You made this hat and it's incredible. I want to hear about it. Hi. Okay, so my other other
hobby is the Burning Man. This is my Playa hat. I just covered it in tinfoil. But the problem is,
so the problem is, it has the ears and the ears are structural.
And when I built it, the ears are kind of locked in position. So what I accidentally made
was a blindfold. And I'm like, well, I can't walk around like this.
But if you turn it around, now the angle is backwards instead of forwards.
And it's also deeply unsettling to watch me walk away with that thing in my back.
And the more unsettling option is always the better answer.
That is a good point.
Yeah.
That is a good point.
Yeah.
I mean, how did it score?
It's an antenna.
Oh, good.
I am. I am. I am bringing the waves in. They're hacking my meats. I'm sorry.
Oh, I'm sorry.
They're hacking my meats.
We're at the tinfoil hat contest. And again, at DEF CON 30, they are
showing some pretty awesome things. And it's not what I would expect,
because it's not just, hey, make a tinfoil hat. This goes beyond just making a tinfoil hat.
We're doing, you know, true science here. So we actually are, the head has a receiver in it,
and then there's a control antenna, and then there's transmitters all throughout the room.
One that's ours, and then there's several others.
So we essentially are measuring the delta between the two signal receivers.
So the better you block the signal, the better your score.
Or, you know, a lot of people are making really good antennas and just
reflecting those CIA mind control rays straight into our mannequin's brain.
So I've seen so many different designs. Can you give me tips before I make mine?
What's a good way of doing it?
I mean, to be honest, RF is magic. So you'd have a design that you would think would be good,
and it doesn't do good. Some, you know, they do like this real minimal design and just get it
just right, and they score well. So we personally like when you're creative and go all out and have
like, you know, one year we had a lady, she made like this giant predator head from Alien.
Had people make the James Webb Space Telescope and all sorts of manner of ridiculousness.
So it's not always like someone who's doing like way more tinfoil, like where it's a ton
of tinfoil, which makes it better signal stopper. Sometimes it's even just the light quick ones.
Yeah. Yes. Small ones that it's depends on how well you are at reflecting the RF essentially
away from them. How long has tinfoil hat contest been a thing at Defco?
It's been a while. I've lost count because I took it over from one of the psychologists that were
running it for a couple of years. And then I ran it for several years and I've always been helping
with it. And now Lunchbox, she's the one that's primary on it. Okay. So is your favorite one
the predator hat? Or do you remember other ones? That one's pretty good. I think my favorite was
several years back, this girl and her mother, they spent like the entire con working on
this hat. And it was beautiful. Like they went and got like different colored foil. And like
they had like these things. It was 100% foil, like no, no fasteners or glue or anything.
And you have things coming out with like chandelier stuff going down the side. It looked beautiful.
I think that's my favorite hat I've seen.
Well, Crocs, thanks for sharing. Again, always. This is like one of those contests is just such
I love it because it's so approachable. It's so easy. Anyone can make a hat. And it's impressive.
I'm looking around. We'll have to get some B-roll of it. But it is so much fun. Thanks, Crocs.
Thanks for watching. And hack on!