WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.820 You made this hat and it's incredible. 00:01.820 --> 00:02.820 I want to hear about it. 00:02.820 --> 00:03.140 Hi. 00:03.140 --> 00:06.620 Okay, so my other other hobby is the Burning Man. 00:06.620 --> 00:07.640 This is my Playa hat. 00:07.640 --> 00:09.500 I just covered it in tinfoil. 00:09.820 --> 00:15.660 But the problem is, so the problem is, it has the ears and the ears are structural. 00:15.760 --> 00:19.200 And when I built it, the ears are kind of locked in position. 00:19.540 --> 00:24.980 So what I accidentally made was a blindfold. 00:26.300 --> 00:29.740 And I'm like, well, I can't walk around like this. 00:31.060 --> 00:35.040 But if you turn it around, now the angle is backwards instead of forwards. 00:35.480 --> 00:40.980 And it's also deeply unsettling to watch me walk away with that thing in my back. 00:41.640 --> 00:45.800 And the more unsettling option is always the better answer. 00:45.800 --> 00:47.100 That is a good point. 00:47.100 --> 00:47.280 Yeah . 00:47.280 --> 00:48.000 That is a good point. 00:48.000 --> 00:48.500 Yeah. 00:48.500 --> 00:50.420 I mean, how did it score? 00:50.500 --> 00:51.860 It's an antenna. 00:52.080 --> 00:52.780 Oh, good. 00:53.840 --> 00:54.640 I am. 00:54.640 --> 00:55.480 I am. 00:55.480 --> 00:57.480 I am bringing the waves in. 00:57.480 --> 00:58.640 They're hacking my meats. 00:58.640 --> 00:59.460 I'm sorry. 00:59.460 --> 01:00.640 Oh, I'm sorry. 01:00.640 --> 01:02.500 They're hacking my meats. 01:03.640 --> 01:05.680 We're at the tinfoil hat contest. 01:05.680 --> 01:10.320 And again, at DEF CON 30, they are showing some pretty awesome things. 01:10.320 --> 01:16.320 And it's not what I would expect, because it's not just, hey, make a tinfoil hat. 01:16.320 --> 01:17.640 This goes beyond just making a tinfoil hat. 01:18.060 --> 01:20.720 We're doing, you know, true science here. 01:20.720 --> 01:32.240 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. 01:32.620 --> 01:35.860 One that's ours, and then there's several others. 01:36.240 --> 01:43.640 So we essentially are measuring the delta between the two signal receivers. 01:43.760 --> 01:47.860 So the better you block the signal, the better your score. 01:48.100 --> 01:57.440 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. 01:57.620 --> 02:01.580 So I've seen so many different designs. 02:01.580 --> 02:04.280 Can you give me tips before I make mine? 02:04.360 --> 02:06.800 What's a good way of doing it? 02:06.920 --> 02:10.140 I mean, to be honest, RF is magic. 02:10.340 --> 02:15.740 So you'd have a design that you would think would be good, and it doesn't do good. 02:15.740 --> 02:22.960 Some, you know, they do like this real minimal design and just get it just right, and they score well. 02:22.960 --> 02:35.420 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. 02:36.360 --> 02:43.360 Had people make the James Webb Space Telescope and all sorts of manner of ridiculousness. 02:43.360 --> 02:50.540 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. 02:50.540 --> 02:52.640 Sometimes it's even just the light quick ones. 02:52.640 --> 02:53.160 Yeah. 02:53.160 --> 02:53.880 Yes. 02:53.880 --> 03:02.840 Small ones that it's depends on how well you are at reflecting the RF essentially away from them. 03:02.960 --> 03:07.020 How long has tinfoil hat contest been a thing at Defco? 03:07.020 --> 03:08.640 It's been a while. 03:08.640 --> 03:16.640 I've lost count because I took it over from one of the psychologists that were running it for a couple of years. 03:16.640 --> 03:22.320 And then I ran it for several years and I've always been helping with it. 03:22.520 --> 03:26.360 And now Lunchbox, she's the one that's primary on it. 03:26.360 --> 03:27.040 Okay. 03:27.040 --> 03:29.700 So is your favorite one the predator hat? 03:29.700 --> 03:30.720 Or do you remember other ones? 03:30.720 --> 03:32.260 That one's pretty good. 03:33.860 --> 03:45.420 I think my favorite was several years back, this girl and her mother, they spent like the entire con working on this hat. 03:45.420 --> 03:46.880 And it was beautiful. 03:47.040 --> 03:49.980 Like they went and got like different colored foil. 03:50.260 --> 03:52.460 And like they had like these things. 03:52.460 --> 03:56.800 It was 100% foil, like no, no fasteners or glue or anything. 03:57.060 --> 04:02.580 And you have things coming out with like chandelier stuff going down the side. 04:02.580 --> 04:04.060 It looked beautiful. 04:04.540 --> 04:07.300 I think that's my favorite hat I've seen. 04:07.880 --> 04:09.940 Well, Crocs, thanks for sharing. 04:09.940 --> 04:10.960 Again, always. 04:10.960 --> 04:14.560 This is like one of those contests is just such I love it because it's so approachable. 04:14.660 --> 04:15.380 It's so easy. 04:15.380 --> 04:17.080 Anyone can make a hat. 04:17.400 --> 04:18.540 And it's impressive. 04:18.540 --> 04:19.200 I'm looking around. 04:19.200 --> 04:20.480 We'll have to get some B-roll of it. 04:20.480 --> 04:22.460 But it is so much fun. 04:22.460 --> 04:23.360 Thanks, Crocs. 04:23.360 --> 04:24.380 Thanks for watching. 04:24.380 --> 04:25.540 And hack on!