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My name is Jay.

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This is Hacker Runway.

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I've been doing it for... this is my fourth year doing it.

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I came to DEF CON for the first time and I felt a little overwhelmed with all of the hacking.

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And I figured this was a way for other people who want to do things differently to participate in DEF CON without having to feel like they needed a program.

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So you could go to a hardware hacking village, learn how to do something cool, put some lights on it, and call it an outfit.

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It's just basically a fashion competition for hackers.

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The categories has actually changed throughout the year.

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This year we have four categories.

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Digital, which was basically LED passive type of outfits.

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We had smart wear, where you needed sensors and something that was interactive.

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The aesthetics, which was just about the looks.

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It could be a fabric that you print it out.

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It could be something just different.

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And then for the protection and the functional wear, it had to be something that you could use.

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It could be a shim for your lock pick.

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It could be lock pick earrings.

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It could be a mask or doing something to your shield in the pandemic.

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And then the last category is basically a people's choice, where it doesn't matter if you won one of the four categories, if you got enough supporters, you can win the people's choice and take home the trophy.

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So I like fashion.

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I like functional wear.

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So when I see people wearing them, like for example, they don't like to give women pockets.

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I like to put pockets in areas that people wouldn't think of.

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I like to put pockets in a bra, pockets in their socks, pockets somewhere else that a hacker could walk into a building and search and it's okay for you to walk in and you walk out with what you need.

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I really like that DEF CON allows anybody to express themselves in a fashionable way.

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And from the people wearing cosplay to the people just decked out in lights, I just want more people to participate.

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So I hope to see more people next year when we do this again.