1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,620 We are at the DC Darknet doing the Arts and Hacks badges. 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,020 And there's just stuff everywhere. 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:12,760 And I wanted to catch up with one of the teams working on the Darknet Challenges and hear how it's been going. 4 00:00:12,980 --> 00:00:14,680 Frustrating, but fun. 5 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:17,880 What's been the frustrating part of the badge? 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:25,540 Well, when you get all the connections laid down and then it doesn't turn on and there's tape everywhere, so then you've got to find where. 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,080 So you've got to backtrack everything, and if I pull off this tape, I'm going to need to redo the whole thing. 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,260 So I'm kind of questioning my life decisions right now. 9 00:00:32,260 --> 00:00:37,540 It's funny because I think when I heard about this badge, I was like, oh yeah, it's going to be simple. 10 00:00:37,540 --> 00:00:40,180 It's like, yeah, it's a piece of paper and whatnot. 11 00:00:40,220 --> 00:00:45,340 But I think what's so funny about this is it's actually a complicated and difficult task. 12 00:00:45,340 --> 00:00:47,520 Even though, because this is the 2.0, this is the Blinky one. 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,840 So the original one was a lot of fun. 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,180 Still frustrating, but a lot of fun to do. 15 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:56,660 But it's a whole other level once you start getting to making a Blink. 16 00:00:56,660 --> 00:00:57,320 Oh my goodness. 17 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:03,320 Gowri, you need to come on over here and get up close of this one, which has googly eyes on it. 18 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:08,240 Legitimately, there's just something lovely about googly eyes and DEF CON. 19 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:10,420 Have you been doing the online challenges as well? 20 00:01:10,420 --> 00:01:11,040 Yeah. 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:12,740 You want to tell us a little bit about those? 22 00:01:12,740 --> 00:01:13,880 You can hold on to the mic. 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,160 So I've done some of the online challenges. 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:17,880 I haven't done too many. 25 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,620 I did a little bit of the coding challenges because they have a good variety on there. 26 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:23,400 So some of the online coding. 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:31,780 And then actually here, there's some that you have to go and use a phone to make the call to go and get the key answer for. 28 00:01:31,780 --> 00:01:37,260 So your team has been doing DarkNet for a long time. 29 00:01:37,420 --> 00:01:40,580 What actually keeps you coming back to DarkNet? 30 00:01:41,340 --> 00:01:42,800 The people, the friends. 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:43,260 The people? 32 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:43,480 Yeah. 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,620 The family at this point. 34 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:45,360 Let me get that. 35 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,020 What was that? 36 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:47,120 The family at this point. 37 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:47,720 Yeah. 38 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,840 That's one of the things I think that DarkNet captures is that community. 39 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,240 Fathers, do you have something to say? 40 00:01:57,180 --> 00:01:58,660 Our quiet one. 41 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,160 No, it's been a fantastic contest. 42 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:05,160 So you have the hardware challenges. 43 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,040 Have you gone through all the different layers of the badges? 44 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,100 Of these? 45 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:10,680 Yeah. 46 00:02:10,700 --> 00:02:12,180 No , so we're only on the second... 47 00:02:12,180 --> 00:02:13,180 You can hold on to the mic. 48 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,980 So we're only on the second stage of the badges. 49 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:18,540 So we know that there's three. 50 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,920 So we were hoping to get the second one working. 51 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:22,700 At least one of us getting it working. 52 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,540 We've gotten close. 53 00:02:23,540 --> 00:02:25,020 We've gotten lights to come on. 54 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,280 But all of ours so far have had a bad circuit part somewhere. 55 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:32,800 Do you know, have you seen the level three badge? 56 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:33,640 Yeah, Google me. 57 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:34,960 It says the 3D one. 58 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:35,820 That's the 3D one. 59 00:02:35,820 --> 00:02:39,340 Yeah, and there's some actual soldering involved, which we know to do the soldering part. 60 00:02:39,340 --> 00:02:41,860 That might actually be easy for us, but we've got to get this one done first. 61 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:44,280 We're like, dang it, we could probably actually do three. 62 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,980 Have you ever done soldering like this previously? 63 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:48,520 Like this? 64 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:48,920 No. 65 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,940 No, not at all. 66 00:02:49,940 --> 00:02:50,480 Never. 67 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:55,060 I feel like all the conventional things that you would typically do with a badge. 68 00:02:55,060 --> 00:02:57,280 You're like, okay, I put too much solder on it. 69 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,300 Okay, grab the soldering ribbon, desolder it. 70 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:01,600 Or grab the solder sucker. 71 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,120 You can't really do that with this. 72 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,020 How do you desolder this? 73 00:03:06,020 --> 00:03:06,800 Or can you? 74 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,240 You pull off the regular Scotch tape you have on there. 75 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,180 And then you move, try and wiggle stuff down. 76 00:03:12,180 --> 00:03:16,480 Or the problem that we were all facing yesterday that we solved, we solved with just adding more tape. 77 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:17,260 Just adding more tape. 78 00:03:17,260 --> 00:03:18,760 Just adding more tape and getting it to stay. 79 00:03:20,060 --> 00:03:21,900 These are hilarious. 80 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:23,920 I love the googly eye one. 81 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,380 Thanks for just sharing what you've been working on a little bit about DC Darknet. 82 00:03:28,380 --> 00:03:31,240 As always, thank you always for playing DC Darknet. 83 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:31,520 Of course. 84 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,800 Thank you for watching. 85 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,040 And hack on!