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29640	34900	Welcome to the awards ceremony for the Space Security Challenge 2020, or HACCASAT.
34900	37060	I'm your host, Jordan Wines.
37600	41640	Instead of teasing you like last time, let's get right to the results.
41640	44900	We closed the scoreboard yesterday, just before the game's end,
44900	49280	and there were multiple solves that occurred after the scoreboard went dark.
49280	51060	How did that impact the rankings?
51140	54100	Our top three winners of prizes are...
70060	70620	♪♪♪
70620	72800	Not your upper brain, you won't be able to hear this.
83560	84120	♪♪♪
113770	116930	Congratulations to our top prize-winning teams.
116930	120190	PFS for taking home the $50,000 grand prize,
120190	122970	Poland Can Into Space, who definitely can,
122970	127630	for their $30,000 prize, and hopefully an epic moonshot we'll see later in the broadcast,
127630	130710	and Flux Repeat Rocket for their $20,000 prize.
130770	133550	We know the technical challenges these teams faced in this event
133550	135510	were unlike any they've seen before,
135510	139490	and we're glad to be able to reward them with hard-earned prizes for their efforts.
139890	142010	However, as you may remember,
142010	145990	the on-orbit section was one of the most important goals of the competition.
145990	148430	It's one of the things that made this event special.
148430	150470	We needed a way to incentivize teams
150470	153930	and making the on-orbit challenge pass or fail for prize eligibility
153930	156710	was one of the most effective ways to do that.
156710	161070	Space is unique. No one person is an expert in all of its aspects.
161070	163590	We wanted to ensure that the CTF and hacking community
163590	166310	grew in their capabilities relevant to space.
166330	170030	The on-orbit portion required an expertise in math that is unique.
170030	174090	Of course, this being in 2020, our worst fears came to reality.
174090	177310	The highest-scoring team was one of those impacted negatively
177310	180570	by not having an on-orbit solution in time.
180690	182510	Let's take a look at the final scoreboard.
183350	186710	And you can see those scores that I mentioned occurring after the scoreboard went dark.
186710	190610	They were by SolarWine, one of two teams that did not have an accepted solution
190610	193370	for the on-orbit challenge, and thus, unfortunately,
193370	195690	they're ineligible for the final prize pool.
196830	201410	However, the HackAsset organizers all feel for the impact that this had on SolarWine,
201410	205050	and we hope they can take pride in several notable accomplishments.
205050	209070	First, while there has not been an announced HackAsset 2 edition,
209070	212610	I would personally expect that if such an event occurred,
212610	215670	much in the DEF CON CTF tradition,
215670	219010	the highest-scoring team from the previous finals would automatically qualify
219010	222130	for the next event, and that would be SolarWine.
222130	225190	Second, the official scoreboard submitted to CTF Time
225190	228050	will reflect the points total at the end of the game.
228050	230590	As on-orbit was merely for prize eligibility,
230590	233670	we expect it will not impact standings on CTF Time.
233670	237650	Finally, I want to describe some of the drama that happened at the end of the day yesterday.
237770	242170	Most teams were running low on power and needed to be taken off the carousel.
242310	245630	SolarWine was one of only two teams that stayed online,
245630	247570	and they were able to capitalize on it.
247570	250190	Not only did they successfully solve Challenge 4,
250190	252330	which required a ton of work building a custom bootloader
252330	255070	to re-enable GPIO on the payload module,
255070	258010	but additionally, they blazed ahead and solved Challenge 5
258010	260370	just before the competition closed as well.
260370	262150	Now, there were two ways to solve on Challenge 5,
262330	264590	a lower scoring option of just taking any photo,
264590	268230	and a higher scoring option of taking a photo of the moon in the room.
268370	271430	SolarWine quickly snapped a photo to prove they could control a camera,
271430	274430	and they tried to properly orient for a different photo.
274650	278530	They don't even know it, but their last commands relayed to the satellite
278530	280390	two minutes before the game ended,
280390	283130	took a photo that they never got to see as the game ended,
283130	284690	and we're going to show it to them now.
285650	290150	As you can see, the moon is visible there on the left just to the right of the logos.
290150	293030	So, while they did not successfully get this final photo
293030	294770	back in time before the game ended,
294770	297090	they now know that they did achieve success
297090	299990	in all of the Earth-based goals that we laid out for them.
300630	302890	Thanks again, SolarWine, for pushing so hard,
302890	305490	continuing through the discouraging result of yesterday.
305830	308590	And of course, speaking of that on-orbit challenge,
308590	311550	I know we are all, and especially Poland Canada Space,
311550	313530	looking forward to seeing the results.
313550	315850	For that, we're going to go to Dr. Roper and Brett,
315850	318310	whom you will remember from their keynote earlier in the event.
318310	321590	Dr. Roper is the Air Force and Space Force Acquisition Chief,
321590	324750	and Mr. Brett Goldstein is the Director of the Defense Digital Service.
324790	326690	Gentlemen, can you hear me?
329050	330050	Yes, we can, Jordan.
330050	331270	You can hear me, and I can hear you.
331270	332990	That's the important part. Take it away.
334370	335250	Awesome.
335310	338370	Jordan, thanks so much to you and the entire team
338370	342730	that worked so hard to put on this event and keep everything moderated.
342730	347350	And just a huge hats off to everyone who has participated
347350	351150	in this inaugural foray of space into DEF CON.
351150	352970	And Brett and I were talking earlier,
352970	356530	we are just blown away by how far the community has come
356530	358070	in just a few short weeks.
358070	359990	We've made our own progress here.
359990	362670	We have solved the lanyard challenge.
362670	364870	So by just merely taking off the case,
364870	367610	you can actually attach this, so problem solved.
368270	372850	But the progress that has been made by these teams is much more impressive.
372930	376510	And what I just left away is that this combination
376510	381030	of needing to know orbital mechanics, antenna physics,
381030	383810	as well as just good solid hacking skills,
383810	386310	is going to create some of the most interesting challenges
386310	388470	for future DEF CONs to come.
388470	389810	Brett, what do you think?
389810	395070	So my big question is, is this the second episode of Between Two Nerds?
395070	396470	Part five.
396470	397970	Part five.
398010	401050	Or do you think we'll get syndicated?
401050	401720	Maybe.
402170	404510	Zombies in space, we're ahead of the game.
404510	405510	We are.
405510	408470	And as I think about my future in DoD,
408470	412110	I'm also thinking about my future in TV.
413870	417110	Or this could be Meet the Nerds.
417130	419250	There's a lot of potential here.
419350	421810	We'll hold on to our day jobs, though.
422150	422530	All right.
422530	425530	Well, I just feel like I'm getting a lot of encouragement
425530	427810	to get into this realm.
428190	431690	But anyhow, so DEF CON has been awesome.
431690	436550	So for everyone listening out there, great, great year.
436550	439870	And I think about last year, and I think about all that we did
440450	442990	when Will and I went for the first time,
442990	445290	and the fact that we got DoD out there.
445290	446650	And so proud.
446650	449170	And a couple of things stand out for me.
449170	450630	But one of them is funny.
450630	453670	So I had never been on Discord before.
453670	456990	And y'all may be using Discord all the time,
456990	462870	but isn't there something counterintuitive about you log on to Discord
462870	467030	and then it sends you this random-ass link that you're supposed to click?
467030	468650	Like, this is DEF CON.
468650	471510	So super surprised by that.
471970	474170	So I had to call up my friend Roro, and I'm like,
474170	476490	hey, dude, do I click the link?
476490	479990	And he's like, well, I guess so. Click.
480230	483030	So hopefully that wasn't a bad click.
483070	486090	But on a more serious note,
486090	491090	what was really special about our efforts with Air Force and DDS is
491090	495170	in our first day of doing everything,
495170	498390	we had more traffic and more interactions
498390	501410	than we did through the entire DEF CON last year.
501410	505810	Which is insane, because for all the folks from the team
505810	509310	who did DEF CON last year, we were slammed.
509310	512030	So the fact that we saw those sorts of interactions
512030	515030	means we really got our act together this year
515030	519930	Virtual was awesome for us, and we're glad we're able to engage.
519930	523810	But Will, hack-a-sack, what do you think?
523830	526930	Well, Brett, amazing success.
526930	530330	Amazing the amount of community that was able to be involved.
530330	532950	And the feedback has been fantastic.
532950	538410	The overwhelmingly people saying, I never knew that space was really accessible to me.
538410	541270	Were the equipments affordable given my day job?
541270	544010	And that's amazing to introduce that to this community.
544010	551830	So we had over, almost 13,000 people came to the hack-a-sack website this year.
551830	555850	Almost 5,000 people came in through the VR site.
555850	558990	And over 130,000 social media views.
558990	561830	Which just tells me space is super interesting.
561830	563970	And something that's just been beyond grasp,
563970	566390	and hopefully seems a little more so now.
566390	569230	And for the teams that were part of our qualls,
569230	571250	we were super excited in your interest.
571250	574330	And for the teams who made it in the final,
574330	579590	we're blown away by how quickly you adapted to these very difficult challenges.
579590	580890	And I think we picked them right.
580890	584030	They were solvable, but not easily so.
584030	586670	And so to everyone involved, hats off.
586670	591150	And especially just want to give a shout out to SolarWind, the top overall score.
591150	593690	I mean, kudos to you for sticking at it,
593690	596770	for coming back and continuing to improve what you did.
596770	600250	For PFS, congratulations on being the top winner.
600250	603930	Just putting a lot of amazing solutions on the board.
603930	605870	And pull and can into space.
605870	608430	You stated your goal was to get into space,
608430	611810	and you did with your moonshot that we'll come to in a second.
611810	614750	And I don't want to leave Flux Repeat Rocket out.
614810	618350	You know, coming in, getting that 20K prize,
618350	621950	putting up amazing tech across all these different challenges.
621950	624210	We're just really proud of all of you.
624210	628290	But what we wanted to end with is the Cyber Moonshot,
628290	629970	which was more than just the name.
629970	632530	Taking control of a satellite that is orbiting,
632530	636650	having to restore normal operations after they've been disabled,
636650	639730	having to understand orbital mechanics well enough
639730	644070	to point a satellite that's meant to take a picture of the Earth
644070	649670	to something that's 385,000 kilometers away,
649670	654590	and successfully get an image through what is very much a soda straw,
654590	657530	is a wicked hard challenge.
657530	663330	But DEFCON and our first satellite hack-a-sat challenge needed no less than that.
663330	668350	And so I am pleased to announce that Poland can into space.
668350	669690	You can.
669690	673410	Let's roll the video for your Cyber Moonshot.
800620	804280	All right, on screen is the moonshot for everyone to see.
814720	817960	All right, back to you, Brett and Dr. Roper.
819320	823940	I think that video gives you a sense about how hard this challenge was.
823940	827760	So for Poland can into space, how awesome is that?
827780	831720	We're super proud of what you and what every participant accomplished
831720	835680	this week in hack-a-sat and the moonshot challenge itself.
835680	838900	Brett, that wasn't all that was going on in the aerospace village,
838900	841720	and particularly components dealing with space.
841720	846820	True, but before we go there, so orbital mechanics.
846820	852300	So if you were to define orbital mechanics, what would you say?
852300	853860	Asking for a friend.
854160	858640	You're going to need a basic knowledge of Kepler's laws of motion.
858640	863660	Everything's moving around in either an ellipse, a circle, a parabola,
863660	867860	or a hyperbola, or a line, I guess, technically, to give the degenerate cases.
867860	869300	So you need to know that stuff.
869300	871640	You need to be able to model it numerically.
871640	876140	And you also need to understand how to transpose different reference frames.
876260	878720	So other than that, Brett, it's just simple math.
879140	879740	Got it.
879740	885240	Kepler, degenerate, parabola. Got it. All good.
885240	886420	Kepler's your friend in space.
886420	889080	Got it. Okay. Kepler. Got it.
889240	893180	So workshops. So workshops were awesome this year.
893180	897600	And before we dive into some stats, I want to thank the team.
897600	906480	So the DDS team with our Air Force friends, they work night and day to make all of these streams happen.
906480	914820	And all of the mechanics probably involved a little Kepler, parabola, lines, math,
914820	919920	to make all of these different workshops happen on the twitches.
919920	924660	But in all seriousness, the team has been surging for months
924660	932940	to make each one of these as real as possible, to keep it up, work the challenges, deal with drama up until the last minute.
932940	934620	So amazing work.
934620	941420	But we had 11 Twitch streams, and that was awesome from an educational point of view.
941420	944320	But here's a big, big piece.
944440	949060	Our first winner on all of the workshops was a 12-year-old.
949060	951500	The Alpaca Club.
951500	956960	So this 12-year-old out of nowhere came and crushed one of the workshops.
956960	964340	And something as both as a dad, but also as a director of an innovation team,
964340	968260	and then looking to one of our goals of training the future,
968420	974780	a 12-year-old, again, the Alpaca Club, going and crushing it right off the bat was amazing.
974880	976920	So we had these workshops.
976920	987340	And from a traffic perspective, like we're looking at, we had over almost 2,500 visitors and 131 winners.
987340	989400	And that is pretty impressive.
989400	994340	But the good news for everyone listening out there is we're still playing today.
994340	999720	So and because everyone likes schwag, keep playing, you win a shirt.
999720	1001480	You win, you win a shirt.
1001480	1002920	Schwag wins.
1002920	1006080	But these workshops were great.
1006080	1014000	And one of the goals that Will and I had from the very beginning was have a very hard challenge like HackASet,
1014000	1021220	where people would, you know, start and then they would get to a series of teams and get to the big win, the moonshot.
1021260	1028340	But we also want to work on training folks with everything from advanced to beginner level types of workshops.
1028340	1031580	And I feel like we were able to deliver there.
1031580	1035660	But it was pretty awesome. I don't know if you won yet, Will.
1036000	1038280	Well, I think everyone won for this.
1038280	1044940	You know, it's pretty amazing to see how far just members of our military have come from just a year ago.
1044940	1051240	So we were there a little over a year ago with an F-15 hacking challenge.
1051240	1056720	And it really did send a shock across the Pentagon with, wait a second, what are we doing?
1056720	1060300	You know, cyber vulnerabilities are not things that we're supposed to expose.
1060300	1067020	And I've seen a huge amount of progress for the organizations I represent, the Air Force and the Space Force,
1067020	1072640	starting to realize that this community is one that we should have been a part of a long time ago,
1072640	1076960	that we have so much to learn from you, and we have learned this week.
1076960	1082500	And I'm looking forward to doing some debriefs with the teams and just hearing how you approach the challenges
1082500	1087860	and what you think we can do better on, because we're designing satellites and airplanes every day, Brad.
1087860	1092080	And these lessons we can put directly into new things that we design.
1092080	1098060	We'd also like to hear how we can be better members of this community, because we're going to be back next year
1098060	1101280	and we can do virtual events, we can do live hacking events.
1101280	1106580	We want to know how we can make interesting opportunities relevant to our mission,
1106580	1111060	something that really energizes this community where everyone learns.
1111060	1114060	So Brad, I think we all won with PAKASAT this year.
1114060	1122200	I think we did too. And so the past two nights, we've done this drinks with devs, which has been pretty wild,
1122200	1128920	because we just had a horde of our folks and then a bunch of people who have been working on the workshops came in.
1128920	1133300	And the good news from last night is we had a winner for DDSAT.
1133300	1141500	So Pina Triste, amazing work, good job, came on the call last night, got the kudos there.
1141500	1147900	So we've seen winners throughout the stack. I think this year really went well.
1147900	1151580	The question is, what do we do next year?
1151680	1155680	Well, Brad, I have my own ideas and we'll be discussing them for sure.
1155680	1158940	We could go into AI. We could go into drones.
1158980	1163520	We could let members of the community make a satellite that we could put up in orbit.
1163520	1166620	And maybe you've designed it more cyber secure than the way we do.
1166620	1168600	But we want to hear from you.
1168600	1171460	No, we should have been part of this community a long time ago.
1171460	1175100	And I hope that you'll tell us how we can use opportunities like this,
1175100	1182900	so that having military members be part of the DEF CON community is not an unusual thing, but a really cool thing.
1182900	1184780	So we're going to keep the websites open.
1184780	1188980	And we hope that you will share your thoughts with us, so that this time next year,
1188980	1193480	hopefully when COVID-19 is behind us and I hope everyone is safe till then,
1193480	1196320	that we can do a live event that's awesome,
1196320	1199980	but continue all the awesomeness that this virtual event has afforded.
1199980	1203360	We have had so many more people participate.
1203400	1206120	And Brad, I don't know, maybe we can talk about zombies again next year.
1206240	1208660	We could have a zombie challenge.
1208860	1213460	If you can incorporate zombies into the challenge, I think you win.
1214020	1217480	Because let's face it, after zombies run over the earth,
1217480	1222440	we may be reliant on members of this community to download critical satellite data to know where they are.
1222640	1225200	I think we've uncovered something critical.
1225200	1231680	But in all seriousness, even though everything does in fact come back to zombies,
1231680	1234040	we want to hear from you.
1234040	1236960	So we have ideas on what is hard.
1236960	1240160	So the bar was raised really high this year.
1240400	1241880	What's on your mind?
1241880	1244960	We're all over Twitter. We have the HackASAT handle.
1244960	1247200	We have Defense Digital for DDS.
1247200	1248680	We have the websites up.
1248680	1250680	We want to hear from you.
1250680	1253900	We're still operating on Discord. We will through the day.
1253900	1260880	We want to be involved in this community, not just for a few days during the summer, but all year long.
1260880	1266080	So I personally, and I know Will as well, want to hear your hardest ideas.
1266520	1269240	Bonus points for zombie interactions.
1269640	1272760	But, you know, we want to hear them.
1272760	1274900	Yeah, I get your style points somewhere, Brett.
1274900	1278440	So Brett, I don't know, from my view, what a successful conclusion.
1278440	1280340	Again, congrats to all the teams.
1280340	1283860	Continue learning from the websites that we have up.
1283860	1285480	Let us hear from you.
1285480	1295420	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.
1295500	1305140	So for now, we're signing off from Between Two Nerds, Meet the Nerds, All the Nerds, Some of the Nerds, Nerds Meet Zombies.
1305140	1310880	But everyone, stay safe, love the interactions this year, and look forward to hearing more from you.
1310880	1312200	Back to you, Jordan.
1313620	1315840	Thanks very much, Dr. Oprah and Brett.
1315840	1317860	From another nerd to two more.
1317920	1322240	We appreciate your drive for making this event and the many other events related happen.
1322360	1328060	Additionally, thanks very much to the core four, Amanda, Delia, John, and Steve.
1328060	1331840	Finally, thanks to you, the audience, for spending your weekend with us.
1331840	1341220	Stay safe and enjoy the rest of DEFCON, the Aerospace Village, the Defense Digital Service Workshops, and all of the other happenings this weekend.