Hello everyone out there. I hope you can all hear us now, because F it, we're just going to wing it.
Like a famous man said, F it, we'll do it live.
Welcome, we're Defcon 201 out here.
Before we start, there's probably something you should wonder about.
If someone can do it, next slide.
Next!
Everyone, is someone alive with a pulse out there?
There we go.
There we go.
So you're probably wondering, who the F are us?
So we're going to introduce all three of us.
So first of all, the voice here on this end is SidePocket.
I'm one of the co-founders of Defcon 201.
I do most of the social media and event planning, including trying to prep for this wonderful nightmare that is the Defcon Groups Village.
I'm really impressed with everyone getting even this wedding.
A bit of background about myself, I also...
A long time, that time at GI Jack, I was through at IMLC 2600.
We're going to get into part of how we figured out we should make a Defcon Group here.
I'm also a long time person at Phone Losers of America.
I've done active stuff with Yes Men.
I am a tool member.
And if you want to see what my face looks like after doxing me, you can go check the Mr. Robot Season 3 premiere or the Jack Ryan premiere.
I was the guest extra hacker on that show.
So next slide with the man himself.
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This is going to be fun.
Hi, what's your code?
Hi everybody, I'm GI Jack.
I'm actually an Axwheel in Cockatoo.
I'm the other co-founder of DC201.
Also a 2600 alumni.
I'm not quite as long term as Mr. Pocket over here.
I do the infrastructure and backend for DC201.
I maintain all the servers.
What's it called?
I'm also the guy behind NinjaOS.
It's a live OS based on Arch Linux.
We'll get into that in a minute.
We'll get into that in a minute.
I'm an avid motorcycle enthusiast and I do much, much, much more.
If you have any more questions about me, you can always ask me sometime on IRC.
The answer may or may not be sarcastic.
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So, yeah, I'm the third guy.
I just do things around here, you know.
I mean, I show up for a long time.
I do document work.
I designed our flyers and a few of our graphical assets.
And, yeah, that's generally where I am around here.
Oh, and by the way, the awesome bird art, by the way, for each of us is by a person on Twitter called Pockets.
It's at underscore P-O-C-K-E-T-S-S.
No relation.
No relation.
Yeah.
All right.
Advanced slide.
As you know, we just like adopting pets here.
I love this.
This is like being on FTL.
There we go.
So, for all of you global people out there and even the United States, you're probably wondering, what is New Jersey and where are we?
So, a couple of factors we're going to yell out.
New Jersey is one of the 13 colonies that rebelled against the American Revolution.
And, yes, we're located in that third world nation that's in the United States.
We're the home to many firsts.
We're also home to the Jersey Shore, both the show and the place, and the Sopranos.
Last to grant slaves their freedom.
We ourselves are located in Jersey City in Hudson County.
So, for those who don't know where Hudson County is, if you look at the map on the screen, you should see friendly white families to the right of that.
If it's colorblind, it's red.
It says well-to-do conservatives, who I don't think are well-to-do anymore.
Below that is hipsters and minorities.
That's where Hudson County is.
And, yeah, does anyone have any more comments about New Jersey?
So, yeah, basically, I came from Long Island. I can't really say anything.
Like, literally, if he's from Long Island, he wasn't able to speak until he physically got to New Jersey.
Pretty much.
Florida's People's Republic of New Jersey.
I don't know what to say.
So, next slide. Advance.
Engage.
So, we're not quite done with New Jersey, because, and trust me, we'll go by this really fast, because we want to get into some questions, hopefully, from the audience.
Something a lot of people don't know about New Jersey is there's a lot of technological and just hacker AF stuff that's in our state.
And we just thought we'd do a couple of highlights here.
So, first of all, way back, depending if you like the man or how most of us do now, we hate the man.
Edison's original labs were located in Moeno Park in West Orange.
These are all places in New Jersey, by the way.
They've been either converted into museums or moved to other states and been converted to museums.
Because, you know, we're basically a New Jersey's a dumpster.
You just pick stuff up and move them to other states.
So, you can thank particularly those labs for things like electricity, movies, things like that were directly invented there.
Then, a little bit later on, John von Neumann built what's known as the IAS machine, sometimes known as the von Neumann machine.
You probably heard of a little guy known as Alan Turing.
He's one of the people that conceptualized modern computing and also helped crack the Enigma machine along with the Polish Cypher Bureau.
He had a concept for what a computer, a computational machine that could actually remember and store memory.
And he's where we get the von Neumann architecture from.
And Neumann... Neumann!
Von...
Yes, teamed up at the Institute of Advanced Studies in this cesspool that's known as Princeton, New Jersey.
And defied... well, he stole basically $10 million, got yelled by the government, private industry, and everything else,
and created the first machine that did functional stored state memory.
So, it could actually remember stuff and recall things back.
You say Princeton's a cesspool, but New Jersey's the cesspool.
Well, no. Again, New Jersey is a pothole with potholes in it. It's great.
And then, basically around 1940s, Bell Labs kind of got sick of New York City,
and they decided to relocate with the family, like relocations in 1967 at Murray Hill.
They actually opened up a ton of locations.
Murray Hill is the current last resting place of Bell Labs.
You can see the photo in the slide.
And it's now known as Nokia Bell Labs.
Nokia Bell Labs. For a time, it was Novell. For a time, it was Sko. Unix was invented there.
Yeah, I was going to say, in 1969, Unix was invented right here in New Jersey.
There was a lot of stuff invented at Bell Labs.
The first working transistor solar panel.
One of the first working CRT color displays was invented here in the state also.
The C language Unix.
We can't display video, but there's a hilarious...
If you go into YouTube, search Bell Labs Unix, and I crap you not, there is a documentary that Bell Labs made called
Unix Making Computers Easier to Use.
So, that's that. We're almost done.
I don't quite know, and I believe 201 was the first error code, and if it's not, it's the first public.
Actually, 201 is the first error code.
Because in the old North American numbering plan.
Even if it wasn't, we're claiming that.
This is the reason why we specifically saw rep 201 instead of 973 or anything else.
In the old North American numbering plan, you can't use a number 1.
The middle digit has to be a 0 or a 1, and the end digits can't be a 0 or a 1.
201 is the lowest possible error code, and that's what New Jersey got as the first error code.
We're number 1.
And just to note, when he says middle digit, he means the number sequence of the phone number, not another common middle digit that's basically hello in New Jersey.
Three last quick things.
Number be a 1.
Yes.
At least it's not a number 2, which is our government.
But a few more quick points.
Way back, I believe it was 1990, the Secret Service actually set up a sting operation in Bergen County called Operation Cyber Snare, where they launched in Bergen County a BBS known as Celio 5-1.
In 1995, I think the first main BBS arrest happened with 6 people from all over the place were indicted under hacker handles.
If you remember, or hopefully try not to remember, Gio Hotz.
He hacked the iOS.
He's more famous for hacking the PlayStation 3 and then got sued over it.
We did a panel about it.
We're going to explain that later.
He actually is from Hackensack, New Jersey.
And finally, if you remember, we were supposed to have a thing this year called Defcon China.
That got canceled real fast.
We, you know, because Winnie the Pooh got canceled.
But no, it's that, so the partnership with Defcon China is a company called Baidu.
And basically, it's China's Google.
And what a lot of people don't know about it is that Robin Li, that's his actual name, in China, all the back end for their entire system, including their main search engine, because they got the same start as Google being a search engine,
was coded when he was working at IDD Information Services in New Jersey, which, if I remember correctly, is in Newark.
Oh, wow.
So, yeah, so half of all of China's infrastructure is from code made in New Jersey, so that's that.
Joy.
Speaking of which...
That's why they call us the People's Republic.
Yep, let's get into actual DC-201 stuff.
Next slide, please.
Kind sir.
Kind person of nondescript gender, mineral, or vegetable.
There we go.
So, yeah, so, for those of you who don't know, there have been three previous attempts to make a DC-201 in the past.
All of them miserably failed.
The last one went from, like, 2011 and tapered off somewhere around 2013.
You can use the Wayback Machine to find out as someone just goes through our slides.
We don't know why, because that's actually one of the reasons why our Twitter's off, because they have the original DEF CON 201 account on Twitter.
Yeah.
And they moved to Georgia, which tells you a lot about them, and we haven't heard from them ever since.
So we had to take DEF CON 201 NJ.
Yep.
And we don't know why their meetings fizzled out, but we can make a guess, because who actually wants to go to Paramus?
Fucking Paramus.
I guess there's something wrong with every part of this state.
Not that I actually want to go to Paramus.
Well, never mind. I mean, you've had experience trying to go to NYC... sorry, 2600 meetings in New Jersey.
Yeah, I mean, it's like part of that state where it's hard to get through with public transportation.
It's not really much there. It's just mostly, like, strip malls and kind of...
It's not really accessible as far as, like, meeting places go.
It wasn't really a good location to do, like, a group.
So one of the reasons why I wanted to do this one was because I'm pretty sure SidePocket had the same...
We both had, like, the same idea at the same time.
It's that, like, you know, like, oh, there's a lot of hackers from New Jersey.
There's a lot of people who I could always meet in either... what's it called?
Basically all meet in New York City, but no one ever wanted to do anything in New Jersey.
So, like, yeah, let's just meet in this state.
We've also noticed, because that's why we did the history lesson, that New Jersey is hacker AF.
But, like, our theory is that there's a lot of people who are too afraid to come out.
And we don't blame them, because kind of like with some of the NYC 2600 groups and other organizations...
Sorry, the 2600 groups and other organizations, that there's a very huge corporate slant in New Jersey
that is very off-putting, kind of the way corporates are.
So we decided, F it, do it live. Next slide, person.
And then slide.
I think we bored our audience there. There we go.
So, yeah, and then basically, like, F it, let's make DEFCON 201 or DC201.
So our first meeting was in March 17, 2017. That's a mouthful.
We just were kind of like, hey, we'll find a place, meet up, we'll talk some stuff, maybe we'll do a workshop.
Maybe, hopefully, we'll have someone to do some speaking.
And then back in March of this year, we actually celebrated our third beer anniversary.
So we're like the longest lasting out of the New Jersey groups as far as we know.
We've had some really amazing stuff.
I'm really happy that we have a diverse mix of not only representation in terms of, like, ethnicities,
you know, sex, backgrounds, color, but also just different types of hackers.
We've had people who love lockpicking, biohacking, reverse engineering, forensics, knitting,
just all sorts of anyone with a STEM background.
One thing that I'm going to hand to GI Jack a bit about is that I love, and this was his idea,
was when you do become a member, and we can deal with that in the Q&A section,
we do have our own NextCloud that's members only.
Do you want to talk a bit about that?
At this point, I almost don't want to talk about it.
It's infrastructure.
Okay, so it's infrastructure. NextCloud is a great piece of software.
It's one of the last remaining...
Asterix.
No, what's it called? NextCloud is great until it doesn't work.
We're actively looking for a good replacement.
The Unix experience.
It's basically the last piece of LAMP software that people actually use.
That's right, PHP.
Okay, so basically it's a combination of, it does calendars, contacts,
basically it does groupware in the browser with a nice web interface with web dev, car dev, cal dev.
It has a plug-in for email, it has a plug-in for maps, it has a lot of interesting plug-ins.
It has a plug-in for LibreOffice online, so there's an HTML5 LibreOffice client,
which runs the Docker container that it forwards information from.
That will kill your computer after four gigs.
Yeah.
That sometimes actually works as well, like the rest of it.
So when NextCloud is working, it's pretty cool because if you want to run your own cloud-hosted calendar with web dev,
but it's still PHP.
See, the way I like to describe it is it's like if it was all put together with dental amalgam.
It's full of mercury, it tastes like shit, and generally is an unpleasant experience.
Right.
But it's very necessary.
Right. If you want to mount a storage space, you can actually back-end this directly to an S3 bucket
and look like unlimited storage, which is kind of cool.
Yep. And speaking of that, we've met some truly amazing people.
We're going to do shout-outs at the end, but we're really fortunate enough to have awesome speakers
and people who do workshops, such as Liz Fong-Jones, Knight Owl, Mr. BlackCypher himself, and more.
And speaking of that, we're going to talk a little bit about how we sort of set up DEF CON DC-201 here.
So, advance to the next slide, if someone can do that.
Someone advance to the next slide, please. Anyone that has blood?
There we go.
So, speaking of transportation and bad infrastructure, we want to let people know why you should actually travel to New Jersey
and why DC-601 should stop its bitching.
We want to make sure... one of our priorities when we were looking for locations was to make sure
where we would be as accessible to everyone as much as possible, including the location itself.
And that it's on the first floor, because we've had that problem in the past.
Yes, we'll get into that in a little bit.
So, we want to make sure people who have any physical or mental disabilities should be able to enter in.
We always put... if there's any sort of thing that might mentally harm, they call them trigger warnings.
We always try to make sure to get those out there, because trust me, it's New Jersey.
We want an inclusive place. We want to be open to as many people as possible, because hackers are an extremely diverse community.
Yes, we want to make an inclusive space in a state that is like the opposite end of inclusive.
One of the reasons why I kind of formed this is because we always used to bitch that everything in New Jersey kind of sucked.
So, we did a... we were like, why does it suck? It says there's nothing cool, so let's do something cool.
And try to, like, turn the state around.
And try not to do, like, also, like, some of the mistakes we've seen in other, like, meetings in the past that we're not going to name names.
And we also want to make sure that, you know, that we have, which Sarah saw actually did a bunch of, is extensive documentation.
So, if you do have to take NJ Transit, the, like, elusive nightmare, you can actually get here.
Yeah, at our current venue, I have listed at least four different ways to get there just by public transportation.
And if you're driving and parking, I wouldn't recommend it in Jersey City.
But I even have a parking space that you can park at.
It's, like, $2 to park, and then you get a bus ticket and head on to DC-201.
Yep. So, speaking of that, just to hammer in the point, next slide, please, volunteer.
Advanced slide.
So, to kind of stick in that point, because I'm going to talk while the slide, hopefully, transitions here.
The main reason why I want DC-610 to stop bitching is that no one wants to go to Pennsylvania.
Our argument here is... Do you see this picture on the screen?
We love you, hip-hop.
No, it's not hip-hop. It's Docker Eye.
Yeah, so, question to everyone in the audience.
You see that picture right there? Is that a lie due to all of, like, the racial injustice and, like, COVID and stuff?
Or is that the Eagles winning?
We rest our case. Next slide, please, advanced.
Advanced slide.
It's getting there. It's kind of like... this is like a telephone game.
So, as we said, you know, we're just another group out of the many DEF CON groups that are across the nation, around the world.
And we have the same frustrations and pitfalls that everyone else does, including probably the most difficult one that we still, to some degree, have struggles with, even though we really have no complaints about this, which is finding a venue.
You know, getting a space. And, you know, we agree with DEF CON groups that this needs to be an open space that doesn't have, like, a door charge fee, or that you can negotiate with the people there in order to meet around and get it accessible.
I don't know if we're going to name names here, but we've gone through two other locations before our current one.
Our first venue was, like, what you would think of when you're, like, okay, let's have, like, a DEF CON groups meeting where it was a hacker space and it had giant power tools and, you know, a bunch of stuff there.
The problem was is there was a lot of drama from that hacker space.
It wasn't exactly in a good corner of Hoboken, either.
Yeah, you can probably make some guesses here.
I mean, Hoboken's exactly a good corner in the first place, but...
And the other thing about it, which was our nail in the coffin, is we'd have people show up with stuff, and then their stuff would go missing during the meeting.
Yeah, that was kind of a big, uh, no thanks kind of...
And it wasn't any of our members, either, because we were very vigorous about that.
So we decided to move again, and our next venue was more physically accessible, and the owner liked us, but we kind of got the vibe that the employees didn't.
There was a lot of head-butt clashing with, like, culture and timing and stuff, and so that wasn't working out, either.
Yeah, so, like, the second venue was nice because it was right on the subway, right on the PATH train.
The problem was that we, uh, while we were pretty much in with the owner of the place, and they wanted to have cool hacker stuff going on there,
the employees were kind of working against us. We'd noticed things were, like, messed up a little bit.
And what was the final nail in the coffin was, like, when some of the employees just up and left without, like, cleaning up the restaurant.
And it got to be a problem enough that we decided that we weren't going to work with them on that.
Well, basically, to elaborate more, um, we got a complaint that, like, we somehow, like, messed up the restaurant, even though we took pictures that night.
It was completely clean, and we didn't go anywhere, because they gave us the keys to lock it. That's how much the owner trusted us.
And so our theory is that an employee messed up, and they were like, oh, you know, no one likes hackers. We'll just blame it on the group that's there.
Yeah, easy scapegoat, you know.
So, just like Goldilocks, next slide, please. You know, we had to find a new location, and we eventually, we did.
And I think we're pretty happy with it. They're called Subculture. They're located on 260, if you add an extra, that's 2600 Newark Avenue in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey.
It's about five blocks away from the current PATH train, and there's a lot of other avenues in order to get there, as everyone beeps in unison behind us, because it's Jersey City.
They're a sandwich shop. They have really affordable food with a lot of different options.
They have a huge, like, 60-plus inch projection screen that we do all of our, like, presentations and talks on, kind of similar to what we have virtually here.
And they have multiple TVs, power plugs for all of, like, the devices and stuff we'll bring in.
The people who run it are really cool. They, like us, came out really in support of Black Lives Matter and a bunch of other things in the city.
And we've had great, truly a great working relationship with them. That's not any BS. Like, we're really shocked by that.
And, well, I think, personally, it's really cool in the back, what Serious Sales Times helps with, and so has Jack, is they have a whole Raspberry Pi video game set up.
They have, like, five games.
Retro games, yeah.
Just emulated retro games. We didn't make that. That was already there.
Yeah. And I have to say something, just a note on the affordable food bit.
It's not, like, McDonald's cheap, but it is good for what you get.
Which is a big thing, considering a lot of the places that people meet afterwards for, like, meetings in New York City and around Jersey City, they're often, like, dim, dinky bars in the middle of, like, midtown Manhattan, where a simple burger is, like, $35.
I don't fly with that. We're hackers. We're broke.
Yeah.
We're not 500 years old. We're hackers in New Jersey.
Thank you.
We're hackers in the middle of New Jersey.
Yeah.
Do you have any comments you want to add on that? Next slide? Okay.
Yeah, so the food's good.
Yeah.
It's just a warning. It is the hipster district, so...
I mean...
Well, I would say the district is, but, like, the venue isn't. They're very down-to-earth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they attract hipsters just by proximity, I guess, but...
Yeah, plus we're out of Hoboken, and none of us ever want to go.
So, next slide, so we can get rid of the watch of Hoboken out of our mouths.
Yeah.
So, we're going to talk about how we sort of...
Okay, now that we have the venue, what do we do next?
So, the big one is get the word out.
There's a classic saying that I hate, which is,
if you build a bigger mousetrap, they will come.
That is an effing lie.
As a lot of you guys know who make hardware and software projects,
you often probably put stuff on GitHub,
and there's kind of that meme where you can get, like, 5,000 followers on Twitter,
but you get someone to actually follow your GitHub, and that's like an Olympic event.
Or worse, contribute to it.
Yeah.
Make one pull request.
Yes.
So, the thing about it is, like, you know, you have to get the word out there.
You have to do that thing that hackers have a hard time doing a lot of times,
which is the socials.
You have to...
Basically, if you're a hacker group, you're a social group for anti-social people.
So, the way we had to get the word out is we had to do extensive social media presence.
I will say that we are all lucky where, whether for good or for worse,
when I was on Twitter, I had a following.
GI Jack, I would say, has followings or zombies or minions or something.
I got some in our collection of weirdos and bots.
Yeah.
And Sarasal's known for his work, and a lot of other people who are on stream right now are known for that.
So, we did have the advantage of a lot of people migrating over to our social media stuff,
but that didn't, you know, excuse that we had to make a meetup.com, and now we currently pay for it.
Like, even if you have a world-class team of hackers, like, in every corner of hackerdom,
you're not going to be, you know, outright getting followers to your DEF CON group unless you actually put in the work to make it visible.
And part of that is, you know, even when you have all your social media stuff together,
you need to have something that, you know, as they said in the Big Lebowski, ties the room together.
So, we've gone through multiple versions of the website.
The first version is something... the first and third version was stuff I had to spin up just to have it.
The second version, all I'll say about it, is when the person designing the website,
when you ask them to put the link to the email on the main page, and they say,
Oh, I didn't think... I don't think that's like a main feature or a priority feature,
that person's no longer in charge of the website anymore.
So, instead, we gave it to SoraSell, and everything's magic.
Yeah, no, the one thing I have to say is visual, like, synchronicity, you know,
make sure that everything is readable, accessible, everything's put together,
all your information is in the site, on the page.
The front page has the most important information, including contact information.
That's something our previous website editor lacked.
And a big one is that we also make sure that, like, there's nothing tracking, there's no plug-ins,
it doesn't use any scripting.
No JavaScript, no bots, no trackers, no one-pixel dots.
And, uh, yeah, the worst thing I'll do is a few CSS animations, tops, and that's plain CSS,
and if your browser has those turned off or disabled, usually for accessibility reasons,
it'll just gracefully fall back.
One of the quick features we added to Lookit is we're a big fan of KISS,
stop looking at the bandit, also keep it simple, stupid.
You did speak for yourself about the bandit.
But, uh, well, you know, New Jersey parking lot people.
I'm speaking as a state.
And then the big one here is we also tried to do a balance of popular platforms versus ethical platforms.
What I mean by that is, like, we have a Facebook, we have a Twitter, because everyone's on there.
But that doesn't mean you can't have, for example, a Mastodon or something in the Fediverse
or an independent blog or Onion that we run.
We do have an Onion landing page.
And that's honestly something that I admire about this group
and something that a lot of more free-culture-minded, open-source-minded groups could probably...
It's on the top of your arm!
Uh, yeah.
Gesundheit.
It's stuck in my throat.
Anyway, it's something they could learn about.
Go to the platforms that people are on.
Go where the people are.
I mean, even if it's actually Facebook.
You know, it's run by a lizard king who lies to Congress through his teeth.
Doesn't matter, the people are there.
His teeth?
Oh, maybe he doesn't.
His gills.
Yes, but real quick, yeah.
And that's a whole... because we're going to go to the next thing in a bit.
That's where... I just lost my train of thought real quick.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Oh, okay.
So we're going to go to the next train of thought there.
But yeah, and also if you're on a platform, you know, we talk about our Mastodon and stuff.
We let people know about that.
So that's right where we move people over to potentially better stuff.
And then the last thing, which is big, is that we also are very local.
So despite, you know, hackers and digital stuff, before COVID, and we'll get to that in a second, we do make...
Circel design flyers, we print them out.
I go everywhere and hang them up so that, you know, whether you're at a library or a bar or something...
Yeah, we basically paint the town black and white with all these flyers, you know.
I designed the flyers to be instantly noticeable and readable from a distance.
So you'd see them hanging on the side of a bulletin board from the street.
And you'd see, oh, that's a DEF CON 201 flyer.
Or you'd think, oh, that's an interesting flyer. I want to see what it is.
Because it just has just the right balance of information and white space.
So I'm going to do the next slide and then hand this off to G.I. Jackson.
Next slide, please.
We are poking you with the pointer to change this.
There we go.
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We are an open technology...
Hashtag goals.
Hashtag goals.
We are an open technology group.
We welcome all skill.
We welcome, regardless of background and skill and in person, doing instead of talking,
helping each other learn and grow, and give back to the community.
So it's just basically we encourage everyone to show up.
We're not like... I don't think there's many community people in this scene anymore.
They're kind of like the elite kind of bad-ass types or want to be bad-ass types.
So I don't really think that's too much of an issue in this scene anymore, unlike 30 years ago.
Five years ago.
But it's just basically if you just want to come up, you have tech problems.
We do a lot of presentations.
We like having speakers.
We get speakers.
A lot of times we do get like the type of speakers who actually do talks at cons, like actual big cons.
So it's like we've really established ourselves as kind of like this is kind of like a minor league talk circuit,
which I think is kind of cool.
We bring a lot of things.
So...
And that bit with the big thing, which I feel lacks the end and should be a drive for all Defcon groups out there is giving back to the community.
We just don't want to... this is where we get the corporatism from.
We don't want to exist in a vacuum and just be like, oh, we'll just hand 50 kids like some high-end laptops and then call it a day
and everyone else is struggling, hungry, broke.
Everything is broken and, you know, all of that.
So the whole thing is we reach out to our city.
We actually have good contacts with like the government in our city and local representatives.
We reach out with the mayor even.
Like we're on that level where we're, you know, actively working with our city government, our local government,
and not in the way that most hackers work with government or against rather,
but more that we're working on more progressive programs and policies for technology advancement and education.
And also, again, when you said that, there's some things we don't like about the government, including the federal government,
but what we want to do is it's just one thing to constantly complain.
It's another thing of, okay, you have a list of problems.
You're a hacker.
What are you going to do about it?
And that's the key.
We do something about it, and that should be the stride for every group.
So next slide.
I think Jack can probably take this one real quick.
Next slide, please.
There we go.
Okay, so you can check this out.
We have a constitution.
We are a group that you, what do you call it, the people who hang out long enough, you have to join.
It's just kind of, it's a bit of a formality.
We keep a, we do keep a member list.
Part of the constitution is a code of conduct.
Okay, whose idea was it to put that on the slide?
L-O-L.
Where?
Where's L-O-L?
Oh, the giant...
C-O-C.
Right, right.
Yeah.
What do you think with it in there?
It's our code of conduct.
Yeah, okay.
Keep your mind out of the gutter, man.
You're already in New Jersey.
You're already in the gutter.
You don't have to...
You don't have to make this worse.
Next slide, please.
So it's basically, it outlines kind of everything, which is unacceptable.
Just don't be an asshole.
Don't be a dick.
Don't disparage anybody else.
You're not, like, cool for doing it.
So Electronic Frontier Alliance...
I'll take this part.
So, yeah, one of the things that we did, I don't know if we were the first group,
but we were one of the first groups to show what's called the Electronic Frontier Alliance.
And, yes, I know it's mixed up.
Someone's keyboard, it was me.
They're drunk, or I was drunk, a.k.a. PebCak.
Fight me.
So the Electronic Frontier Alliance is a subsection of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
They're a grassroots...
as my ride shows up in the background...
is a grassroots network of community and campus...
the concentration of campus organizations across the United States.
Basically, a lot of their terms kind of agree with a lot of our bulletin points that we talked about earlier,
where they want to promote privacy and anti-surveillance and security at a local level
for, like, real people who actually need to use it.
So, yeah, they're good people.
Work with them.
Fight for your rights online.
And if you're a DEF CON organization, or any organization you want to join and look over that,
you can go to EFF.org slash fight.
So next slide, please.
I'm surprised I haven't, like, kicked this off here.
So, one of the big things that we particularly are trying to do this year is conventions and gatherings.
So just a bit of highlights of what we do outside of the meetings.
Sometimes we have a little specialty outside.
Like, we have a little, like, code...
like, everyone gets together and does a code hackathon or whatever.
In 2018 and in 2019, we worked with the Liberty Science Center. It's like a giant interactive science museum
that's world famous to put on what's called NJ Makers Day.
It's a thing that happens in New Jersey where all the different libraries and stuff do like
making and crafting and things like that and Liberty Science Center never did one. We didn't have one in our area.
So we did it and a lot of people showed up. A lot more people than we thought and we lost a lot of sleep on
that, but it was really fun.
We really got to showcase a lot of local like, you know, makers and tool was there for the lock picking.
It was really great. And then you went to the, was it the Wellness Convention?
Yeah, so the New Jersey Performing Arts Center had hosted a small group of local wellness-oriented folks who were,
it was mostly things geared towards like diet, exercise, health and things like that, but DEF CON 201 was there
and you might think hacking is an exercise.
Well, yeah, you might think, okay, what does hacking have anything to do with your health and things?
But there's actually quite a bit.
A lot of it's draining your health. It's an exercise in frustration.
Right, but, um, so basically I was there to talk about digital hygiene and how your, uh, the things you put online
can actually affect your health based on, you know, the effects it has on your mental well-being, your social
well-being, your emotional well-being and your spiritual well-being.
So we pretty much packaged all that together and put a bunch of advice sheets out to basically teach people on how to be more aware of things like that.
And that's a big thing because we, uh, because that's what she said, but no, is that we love DEF CON and we like hacker conventions and gatherings,
but we also, again, want to make sure we reach people.
So we have to step outside of our comfort zone and try other venues and topics that you would never normally see hacker stuff,
and that's how you get really interesting people.
So like hack things, because being doxxed is not healthy.
Nope, and neither is, uh, trying to program and rust.
And then, uh, we were at the hack, speaking of hack conventions, we were at this amazing one called Hackers Next Door by the Tech Learning Collective back in December,
which was basically kind of like a more extreme anarchist version of Hope for Two Days. It was really fun.
Jack, are you okay?
And, uh, and then the last thing we did, which is eight million years ago in what was known as February 2020,
was, uh, myself, which is Side Pocket, uh, Sarah Sell, and an awesome dude who has a show, uh, on our livestreams called N Commander.
Uh, we went to PAX East, which is a major video game convention out in Blaston and, uh, in Beantown, uh, trying to avoid crazy drivers,
and we put on a panel about video game hacking, which maxed out, like, the 600-person limit there.
Yeah.
And, you know, it was frustrating, because it's us putting things together, but it was really, really fun, and we let lots of amazing people there.
Now, next slide, please.
So, we plan on doing a lot more of this type of stuff in 2020, and, um, yeah, uh, yeah.
So, COVID-19 happened, or 2020, the dumpster fire that keeps on burning.
Um, so quick bullet points, if you aren't aware, one, we're in hell.
Uh, two, how the F did New Jersey, uh, become the stable state?
Thank you, Murphy. Uh, Murphy's our governor.
We're doing pretty good over here, compared to, like, every other state, honestly.
Like, it's not that we don't have any issues up here, it's just we literally look on Twitter and the news and crap ourselves, seeing all the rest of the stuff going on.
Let's see, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Florida, Florida.
We literally, we're listing so many states that need to quarantine when you visit New Jersey that we might as well just blockade the rest of the, uh, union.
Yeah, except maybe New York, because they're kind of doing things okay.
Also, we need their economy, or whatever's left of it.
So, uh, they also, just to note, the U.S. federal government has a Gestapo now, so we are all crapping our pants, which is why we've been on a big privacy and security run, like Jack.
Yeah, Trump's secret police and shit.
Uh, yeah, real scary things going on.
And this is not tinfoil stuff. Ironically, the tinfoil people think this is the tinfoil stuff that's happening right in front of their face, so go figure.
And we're kind of embracing the fact that we, like I said, we're in America, we're in our third world country, and now we're losing the first world money, next slide.
So, because of all of that happening...
Next slide, please.
We, like many other groups, had to do virtualization.
So, in March, we had a big giant 30-year anniversary planned where we were going to have parties and games and blackjack and hookers and everything, and then COVID-19 happened.
So, within the course of literally two days, we had to completely virtualize our entire meetup, and we've been doing those ever since.
The way we do it is we use... how did we do it?
We use a service called Restream.io, which allows us to send to one RPM broadcast, and it sends those signals out to multiple different streams.
We're currently on Twitch, DLive, and YouTube, RIP Mixer, LOL, Microsoft.
Because none of us want to go to Facebook gaming.
We're not gaming or Facebook.
So, that's how we broadcast this stuff out.
We also, which I'm currently working on, archiving our content on YouTube, the inner archive, our own...
A cool instance of PeerTube, and that should say DTube.
I accidentally put DLive again because, again, pebcac.
And we've increased our social media footprint to the point where we were sick and tired of just using these streams only for once a month.
So, instead, we were like, hey, let's become our own TV channel and just host the stuff that we've been itching to teach.
So, as you can see in the picture here, which I'm going to get into, I have my own show called Masters of Unlocking.
I also have another show called Crypto Barons, which is teaching actual technology on cryptocurrency, not like snake oil stuff and market bull crap.
You can go to Hoboken if you want that stuff.
GI Jack has a show about Arch Linux and video games, right?
Yes. I have a show called Arch File, where I play video games on Arch Linux.
And I show more of the technical stuff of how you actually get everything running on Arch Linux.
A little bit of hacking, not much. Some light stuff. I show a few tools.
Recently, he decided that Doom, Ultimate Doom on Ultra Nightmare mode was too easy.
So, he did the actual hard mode you could do on Doom and unboxed and configured a Pine Phone.
Yeah, I was trying not to... I don't want to talk about that. I was trying to avoid talking about that.
That's the trigger warning there. You can see the episode. It's archived.
There's a guy called NCommander who also does a bi-weekly show called Control Hack.
Hack NCommander.
He's pulling his hair out just thinking about the Pine Phone.
I still want to try the Pine Phone.
That's what she said. But real quick, and then at one point...
At one point... Here you go. Happy Birthday.
And what we're saying here is that we also made, which you can find on our blog, godefcon21.org, click news.
We made a blog about what hackers could do during COVID-19, including running folding at home,
which Jack blew two GPUs on to run our folding at home.
I unfortunately forgot our folding at home team number. Does anyone know it offhand?
I'm an idiot. But while I'm talking about it...
And we also teamed up with Thug Crowd and EFF to do privacy and security streams during the Black Lives Matter protests.
And we've attended... I won't say who, but we've attended our local Black Lives Matter protests in Jersey City.
It was real fun.
Next slide, please.
We're near the end here. Don't worry, guys.
Right at the end of the tunnel.
So, we want to quickly go into all...
We have three of us here as we're looking at the Pine phone like cavemen discovering fire for the first time.
What was that Amazon phone so long ago they made?
Fire OS or something?
Yeah.
So, we wanted to go into each what some of our specialties are.
Just the three of us here.
We have a lot of amazing members, but just while we're here.
So, I'm going to go first.
Hi, it is me, SidePocket.
I've been friends with people at the Open Organization of Lockpickers for many, many years.
One of my mentors is TheNightOwl, who I absolutely love.
You can check him out on Twitter at N-I-T-E-0-W-L.
And basically, three years ago, I showed up to Toole, New Jersey.
And they have their own meetings.
You can actually... Toole's doing a whole workshop all DEF CON.
I believe they have their own live stream.
I think it's T-O-O-O-L live.
That's Toole with three O's on Twitch.
And we... what do you call it?
So, I went there and I learned how to pick locks.
And that's...
...
But yeah, so basically, there were some issues where we tried to get a certain lockpicker
who is now no longer invited to anything because he's a massive hacker fail
to show up to Toole.
...
I started going to meetings both in New York and New Jersey with the same training kit
because they needed the resources.
And then after losing my mind with COVID, I decided to make my own show called
Master of Unlocking.
The picture that you see there, there's even more stuff added to it.
So, it's even bigger now, which is what all women like to hear.
And some men. I do appreciate them too.
Pansexuals in the house.
So, yeah.
So, we keep adding stuff.
I actually just recently finished a whole tubular lock set...
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It's going to be two cases.
Actually, if you guys could hold the mic for half a second.
I actually want to do this real quick.
All right.
Just do me a favor with the pipe on.
...
That's the kick!
That's how heavy lock sporting gets
because, as a guy named Hunter S. Thompson says,
when you start a serious lock sport collection,
you tend to lose count on where it's going.
So, that's what kind of I do.
If you can do the next slide, now we are going to get into some truly hacked stuff Arch Linux represent.
Yes, here is my project. Here is this project, NinjaOS.
It's a live OS. You can see the website is NinjaOS.org
We are the future.
What's it called?
It's a mostly inclusive desktop.
That should be it's tagline.
It's got security tools, it's got privacy tools, it's got media tools, it's got recovery tools.
In case you need to recover a hard disk, it's got test disk.
X4 undelete.
And all the usual little hacker tools for restoring or recovering data.
So what you are saying is whoever uses NinjaOS has a giant tool.
Whoever uses NinjaOS has a giant tool.
It mostly has things like Xarchiver. It supports all the archive formats.
It has a word processor, it has a calculator, it has a numeric, it has a spreadsheet.
Most common file types, it will open.
It's like a live OS. It boots, it doesn't remember anything.
It resets itself every time it restarts.
It's not trackable.
I thought we had because the guy was rambling.
We did this really fast, so I hope you have a sandwich taken away.
Basically, I do a bunch of things. I'm making a video game.
I'm designing a Linux operating system. I'm working on a port of Linux and other operating systems.
I design and develop a community around 8-bit music for the Nintendo.
In addition to that, I also am working on a couple of programming languages, a web browser, a deduplicated file storage backend for retrievable file objects.
Things like ROMs and things like that can be deduplicated.
He's literally his own GNU server, except it actually works.
Probably other things, too. If you're interested in any of this, get in touch with me at Twitter or whatever, at Cyrusil.
Next slide, please, because we're actually at the end here.
So, quick future plans for DEFCON 201.
We currently have submitted, again, outside of our comfort zone, to New York Comic Con in Exotica, which is this porno convention that happens in Edison, New Jersey.
We're going to be trying to talk about sex workers' rights and SESTA-FOSTA, so cross your fingers we get accepted.
We hope to see you all at many conventions next year, including DEFCON 29, Hope 2020, RubyCon, The Returns, DerbyCon, Resurrex, Cats and Dogs Living Together, Mass Hysteria.
We're also trying to organize with the city, which got delayed due to COVID, Privacy and Security Week.
That's citywide, so in the way they have a giant art festival citywide, we want to do a citywide thing for privacy and security.
Again, we're reaching outside of our comfort zone, so you can see us at many conventions and places that you normally would not see hackers, including us, which we encourage everyone to do.
And very long-term, we're linking up with some really awesome people throughout the state to try to make what we call B-Sides Turnpike, or a first-ever truly real, non-corporate, all-hacker-made hacker con.
We also want to shout out there that we hate being the only New Jersey group right now, so if you want to make something, even if we're 8 million miles away, reach out to us, we will help you, especially with promotion.
Also, if anyone's interested in a DEFCON group in Suffolk County, Long Island, I might be able to help you set up for DEFCON 631.
So, get in touch with me, and I have a couple of venues in mind, and a meeting structure for that.
So, next slide, please. This is a slide where normally we take questions, but I'll quickly tell you where to contact us. You can find us on the DEFCON Discord, on the DEFCON group Discord, we are on Twitter and Instagram and stuff like that.
You can go to our website, DEFCON201, and you can go to our email at info at DEFCON201.org.
Next slide, please. Final slide.
So, thank you all for going through this talk with us here.
Again, our website is DEFCON201.org. You can find us on Twitter at DEFCON201NJ. Here comes the giant hook to yank us away.
We're on Instagram and a bunch of stuff on DEFCON201. You can find us at Mastodon, DEFCON201hostsucks.social.
And shout out to BSI Lab, Gonzo, Black Cipher, Inoculant, Squirtle, Head Hacker, Night Owl, Johnny X, MissLogic, SaintMyNinja, Nexus6, and many, many others, including Jason Street and every other DEFCON group who put this together.
HackerPlanet, Dirty Jersey represent. I'm getting a drink, F you all. You'll love it.
Also, I'm the one with the payphone there.
Get off the mic, let's get out of here.
Yeah, out of here.
All right, we will be murdering trivia. Thank you everyone for having us.
All right. Sorry, we're running a little late with the next presentation.
All right. I wonder if you guys can hear me. Just chat if you can.
All right, I'm seeing some lights coming through. Okay, cool. Awesome.