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6720	11700	Welcome to the awards ceremony for the Space Security Challenge 2020, or HACCASAT.
11700	13800	I'm your host, Jordan Wines.
14660	18380	Instead of teasing you like last time, let's get right to the results.
18380	21660	We closed the scoreboard yesterday, just before the game's end,
21660	26040	and there were multiple solves that occurred after the scoreboard went dark.
26040	27800	How did that impact the rankings?
27920	32000	Our top three winners of prizes are...
90240	93680	Congratulations to our top prize winning teams,
93680	96960	PFS for taking home the $50,000 grand prize,
96960	101280	Poland Can Into Space, who definitely can, for their $30,000 prize,
101280	104500	and hopefully an epic moonshot we'll see later in the broadcast,
104500	107380	and Flux Repeat Rocket for their $20,000 prize.
107420	110320	We know the technical challenges these teams faced in this event
110320	112360	were unlike any they've seen before,
112360	116260	and we're glad to be able to reward them with hard-earned prizes for their efforts.
116700	118780	However, as you may remember,
118780	122780	the on-orbit section was one of the most important goals of the competition.
122780	125180	It's one of the things that made this event special.
125180	127340	We needed a way to incentivize teams,
127340	130720	and making the on-orbit challenge pass or fail for prize eligibility
130720	133460	was one of the most effective ways to do that.
133460	137920	Space is unique. No one person is an expert in all of its aspects.
137920	140340	We wanted to ensure that the CTF and hacking community
140340	143040	grew in their capabilities relevant to space.
143040	146820	The on-orbit portion required an expertise in math that is unique.
146840	150820	Of course, this being in 2020, our worst fears came to reality.
150820	154060	The highest scoring team was one of those impacted negatively
154060	157300	by not having an on-orbit solution in time.
157300	159320	Let's take a look at the final scoreboard.
159320	161660	And you can see those scores that I mentioned
161660	163440	occurring after the scoreboard went dark.
163440	166560	They were by SolarWine, one of two teams that did not have
166560	168820	an accepted solution for the on-orbit challenge.
168820	172520	And thus, unfortunately, they're ineligible for the final prize pool.
173480	176900	However, the HackASAT organizers all feel for the impact
176900	179680	that this had on SolarWine, and we hope they can take pride
179680	181860	in several notable accomplishments.
182080	185740	First, while there has not been an announced HackASAT 2 edition,
185740	189140	I would personally expect that if such an event occurred,
189140	192540	much in the DEFCON CTF tradition,
192540	194620	the highest scoring team from the previous finals
194620	197260	would automatically qualify for the next event.
197260	198900	And that would be SolarWine.
199000	201940	Second, the official scoreboard submitted to CTF Time
201940	204800	will reflect the points total at the end of the game.
204800	207340	As on-orbit was merely for prize eligibility,
207340	210400	we expect it will not impact standings on CTF Time.
210680	212560	Finally, I want to describe some of the drama
212560	214400	that happened at the end of the day yesterday.
214440	216420	Most teams were running low on power
216420	218820	and needed to be taken off the carousel.
218820	222140	SolarWine was one of only two teams that stayed online
222140	224440	and they were able to capitalize on it.
224440	226960	Not only did they successfully solve Challenge 4,
226960	229100	which required a ton of work building a custom bootloader
229100	231840	to re-enable GPIO on the payload module,
231840	234780	but additionally, they blazed ahead and solved Challenge 5
234780	237200	just before the competition closed as well.
237200	238980	Now there were two ways to solve in Challenge 5.
238980	241300	A lower scoring option of just taking any photo,
241300	245060	and a higher scoring option of taking a photo of the moon in the room.
245120	248220	SolarWine quickly snapped a photo to prove they could control a camera,
248220	251200	and they tried to properly orient for a different photo.
251500	254060	They don't even know it, but their last commands
254060	257140	relayed to the satellite two minutes before the game ended,
257140	259900	took a photo that they never got to see as the game ended,
259900	261440	and we're going to show it to them now.
262420	265580	As you can see, the moon is visible there on the left,
265580	266900	just to the right of the logos.
267400	269800	So, while they did not successfully get this final photo
269800	271560	back in time before the game ended,
271560	273820	they now know that they did achieve success
273820	276740	in all of the Earth-based goals that we laid out for them.
277380	279660	Thanks again, SolarWine, for pushing so hard,
279660	282260	continuing through the discouraging result of yesterday.
282680	285380	And, of course, speaking of that on-orbit challenge,
285380	288300	I know we are all, and especially Poland Canada Space,
288300	290300	looking forward to seeing the results.
290300	292580	For that, we're going to go to Dr. Roper and Brett,
292580	295100	whom you will remember from their keynote earlier in the event.
295120	298240	Dr. Roper is the Air Force and Space Force Acquisition Chief,
298240	301460	and Mr. Brett Goldstein is the Director of the Defense Digital Service.
301560	303380	Gentlemen, can you hear me?
305700	307040	Yes, we can, Jordan.
307040	308940	You can hear me, and I can hear you. That's the important part.
308940	309820	Take it away.
311080	315120	Awesome. Jordan, thanks so much to you and the entire team
315120	317700	that worked so hard to put on this event
317700	319680	and keep everything moderated.
319680	323600	And just a huge hats off to everyone who has participated
323960	327900	in this inaugural foray of space into DEF CON.
327900	329720	And Brett and I were talking earlier.
329720	332960	We are just blown away by how far the community
332960	335100	has come in just a few short weeks.
335100	336760	We've made our own progress here.
336760	339440	We have solved the lanyard challenge.
339440	341620	So by just merely taking off the case,
341620	343140	you can actually attach this.
343140	344660	So problem solved.
344960	347940	But the progress that has been made by these teams
347940	349640	is much more impressive.
349720	353040	And what I just left away is that this combination
353040	356780	of needing to know orbital mechanics,
356780	360220	antenna physics, as well as just good, solid hacking skills
360220	363100	is going to create some of the most interesting challenges
363100	365260	for future DEF CONs to come.
365260	366540	Brett, what do you think?
366540	368220	So my big question is,
368220	371620	is this the second episode of Between Two Nerds?
371620	373200	Part five.
373200	374440	Part five.
374820	377840	Or do you think we'll get syndicated?
377840	378460	Maybe.
378920	381300	Zombies in space, we're ahead of the game.
381300	382220	We are.
382220	385300	And as I think about my future in DOD,
385300	388880	I'm also thinking about my future in TV.
388880	393840	Or this could be Meet the Nerds.
393860	396060	There's a lot of potential here.
396140	398240	We'll hold on to our day jobs, though.
398240	398900	Okay.
398900	402280	Well, I just feel like I'm getting a lot of encouragement
402280	404600	to get into this realm.
404820	408460	But anyhow, so DEF CON has been awesome.
408460	410560	So for everyone listening out there,
410560	413360	great, great year.
413360	415060	And I think about last year,
415060	416620	and I think about all that we did
417140	419800	when Will and I went for the first time,
419800	422280	and the fact that we got DOD out there.
422320	423440	And so proud.
423440	425940	And a couple things stand out for me.
425940	427400	But one of them's funny.
427400	430500	So I had never been on Discord before.
430500	433760	And y'all may be using Discord all the time,
433760	437760	but isn't there something counterintuitive
437760	439620	about you log on to Discord,
439620	442480	and then it sends you this random-ass link
442480	443820	that you're supposed to click?
443820	445420	Like, this is DEF CON.
445420	448360	So super surprised by that.
448600	450480	So I had to call up my friend Roro,
450480	453300	and I'm like, hey dude, do I click the link?
453300	456880	And he's like, well, I guess so. Click.
457020	459860	So hopefully that wasn't a bad click.
459860	462840	But on a more serious note,
462840	465680	what was really special about our efforts
465680	468260	with Air Force and DDS is,
468260	471920	in our first day of doing everything,
471920	474520	we had more traffic and more interactions
474520	478160	than we did through the entire DEF CON last year.
478160	480720	Which is insane, because, like,
480720	482580	for all the folks from the team
482580	485980	who did DEF CON last year, we were slammed.
485980	488760	So the fact that we saw those sorts of interactions
488760	492300	means we really got our act together this year.
492420	494360	Virtual was awesome for us,
494360	496620	and we're glad we were able to engage.
496620	500500	But Will, Hackisfat, what do you think?
500580	503600	Well, Brett, amazing success.
503600	507100	Amazing the amount of community that was able to be involved.
507100	509700	And the feedback has been fantastic.
510300	511660	Overwhelmingly, people saying,
511660	515160	I never knew that space was really accessible to me.
515160	518060	Were the equipments affordable, given my day job?
518060	521080	And that's amazing to introduce that to this community.
521220	525180	So we had over, almost 13,000 people
525180	528600	came to the Hackisfat website this year.
528600	532640	Almost 5,000 people came in through the VR site.
532640	535820	And over 130,000 social media views,
535820	538020	which just tells me space is super interesting
538440	540640	and something that's just been beyond grasp
540640	542880	and hopefully seems a little more so now.
542880	546000	And for the teams that were part of our quals,
546000	548040	we were super excited in your interest.
548040	551120	And for the teams who made it in the final,
551120	553900	we're blown away by how quickly you adapted
553900	556240	to these very difficult challenges.
556240	557640	And I think we picked them right.
557640	560780	They were solvable, but not easily so.
560780	563320	And so to everyone involved, hats off.
563320	566040	And especially just want to give a shout out to SolarWind,
566040	567940	the top overall score.
567940	570440	I mean, kudos to you for sticking at it,
570440	573520	for coming back and continuing to improve what you did.
573520	576560	For PFS, congratulations on being the top winner.
576560	580700	And again, just putting a lot of amazing solutions on the board.
580700	582640	And Poland can into space.
582640	585140	You stated your goal was to get into space,
585140	588520	and you did with your moonshot that we'll come to in a second.
588520	591560	And I don't want to leave Flux Repeat Rocket out.
591560	595100	Coming in, getting that 20K prize,
595100	598720	putting up amazing tech across all these different challenges.
598720	601000	We're just really proud of all of you.
601000	604980	But what we wanted to end with is the Cyber Moonshot,
604980	606920	which was more than just the name.
606920	609280	Taking control of the satellite that is orbiting,
609280	613380	having to restore normal operations after they've been disabled,
613380	616520	having to understand orbital mechanics well enough
616520	620760	to point a satellite that's meant to take a picture of the Earth
620760	626000	to something that's 385,000 kilometers away
626000	630920	and successfully get an image through what is very much a soda straw
630920	634320	is a wicked hard challenge.
634320	638200	But DEFCON and our first satellite, HackASAT Challenge,
638200	640100	needed no less than that.
640100	645060	And so I am pleased to announce that Poland can into space.
645060	650120	You can. Let's roll the video for your Cyber Moonshot.
777460	781320	All right, on screen is the Moonshot for everyone to see.
791440	794740	All right, back to you, Brett and Dr. Roper.
796060	800700	I think that video gives you a sense about how hard this challenge was.
800700	804520	So for Poland can into space, how awesome is that?
804520	808500	We're super proud of what you and what every participant accomplished
808500	812620	this week in HackASAT and the Moonshot Challenge itself.
812620	815640	Brett, that wasn't all that was going on in the aerospace village
815640	818700	and particularly components dealing with space.
819060	823600	True, but before we go there, so orbital mechanics.
823600	827700	So if you were to define orbital mechanics,
827700	830560	what would you say, asking for a friend?
831120	835380	You're going to need a basic knowledge of Kepler's laws of motion.
835380	840460	Everything's moving around in either an ellipse, a circle, a parabola,
840460	844580	or a hyperbola, or a line, I guess, technically, to give the degenerate case.
844580	848300	So you need to know that stuff. You need to be able to model it numerically.
848320	852880	And you also need to understand how to transpose different reference frames.
852940	855800	So other than that, Brett, it's just simple math.
855800	861180	Kepler, degenerate, parabola. Got it.
861180	863200	All good. Kepler's your friend in space.
863200	865900	Got it. Okay. Kepler. Got it.
865920	869920	So workshops. So workshops were awesome this year.
869920	874480	And before we dive into some stats, I want to thank the team.
874560	878460	So the DDS team with our Air Force friends,
878460	883080	they work night and day to make all of these streams happen.
883080	891520	And all of the mechanics probably involved a little Kepler, parabola, lines, math,
891520	896660	to make all of these different workshops happen on the Twitches.
896660	901400	But in all seriousness, the team has been surging for months
901400	907360	to make each one of these as real as possible, to keep it up, work the challenges,
907360	911340	deal with drama up until the last minute. So amazing work.
911340	918040	But we had 11 Twitch streams, and that was awesome from an educational point of view.
918040	921080	But here's a big, big piece.
921120	925640	Our first winner on all of the workshops was a 12-year-old.
925980	928280	The Alpaca Club.
928280	933720	So this 12-year-old out of nowhere came and crushed one of the workshops.
933720	941080	And something as both as a dad, but also as a director of an innovation team,
941080	945000	and then looking to one of our goals of training the future,
945180	951580	a 12-year-old, again, the Alpaca Club, going and crushing it right off the bat was amazing.
951620	953680	So we have these workshops.
953680	956800	And from a traffic perspective,
956800	964260	we're looking at we had over almost 2,500 visitors and 131 winners.
964260	966140	And that is pretty impressive.
966140	971300	But the good news for everyone listening out there is we're still playing today.
971300	975340	So and because everyone likes swag, keep playing.
975340	978240	You win a shirt. You win. You win a shirt.
978240	979720	Swag wins.
979800	982720	But these workshops were great.
982720	990900	And one of the goals that Will and I had from the very beginning was have a very hard challenge like HackASet,
990900	998320	where people would, you know, start and then it would get to a series of teams and get to the big win, the moonshot.
998360	1005220	But we also want to work on training folks with everything from advanced to beginner level types of workshops.
1005220	1008240	And I feel like we were able to deliver there.
1008400	1009940	But it was pretty awesome.
1009940	1012080	I don't know if you won yet, Will.
1012620	1015040	Well, I think everyone won for this.
1015040	1021700	You know, it's pretty amazing to see how far just members of our military have come from just a year ago.
1021700	1028000	So we were there a little over a year ago with an F-15 hacking challenge.
1028000	1033460	And it really did send a shock across the Pentagon with, wait a second, what are we doing?
1033460	1037100	You know, cyber vulnerabilities are not things that we're supposed to expose.
1037100	1043780	And I've seen a huge amount of progress for the organizations I represent, the Air Force and the Space Force,
1043780	1049400	starting to realize that this community is one that we should have been a part of a long time ago,
1049400	1053740	that we have so much to learn from you, and we have learned this week.
1053740	1059260	And I'm looking forward to doing some debriefs with the teams and just hearing how you approach the challenges
1059260	1064580	and what you think we can do better on, because we're designing satellites and airplanes every day, Brad.
1064580	1068840	And these lessons we can put directly into new things that we design.
1068840	1074820	We'd also like to hear how we can be better members of this community, because we're going to be back next year
1074820	1078040	and we can do virtual events, we can do live hacking events.
1078040	1083320	We want to know how we can make interesting opportunities relevant to our mission,
1083320	1087840	something that really energizes this community where everyone learns.
1087840	1090820	So Brad, I think we all won with PAKASAT this year.
1090820	1098960	I think we did too. And so the past two nights, we've done this drinks with devs, which has been pretty wild,
1098960	1105680	because we just had a horde of our folks and then a bunch of people who have been working on the workshops came in.
1105680	1110060	And the good news from last night is we had a winner for DDSAT.
1110060	1118260	So Pina Triste, amazing work, good job, came on the call last night, got the kudos there.
1118260	1124660	So we've seen winners throughout the stack. I think this year really went well.
1124660	1128340	The question is, what do we do next year?
1128440	1132440	Well, Brad, I have my own ideas and we'll be discussing them for sure.
1132440	1135700	We could go into AI, we could go into drones.
1135780	1140060	We could let members of the community make a satellite that we could put up in orbit
1140060	1143400	and maybe you've designed it more cyber secure than the way we do.
1143400	1145320	But we want to hear from you.
1145320	1148220	No, we should have been part of this community a long time ago.
1148220	1151700	And I hope that you'll tell us how we can use opportunities like this
1151700	1159640	so that having military members be part of the DEF CON community is not an unusual thing, but a really cool thing.
1159640	1164240	So we're going to keep the websites open and we hope that you will share your thoughts with us
1164240	1170240	so that this time next year, hopefully when COVID-19 is behind us and I hope everyone is safe till then,
1170240	1173080	that we can do a live event that's awesome,
1173080	1176740	but continue all the awesomeness that this virtual event has afforded.
1176740	1180000	We've had so many more people participate.
1180160	1182960	And Brad, I don't know, maybe we can talk about zombies again next year.
1183000	1185420	We could have a zombie challenge.
1185540	1190200	If you can incorporate zombies into the challenge, I think you win.
1190780	1194220	Because let's face it, Brad, after zombies run over the earth,
1194220	1199200	we may be reliant on members of this community to download critical satellite data to know where they are.
1199380	1201800	I think we've uncovered something critical.
1201800	1207980	But in all seriousness, even though everything does in fact come back to zombies,
1208560	1210720	we want to hear from you.
1210720	1213720	So we have ideas on what is hard.
1213720	1216800	So the bar was raised really high this year.
1217160	1218640	What's on your mind?
1218640	1221720	We're all over Twitter. We have the HackASAT handle.
1221720	1223960	We have Defense Digital for DDS.
1223960	1225520	We have the websites up.
1225520	1227340	We want to hear from you.
1227340	1230660	We're still operating on Discord. We will through the day.
1230660	1237640	We want to be involved in this community, not just for a few days during the summer, but all year long.
1237640	1242860	So I personally, and I know Will as well, want to hear your hardest ideas.
1243200	1246020	Bonus points for zombie interactions.
1246400	1249520	But, you know, we want to hear them.
1249520	1251660	Yeah, I get your style points somewhere, Brad.
1251660	1255200	So Brad, I don't know, from my view, what a successful conclusion.
1255200	1257100	Again, congrats to all the teams.
1257100	1260620	Continue learning from the websites that we have up.
1260620	1262220	Let us hear from you.
1262220	1272200	And hopefully by this time next year, we'll be on to the next great, amazing Capture the Flag Challenge and the next great set of workshops so that we all get smarter.
1272260	1281880	So for now, we're signing off from Between Two Nerds, Meet the Nerds, All the Nerds, Some of the Nerds, Nerds Meet Zombies.
1281880	1287640	But everyone, stay safe, love the interactions this year, and look forward to hearing more from you.
1287640	1288940	Back to you, Jordan.
1290380	1292620	Thanks very much, Dr. Roper and Brett.
1292620	1294620	From another nerd to two more.
1294680	1299000	We appreciate your drive for making this event and the many other events related happen.
1299120	1304820	Additionally, thanks very much to the core four, Amanda, Delia, John, and Steve.
1304820	1308620	Finally, thanks to you, the audience, for spending your weekend with us.
1308620	1317900	Stay safe, enjoy the rest of DEFCON, the Aerospace Village, the Defense Digital Service Workshops, and all of the other happenings this weekend.