Okay, well I think we're just going to start and we'll see what happens with the video.
Um, we had this whole strategy, we had this great photo core team that's been taking
pictures all weekend long and we arranged this great photo montage of everything that was
happening and we're going to play it to you as you came in and then we're going to have this
great number one and two winning teams, uh, entries for the, uh, TD Francis Film Festival,
uh, contest. And as you've seen, we still don't have the screens working.
Woo! Hang on, we're getting ready to, hang on, we're getting ready to turn them off again.
So, instead I, this looks like we're going to release all of the photos from the photo
core, we do that every year, we'll release all the photos and we'll have all the winning, uh,
and all the runners up to the film contest. We'll put them all online, we'll tweet it, it'll
be on our YouTube and everything. And I just apologize to those teams and contests that we
didn't get this working in time. So, uh, in the name of efficiency, we're going to jump right
into this and one of them is, thank you for attending Rise of the Machines DEF CON 24.
Thank you.
So, some of you might have noticed, there was a slight badge, uh, screw up. And we tried as hard as we could to get the
substitute back the paper badges with the, uh, real badges. And I'm not going to get into all the
minutia, but I'll just suffice to say, I tweeted a, that it started with a typhoon off of Taiwan, and it
truly was like one of these butterfly effects. So, if we can't do it in Taiwan, we'll do it in the
states. But if we're doing it in the states, they have different inventories. So then we have to use
different components, but then we have to redesign the board, but then we have to redesign the PCB,
B, but then we have to, and it cascaded and cascaded and cascaded from this one, uh, Mother
Nature event. And it just got crazier and crazier. So, we really apologize about that. We
did our best to get you whatever we had in stock, whatever we could get from our supplier, um,
but I think, uh, it was, Russ observed that really the machines did launch the first attack
here because, as we all know, uh, the machines control the weather. Just like the
Illuminati party, which, uh, controls the world. Some of you have not noticed that there is an
Illuminati party and they held up an event the other night. Um, I was not invited, but I'm
working on joining the Illuminati because what I want to do is I want to create an Illuminati
within the Illuminati because while they're busy controlling us, I think we can maybe control
them. And then they'll suffer the same paranoia that we have. It'll be kind of circular. It'll
be fantastic.
So, uh, so, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh. So, this, uh, badge problem meant that all the badges arrived on site or the majority of
them. And our teams, over 50 people, we stayed up in shifts for over 48 hours building all of
the badges with custom, uh, programmers, uh, everybody ran out. It was the, it was the
coolest thing in hacker culture is that everybody wants to solve the problem. And so they
were building these custom jigs with gear that they bought at the hardware store. Um, and
And it was simultaneous burnout and exhilaration, and it was like controlled chaos, and we've
got this.
And people were exhausted, and then I heard them talking, they're like, yeah, but we've
got stories for a couple of years.
And so that was the total hacker mindset.
And in the end you got these beautiful badges, and later on Lost is going to tell you a little
bit about what's going on behind them.
But it was really a great example of us pulling together.
You notice my voice is a little shot, but I'm going to get through this with the help
of some corona in a minute.
Now another thing you might have noticed is over the years we always kind of screw
up when we forget a department, because we have so many teams, we have over 300 people
helping put on this show.
And that's just the people we know of.
There's a lot of people that jump in and fill in.
There's a lot of people that fill gaps and friends of friends that do things, and that's
not even counting all the contests with the people helping them.
So there's hundreds and hundreds of people making this event happen.
And so I want to name all the departments that we have and thank them, and I'd like
you to give them a round of applause as well.
I'm going to start off with the administration team.
Yep.
If we've got the administration team, just wave your hand.
Got arts and entertainment that gave us Berlin Information Society, all the great DJs.
Yep.
Everybody wants to join their team now.
We have the artwork team, Mar, Neil, all the external artists, badges.
We have all the contests, villages, and events, which is a huge team that make all of the
interaction possible.
Whoo!
You might have noticed last year we started this demo labs, and it really grew in popularity.
So let's hear it for demo labs, second year.
Keeping everybody tied in is our dispatch and radio team.
We deploy over about a hundred radios and run, we have all these FCC licenses.
We run our own repeaters and a whole information network on our radio network.
We've got the DEF CON groups team, fronted by the awkward hug master, Jason Street.
Thank you, Jason!
Yeah!
He will give every one of you a hug later.
We have the forums that we use year round.
Cotman is a great administrator of that.
We've got the Info Booth team, trying to help you get to where you're going.
Inhuman registration for all the people that aren't human, right, the cyborgs.
We have the NOC, the DCTV team, doing all the infrastructure networking.
Thank you.
They had a rough time with the in-room TV, and it was one thing, our community is so
awesome because you never have to wonder if there's a problem.
They'll let you know.
And so another interesting thing is they immediately want to help.
So all of a sudden, ten people show up, I think it's the video cable, no, it might be
the video switcher.
No, I think it's the encoding.
Well, have you checked the...
So we had a lot of help trying to figure out what was going on with the infrastructure
and DCTV.
And in the end, we got it working, but...
Nope.
It worked last year, and something changed.
We have the press team that tries to get attention to everything that we do and draw attention
to the speakers, so the rest of the world wants to come and check out what we're doing
and try to give an accurate portrayal of what it is that we do.
That was the press team.
We have the on-site production team, and production are the people that are making
sure that all the things with the hotel are happening, you know, the waters, the bars
showing up, the projectors are on at the right time.
The televisions are working in the rooms.
We've got all the contracts and, anyway, production is like the hand behind the scene, making
sure that everything is running smoothly.
Quartermasters, major malfunctions team, I don't know how many tons of gear, but we're
up to multiple semi-trailers just for us, not including everybody else.
I mean, we're moving probably 40 tons of stuff.
And they're probably still moving it right now.
And they're moving it right now.
That's maybe why they're not here.
We have the human registration team handling that line for you guys in record time.
We've noticed this trend where we get better at scaling registration.
We open it earlier, and we keep increasing the size.
And then you guys just fucking keep showing up earlier.
So, at some point, we're going to have to scale like 500 stations, and we'll do it in
three minutes or something.
I mean, that's the last thing.
logical conclusion of what we're going. Use the cloud. So for those of you, how many of you
went to speeches and how many of you enjoyed what you saw? So we get hundreds and hundreds
of submissions, hundreds probably, I don't know, Nikita, how many did we get? Over 600
submissions that we had to boil down and because of this awesome contest behind us, we did
away with one of our speaking tracks. So we had more submissions and less space. And that's
a really difficult spot to be in and luckily we have a really incredible CFP review team
and you might have seen them, they had special badges this year. It's the first year they've
got their own badges because it's really important.
And we acknowledge their commitment and the time they put in. And they had one super power.
If you had a review badge, you could cut in line to go to see the speeches and that was
it. Because we wanted our reviewers to be able to see the talks and then help provide
feedback after the fact and then we provide that feedback back to the speakers. And we
were one of the first conferences, I don't know if we're the only one, where we provide
all the positive and negative feedback to all 600 plus submissions, which is an insane
amount of work.
But the speakers are putting in an insane amount of work to come here and so we need to
acknowledge their effort as well. So that's just I think part of what we need to do.
Now it was really lucky for us this year. So the SOC team, UC helping make, herd the cats and
make everything happen.
CJ leads the SOC team. This year we had a record number of attendees. People keep asking me and
I'll say we plan for 10 to 12 percent growth because those are the numbers we were getting from
Black Hat. Since we don't do preregistration we have no idea how many people are going to be
here. But we do know how many people are buying badges for DEF CON at Black Hat and we know how
big Black Hat's growing. So then we just guess. And that's where we basically...
And we're really good at it.
Yeah, we're really good.
And we have to guess like three or four months in advance for badges.
So anyway, we were thinking 12 or so percent, and we grew.
We made 22,000 lanyards and 20,000 badges, and we ran out of lanyards.
So that was a huge show for us this year.
And talking to attendees, it actually didn't feel like a 20% growth.
I don't know what happened, but it felt a lot maybe more chill than that.
So yeah, emergency stanchions worked.
So anyway, let's give a big round of applause to the SOC for really helping that happen this year.
Yeah, CJ's hiding off to the side here.
So if you could raise your hand so everyone can give you a virtual hug.
CJ's over here.
Thank you, guys.
CJ and Tacitus, the number one, number two.
Anyway, great work this year.
You're from the SOC.
Social media team, we have three or four people that help out,
but it's primarily fronted by Darrington and Neil, and then myself when I jump in.
And we're really trying to stay on top of what people are saying in the community
and respond as fast as we can.
Cotman does a lot of pointing social media stuff in our direction.
So I really want to call out social media.
Speaker operations for making sure the speakers get there on time
and have their first shot of whiskey.
It's really important.
And finally, we're down to our vendor swag team, trying to get all the right swag,
trying to sell it as fast as we possibly can.
And again, it was a crazy year for us.
We plan on, based on last year, how we were planning to sell out and what sizes.
Things that were supposed to sell out on Saturday sold out halfway through Thursday.
We ordered 2,000 more shirts overnight, and they sold out in four hours the next day.
And so it was just a lot of work.
And it was just unbelievable, the amount of activity this year.
Just never seen anything like it.
I think we had people, we're estimating based on Black Hat, people from almost 50 countries here.
So it was incredible.
Let's see, is anybody here?
Anybody here not from Canada or the United States?
Raise your hand.
Look around.
Wow.
Incredible.
And finally, I'd like to call out the workshop team.
Workshop team.
Workshops started out last year as kind of an idea with Nikita and it worked out pretty well last year.
So this year, we had more space.
Let's just grow it.
And it went from kind of a small thing into something huge that caught us off guard and overwhelmed us.
So next year, we're going to be ready for workshops.
So I apologize for any of the problems, victim of our own success.
But next year, we're going to continue workshops, and we're going to try to manage it a lot better.
So thank you for the people who endured the workshops.
So what we're going to do now, if we're going to go to our first department, we give you some statistics.
The network team is going to come up on stage.
Luis, if he's around.
And we're going to see what just happened on the supposedly the world's most dangerous network.
Because I don't know if that's true or not.
Luis?
Thanks, Jeff.
Hello, Defcon.
So I'm going to make this quick.
Do we have a timer?
Well, you boot me off if I'm.
Okay.
Just do it live.
So I'm going to talk real quick about the NOC.
This part of the NOC review slides are already available on defconnetworking.org.
So let's get to this.
For who's first time Defconners here?
Your first time at Defcon?
Okay.
It's a whole bunch of people.
So in the case you don't know, we do pretty much all the networking for everything that makes this work in the convention space.
All the wired stuff is there.
DCTV.
We're going to talk more about DCTV on the issues that we had real quick.
And wireless.
One new thing for wireless this year is that OpenCTF played through one of the SSIDs that we had.
And they got double of the amount of attendees or participants they had.
So I think it helped out a lot.
We have a 10 gig backbone.
And we started with our basic 125.
125 megabits per second uplink.
And then we maxed that out.
Thanks to the new people that showed up.
And then we bumped that up to 175.
That didn't work.
200 was, thanks Jeff.
Thanks Cheryl.
And that kind of helped.
It helped a lot with several things.
What is it?
Oh yeah.
I'll get that into the issues that were resolved.
Okay.
So we have the wireless.
So everybody asks what we use for gear.
So you can go through this, through the slides.
And DCTV, we have five channels on each, on both of the hotels.
Five Raspberry Pis for each.
And a video transcoding provided by source of knowledge.
And there's a video in the NOC that partially solved the problem.
And then there are a couple more things that actually help solve the problem.
So DCTV.
We switched this year.
Yeah, we made changes, right?
To try to make it better.
So DCTV, we turned HD for the broadcast.
Which made it look good.
When it worked.
And it worked for most of the time.
When we tested before you guys got here and hogged our internet link.
It worked really well.
But again, we'll do it live, right?
And one thing new that we did in regards to DCTV is the internet streams.
So we streamed CGC, DC101, and this is being broadcast live to the internet for the first time.
Thanks, Jeff.
So this is kind of the timeline.
One of the changes that we had last year was to have, because of the thing behind me here, the shiny things, the awesome things here.
We had to show up a few, a day early, basically.
To Mac and video.
Man, they showed up one day early.
And being here one day early really helped a lot.
So usually we start working on Monday.
This year we had the internet running on Sunday.
So on Monday we could hit the ground and get things working.
And Thursday was kind of a hold off day for us.
What was ready was ready.
What wasn't ready, we couldn't do much.
And Friday, 6 a.m., that's when we had this room, this big room here.
That's when we put everything together.
So.
Thanks for the team for waking up very early for doing this.
And Saturday we worked through the DCTV issues along with Friday.
And I'm going to cover that on the next slide.
And we leave tomorrow, hopefully.
Can't stay here anymore.
The issues.
Bandwidth.
Thanks for more of you using the network and trusting somehow the network with your mobile devices or your burners.
What have you.
So.
We had way more use.
Than we had in the past.
And we had some AP coverage.
Some spotty locations.
And we worked through that.
And DCTV started with the bandwidth.
We were doing some of the stuff we were doing on the internet.
And traffic had to go back.
So then we switched to have a local server.
Here that helped a lot.
And we thought it was going to solve the problems.
But then we ran into other things.
So what we did.
We turned down the resolution.
And then we also switched from RTSP to RTMP.
And that have seemed to resolve most of the problems.
And this is everything else I'm going to just run by.
But this is what usually people like to see.
You guys transferred 4.3 terabytes of data throughout the four or five days.
That's more than double the last year.
And we had about 10,000, 35,000 unique DHCP leases.
Doesn't mean much.
Because you can fake MAC addresses and all that stuff.
But.
The numbers are there.
And we transferred a whole bunch of data.
So thanks for using the network.
These are the top ten wireless chipsets used.
You can go through this again later.
And this is the team.
Shout out for the awesome NOC team here.
I'm Evan.
I run this.
Mac is my number two.
But he does most of the work actually.
I do a lot of the planning.
There's the old guys here.
Sparky, Videoman.
They've been with us forever.
And we have like the solid team with Justin, Booger, Call Me Bastard, Plan B, and Colin.
They took wireless and they did awesome things this year.
Worked really well.
I dumped that on them and it was great.
Seraph helps Videoman with the video stuff.
And we had two noobs.
One gave up and already left.
I'm kidding.
He had to leave today.
And C75 also jumped in and helped.
Other than the team, thanks to DT, Russ, Sherelle.
Cesar's IT is absolutely awesome with us along with Encore.
Without them we cannot get things done in time.
And Source of Knowledge and the folks that brings us some snacks every year, they showed up too.
And thanks to you for trying to be nice with us and to each other.
Thank you.
All right.
So as you know, every year, there are multiple contests or events.
The villages, different things happen where folks are raising money for different charities around DEF CON.
So this slide, I don't want to just read it all to you.
But I just wanted to put these numbers up and say, you know, you guys are incredible.
Like every year.
uh there are more and more of you that are getting together and trying to find ways to help
support um organizations that you're passionate about and it shows. Um so thank you to
everybody um you know that Hack Fortress, Mohawk Con, uh Darknet, Rapid7 uh and everybody
who came together uh for Hackers for Charity. Johnny couldn't be here and a bunch of people
got together and stepped up and really helped out so um like I said I'm not gonna read you a
bunch of numbers but there they are. Good job guys. Alright so um I'm just gonna stay
here. That's what I do. Uh so I'm Grifter. Pleasure to meet you. Um. Hi Grifter.
Nice to meet you sir. Um so I'm the department lead for contests, events, villages, parties, and
the demo labs. So pretty much the content that.
That isn't review board selected or the workshops. That is our department. I do that with
Panadero. Um and a whole team of other goons. Uh there are 20 of us total who are managing
135,000 square feet of DEF CON. So quite a bit. So if uh if you enjoyed doing things that
weren't sitting in talks. You know stick with our mantra. Not one talk. Not ever. So.
Um. So. There are no talks at DEF CON. I. DEF CON was cancelled. We're not sure why you're
here. Um. But legitimately like we um we we have an insane amount of content. And I just
wanted to give a huge huge thanks to all of the contest organizers. You can see this insane
number of contests that are up there. They spend um dozens of hours. They spend a ton of hours.
Dozens. No. More like hundreds of hours on some of these contests. Uh a significant amount of
money in some cases. And they really really pour their hearts into it. So um we love them. I
mean honestly. If you guys are interested in putting on a contest. We're always looking for
new stuff. Please hit me up at grifter at DEF CON dot org. And uh and we'll we'll get it done.
Not like tomorrow. Like relax. Um. Probably like January. I'll I'll finally wake up. Um. Um.
I'll wake up then. Villages. How many people hung out in a village? So uh so the
villages. I I want to give a little credit here. So the villages were actually born at the
RIV at DEF CON 14. Um we said hey we have these skyboxes. We need something to do with them.
If you provide content for it we'll let you like just chill in them and hang out in them at night
and maybe throw a party and do whatever. And so the first village was created by a tool. The Lockpick
Village. So you I think yeah shout shout out to tool. Um they came and said hey we want to do this
thing. We'll have talks. We'll set up tables. We'll teach people. We'll do all this stuff. And
that has become a hacker con standard. So again. Thank you tool. It's awesome. Now at DEF CON we
have 10. You can see them all there. Again not going to read them all. There they are. Um but
everybody um who got to hang out in the village. They're fantastic. We love you guys. Uh keep at it. A
lot of events. So you know things like the shoot or um drone club. Drone club is awesome. They're
newer. They were here last year. We kind of had them tucked a little bit in a corner. This year we
put them up on the 26th floor and they were like flying drones at each other and like it was
like pop the balloon and get past the phantom. And they had little drones attacking larger
drones. It was awesome. Um and we have our you know our our events that are oh that always come
back. Things like Mohawk Con and and Hacker Karaoke. Things that are DEF CON staples. And so you
know thank you again to all these events that provide something for us to do um when we're
stumbling around the hallways or you know it's 2 in the morning and you're just trying to never
sleep. Lost. You're up. Woo. Yeah. It's weird being up on stage for the opening and then
the closing. I feel like a bookend. Welcome to uh to the closing ceremonies and thank you for all
the kind words. There's a joke there somewhere. It was funny to me. That's all that matters,
right? So so some of you may have noticed the uh the wonderful badges that uh that Jeff and I
are are currently wearing and that uh the winners of the uh Uber badge will be receiving. Um we'd
be amiss if we didn't call out a few people who had a a hand in this or really the
only hands in this. And uh Rick Gallison if you could stand up. For those of you who
don't know uh Rick is a professional uh special effects artist in Hollywood and you may have seen
his work. Correct me if I'm wrong. The mechanism that drives these is the same mechanism that
was in the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park for the spitters. Is that correct? The tongue. So he's
done dinosaurs in Jurassic Park for the spitters. The tongue. So he's done dinosaurs in the
dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. He's done Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Um he's top notch and
these badges would not have happened without him. Um I had some crazy ideas but the execution
is was Rick. And in in addition to that we had John McFailin. John could you stand up?
Some of you may recognize John. He was our our our actor that we embedded in the in the crowd to
do Dead Drops the year that we had a secret agent as part of the game. Um he was the one who
was involved. But one more time can we just give a hand to everybody that was involved. Oh and
and his son Justin also. Uh Justin stand up. Helped with the assembly. So uh this is
probably the most complex badge that that we've ever done for an Uber. Um many of you have seen
that we've had forgeries of the the radioactive badges with the nuclear isotopes. Uh which I loved
by the way and I loved that I had multiples and my favorite and I'm sorry to the guys that put all
the work in. My favorite has to be the guy that brought one that was half as big as it needed to
be because all he had to work with was a picture and he had no scale. So I just I think that's
phenomenal. So give that guy a hand. So uh for for what we've been waiting for
the council of 9. Who are the winners of this year's badge contest. So um what this is going to be
contest. Could you come up here please? Guys give a hand. For those unaware this is
probably one of the most grueling competitions at DEF CON. When you have CTF or you have a
single focus um it's pretty easy if you know what your objective is. In the badge contest much
like the mystery challenge they don't even know what they have to do half the time. So a lot
of the challenge is like hacking out on the internet where you've got a signal and noise and
you have to figure out what's important and what isn't. And these guys uh start working on the
competition actually before DEF CON even when it's not supposed to be running. And I do
apologize for the cron jobs that may be changing my page sizes so that you guys can't uh tell
when I change things. I want to give at least one of you what 30 seconds Jeff or something
like that to say. So can we have one somebody from the team come up and talk about your
experience.
Sure, sure. Um we actually wanted to take this 30 seconds to really thank Lost and his team
for all that they do for DEF CON and that it's largely through their efforts that the hacker
spirit is still alive at DEF CON and that's really what we wanted to say. We wanted to thank you.
So with the exception of the CTF guys um due to the complexity of these we're actually going to
ship them to the winners registered mail. Um that's why you don't see them walking off the
stage with your badges. For those of you who don't know these take well over 10 hours to just
assemble uh a single badge and every part in these is is custom designed. So we thought it was
worth it because we have to hand tune everyone of them and then with the traveling here we
didn't have the resources to get all of them tuned in time because there are are really only one of
person, Rick, who can do that hand tuning and we want to give them something that this
is on par, this is like taking home a movie prop from Hollywood. So, anyway.
Can you show them what it does? Thank you. So, for those who haven't seen it. So, we'll
cycle through. I don't know if you guys can see this. I don't know if you guys can see
this. Where? Which way? Sideways. Okay. Hold on. Wait for it. One more time. These are the
the angry eyes when it gets mad at you for pushing the button.
I also made an announcement at an opening ceremony as I reiterate that uh mystery
challenge may be coming back one last time. Thank you.
Alright. Next up, social engineering CTF.
So, this is our seventh year running this social engineering village. You guys were
ridiculous. You had lines out to the casino. You were getting yelled at by the hotel every
day. So, thank you for that. Um, this is a really fantastic year. We chose as our
targets, uh, security companies. So, um, companies, you know, like RSA and, and secure
works and others. We had a really, really good competition. Tons of, um, people signed up for
it. But, we have, um, our, I'm not gonna use your whole name, right? We got Rachel as our
second place winner. Um, she, it was, this is her first time and, and actually only second
time at DEF CON. She came last year, learned what social engineering was, signed up for the CTF,
made a very psychotic video proving that she deserved to be here. It was really scary.
We should show it actually. And then, um, came and, and took second place. Just totally
owned it really. Only about 100 point difference from our first place winner. So, give her
a round of applause.
.
We did something really cool this year. I don't know if you're gonna get to see it.
I'm not sure if they can zoom in on it or not. But, we made this really awesome, you
trophy for the first place winner. It's the social engineering head.
That's really awesome. And Mr. Silvers got on stage
and I've never seen anything like it in my life. Every
flag that could be obtained in one call.
And then he did it again in a second call. So totally
ridiculous. Really awesome job. Awesome job.
And he's
getting like the coolest black badge ever. I mean that thing's awesome. Really
great. So how much time do I have left? A couple seconds?
I just want to thank Grifter and his team. They were totally phenomenal this year.
Like they are every year. But I don't know about the other villages. But they were always checking in
and making sure things were great. I thought we had a really phenomenal year this year
at DEF CON. So I can't wait until next year. We'll see you guys then.
Thanks. Love you guys.
That's a bold move, Cotton.
Let's see how it plays out.
So next up, this one was really cool. If you guys didn't see this contest in the
IOT village, you're missing out. Make sure you get in there next
year. Up next to Hopelessly Broken.
Well you know what's up.
Thank you.
Hey guys. So, so Hopelessly Broken is a two-part contest in the IOT village. The first one is a
really cool zero day competition and we had a very busy weekend and we had 45 security issues
uh presented to us and found in numerous IOT devices like a certain refrigerator that was in
our device. Not that exact one, but similar. Some smart locks, routers, thermostats and even a
wheelchair. Not sure if you saw the personless wheelchair flying around the halls, but that
was being remotely controlled through a hack. So that was pretty awesome. We're gonna be going
over all the issues that were found and determining what O-Days are so winners will be
contacted. And I'm gonna pass it over to Sam and Jake who are gonna, is gonna talk about our
Black Badge Contest, which we're totally stoked to be Black Badge Contest this year. So thanks
for nominating us. Whoever did that, we really appreciate it.
Alright, so we had a crazy turnout this year with over 50 teams. I mean that's a
really big turnout compared to the last two years we've been doing this. Um. Almost 200 percent.
Almost 200 percent. Um and then uh for second and third it came down to a tie breaker. Um they
uh had to compete uh the sudden death challenge to take over a router. And uh congratulations to
both the second and third place teams. It was really impressive. Uh they got that one point, put
them over the edge. For our first place team who is on stage with us receiving the Black Badge,
they um you know they've been actually coming to the challenge for the past two years. Um one of
the members has competed both times and has been part of the first place team. And that is team
EverSec.
I'll keep it short and sweet. Uh thanks everyone who made DEF CON possible. It's uh my third
time being here. And uh I love it. Uh thanks everyone who made the Internet Things Village
possible. Y'all are great. Please keep it up. And you know I'm not special. If you guys think
this sounds really cool, please come next year and compete because you guys can do just as well or
better as we can. So thank you.
Alright uh next Black Bag, Badge, Black Bag, Badge, Badge contest. Wait let's see how
that shows up on the screen. You guys are on it. I like it. So uh next up, Capture the Packet.
That's a bold move Cotton.
Where's the timer?
Timer I have like what 30 hours? Is that right?
No, you have 30.
Okay. So uh we we put together a uh Packet Hacking Village and this year we have um knocked it
out of the park with our uh Black Badge event, Capture the Packet. We have this team of gentlemen
here. They've competed five years in a row. And uh what they have is a black badge. So I'm going to
show you what they had to do. Oh my. Um pick apart some of the uh the worst malware you can
find from pretty much every bad country that's out there including our own. Um steganography that
has never been seen before. All sorts of ridiculous puzzles and and uh things within network
traffic. Um it was just a blast. And uh I want to provide them thanks to uh um Packet Sled.
They donated some extra special prizes for each of them. So they each get a Macbook Pro.
And uh before I run off the stage, which I know we gotta hurry up. Woot! Um this year we threw
together some some new things. Um we we threw down the uh the um Sheep City where it's a uh a
full on power grid little miniature city that you can hack. And we had everything set up. So
you know you what we've been saying is you you can't spell idiot without IOT. And uh we threw it
in there. And we had uh a little power meter, garage door openers, all sorts of things for
people to come and hack on. We thank everybody that came out and did that. And then uh we want
to thank all the attendees for um keeping our honeypots busy cause um we really love trolling
all of you. So thank you so much. Um so go ahead. Okay. Hi I'm Nick. I'm the manager of
Seeducks. Uh I wanted to thank DEFCON for allowing us to host this village. Without DEFCON
this wouldn't be possible. I would want to thank all the goons past and current because they're
what make uh us have a safe place. And I especially want to thank our volunteers
because without them uh you guys wouldn't have the entertainment. And I really want to thank
all the attendees for coming to our village on the 26th floor. We'll see you guys next year.
Thank you. Yeah real quick so so. He's not done. Yeah I'm not done. So just just really
quick so the the there were a bunch of teams competing and we had our uh prelims our our
semi-finals and finals and they were going back and forth. And it was down to the wire. And
by a hundred points this team pulled it out. And they came all the way from the Philippines to
play this game. And they spent their whole con just on this. And every year they've been doing
that. And that's the dedication it takes to win a black badge. So thank you so much for that.
So give them an extra round of applause. Good job.
That's a bold move Cotton. Alright uh next up Darknet.
Alright hello. Um so. You know I've been working on this for a long time. Um I've been
working on the us
doing this for a long time. So I was um thank you guys guys for coming out. And uh um thank you
guys for letting us know that you were giving us some capability. Um Chief Radem х Об FM prime
stuff. We had, I'll let him speak to the stats, but we had 569, 570 total people play. It was
awesome. What do they have to do? So it's basically a big MMO. If you guys haven't played
yet, play next year. It's basically a big MMO. You sign up, you get quests, you go off and
learn how to solder. You learn how to solder and build a cool badge. Uh, you learn how to uh,
speak in sign language. You learn uh, lock picking. Uh, no one got to see people in thongs
this year, so that was at least a little bit better. Um, the other person I want to quickly
thank is Crux. He's the one that actually designed the board this year. He did an awesome job.
In our game this year, we did have uh, fifty, 569 players who completed or run the
over 5600 challenges in the game. It was amazing. Um, wanted to give special thanks to our,
our players, um, our winners. We also had a lot of team play, which is what we encourage. We're
trying to get people to work together, to learn things and teach each other. Team 80 Between,
awesome job guys. You guys came up really high on the scoreboard. It was, it was amazing. Um,
yeah. That's good. That's it. Introduce our, introduce our winner.
Oh, hi there. He's our winner from the, for this year. Uh, he scored 670 points about. Very
good job. Congratulations. Alright. Hi. I want to thank everyone who made DEF CON
possible and especially I want to thank the DC Darknet team because it's, it's you guys who made
me feel like a part of this community. Thank you.
Alright, uh, the next step is the Wireless Village had the Wireless CTF going on up there. I
don't know if you guys checked it out. Again, this is another, um, one of the contests that
really, they stepped it up this year. They put a lot of smaller things together and made an
incredible, incredible show. So, here they are. Wireless CTF.
Hey that's a bold move Cotton. So first of all thank you DEF CON we've uh we're one of the
longest running villages along with the lockpick and some of the other groups. We really
appreciate the support we get every year. We fill the room thanks to you guys. Um we try and
bring out this new thing it's it's kind of neat it's called wireless. Um I think you guys call
it IOT and some other things nowadays but it's still all insecure wireless so we play with it
quite a bit. Um we had over a hundred challenges this year thanks to a whole lot of creative
folks that have been working all year on this. We had a fully running um SCADA system that was
attacked by wireless and then you could run through an entire control system. Um we had 32
teams of 63 people that scored. Those aren't the people that were actually in the room playing
those are the people that actually scored. The winning team was able to find Fox and a Hound
over 72 megahertz wireless or um sorry 72 megabits of wireless. Um we had over a hundred
two megahertz um signal. They found a Fox with Bluetooth low energy and three different 2.4
gigahertz Foxes. Uh we had almost a hundred percent up time with our network. Um we saw when
DEF CON went down and we went down with them but other than that we we ran really really solid
for three full days of people beating the crap out of us over wifi. Um thanks uh great job
Raging Security they're the team that won. Bring them up in a second. Um and because
of the sponsors that we get every year because you guys fill our room. Aruba, Edis, Hack 5,
Mitre, PI Achievers, Great Scott Gadgets, and Pony Express. The winning team got almost
three thousand dollars in prizes. So Raging Security. Yeah poners! Uh first off
I want to thank my team. Uh they were great. Uh without them we wouldn't be here. Uh I also
want to thank the guys at the Wireless Village. They put some AMAZING stuff in here. They put some
amazing puzzles out there for us to solve and figure out. Every time we every time we do the
contest we learn something new. They always like to throw a curveball at us. Uh I also want to
thank our families for letting us come to Vegas and you know have some time away from the
family and the kids and and everything. Uh and I want to you know thank the the community at
large for you know having such an awesome conference.
That's a bold move Cotton. Uh so uh next up is gonna be the guys uh who did the Car Hacking
Village CTF. If you guys, who went into the Car Hacking Village? That's right. It was awesome
right? I'll let them tell you uh what went into the CTF. It's pretty pretty bad ass. Hello I'm
Robert. I'm with Canbus Hack and I'd like to thank everybody who showed up to the Car Hacking
Village and got our got your badge. Um this year was our first year trying to do a confr- a
contest. So this year we were asked if we could do a CTF and I'm gonna pass it over to Eric and
let him talk a little bit about the CTF. Thanks. So it's our honor to present the winners of
the very first Car Hacking Village Capture the Flag contest. Wow that was almost bad. Uh we
were really blown away by the level of participation in uh competition. Uh we had a lot of
participation in the contest. We had 60 people registered and those leader boards were back
and forth all weekend long. So all those nightmares we had of throwing a CTF and not having
anybody showed up turned out to be unfounded. But anyway. Ultimately at the end of the day
first and second place were decided by thir- uh 60 second submission window. So speed is
really of the essence. So thanks again to Robert for hosting us and everybody who came down to
see us. We really enjoyed it and we hope you did too. And now without further ado the winners.
Show us your badge. Oh the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
the car hacking badge. Unfortunately the battery is dead right now so. It can't it plugs into
the cam bus. And and maybe. Use the steering wheel to steal the car. Cool. So my name is Jason. I'm
from Bug Crowd and uh we sponsored and ran operations as well as con- contributed challenges.
A couple people I want to thank before we get to the winners. Uh Bug Crowd, FCA, the Car Hacker
Village, and uh CTFD which was the platform we ran the CTF on. Um and Dan for doing all the
operations. He's awesome. Um so uh without further ado we had three winners fir- our third place is
Acid Fingers. Right here. Um absolutely took the lead early on. Uh we thought he
was going to blow through everything but just kind of lost out a little bit. Uh and then we had
Ramrod and MK. 60 minute submission window which was crazy. Um so Ramrod came in second. Not here
right now. And MK. These two right here. Um never had a lot of car hacking experience before.
So really awesome. It really says something about what we want to do. We want to get people into
the car hacking world. And these two were new at it and they killed it. And I'm so proud of
everyone involved with this. And I thank Defcon. Uh we got some prizes. We got a drone for
first or a robot for first place. It's a 500 dollar alpha robot. Uh and the second and third
place prizes uh are drones. The uh Discovery drones here. Uh we'll ship this one to the winner.
And then a Black Badge. So uh congratulations to everyone. Thank you Defcon and Jeff and
everybody. Thank you.
So this year we were really proud to host or provide the space for the first ever Cyber
Grand Challenge. And so in our second to last Black Badge uh contest we would like to call up
the uh CGC folks. And hear a little bit about what just happened. And then we're going to
talk about what happened and why it took 55 million dollars to essentially assemble and
execute the contest that uh the machines that are behind us. So I'd like to bring up Mr. Walker.
Thank you so much.
Hello Defcon. My name is Mike Walker. I'm here from DARPA. Um and Thursday, August 4, 2016 is
finally behind us. That date has been years in front of me for so long. And I can't tell you about
the hundreds of people who worked with us uh so that we could have the first all machine
hacking tournament execute here co-located with Defcon. And it and it worked. So uh so uh
yesterday Defcon asked if we could uh if we could talk about it uh today at closing
ceremony. So I I sat up in my hotel room and uh I wrote down some thoughts on on what this all
means. So I want to tell you about a battle between adversarial thinking machines held in the heat of August.
The scene is the the New York Hilton. The day is August 34, uh August 31st and the year is 1970.
And the battle is the first United States computer chess championship held by the ACM. So the
idea that computers that could play expert games was just beginning then. These primitive
machines duped it out for days. A champion emerged named chess 3.0 written in Fortran 4. Uh so
46 years later things are different. Some things stay the same. Computers are
playing much harder games now. Uh these machines behind me they can play capture the flag. They
can wrestle through pass uh through software sometimes infinite pass. Even simple software can
can process an infinite number of inputs. This is a not a a big board. It's something beyond
that. Um head to head network security is a game of incomplete information. It's multi opponent
deals with pass search problems that are provably impossible in the general case. And yet these
systems work.
They are limited first generation prototypes. And someday somebody else is gonna call them
primitive. I will always remember them as the first of their kind. And as powerful as this
capability is here's what I think history has taught us about things that aren't gonna change.
First I wanna talk about the fourth place machine at that first all computer chess tournament. It
was built by a man named Hans Berliner. And Hans kept working on automating games. He built a backgammon
game uh system named BKG 9.8. Pioneered the use of fuzzy fuzzy logic and gaming software and in 1979
Hans watched as his creation became the first computer program to beat a human world champion in
any game. Hans was a pioneer and despite not ending up on the podium in 1970 he went on to
change the world in his own right. I believe that when a challenge is used to pioneer new
technology it's sometimes just as important to look to the people after it's used for the end of our
as it is to look at the places.
And I really look forward to seeing what happens
with the community that built this game,
that played in it, and what they build in the future.
I think that's the most important thing that happened here.
So second, I want to talk about the story of chess.
And we all know this story, right?
First, people were grandmasters,
and then an AI named Deep Blue 2
defeated the world chess champion,
and people were demoted to second place.
But today, if you defeat a grandmaster at chess,
there's an app for that.
I wonder how many of you know the rest of this story,
because that story isn't over.
It turns out that chess is played at its highest level today,
not by machines or by people,
but by people and machines working together.
And they call it centaur chess,
and it's still going on in 2016.
And that's, I hope, what you come away with from this today.
What could automation imply?
What can people do together?
As partners, I think we can do something
that neither one of us can do on our own.
The idea is congruent with all the evidence we have.
Expert systems, first gen AI, whatever you want to call it,
they're fast, they're scalable, they're powerful,
they're brittle, they're fundamentally limited,
and they're incapable of innovation.
But when they partner with us,
the combination can be amazing.
And I want to read you a passage that I've become fond of.
The hope is that in not too many years,
human brains and computing machines
will be coupled together very tightly,
and that the resulting partnership will think
as no human brain has ever thought,
and process data in a way not approached
by the information handling machines that we know today.
So that was written by J.C.R. Licklider in March of 1960.
And two years later, he went on to run the DARPA office
that I work for today.
So with that, I want to play you some highlights
from our competition on Thursday.
And introduce to you some of the teams that won.
I'm going to go search for videos.
And Russ is gonna help.
I'm sorry.
Hello.
So this is uh the for all secure system mayhem and we're going to bring for all secure up
here uh and you're going to see what a cyber reasoning system looks like. So this is uh
mayhem producing uh an input uh that found a bug in a service that replicated MS08-067 very
famous flaw. Uh you know we have learned since Thursday that the bug it found in this
software uh was actually an unintended bug that we didn't even know about. It was a
different complex heat bug uh which is pretty cool you know for a bot. Sorry excuse
me cyber reasoning system. Here it is. Um so congratulations to mayhem. Mayhem is our first
place winner. They take home two million dollars. Well done gentlemen.
Second system is Zandra built by TechX. Um this is our second place team. They are taking
home one million dollars. Come up on stage everybody. Um and what you're seeing is two
traces here. One in our patched binary. One in in our vulnerable binary. And the Zandra
system found something that it could uh that it could capture flags against both. It found
an unintended bug that we didn't even know about in a service called OJS. So uh we're going to
go to TPSim uh all on its own. Congratulations to TechX second place winners.
And I I have to say something before I bring our third place team up. Because on Thursday night
uh we we uh started verifying scoring and we were unable to verify third place until late last
night. And uh we were actually able to notify our third place team this morning that they won
third place. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not
gonna lie. And that means that they have not yet had the opportunity to come up in front of a
crowd as the official third place winner of Cyber Grand Challenge. So I I actually have one
more request uh for this community and that is can can you please make this room shake for
Shellfish.
So this is an an input into previously unknown code created by the mechanical fish. System right
back there. Built by Shellfish behind me. Uh and it's traversing an input into a famous bug in
sendmail from 2005 called Crack Adder. Only it's a new version of Crack Adder that was rebuilt.
But uh but still pretty cool. Um and I think Halver is going to post on it when he lands. Uh he's
reading it on the airplane. So uh in closing I want to say thank you to all of you for your
support. Thank you to this community uh for for for letting us find common ground with you and
build this uh contest here. Thank you to everyone who participated. Thank you to the hundreds of
team uh people who helped build this liquid cooled data center in here. And all the software
inside it. Thank you so much.
So what we're trying to do here is in a surprise move um this has never happened before but
we're granting the winning machine Mayhem a black belt.
We're granting the winning machine Mayhem a black badge.
Not the team, the machine. Um and we're just wondering what the machine would have to say about
this if it had a ability to speak sort of like Colossus. But um in lieu of the machine the
closest person that might know what's going on in the mind of the machine I would love to see if
somebody from team Mayhem has a couple of words to say about what it's like to have their
creation uh win the highest honor that we can bestow here at DEF CON. Now it's a live
time uh admittance to DEF CON but we don't expect to see a super computer showing up every
year. Um but it is going in uh I understand the Smithsonian Museum. So it would be really cool to
see one of the robotic rise of the machines badges in the Smithsonian. Uh let's see if we can
get somebody up here. Tyler. Sure. And you don't even have to speak like a computer you can speak
like a human.
Uh Mayhem. Well I'm not the computer of course. That was someone else. Um but thank you to
to DARPA for for organizing the Cyber Grand Challenge and uh letting our team for all secure
participate. It's been an incredible two year journey to this um and thank you to DT and
everyone at DEF CON for for allowing uh this to happen at DEF CON because we'd be here anyway
every year. So we're glad we didn't have to do two things. Um and yeah thank you everyone for
don't kill all humans, that's bad. Alright, gotta get back to the slides here.
I did nothing, I'm getting it. He told me to get up here and fix it for you. Oh, that's cool. Just like I fixed the video system earlier, right? That's good. You're a good man, wise and true. So, the next contest doesn't really need an introduction, but I just want to say from an organizer standpoint, from a goon standpoint,
uh, this, this contest brings a lot of energy and a lot of excitement to our area, so, uh, the music is going, there's always, like, crowds around, uh, the folks at the tables, and we absolutely, uh, love having them in there and having, having them there with us, that the last five minutes when the final countdown starts is super high energy and, uh, like I said, I mean, they're just the best. Capture the flag.
Good evening. I'm Vito at Legitimate Business Syndicate. One year ago, we announced the platform for DEF CON Capture the Flag would be the DARPA Decree System. As of this weekend, we are pleased to announce the successful completion of the first human versus computer reverse engineering and exploitation Capture the Flag. We would like to thank all of our competitors for playing with honor, skill, and for
giving us forgiveness for our operational issues at the game start. We give huge thanks to DEF CON goons for keeping our room focused and friendly, to the Cyber Grand Challenge winner, Mayham, for being willing to pit their computer against the most ruthless human hackers in the world, and to the Capture the Flag community worldwide for being part of this historic event.
Woo!
Hi, everybody.
I'm Gainofage with the Legitimate Business Syndicate. I'd once again like to thank everyone involved for their grace and patience when dealing with our issues. I would also like to thank the giants on the stage with me. Without their shoulders to stand on, this game could not happen.
Two years ago, DARPA presented a challenge that many people in this room scoffed at. Build a computer that could compete with the best hackers in the world.
I am proud to announce that they have succeeded.
At many points this weekend, an autonomous computer system was beating some of our teams.
The raw scores for all the teams will be available in the coming weeks, as well as the exploits, patches, and fire-all rules that all of our teams created.
I am now proud to announce the top three teams of our Capture the Flag.
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from Korea. In second place, we had Bloops, a combination of Blue Lotus and Oops.
And finally, I am proud to present to the pretty potent poners of the Plaid Parliament of
Pony, the first place prize, eight black badges. Come up PPP. So the
winners of the CTF get these handcrafted black badges and we'll have to describe to them, well
actually they're so smart they'll just
figure out how it all works. Um, and then something special that only CTF winners get is we
get a leather jacket that's embroidered with our logo and nobody else, they're never for
sale, we never make them for anything else, you can't buy them, they only go to winners of
Capture the Flag. So that's a special extra bonus for the CTF winners. And so with that I'd
like to give our eight badges to the winning team, PPP.
He wants to choose God, I'd say the first person to win.
Right, play with that work.
Pl buen chico eggs.
If that's not enough on the back of this badge, there's another puzzle just for black badge winners to compete
on.
Yes.
Last year I announced a choice of architecture and rule set to see what teams could build
with a year of preparation. While the game let us ask some interesting questions and get
some interesting answers, we will be making some changes for 2017. We will be running a
far more traditional capture the flag rule set with a twist. The 2017 DEF CON capture the
flag will feature a custom processor architecture running on a custom operating system. We
look forward to seeing everybody next year. Thank you. Alright uh that is it for
the uh contests and events. Again thanks uh to everybody who has contributed to this
event. Thank you to everybody who put together a contest, a village, an event, a party, the
folks who spoke in the demo labs. And if you have things that uh that you are interested in
putting up there again reach out to me grifter at uh DEF CON dot org. Now um running all these
events and doing all these things and having parties at night and villages and craziness and
all these crowds can get fairly difficult. Um there are a lot of you and it's overwhelming uh
for my team. Uh we can't control it all. Uh so I'm going to give everybody a little bit of a
shout out. So we rely on the sock goons to help us do that. So um we don't often get to hear
from the sock goons. I think it'd be great if uh if we can get CJ up here to uh to tell us what
went on this weekend. And while I still have somebody typing this stuff up on the on the
board. It's SOC sock. Um I'm crip bitch. Hey. Well first of all this is
Tacitus. Tacitus is my second. He's the guy who actually does all the hard work.
I mostly want to thank you lot. We had an unprecedented amount of attendees this year. We
were not expecting to grow the way we did. And we also had an unprecedented low number of
incidents. That's down to you guys. This was probably the safest conference I've ever run.
There were a few issues. All of them got handled. You guys were super respectful to the hotel.
You worked hard with the hotel. In fact we got a thank you letter. We got a thank you letter to the
hotel. We got a thank you letter from Caesars calling out one of my guys and calling out an
attendee for their help in taking down a jewel thief who was running through the conference.
So I'd like to give a shout out to Hattori on my team. And Nikki the attendee who after being hit
by the jewel thief managed to place her foot on his throat.
Don't mess with DEFCON attendees. There was one sort of unfortunate incident that I have to
bring up. We had an attendee who got 86 from the Whiskey Pirates party. It really bummed me
out because the guy was really not trying to be an asshole. But he was playing around
putting stuff up that matched Caesar's equipment and of course when you poke the bear the
bear responds and Caesar's came down with about 30 security guards. They were super kind,
they actually pulled back, reduced the numbers, agreed not to prosecute him and we're in
talks about fixing things so that he can come back so long as he doesn't do anything else
like that. But the one thing that came out of it that I'd like to remind all of you guys is
all of us in red shirts are here to help you. We're part of the community, we're not here to
make money, we're all volunteers.
Help us help you. So if there's an incident and we're there and we're asking you questions,
be up front and honest. And if it's something you're nervous about talking about, take one
of us to one side. We're on your side. But if you don't tell us up front what happened
and they know something that we don't know, we're totally disabled at that point. We cannot
help you. And that's what happened in this case. He wasn't clear with what was going
on and so we said it was one thing and Caesar's rolled out a whole bunch of dates and he's
got the data that showed it was another thing. And so we looked like fools. So help us help
you. But other than that, it was a fantastic year. I've never worked this hard. We sold almost
all of our badges by about 11 a.m. on Thursday. In fact, it's fair to say we did more badges
between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Thursday than we did through the entire conference last year.
That's pretty impressive.
When I got press ganged into taking this role, I woke up and there was a coin that said,
you have to fucking do this. We were seeing queue times of about four hours and it was brutal.
I mean, you guys know it. Line con was a thing. This year, the average time, turnaround time
for the line throughout the whole time it was open was 40 minutes. And the fucking thing
was the fastest time we clocked was 27 minutes. If someone had told me four years ago that we
would have registration times of 20 minutes, I'd tell them they're an idiot. But we got there.
And I hope we stay there. It's much better to see you guys come out of the line happy, get
straight into the conference and enjoy it. So thank you for all the help you guys did. And in
particular, thank you to all the other departments that made this work. Thank you to my team. The
whole, the registration time was 20 minutes. It was a lot of work. And I think it was a lot of
fun. The whole registration experience was an entire team thing. Every department in DEF CON was
involved in making that come together. And when it came together, it was beautiful. Thank you.
Everything CJ said and more. Where's my sock goons at? I want to thank you all.
I was nervous stepping up into this role but you made my life easy. You guys are awesome. I
fucking love you guys. Thank you so much. Hi DEF CON. Bye DEF CON. Okay. We're almost
done but we have a new special edition this year. So we have goons that have been supporting and
making DEF CON happen. You know, you need to make sure you do something for that. We need to make it
happened for, I mean, for years, decades, literally decades. And just like we have a badge,
uh, for people who win contests, the black badge, this year we created an official badge, uh,
for goons. Goons that have served DEFCON for ten or more years and have retired or are
retiring this year. And for all their effort and energy they've put in, the new badge will
allow them admission for life, uh, as an acknowledgement of their dedication. And so we
have, we have a list of retiring gold badge, uh, in the past, dating back as far as we can
identify, to this year, we have a list of all the retired goons with ten or more years. And
since it'll take too long to bring them all up, if you're here and you're receiving a gold
badge, please come up in the front and we'll get you your gold badge here on the side. And of
course, we have a list of all the retired goons that have served DEFCON for ten or more years.
We have to do some anti-counterfeiting maneuvers. But if we could acknowledge the dedication
and the commitment of this team, I'd really appreciate it as we get them their gold badges.
Thank you so much.
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Zach, come on up if you want to say anything. I've invited Zach up to say a couple of words.
He himself having been retired has a unique insight. Okay, for almost 20 years I've been
ringmaster of this shit show that we call DEF CON. And the most important thing for me
is I've watched this community grow from a bunch of teenagers that had, let's face it,
no fucking control to what we are today, right? And that is a big fucking deal. And that is
very true. Blood code. A random little thing created by Jason Street for barcode, right?
Generated more blood than every fucking doctors convention that rocked up in Vegas. They were
shipping blood out of the state because they couldn't handle it in Nevada, right? That's
us.
and that's a big deal
right so you need to
understand that
we're fucking deaf gone
so if we can get all the
goons off to the side you're going to have you
sign the registry book get you your gold badge
and
then see you at the party tonight
the goon only party
that you guys aren't invited to
because now we get to party
now it's with a little bit of regret
I have to announce
the retirement of an old friend
the smiley face
DEFCON logo
yes
the smiley face was created for DEFCON
20 and it was never intended
to last more than a year
but through the love and care and feeding
of Zebler
it survived into
until 24 with duct tape and literal
bailing wire
and it just could not the way we store
it the desert heat it's literally been
disintegrating for years
it just can't survive another year of
coming up and down
so what we're going to do is we're retiring
the smiley today
it's going down it's being shipped
to a maker space
it's pieces are being cut into little pieces
into little mini smileys
and next year we're going to hand out
mini smileys
and we're gonna replace it with the new smiley
so at DEFCON 25 our 25th anniversary next year
it'll be
out with the old friend
who will live on in mini smileys
and will be introducing our new friend
so
speaking of next year
how many of you remember DEFCON 1
when we all actually fit in this little VW bug
alright
this is where we've been right this is the last time I was on a TV show
the best. We had to do a new flow diagram since last year. I thought the flow this year
was really fantastic. 22,000 people and it didn't feel very crowded. I mean at times
of course crowded but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be with 22,000. But with
the 25th anniversary we want to do something new and special and so we talked with a hotel
and we went over our options and so next year we're going to be at Caesars Palace.
Now this is going to be really interesting because it's a stack. We've got two floors on
one side. We've got the pool. We've got a lot of really cool stuff over there. We've got
about 50,000 more square feet.
And while that's not a whole lot of space now that we're so big, I mean it's some space,
but what the best part is, a lot of it is modern and we can put air walls everywhere
and so we can slice and dice the spaces and we can better take care of some of these contests
and events. And we can really try to create more intimate spaces and experiences for you
to interact with each other. So it's going to get us a lot of new stuff next year. And
as usual, any time we change hotels, we always want to hear from you. So that's a lot.
you, what do we do with the space? I really believe the first year we were going to come
here, we had so much new space, I figured we'd have to close off half Paris and not use it
because we weren't big enough. We've essentially outgrown the Paris and Valleys in two
years. Unbelievable. So, with that said, all the video, all the packet captures, all
the presentations, everything we can record, grab, capture, copy, will be online in the
coming weeks and months. If you have any memories or files or evidence you want to share with
us, we're happy to put it online. And with that said, I'm officially calling to a close,
DEF CON 24. See you next year.
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