 good morning everyone you're all really asleep still let's try that again good morning everyone all right that's better welcome to roots this is the seventh annual seven years now at one time defcon the main event out there was this small it was actually smaller it started with 13 people ah so you can imagine it one day roots will also be as big as defcon out there so you guys are really the founding the beginning generations of this so um how many of you been here for all seven anyone raise your hand a few few of you all right how many of you is this your first time to roots all right wow welcome and did anyone travel from outside of the united states to get here anyone wow all right welcome you guys thanks so much um so we like to um we're really proud about roots because we think it's one of the most diverse technology programs in the world if you look around the room so how many of you identify with being a boy raise your hand raise it hi all right how many of you identify being a girl yeah so we're about almost equal here again this year which is really unique thanks everyone so much for coming we have a great lineup today I'm going to teach you lots of different types of hacking um and along those lines I've got Kurt here with us from the EFF because what's really important to remember is the honor code so Kurt's going to talk a little bit about the honor code with learning how to hack and how to keep everyone out of trouble here so that'll let Kurt come up all right thank you thank you everybody uh it's so great to be back here thank you uh and you know I've come here you know since the beginning of roots and it's just great to see more and more people each year doing awesome and cool things uh what is really awesome about this is that uh you're out here you're learning that the world presented to you is not the world that you have to live in that you can take something apart see how it works put it back together again that a lock is maybe a delay but not a barrier so you can do all sorts of things you're learning superpower is here but part of that as well is with great power comes great responsibility and so we're trying to teach people there not only to do these things but to do it for good and try and make the world a better place that's what I try and do I work at the electronic frontier foundation it's a non-profit civil thank you uh non-profit civil liberties organization and we try to help the people in the security research community be able to do their research figure things out find out about vulnerabilities disclose them all without getting into trouble so they can use their powers for good so yeah uh we'll talk a little bit about the uh the honor code here so we have a uh it's a pretty short simple one you can see it over on the sign there and we'll pull that up here so it's about remembering the values do not hack anything you need okay that's like that's a good one because you might break it you know uh if you take something apart sometimes it doesn't go back together in very well you'll learn something in the process it's a cool thing to do even if it doesn't end up working but you might break it uh respect the rights of others that's something you should do throughout your lives but especially in in the hacking contest so you can hack on your own things you can ask somebody if you can hack on their things but don't just hack on some of these things without asking that without being cool about it uh know the law and the consequences well there's a there's a lot of laws out there about hacking this is a lot of what we do at EFF is advise them about the laws but a lot of it boils down to putting law around some of these concepts doing things with permission doing things that uh are breaking things that that you own or the permission of the owner on them uh find a safe playground well you're in one this is a great safe playground you can learn these things with excellent advice uh you can learn how to solder you can learn how to capture the flag and this is a safe space to do it you can make some mistakes and learn from them and then you can take these skills out there and use them for make a better world oh and only do good thank you very much so if anyone has any more questions uh about legalities of what you're doing the EFF has a booth in the vendor area and Kurt will also be around here and we're happy to answer any questions for you really the only way you'll know uh but everything we're doing in here is legal already so you don't have to worry about any of the workstations or anything like that um one other rule is uh don't take pictures of anyone without their permission okay so is it okay if I take a selfie I'm in picture with all you guys is that okay can I do that all right with York and I this is my co-founder York here so we're gonna do a selfie here so that's what you do you always ask and then if someone doesn't want a picture taken you just put your head down okay all right so put your head down you said no but do you put oh did you put your head down okay I'm going to erase the picture okay so let's do that again so if you don't want to be in the picture then I deleted it okay okay so if you don't want to be in the picture then just turn the other way or like you've got a hat on I wear sunglasses to stay out of pictures myself okay so we're gonna try it again right now let me do a panel thank you everybody and with that I would like to introduce my very hardworking co-founder York hey guys so good to see familiar faces it's even more exciting to see new faces you guys are gonna learn and have so much fun uh remember respect each other teach each other right that's why we're here and that's why we love running routes because everybody teaches each other just really quickly we're gonna have some talks in the morning right for the first fat hour and a half or so and then we're gonna do all work stations this afternoon so you won't have to listen to anybody talking to you I want to really give a big shout out to our sponsors without them we couldn't do this so AT&T who's in the quarter thank you so much for everything you've done they've been with us since the beginning a huge shout out to Facebook who's running the capture the flag event thank you Facebook so much we also have Logitech who's going to be giving everybody a free web camera and they're going to teach us how to hack it so thank you Logitech big thank you to Wicker there's no one here well she's kind of here so thank you Nico and Wicker and also all clear ID who's been with us since the very beginning so we appreciate all the sponsors and thanks again everybody for showing up and with that I believe the first talk oh is Lauren right so we've got a new master of ceremonies this year that will be taking the stage over from now on and introducing all the speakers Lauren our first talk will be by Alta vault on the roots badge hi I'm Alta vaults this year we are doing the soldering and coating stations over there so you'll get to solder the roots black badge and what this is is after you're done soldering this you can play paper rock scissors but what's cooler is that you can actually hack with these so we have a coating station where you can actually learn how to hack TVs to actually putting a piezo element on there to make sounds it's a great prank to actually set this in someone's like under their bed so when they're trying to sleep or beef and it'll bug them so it's a lot of fun things you can do with these we're also giving out prizes for the top winners so if you're hacking these badges and um have a lot of fun with it you could try to get as much points as possible to win prizes every day morning everyone I'm also staying still right I'll be one of people working the soldering station we're gonna ask for your patience with us as we get things up and running we have about 16 soldering stations we are asking that today you only solder your badges we only have a couple of things to do to get you up and running your badge but we want to get everyone up and running with their badges so they can begin to program them and hack them and then tomorrow we're going to do more other things other than just the badges so again today we like to just get only badges if you get other projects from like uh one of the other vendors here that's great but please wait until sunday saturday or sunday to do that um other net and also in the coding section we do have labs on how to do brute forcing so definitely check out all of the fun labs that we have thanks guys