[00:00.000 --> 00:04.620]  We are at the DC Darknet doing the Arts and Hacks badges.
[00:04.640 --> 00:07.020]  And there's just stuff everywhere.
[00:07.080 --> 00:10.320]  And I wanted to catch up with one of the teams working on the Darknet Challenges
[00:10.320 --> 00:12.760]  and hear how it's been going.
[00:12.980 --> 00:14.680]  Frustrating, but fun.
[00:15.300 --> 00:17.880]  What's been the frustrating part of the badge?
[00:17.920 --> 00:21.360]  Well, when you get all the connections laid down and then it doesn't turn on
[00:21.360 --> 00:25.540]  and there's tape everywhere, so then you've got to find where.
[00:25.920 --> 00:28.440]  So you've got to backtrack everything, and if I pull off this tape,
[00:28.440 --> 00:30.080]  I'm going to need to redo the whole thing.
[00:30.080 --> 00:32.260]  So I'm kind of questioning my life decisions right now.
[00:32.260 --> 00:34.860]  It's funny because I think when I heard about this badge,
[00:34.860 --> 00:37.540]  I was like, oh yeah, it's going to be simple.
[00:37.540 --> 00:40.180]  It's like, yeah, it's a piece of paper and whatnot.
[00:40.220 --> 00:45.340]  But I think what's so funny about this is it's actually a complicated and difficult task.
[00:45.340 --> 00:47.520]  Even though, because this is the 2.0, this is the Blinky one.
[00:47.520 --> 00:49.840]  So the original one was a lot of fun.
[00:49.840 --> 00:53.180]  Still frustrating, but a lot of fun to do.
[00:53.180 --> 00:56.660]  But it's a whole other level once you start getting to making a Blink.
[00:56.660 --> 01:00.900]  Oh my goodness. Gowri, you need to come on over here and get up close of this one,
[01:00.900 --> 01:03.320]  which has googly eyes on it.
[01:04.300 --> 01:08.240]  Legitimately, there's just something lovely about googly eyes and DEF CON.
[01:08.260 --> 01:10.420]  Have you been doing the online challenges as well?
[01:10.420 --> 01:11.040]  Yeah.
[01:11.400 --> 01:13.880]  You want to tell us a little bit about those? You can hold on to the mic.
[01:14.440 --> 01:17.160]  So I've done some of the online challenges.
[01:17.160 --> 01:19.160]  I haven't done too many. I did a little bit of the coding challenges
[01:19.160 --> 01:21.620]  because they have a good variety on there.
[01:21.620 --> 01:23.400]  So some of the online coding.
[01:23.400 --> 01:28.380]  And then actually here, there's some that you have to go and use a phone to make the call
[01:28.380 --> 01:31.780]  to go and get the key answer for.
[01:31.780 --> 01:37.260]  So your team has been doing DarkNet for a long time.
[01:37.420 --> 01:40.580]  What actually keeps you coming back to DarkNet?
[01:41.340 --> 01:42.800]  The people, the friends.
[01:42.800 --> 01:43.260]  The people?
[01:43.260 --> 01:43.480]  Yeah.
[01:43.480 --> 01:44.620]  The family at this point.
[01:44.620 --> 01:46.020]  Let me get that. What was that?
[01:46.020 --> 01:47.120]  The family at this point.
[01:47.120 --> 01:47.720]  Yeah.
[01:48.640 --> 01:51.840]  That's one of the things I think that DarkNet captures is that community.
[01:51.840 --> 01:53.240]  Fathers, do you have something to say?
[01:57.180 --> 01:58.660]  Our quiet one.
[01:59.040 --> 02:02.160]  No, it's been a fantastic contest.
[02:02.220 --> 02:05.160]  So you have the hardware challenges.
[02:05.160 --> 02:08.040]  Have you gone through all the different layers of the badges?
[02:09.120 --> 02:10.100]  Of these?
[02:10.100 --> 02:10.680]  Yeah.
[02:10.700 --> 02:12.180]  No, so we're only on the second...
[02:12.180 --> 02:13.180]  You can hold on to the mic.
[02:13.960 --> 02:16.980]  So we're only on the second stage of the badges.
[02:16.980 --> 02:18.540]  So we know that there's three.
[02:18.840 --> 02:20.920]  So we were hoping to get the second one working.
[02:20.920 --> 02:22.700]  At least one of us getting it working.
[02:22.800 --> 02:23.540]  We've gotten close.
[02:23.540 --> 02:25.020]  We've gotten lights to come on.
[02:25.160 --> 02:29.280]  But all of ours so far have had a bad circuit part somewhere.
[02:30.180 --> 02:32.800]  Do you know, have you seen the level three badge?
[02:32.800 --> 02:33.640]  Yeah, Google me.
[02:33.640 --> 02:34.960]  It says the 3D one.
[02:35.040 --> 02:35.820]  That's the 3D one.
[02:35.820 --> 02:39.340]  Yeah, and there's some actual soldering involved, which we know to do the soldering part.
[02:39.340 --> 02:41.860]  That might actually be easy for us, but we've got to get this one done first.
[02:41.860 --> 02:44.280]  We're like, dang it, we could probably actually do three.
[02:44.280 --> 02:47.980]  Have you ever done soldering like this previously?
[02:48.000 --> 02:48.920]  Like this? No.
[02:48.920 --> 02:49.940]  No, not at all.
[02:49.940 --> 02:50.480]  Never.
[02:50.600 --> 02:55.060]  I feel like all the conventional things that you would typically do with a badge.
[02:55.060 --> 02:57.280]  You're like, okay, I put too much solder on it.
[02:57.280 --> 03:00.300]  Okay, grab the soldering ribbon, desolder it.
[03:00.380 --> 03:01.600]  Or grab the solder sucker.
[03:01.760 --> 03:04.120]  You can't really do that with this.
[03:04.120 --> 03:06.020]  How do you desolder this?
[03:06.020 --> 03:06.800]  Or can you?
[03:06.800 --> 03:10.240]  You pull off the regular Scotch tape you have on there.
[03:10.240 --> 03:12.180]  And then you move, try and wiggle stuff down.
[03:12.180 --> 03:16.480]  Or the problem that we were all facing yesterday that we solved, we solved with just adding more tape.
[03:16.600 --> 03:17.260]  Just adding more tape.
[03:17.260 --> 03:18.760]  Just adding more tape and getting it to stay.
[03:20.060 --> 03:21.900]  These are hilarious.
[03:21.900 --> 03:23.920]  I love the googly eye one.
[03:23.960 --> 03:28.380]  Thanks for just sharing what you've been working on a little bit about DC Darknet.
[03:28.380 --> 03:31.240]  As always, thank you always for playing DC Darknet.
[03:31.240 --> 03:31.520]  Of course.
[03:31.520 --> 03:32.800]  Thank you for watching.
[03:32.800 --> 03:34.040]  And hack on!