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0	5200	You made this hat and it's incredible. I want to hear about it. Hi. Okay, so my other other
5200	11020	hobby is the Burning Man. This is my Playa hat. I just covered it in tinfoil. But the problem is,
11020	15660	so the problem is, it has the ears and the ears are structural.
15760	21060	And when I built it, the ears are kind of locked in position. So what I accidentally made
23660	29740	was a blindfold. And I'm like, well, I can't walk around like this.
31060	35040	But if you turn it around, now the angle is backwards instead of forwards.
35480	40980	And it's also deeply unsettling to watch me walk away with that thing in my back.
41640	45800	And the more unsettling option is always the better answer.
45800	47100	That is a good point.
47100	47280	Yeah.
47280	48000	That is a good point.
48000	48500	Yeah.
48500	50420	I mean, how did it score?
50500	51860	It's an antenna.
52080	52780	Oh, good.
53840	59460	I am. I am. I am bringing the waves in. They're hacking my meats. I'm sorry.
59460	60640	Oh, I'm sorry.
60640	62500	They're hacking my meats.
63640	67900	We're at the tinfoil hat contest. And again, at DEF CON 30, they are
68420	72820	showing some pretty awesome things. And it's not what I would expect,
72820	77640	because it's not just, hey, make a tinfoil hat. This goes beyond just making a tinfoil hat.
78060	87080	We're doing, you know, true science here. So we actually are, the head has a receiver in it,
87080	92240	and then there's a control antenna, and then there's transmitters all throughout the room.
92620	95860	One that's ours, and then there's several others.
96240	103640	So we essentially are measuring the delta between the two signal receivers.
103760	107860	So the better you block the signal, the better your score.
108100	111680	Or, you know, a lot of people are making really good antennas and just
111680	117440	reflecting those CIA mind control rays straight into our mannequin's brain.
117620	124280	So I've seen so many different designs. Can you give me tips before I make mine?
124360	126800	What's a good way of doing it?
126920	134460	I mean, to be honest, RF is magic. So you'd have a design that you would think would be good,
134460	140140	and it doesn't do good. Some, you know, they do like this real minimal design and just get it
140140	148100	just right, and they score well. So we personally like when you're creative and go all out and have
148100	155420	like, you know, one year we had a lady, she made like this giant predator head from Alien.
156360	163360	Had people make the James Webb Space Telescope and all sorts of manner of ridiculousness.
163360	167900	So it's not always like someone who's doing like way more tinfoil, like where it's a ton
167900	172640	of tinfoil, which makes it better signal stopper. Sometimes it's even just the light quick ones.
172640	181780	Yeah. Yes. Small ones that it's depends on how well you are at reflecting the RF essentially
181780	187020	away from them. How long has tinfoil hat contest been a thing at Defco?
187020	195140	It's been a while. I've lost count because I took it over from one of the psychologists that were
195140	201340	running it for a couple of years. And then I ran it for several years and I've always been helping
201340	208340	with it. And now Lunchbox, she's the one that's primary on it. Okay. So is your favorite one
208340	216780	the predator hat? Or do you remember other ones? That one's pretty good. I think my favorite was
217940	224800	several years back, this girl and her mother, they spent like the entire con working on
224800	230620	this hat. And it was beautiful. Like they went and got like different colored foil. And like
230620	236800	they had like these things. It was 100% foil, like no, no fasteners or glue or anything.
237060	244060	And you have things coming out with like chandelier stuff going down the side. It looked beautiful.
244540	247300	I think that's my favorite hat I've seen.
247880	252680	Well, Crocs, thanks for sharing. Again, always. This is like one of those contests is just such
252680	258540	I love it because it's so approachable. It's so easy. Anyone can make a hat. And it's impressive.
258540	263360	I'm looking around. We'll have to get some B-roll of it. But it is so much fun. Thanks, Crocs.
263360	265540	Thanks for watching. And hack on!