year, we faced a unique challenge, as did all of DEF CON, adapting what traditionally, since well before I even started coming to DEF CON, probably for well over 20 years now, has been an in-person hacker-to-hacker event.

596
00:47:54,110 --> 00:47:58,370
And we're talking about the DEF CON Capture the Flag.

597
00:47:58,370 --> 00:48:12,610
DEF CON Capture the Flag is the sort of championship that brings hackers from around the world to face off and identify who is the top hacking group out there.

598
00:48:12,610 --> 00:48:20,650
In order to identify the top hacking groups out there, of course, I'll talk about how we identified candidates for them.

599
00:48:20,650 --> 00:48:27,630
I'll talk about what we did in terms of challenges, in terms of different twists on the strategy and so forth.

600
00:48:28,490 --> 00:48:34,750
In terms of setting up this CTF, it was crazy in a lot of different ways than it is normally.

601
00:48:34,850 --> 00:48:40,150
Normally, we have a sleepless week, at least, integrating everything in Las Vegas.

602
00:48:40,310 --> 00:48:53,530
This time, we had a sleepless week, at least, in addition to all the lost sleep, preparing for months ahead of time, integrating stuff over the internet.

603
00:48:53,530 --> 00:48:56,610
But then you have unique, crazy scenarios.

604
00:48:56,610 --> 00:49:04,010
One of my team members fell asleep at one point on the Zoom call, and we couldn't wake him up.

605
00:49:04,010 --> 00:49:11,050
And he didn't pick up the phone, and we just had to wait until he woke up to deploy his challenge, for example.

606
00:49:11,050 --> 00:49:14,570
So it was a pretty crazy set of scenarios.

607
00:49:17,730 --> 00:49:21,570
An interesting thing, though, this year, we didn't have to argue with the fire marshal.

608
00:49:21,570 --> 00:49:22,850
That was nice.

609
00:49:22,850 --> 00:49:28,770
Usually, we have to argue with the fire marshal about the amount of wires that we're running on the floors of the teams.

610
00:49:29,290 --> 00:49:38,310
But this year, the challenge for us was to bring a little bit of Las Vegas to our hackers, since our hackers couldn't come to Las Vegas.

611
00:49:38,310 --> 00:49:41,310
Let me talk about how we chose the hackers.

612
00:49:41,830 --> 00:49:50,090
DEF CON, every year, uses this Olympic structure of selection of teams.

613
00:49:50,810 --> 00:49:53,410
We have a number of pre-qualifying events.

614
00:49:53,410 --> 00:49:59,410
By winning these pre-qualifying events, teams get an automatic invitation to DEF CON.

615
00:49:59,410 --> 00:50:09,170
And then, additionally, after all of this, we run our own qualifiers to pull in teams that didn't win any of the pre-quals.

616
00:50:09,770 --> 00:50:18,570
In terms of the pre-qual events, can you guys confirm that the slide changed?

617
00:50:18,570 --> 00:50:19,270
No.

618
00:50:20,450 --> 00:50:21,530
Perfect, awesome.

619
00:50:21,530 --> 00:50:22,950
All right, so things are working.

620
00:50:22,950 --> 00:50:23,990
This is incredible.

621
00:50:24,290 --> 00:50:29,030
In terms of the pre-qual events, we had a whole bunch selected.

622
00:50:29,030 --> 00:50:32,470
Some of them got wiped out, unfortunately, because of COVID.

623
00:50:32,470 --> 00:50:34,330
Events were canceled and so forth.

624
00:50:34,330 --> 00:50:43,930
Other events went fully online, even though, traditionally, they have in-person final events of their own that we then draw from.

625
00:50:43,950 --> 00:50:45,590
But we adapted.

626
00:50:45,890 --> 00:50:55,870
We had, of course, one pre-qualifying event that's last year's DEF CON CTF, which was won by Team PPP.

627
00:50:55,870 --> 00:50:58,110
They qualified for DEF CON.

628
00:50:58,110 --> 00:51:00,070
There was a HITCON CTF this year.

629
00:51:00,070 --> 00:51:01,330
It was fully virtual.

630
00:51:01,330 --> 00:51:03,270
Usually, the finals are in Taiwan.

631
00:51:03,270 --> 00:51:08,510
CTF Zone, with finals in Russia, usually, also virtual this year.

632
00:51:09,750 --> 00:51:14,910
HXP 36 C3 CTF, which is usually an online in-person hybrid in Germany.

633
00:51:15,330 --> 00:51:20,530
Also, actually, this year, I think it happened right before the whole COVID insanity.

634
00:51:20,530 --> 00:51:25,710
So it was still online and in-person, along with HITCON, actually, so never mind.

635
00:51:25,710 --> 00:51:28,250
And then PLAD CTF.

636
00:51:28,390 --> 00:51:35,970
And we pre-qualified a bunch of teams from that, five teams in total.

637
00:51:35,970 --> 00:51:43,350
And the rest, we brought in from our own qualifying event, which we ran in April.

638
00:51:43,550 --> 00:51:46,950
Sorry, originally, it was slated to go in April 4th.

639
00:51:46,950 --> 00:51:51,970
My daughter was due the week after, so we wanted to get it right in before that.

640
00:51:52,810 --> 00:52:04,470
That was the main insanity of the early COVID time, so we moved it to May to let teams adapt to it.

641
00:52:04,470 --> 00:52:08,370
And we used you guys as a break-in on the Discord, right?

642
00:52:08,370 --> 00:52:09,630
Yeah, absolutely.

643
00:52:09,630 --> 00:52:15,950
DEFCON CTF Qualifiers was run on Discord, and it was wild.

644
00:52:15,950 --> 00:52:18,150
It was in very early times.

645
00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:28,670
Riverside and the Goons were just incredible in adapting to our needs last minute.

646
00:52:28,670 --> 00:52:30,090
It was absolutely wild.

647
00:52:30,090 --> 00:52:35,830
I think we went within three days before the competition to, like, what is this Discord stuff?

648
00:52:36,050 --> 00:52:42,430
I always heard it was chat for gamers, but now it seems to be chat for hackers.

649
00:52:42,430 --> 00:52:44,790
So it was really amazing.

650
00:52:46,770 --> 00:52:53,830
So let me move from the... anyway, so we ran our own qualifiers.

651
00:52:53,830 --> 00:52:58,750
We had a total of 16 teams, 13 of which we drew from the qualifiers.

652
00:52:58,750 --> 00:53:06,070
There was a lot of overlap, so teams are really enthusiastic about CTF and about DEFCON CTF.

653
00:53:06,790 --> 00:53:22,010
A lot of the teams that pre-qualified also pushed super hard, gave up a weekend of their lives to go crazy playing and competing in DEFCON CTF to qualify basically twice.

654
00:53:22,010 --> 00:53:23,570
Though that didn't get them anything.

655
00:53:23,570 --> 00:53:26,590
They, you know, have that enthusiasm.

656
00:53:28,030 --> 00:53:34,210
So we pre-qualified a whole bunch of teams from DEFCON CTF qualifiers.

657
00:53:35,050 --> 00:53:47,730
Here's an interesting piece of data is all of the places from around the world that teams played, that teams connected from and interacted with our services for DEFCON CTF.

658
00:53:47,730 --> 00:53:52,430
And it shows that this CTF is truly worldwide.

659
00:53:52,430 --> 00:53:59,890
There's someone from every continent short of Antarctica, and maybe people in Antarctica were just going through a proxy.

660
00:54:00,970 --> 00:54:05,390
So the whole thing was extremely global.

661
00:54:05,390 --> 00:54:12,170
And let me show you the teams that qualified.

662
00:54:12,170 --> 00:54:14,410
So we had 16 teams this year.

663
00:54:14,410 --> 00:54:21,450
We had a lot of brainstorming on how we would run DEFCON CTF virtually.

664
00:54:21,510 --> 00:54:25,950
As I said, it was usually an in-person competition.

665
00:54:25,950 --> 00:54:32,190
We had designs that included 48 teams, designs that included 36 teams.

666
00:54:32,530 --> 00:54:47,090
And in the end, we decided to do a more traditional 16-team CTF to get it, you know, perfect adapted online rather than while experimentation.

667
00:54:47,830 --> 00:54:55,550
One of the order's founding principles is, you know, responsible innovation.

668
00:54:55,550 --> 00:55:01,610
So we take this event very seriously because it is a very important event in the CTF community.

669
00:55:01,610 --> 00:55:08,430
And so we wanted to make sure that we gave it the effort it deserved and the quality it deserved.

670
00:55:08,430 --> 00:55:13,050
So the teams that we had were from all around the world.

671
00:55:13,050 --> 00:55:18,330
And this was incredible, but also incredibly challenging, as I'll talk about in a second.

672
00:55:18,330 --> 00:55:41,410
We had four teams from the U.S., eight teams from China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and four teams from Europe, which made it extremely challenging to schedule the CTF.

673
00:55:41,410 --> 00:55:44,490
Usually, DEF CON CTF runs during DEF CON.

674
00:55:44,490 --> 00:55:45,670
It's nice and easy.

675
00:55:45,670 --> 00:55:51,970
So it's DEF CON, and it's during the day when the hotel is guaranteed to be open and so forth.

676
00:55:53,050 --> 00:55:57,610
Traditionally, we have 10 hours on Friday, 10 hours on Saturday, four hours on Sunday.

677
00:55:57,610 --> 00:56:09,750
This year, this didn't make sense because if we did that, all of the teams that are quarantined in Asia, for example, would be playing in the middle of the night all three times, and that would be a huge disadvantage.

678
00:56:09,750 --> 00:56:15,790
So we went with this crazy idea of doing a shift schedule that was awfully painful.

679
00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:18,490
Eight hours on, nine hours off, starting at 4 a.m.

680
00:56:18,490 --> 00:56:20,390
Las Vegas time, Friday morning.

681
00:56:20,510 --> 00:56:24,810
This is basically the worst thing that you can do to a human being in terms of a sleep schedule.

682
00:56:24,810 --> 00:56:42,110
That's probably better just not to sleep than to go through that, but we put everyone through that to spread out the pain more fairly so that this event could have that sort of fairness to it.

683
00:56:42,390 --> 00:56:46,610
All right, so let's talk about the event itself.

684
00:56:46,890 --> 00:56:52,770
We created 10 services for DEF CON CTF.

685
00:56:52,770 --> 00:57:03,730
For those that don't know, the way that this competition works is every team receives copies, generally identical copies, of services.

686
00:57:03,730 --> 00:57:16,150
Programs that we write that contain intentional flaws, and sometimes and very frequently unintentional flaws, that really explored a cutting edge of cybersecurity.

687
00:57:16,150 --> 00:57:24,630
This year we created services that explored binary exploitation, that's of course traditional, binary versus engineering.

688
00:57:24,630 --> 00:57:31,190
But we also had programs, challenges that explored concepts of automated program analysis.

689
00:57:31,190 --> 00:57:51,200
We had a challenge where teams had to, using extremely constrained environments and extremely constrained inputs, understand how to execute and exercise maximal code inside a crafted program that they receive.

690
00:57:52,190 --> 00:58:03,100
There's a very common problem in software vulnerability research, and we basically created a CTF proxy for that.

691
00:58:03,100 --> 00:58:15,840
We had challenges exploring adversarial machine learning and machine learning in extremely constrained environments, and machine learning with classical vulnerabilities thrown in, implementation bugs, and so forth.

692
00:58:16,900 --> 00:58:20,280
So two different challenges encompassing these concepts.

693
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:34,040
One of them was a video game where players created their own AI, and in the video game there were vulnerabilities in the handling of this AI that the teams could use to their advantage.

694
00:58:34,060 --> 00:58:43,520
We had white box cryptography challenges, or a challenge, where teams had to analyze and protect cryptographic protocols from each other.

695
00:58:43,520 --> 00:59:05,740
We had challenges targeting historic computer architectures, exotic data flow parallel processing machines invented in the 60s, for which one of our team members wrote an emulator from scratch, re-implemented, wrote an operating system, and then wrote applications for that operating system for the teams to interact with.

696
00:59:05,740 --> 00:59:16,340
Another challenge used Conway's Game of Life as the base of a computer architecture, which provided a pretty exotic challenge for the players.

697
00:59:16,340 --> 00:59:36,580
And then we had cutting-edge web security challenge exploring dependency injection in Node.js, which teams patched and bypassed and patched and re-patched and re-bypassed throughout the entire final shift of eight hours of the game.

698
00:59:36,580 --> 00:59:47,800
I'll give you some information just to get an idea of how insane the CTF is in numbers.

699
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:52,800
This is a graph of our network throughput to our team interfaces.

700
00:59:52,800 --> 01:00:01,660
You'll see these are our shifts of eight, so that's why the network goes off when the CTF is off.

701
01:00:01,660 --> 01:00:12,300
And you'll see over here at the end of the first shift, there was an adversarial machine learning challenge through which the teams were pumping 70 megabytes a second of data.

702
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:20,380
And we have logged all of this traffic and it'll be available on the DEF CON media server.

703
01:00:21,980 --> 01:00:28,060
There is a lot of traffic representing all sorts of exotic vulnerabilities, exotic exploitation.

704
01:00:28,060 --> 01:00:47,320
This last shift here represents the team's attempt to leak out additional information on a cryptographic challenge that required multiple queries and so on.

705
01:00:47,380 --> 01:00:51,960
You can see a similar trend in connections per second.

706
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:54,980
We hit, at one point, 1,000 connections a second.

707
01:00:54,980 --> 01:00:59,360
At one point, we hit a blip of 2,000 connections a second from the teams to our services.

708
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:05,840
At this point, infrastructure started melting down and we had to make some changes to stay alive.

709
01:01:06,380 --> 01:01:09,340
But it was pretty incredible.

710
01:01:09,340 --> 01:01:17,160
One thing that we were able to do by being online was scale out much, much, much more.

711
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:36,940
The CTF ran heavily on the cloud and we were able to give, for example, every team their own unique instances for every other team in certain cases, so that there's less cross-team interference, except for in the services where that was part of the challenge.

712
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:43,280
We also had a ticket and response system for the teams to report problems to.

713
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:59,060
As you can see, it starts out in the first day and then as teams get more and more stressed and start stressing our infrastructure more and more, they start reporting problems to us and we start dealing with them.

714
01:01:59,060 --> 01:02:03,380
It's a whole crazy thing and no one's sleeping at any point in this endeavor.

715
01:02:05,380 --> 01:02:11,600
One thing that we're very excited to announce this year is Archive.000.

716
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,280
This is a new feature this year.

717
01:02:15,340 --> 01:02:27,500
As we retired our services for the CTF, so this year, if a team hacked a single service 600 times, you'll consider that service dead.

718
01:02:27,500 --> 01:02:30,620
That service has been exploited and it is done.

719
01:02:30,620 --> 01:02:32,360
This kept the game fresh.

720
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:44,500
It also allowed us to have very specifically set rules for when we take a service offline and put it on Archive.000.

721
01:02:44,500 --> 01:02:50,580
If you go to Archive.000, that is an actual top-level domain that you can resolve.

722
01:02:50,580 --> 01:03:00,460
If you go to Archive.000, you can see a list of many, many, many challenges and services that we have written for previous years of DEF CON and this year of DEF CON.

723
01:03:00,460 --> 01:03:04,960
I think so far we've pushed two out there and we'll push more over the next couple of days.

724
01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:09,060
And you can actually click through, launch them, and try them yourself.

725
01:03:11,420 --> 01:03:23,820
To give you an example, one team took about 17 hours to exploit the Parallel AF challenge that we've now pushed to Archive.org, Archive.000.

726
01:03:23,820 --> 01:03:27,860
And so I would challenge you to go there and see how long it takes you.

727
01:03:27,860 --> 01:03:34,080
It's an awesome way to practice, an awesome way to see what these teams are up against.

728
01:03:34,340 --> 01:03:41,860
Before I move on to the teams and the results, I wanted to thank a number of people.

729
01:03:41,900 --> 01:03:47,980
We could not have done this without the support of DEF CON.

730
01:03:49,020 --> 01:04:05,700
This time around, we interacted heavily with Riverside, heavily with the development team, heavily with Dark Tangent, heavily with this amazing group that really created a space that feels just like DEF CON.

731
01:04:05,700 --> 01:04:12,060
I was shocked by how much scrolling through the Discord challenges felt like walking through the hallways of DEF CON.

732
01:04:12,060 --> 01:04:14,420
It was incredible.

733
01:04:15,220 --> 01:04:17,420
We could not have done that without them.

734
01:04:17,420 --> 01:04:20,560
I personally have to thank my team.

735
01:04:21,540 --> 01:04:24,840
None of this would be possible without you all.

736
01:04:24,980 --> 01:04:30,760
They're on a Zoom call right down there, but all their names aren't there, so I can't really show them to you.

737
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:44,700
But this has been a Herculean effort adapting to online, which in some ways is easier, in some ways is harder, and making all of this happen.

738
01:04:44,700 --> 01:04:49,780
For me personally, I mentioned I had a daughter partway through DEF CON planning process.

739
01:04:49,780 --> 01:04:52,060
This put me out of commission for about a month.

740
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:58,580
And they really, really, really stepped up and made this happen.

741
01:04:58,940 --> 01:05:08,240
Our families, all of our families from OLL, we, you know, are sorry that you haven't seen us for several months, but we're back.

742
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,960
All right.

743
01:05:12,260 --> 01:05:14,180
Moving on.

744
01:05:14,340 --> 01:05:17,640
Let's talk about the teams.

745
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,940
So 16 teams entered, 16 teams exited.

746
01:05:20,940 --> 01:05:23,980
Hopefully no one didn't exit.

747
01:05:23,980 --> 01:05:29,620
Two years ago, we had someone pass out at the CTF floor because they hacked too hard.

748
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:34,220
This year, I'm not aware of any health emergencies like that.

749
01:05:34,220 --> 01:05:39,140
So instead, I will just show the rankings.

750
01:05:39,140 --> 01:05:45,840
So first, let's start with the top, no, the bottom 11 teams out of the 16.

751
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,800
These are all incredible hackers.

752
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:55,760
As I talk about this result, I want you to keep in mind this is in many ways the Olympics.

753
01:05:55,760 --> 01:06:05,080
If you go to the Olympics and you, you know, throw your javelin and you get last place, you get last place at the Olympics.

754
01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:06,560
So keep that in mind.

755
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:22,400
Even the teams toward the bottom of the scoreboard, they are incredible hackers that deserve an insane amount of respect for making it this far and competing in this game.

756
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:29,480
So starting from sixth place, we have Samurai, a team from the U.S.

757
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:34,780
that are apparently huge machine learning experts.

758
01:06:34,780 --> 01:06:43,420
I am very impressed with their performance on our machine learning challenges specifically and other challenges as well.

759
01:06:43,420 --> 01:06:48,100
Shellfish, a mostly academic group from the United States.

760
01:06:48,100 --> 01:06:54,280
Dicor, a team from Korea, also largely academic.

761
01:06:56,040 --> 01:07:01,460
Bintw, a collaboration between Team Binja and Tokyo Westerns, both from Japan.

762
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:05,980
NorseCode from Sweden.

763
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,800
I might have fucked that up, but hopefully you're from Sweden, NorseCode.

764
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:12,880
Otherwise, I apologize profusely.

765
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:18,000
Starbugs from Korea, Korean Badass from Korea.

766
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,460
Macaroni from Italy.

767
01:07:22,020 --> 01:07:23,920
RicaPig from China.

768
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,860
RPiSag from the United States.

769
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:28,780
And Pasten from Israel.

770
01:07:28,820 --> 01:07:31,420
So there's a lot of teams from all around the world.

771
01:07:31,420 --> 01:07:32,520
They're all incredible.

772
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,380
They all made it this far.

773
01:07:34,380 --> 01:07:36,380
In order to make it here, they had to win events.

774
01:07:36,380 --> 01:07:41,320
They had to place super high in qualifiers out of thousands.

775
01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,340
I forgot to mention, for qualifiers, we had well, well, well over 1,000 teams.

776
01:07:45,340 --> 01:07:50,440
I think we had just over, actually, for real, just over 1,337 teams.

777
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:54,760
At one point, it was holding steady at 1,337, and so no one registered, no one registered.

778
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,940
But I think it was like 1,340-something.

779
01:07:57,980 --> 01:08:05,540
Anyways, out of those, these were the top 16 hacks, so they're incredible.

780
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:08,340
Let's move on to the top five.

781
01:08:08,340 --> 01:08:32,740
In fifth place, hailing from Russia, Morbush Smoked Whackers, a collaboration of a number of amazing Russian hackers that did an incredible job in our CTF, an incredible job in our qualifiers, and also had previously pre-qualified by winning one of the pre-qualifier events completely.

782
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:44,840
They played really well, especially in one of the challenges that we created to try to make the teams feel closer to each other by actually playing.

783
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:54,060
We built a little online game with very tricky vulnerabilities for them to exploit each other since they couldn't meet in person in Vegas.

784
01:08:56,460 --> 01:09:02,400
In fourth place, Tea Deliverers from China.

785
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,400
Tea Deliverers are also an incredible team.

786
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:12,300
To make it this far is an incredible feat of skill.

787
01:09:12,300 --> 01:09:14,320
So great job, Tea Deliverers.

788
01:09:14,860 --> 01:09:20,380
And actually, I forgot, I prepared a soundboard to clap for them.

789
01:09:20,380 --> 01:09:21,760
This is a clapper soundboard.

790
01:09:24,060 --> 01:09:25,740
Nope, not that, sorry.

791
01:09:25,740 --> 01:09:27,040
Hold on.

792
01:09:28,020 --> 01:09:30,340
All right.

793
01:09:30,340 --> 01:09:32,320
Congrats, Tea Deliverers.

794
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:44,080
In third place, in DEF CON 28 CTF, hailing from Taiwan, HITCON and BALSAN.

795
01:09:48,370 --> 01:09:52,750
HITCON BALSAN is a collaboration of two teams.

796
01:09:52,750 --> 01:09:58,810
Possibly even more, it's very hard for me to keep track of all of these team identities.

797
01:09:59,210 --> 01:10:03,410
But it's a collaboration of amazing hackers from Taiwan.

798
01:10:03,530 --> 01:10:07,070
They also host one of the pre-qualifying events.

799
01:10:07,490 --> 01:10:10,110
Of course, they can't qualify through their own pre-qualifying event.

800
01:10:10,110 --> 01:10:14,030
They qualified by doing awesome in our pre-qualifiers.

801
01:10:15,290 --> 01:10:17,310
Awesome hackers all around.

802
01:10:17,310 --> 01:10:26,470
We have, in second place, actually, let me show you the battle between second place and first place.

803
01:10:26,470 --> 01:10:34,710
Because this CTF, in a lot of ways, from our perspective, was a story about this war of attrition between the top two teams.

804
01:10:34,710 --> 01:10:40,310
It was insane to watch from this side of, I usually say, the table.

805
01:10:40,310 --> 01:10:45,150
But there's no table, or there's a lot of tables, but this side of the network.

806
01:10:46,410 --> 01:10:49,250
So we have a graph of scores over time.

807
01:10:49,250 --> 01:10:52,310
I'll try to narrate it, if I can keep up as best I can.

808
01:10:52,310 --> 01:10:53,390
And here we go.

809
01:10:53,950 --> 01:10:55,210
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

810
01:10:56,410 --> 01:10:57,790
Stupid Google, hold on.

811
01:10:57,850 --> 01:11:02,270
We have to wait a little for it to reset.

812
01:11:04,890 --> 01:11:06,270
It's gonna... oh, there.

813
01:11:06,270 --> 01:11:06,950
All right.

814
01:11:07,170 --> 01:11:18,650
Starting from the beginning of the CTF, very quickly, AOE, a team from China, as you know, pushes to the top, is overtaken toward the end of the first day from PPP from the United States.

815
01:11:18,670 --> 01:11:34,150
And for the rest of the game, except for some showings of, you know, more Bushmouth Whackers and then a couple of others, it's really a game between PPP and AOE, going back and forth and back and forth, fighting, patching, exploiting, over and over and over,

816
01:11:34,150 --> 01:11:34,930
right until then.

817
01:11:34,930 --> 01:11:37,870
So right now, they're entering the last day.

818
01:11:37,870 --> 01:11:41,610
And you can see they've overtaken each other several times already.

819
01:11:41,610 --> 01:11:44,430
They... PPP was in first.

820
01:11:44,430 --> 01:11:47,710
Now, AOE catches up.

821
01:11:47,710 --> 01:11:51,370
Will PPP take the throne back toward then?

822
01:11:51,370 --> 01:11:55,690
It was so, so close, but they didn't quite make it.

823
01:11:55,690 --> 01:11:59,690
They were two points away when the game ended.

824
01:11:59,950 --> 01:12:10,130
So in second place, a team that is a many-time DEF CON CTF champion, but not this year, but they were last year.

825
01:12:10,130 --> 01:12:16,250
Second place in DEF CON 28 CTF, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning.

826
01:12:22,420 --> 01:12:36,940
And in first place in DEF CON 28 CTF, incredible hackers fighting and clawing and exploiting their way all the way to the top.

827
01:12:38,580 --> 01:12:40,300
AOE.

828
01:12:44,970 --> 01:12:46,170
Congratulations.

829
01:12:47,510 --> 01:12:52,410
That is the end of DEF CON 28 CTF.

830
01:12:52,550 --> 01:12:55,030
I am Zardos from the Order of the Overflow.

831
01:12:55,030 --> 01:12:57,290
Thank you for listening to my update.

832
01:12:57,290 --> 01:13:00,110
To the teams, thank you so much for playing this game.

833
01:13:00,110 --> 01:13:08,330
Hosting the CTF is an honor, and it is incredible to see the insane skills that you all possess.

834
01:13:09,150 --> 01:13:10,510
Thank you.

835
01:13:11,390 --> 01:13:12,610
Right on.

836
01:13:12,990 --> 01:13:13,870
Fantastic.

837
01:13:14,710 --> 01:13:16,710
That was pretty intense at the end there.

838
01:13:16,710 --> 01:13:18,970
I didn't realize the flip-flops happened so much.

839
01:13:18,970 --> 01:13:20,270
Oh my God.

840
01:13:20,350 --> 01:13:22,310
Another 30 minutes.

841
01:13:23,010 --> 01:13:23,770
Yeah.

842
01:13:25,390 --> 01:13:31,210
So we did a number, I forgot to mention, we did a number of public recaps that are now archived on YouTube, if you are interested.

843
01:13:31,510 --> 01:13:39,810
Every day, we did one on Friday, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, discussing previous challenges that we had just retired and the state of the game.

844
01:13:39,810 --> 01:13:47,330
And during the Saturday, the Sunday recap, I think first place switched like three times.

845
01:13:47,330 --> 01:13:48,230
It was wild.

846
01:13:48,230 --> 01:13:52,570
I was like watching out of the corner of my eye and trying not to freak out on camera.

847
01:13:54,350 --> 01:14:01,090
So the winning team, AOE, as is tradition, they get a black badge.

848
01:14:01,170 --> 01:14:08,070
And they are the only team, I mean the only contest winners to also get these custom embroidered leather jackets.

849
01:14:08,070 --> 01:14:15,930
So AOE, if you are listening, you have got to get Zardos your jacket sizes so we can order your custom jackets.

850
01:14:16,090 --> 01:14:20,590
And then you will get your, also we need to figure out a way to get you your black badges.

851
01:14:20,750 --> 01:14:23,330
And what do the black badges look like this year?

852
01:14:23,330 --> 01:14:25,870
Well, we don't actually know.

853
01:14:25,870 --> 01:14:27,350
Let's show them the slide there.

854
01:14:27,350 --> 01:14:31,830
I think there is components of an 8-track tape.

855
01:14:31,830 --> 01:14:35,190
It looks like a coin from 1800s.

856
01:14:35,190 --> 01:14:37,290
There is a phone dialer involved.

857
01:14:37,290 --> 01:14:40,150
I understand there is electronics embedded in it.

858
01:14:40,770 --> 01:14:47,830
I also understand that each badge that is being hand assembled contains its own challenge inside.

859
01:14:48,370 --> 01:14:52,190
So the solving is not over yet.

860
01:14:52,190 --> 01:14:57,450
So you will get your black badges sent to you as soon as they get finished being hand assembled.

861
01:14:57,450 --> 01:14:59,990
And they are truly one of a kind, each one of them.

862
01:15:00,130 --> 01:15:03,490
So again, congratulations on a fantastic game.

863
01:15:03,490 --> 01:15:07,550
And this one was really hard fought, so the victory should be that much sweeter.

864
01:15:08,470 --> 01:15:10,890
All right, let's move on.

865
01:15:13,270 --> 01:15:14,390
This is what's happening.

866
01:15:14,390 --> 01:15:15,250
We are winding down.

867
01:15:15,250 --> 01:15:19,810
It's almost the end of the closing ceremonies and people have questions.

868
01:15:20,190 --> 01:15:21,730
What happens next?

869
01:15:21,730 --> 01:15:27,590
So we are gathering these hundreds of hours of video of DJs and music.

870
01:15:28,350 --> 01:15:33,070
The video that Zardes talked about on the recaps, we've encoded the last couple of days.

871
01:15:33,070 --> 01:15:35,870
They are on the media server as well as YouTube.

872
01:15:36,370 --> 01:15:41,470
Our goal over the next month is to gather everything we can and make it available for you for free.

873
01:15:41,970 --> 01:15:48,650
And right now on my other machine here is compressing away another 60 GB of village talks.

874
01:15:48,650 --> 01:15:54,950
We will release a big torrent probably tomorrow of about 100 GB or so of video.

875
01:15:54,950 --> 01:16:02,610
And then a month from now we will have the final torrent up with everything we can find, music, pictures, puzzles, anything.

876
01:16:03,130 --> 01:16:11,350
So if you want anything to be contributed to that, e-mail us, direct message us on Twitter, go to theforum.defcon.org.

877
01:16:11,590 --> 01:16:15,130
Just get a hold of us and get us the content and we will be sure to preserve it.

878
01:16:17,570 --> 01:16:19,670
Also, let's go to the next slide.

879
01:16:22,150 --> 01:16:28,630
As you heard listening to everybody, none of this would have been possible without all the departments.

880
01:16:28,830 --> 01:16:30,590
I mean it was all hands on deck.

881
01:16:30,590 --> 01:16:38,310
And unfortunately, I've heard some people say, hey, can we have Discord and in-person DEF CON at the same time?

882
01:16:38,610 --> 01:16:40,170
And there's no way we can do it.

883
01:16:40,170 --> 01:16:42,730
I mean it took – you heard what it took to do this.

884
01:16:42,730 --> 01:16:44,070
We can't do both.

885
01:16:45,150 --> 01:16:54,050
So instead, we are trying to figure out how to have elements of our Discord, but not run 100% in Discord and 100% in person.

886
01:16:54,050 --> 01:16:55,830
That's not possible.

887
01:16:57,490 --> 01:17:00,570
So here, let's go through some of these thank yous.

888
01:17:00,610 --> 01:17:03,410
And we are going to spend a couple of seconds on each page.

889
01:17:03,410 --> 01:17:10,050
And I just want you to look at the total number of people that made it possible for us to be chilling here right now.

890
01:17:10,050 --> 01:17:14,470
And I realize now I forgot to get a beer from the refrigerator before I sat down.

891
01:17:14,750 --> 01:17:16,270
So you know what I'm going to do?

892
01:17:16,270 --> 01:17:22,950
I'm going to go get a beer while Pacey here goes through all the slides, all the thank yous, okay?

893
01:17:24,430 --> 01:17:25,570
Can you do that?

894
01:17:27,350 --> 01:17:28,130
You got it.

895
01:17:28,130 --> 01:17:28,890
Okay, I'm getting a beer.

896
01:17:28,890 --> 01:17:29,670
Be right back.

897
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,920
I have to go back to work.

898
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:45,880
I'm almost done.

899
01:19:09,500 --> 01:19:14,240
Doesn't it feel like you are in the movies and they are rolling the credits, and you are wondering is there going to be shawarma at the end?

900
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:20,420
Will there be an Avengers thing happening at the end or a secret unlock code that you have to put in your phone?

901
01:19:20,480 --> 01:19:21,640
I could go for some shawarma.

902
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:23,020
What's going to happen?

903
01:19:23,220 --> 01:19:26,460
Oh my gosh.

904
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:30,960
So there is a special command you can type there, DT.

905
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,160
We'll be talking about that command shortly.

906
01:19:45,810 --> 01:19:49,150
Let me see, that was workshops, contests, and events.

907
01:20:46,130 --> 01:20:51,110
All right, there is my thank you.

908
01:20:51,890 --> 01:20:59,990
Okay, so the question everybody has been wondering about, coming up, what is the future of our online Discord strategy?

909
01:21:00,230 --> 01:21:05,470
And we debated this, and we debated it, and we have come up with a basic solution.

910
01:21:05,470 --> 01:21:06,590
Here is what we are doing.

911
01:21:06,590 --> 01:21:12,010
We are basically closing everything on the Discord except a couple of channels.

912
01:21:12,010 --> 01:21:15,990
We are going to have a voice and a text channel for the human plus.

913
01:21:15,990 --> 01:21:18,090
We will have a text channel for the humans.

914
01:21:18,270 --> 01:21:26,670
That should now be renamed any second to LionCon, because now you are almost in line for next year's con.

915
01:21:27,890 --> 01:21:32,670
So when this is over, you are all going to get kicked out and dropped back into freaking LionCon.

916
01:21:34,130 --> 01:21:39,690
Darington is going to roll some DEF CON movies every week now for a little bit.

917
01:21:39,690 --> 01:21:41,290
We are going to do some hacker documentaries.

918
01:21:41,290 --> 01:21:44,370
We are going to do some shared movie watching experiences.

919
01:21:46,170 --> 01:21:52,250
And Chris AM is going to be doing some music and some DJs and some live events.

920
01:21:52,610 --> 01:21:58,870
And some of the DEF CON groups have expressed interest in maybe doing DEF CON group meetups and mini-cons.

921
01:21:59,930 --> 01:22:08,910
So the plan is restrict everything down to just a few channels so we can actually get a handle on it and moderate and see if this thing gets out of control or not.

922
01:22:08,910 --> 01:22:16,930
All the DevOps, we all want to go to sleep, but we also realize just how much fun this has been, how incredible it is that we want to keep it going.

923
01:22:17,250 --> 01:22:24,710
And then over the next couple of weeks, or maybe over the next month or so, we are going to start thinking about how do we integrate this into a real show?

924
01:22:24,710 --> 01:22:27,630
Like how can this be a companion to an on-site experience?

925
01:22:27,630 --> 01:22:32,170
Does each village get one text channel that they can use while they are on-site?

926
01:22:32,370 --> 01:22:33,330
We don't know.

927
01:22:33,530 --> 01:22:40,710
But we do know we want to keep it going, and we know we are going to keep a chat room open for PLUS and for humans, and we will have some movies and we will have some music.

928
01:22:41,090 --> 01:22:44,690
And then hopefully that will keep us alive until we come up with a better plan.

929
01:22:44,950 --> 01:22:49,270
So you can go to the forums and you can help debate on the new plan.

930
01:22:49,950 --> 01:22:51,270
Let's go to the next one.

931
01:22:52,050 --> 01:22:53,750
We have been talking about CON.

932
01:22:54,190 --> 01:22:55,890
What is the future of the CON?

933
01:22:55,890 --> 01:22:57,090
We have got a date.

934
01:22:57,230 --> 01:22:58,350
It is next year.

935
01:22:58,470 --> 01:22:59,910
This is what we are planning on.

936
01:23:01,210 --> 01:23:04,890
We are planning on August 5th to 8th.

937
01:23:04,890 --> 01:23:11,110
So that means we probably have to know if we are out of COVID by March maybe?

938
01:23:13,110 --> 01:23:21,210
So unfortunately, we are going to have to plan again for a COVID future and a non-COVID future, which is super stressful because it takes twice the effort.

939
01:23:21,210 --> 01:23:24,190
We have to continue planning both paths at the same time.

940
01:23:26,950 --> 01:23:34,530
Take pity on us, drink an extra one, pour some out for us, because it is going to be a long six-month bumpy road until we know what we are doing.

941
01:23:34,890 --> 01:23:38,770
But where might this CON be?

942
01:23:40,750 --> 01:23:42,610
You know the place.

943
01:23:42,610 --> 01:23:44,250
Nothing has changed.

944
01:23:44,290 --> 01:23:46,710
Everything is the same in the world.

945
01:23:46,710 --> 01:23:53,050
We will be going back to Paris, Valleys, Riviera, Hard Rock.

946
01:23:53,050 --> 01:23:53,870
No, not Hard Rock.

947
01:23:53,870 --> 01:23:54,810
What is it?

948
01:23:55,890 --> 01:24:00,310
Link, Flamingo, Planet Hollywood.

949
01:24:00,310 --> 01:24:01,570
We are everywhere.

950
01:24:01,570 --> 01:24:11,630
And part of the reason is because nobody has really used the big space at the new Caesars Forums, and we don't want to be the first.

951
01:24:12,150 --> 01:24:18,290
And the other thing is we are betting, if COVID still happens, we are betting we are going to shrink.

952
01:24:18,290 --> 01:24:20,610
How many people are going to actually show up?

953
01:24:20,610 --> 01:24:24,450
So if we are going to be smaller next year, we will be finding that space.

954
01:24:24,630 --> 01:24:34,010
If all of a sudden tomorrow we have got a vaccine and everybody is healed and ready to go party, we are going to start seizing more hotels, seize more resources.

955
01:24:34,550 --> 01:24:36,270
So that is the plan.

956
01:24:36,870 --> 01:24:38,230
Next slide.

957
01:24:38,230 --> 01:24:42,790
This is the command that Riverside has been talking about, the custom-crafted command.

958
01:24:42,790 --> 01:24:47,390
It is the Discord shutdown command, and we are about to issue it.

959
01:24:47,830 --> 01:24:50,210
It might take up to a half an hour to run.

960
01:24:50,210 --> 01:24:52,570
We don't know, because you can't test it.

961
01:24:52,670 --> 01:24:55,430
Because we are doing this in production, bastards.

962
01:24:55,430 --> 01:24:56,790
This is live.

963
01:24:58,030 --> 01:25:00,110
So maybe you get kicked out right now.

964
01:25:00,130 --> 01:25:01,670
Maybe you don't.

965
01:25:02,150 --> 01:25:04,110
Okay, Riverside, you have got the honors.

966
01:25:04,110 --> 01:25:05,390
Why don't you do a countdown for us?

967
01:25:05,390 --> 01:25:07,070
Take off your mic and do a countdown.

968
01:25:07,530 --> 01:25:09,830
We will see if it spits us off into LionCon.

969
01:25:10,210 --> 01:25:11,530
Thank you so much, everyone.

970
01:25:11,530 --> 01:25:13,110
It has been an honor and a privilege.

971
01:25:13,630 --> 01:25:21,630
It has been really amazing, and it has really restored my hope in community and everything after a tough bunch of months.

972
01:25:21,750 --> 01:25:23,110
It was awesome.

973
01:25:24,330 --> 01:25:25,950
Okay, count it down.

974
01:25:25,950 --> 01:25:27,470
There it goes.

975
01:25:27,710 --> 01:25:29,330
Oh, tell them the name of the command.

976
01:25:30,230 --> 01:25:35,830
Yeah, so our team has been having a really fun time with some of the commands and the goofiness.

977
01:25:36,190 --> 01:25:39,190
Yeah, this one happens to be Cancel Defcon.

978
01:25:41,130 --> 01:25:42,330
Canceling Defcon.

979
01:25:44,510 --> 01:25:45,810
Defcon is canceled.

980
01:25:46,230 --> 01:25:47,290
That is awesome.

981
01:25:47,650 --> 01:25:48,870
Here it goes.

982
01:25:49,130 --> 01:25:51,250
I think I might have to slow-mode that channel.

983
01:25:51,250 --> 01:25:52,510
They are going crazy.

984
01:25:52,670 --> 01:25:53,730
Should I dial them back?

985
01:25:53,730 --> 01:25:54,830
Here it goes.

986
01:25:55,310 --> 01:25:56,870
Did you count it down?

987
01:25:57,830 --> 01:26:02,730
Five, four, three, two, one.

988
01:26:02,770 --> 01:26:03,970
Here it comes.

989
01:26:04,690 --> 01:26:05,610
Cancel.

990
01:26:06,090 --> 01:26:07,290
Cancel it!

991
01:26:10,090 --> 01:26:11,390
Okay, now I have to wait.

992
01:26:11,390 --> 01:26:14,290
I am going to go into LionCon and wait for people to pop in there.

993
01:26:14,710 --> 01:26:15,910
Thank you, everyone.

994
01:26:15,910 --> 01:26:20,310
It was an amazing year, and hopefully we will see you in person next year.

995
01:26:21,110 --> 01:26:22,010
Peace out.

996
01:26:22,010 --> 01:26:22,790
Later, all.