 Hello everyone, how's it going? Welcome back to another YouTube video and in this video I want to be showcasing some of the sands holiday hack challenge for the year 2020 So this is cringle con 3. This is the third virtual conference over at santa's village over in the north pole We've been at elf University. We've been at santa's castle We've been all over the place and now we're doing something new for sands holiday hack challenge 2020 And I am super duper excited about this video series. I have completed the sands holiday hack challenge I've worked through all the objectives already, so I will be going through them in review But still hopefully exploring some fun stuff and making it a good time for us all, but I Absolutely love this exercise this activity this war game. This is one that I look forward to every single year Counter-hack the other individuals everyone involves in putting this together Ed Scott is in his team does a Phenomenal job putting together this sands holiday hack challenge, so I'm super duper looking forward to it I've been doing this since like 2015 when I first heard about the thing, but I Still need to finish up writing my report, but I hey I want to get some videos out and prepared and ready for this thing So without further ado, let's dive in All righty, I am on holiday hack challenge Dot-com and that is where you'll kind of see like the promo Hey, you know like the all the information to go ahead and get started for the holiday hack challenge for 2020 Looking at Kringle con 3 So this one is kind of themed and called Zat you Santa Claus and it's all about Kringle con 3 the 3 French hens, so I like that little pun there There is a note here the submission deadline has been extended to January 11th and that I Appreciate so it gives me a little bit of time to record and get my report done So here we are We can if we wanted to get started and if you were kind of new to this you could check out the talk over on their YouTube channel they showcase all the different talks as part of the conference as online YouTube videos and Each talk will offer a little bit of some clues and some nudges and some subtle hints and nods to what you might be Doing in a specific task or objective as part of the Sam's holiday hack challenge this year They are using a discord server Is so if you need to check in with anyone just hey a little sanity check a benchmark Can someone please tell me that I'm not crazy when you're trying some idea, etc, etc But really all we need to do here is just play the game right and Sam's holiday hack challenge offers sort of like a Little video game like structure right where you have a little avatar that can bump around and move around in the digital world And it's fun. It's it's a good time some folks. I don't know if they like it some folks think it's kind of Cute and enjoyable you can get your kids to play It's it's fun. We'll just say it's fun We can go ahead and click on this link here that'll take us to Kringle con But we are going to hop on Santa's gondola for our ride to the North Pole. Let's go ahead and do it I'll hop over to Kringle con There we go when we load here. I'll go ahead and log in And there we go. Here we are. You can see my cheesy little avatar John Hammond YouTube with the you so it's cool and I'll zoom in here So this is a little bit readable and I will also minimize my giant face in the way So Oh my god, let's move me up to the uh, we'll stay down bottom It's all cool I see our good friend Jingle Ringford here a little elf we could chat with so i'm using my arrow keys to move around You could of course click around if you're kind of new to this realm here But I tend to like to use the arrow keys But clicking on Jingle Ringford will start up a conversation with them and we can hop in the gondola to take up exit 19 and go to the castle Santa asked me to design the new badge for this year and he wanted it to look really cool like it's frosty Okay, click on your badge the snowflake in the center of your avatar to read at your objectives So we can go ahead and do that if you'd like to chat with the community You can join us on the discord server and there's a link to join their discord there We have specially appointed kringle concierge as helpers You can hit them up for help in the general channel if you'd like to if you get a minute check out ed scottis's official introduction to the conference That's that youtube video. Oh and before you head off up the mountain You might want to try and figure out what's written on that advertising billboard. Hmm. Have you managed to read the gift list at the center? Um, so for those of you that might not notice or see it if I were to hop over to the top left here And I'll zoom out just so you can kind of get a glimpse of the world There is a little billboard up here. It says visit the north pole at exit 19 And it is a hyperlink you can see kind of the the notification out of the bottom that a link popped up from This little button here and that billboard we could click on so it looks like we have to potentially find out the gifts We keep chatting with jingle ringford and see what else we got here It can be hard when things are twirly. There are tools that can help It also helps to select the correct twirly area And the three ellipses kind of denotes that's the end of all the conversation You can offer and now he will replay or repeat what he was speaking of So a lot of things on pack here, right? We have our badge in the center here And if you were talking to jingle ringford for the very first time He'd go ahead and tell you and All that dialogue would pop up you'll see kind of little notifications or pop-ups down on the bottom left of your screen Well, you'll get new objectives or new hints that we could use. So if I were to click on my badge here I have all these things kind of that I could click on in the sub menu on the left The narrative looks like I have zero out of seven So this is all blurry and I haven't unlocked anything just yet But the objectives we could check out we see objective number one is to uncover santa's gift list It is rated one out of five red christmas trees and difficulty And there's a photo of santa's desk on that billboard with his personal gift list What gift is santa planning on getting josh right for the holidays talk to jingle ringford at the bottom of the mountain for advice So sort of like a capture the flag, right exactly like a war game or an exercise We'll just have to type in the correct answer as we go ahead and find the solution So What you need to go So we need to go take a look at that billboard here I will hop on over again to that little corner and I'll zoom out so I can click on that And Here is the image that we're working with right So it's kind of big. I'm scrolling down because this is a large image, right? Maybe it's just because I'm way zoomed in there we go Visit the north pole exit 19 and we can see the kringle con coin I see a nice little raspberry pi over here Maybe an elf on the shelf potentially over on the left a coke zero. I like that. This is the enigma. That is awesome little TARDIS And my personal gift list Looks like has twisted text Done some image manipulation to kind of distort that And we need to figure out what that really says So initially when I saw this I thought my first reaction was like, oh, I've seen sans do this before This is oftentimes in net wars and I thought this was a gimp or like a photoshop filter to whirl and pinch And you can multiply you can adjust kind of the the dial as to how much whirl you want in that whirl pool Or where you're going to end up pinching it to be the center point of that And those are the things you could potentially do, right? I spent some time Doing that in gimp and it did not really work out all that well. So Admittedly, I will hop back over to our badge and this whole thing is for learning, right? We're here to learn. We're here to grow. We're here for some education So I don't think there's any shame in taking a look at the hints So as we were talking with jingle ringford, we may very well have seen these little pop-ups and notifications down at the bottom left And it'll tell us you've unlocked a new hint. All right So one hint that we see is this image edit tool And this is telling us who this hint came from, right? The elf that we talked to and the objective what this is pertinent to for the task we're trying to work on It says there are tools out there that could help filter the distortion that is this twirl And this looks like a hyperlink. I see it's taking me to photo p.com We also have the twirl area. So we'll click on that Make sure you lasso the correct twirly area. Okay, so I'll go ahead and click on this photo p website And I'll hop over there As this page loads, there we go. Now. I'm working in photo p and it's like this online Like in your web browser image editor and that's kind of neat. That's kind of cool So it looks like all we have to do is load in the image Of the the sanas gif list that we need to un twirl and see if we can use some of the filters to Properly make that readable or legible. So let's go ahead and do that I will go download this picture I'm going to hop over to that billboard and save it. I guess I'll just throw it like on my desktop temporarily I am working in windows right now. So please and I know I know I know everyone's going to hate me But let's go ahead and open this I just clicked on the file menu there. Now. I'll select that billboard.png that I have saved in my desktop I accidentally created a shortcut. Anyway, let's open the thing There we go Okay, so now I Will try and zoom in here Can I do that? Can I just control plus on the keyboard? Oh, yeah, yeah Okay, so that works great and I can click and drag with my mouse So if I have this section here the personal gif list and I need to potentially find out what Josh right had in the list. I see ed up here with two front teeth. I see Jerry with the trip to the north pole down at the bottom, but Presumably Josh right is in this list. So we need to go ahead and Correct this. I'll use that lasso tool that they're referring to and you can see that as kind of like the lasso looking icon Or the hotkey l. So I'll try and select this section And I'm doing a really bad job of it I'll try and select this whirlpool right or the totally area And now I'll hop over to that filter menu here because if I were to use that Distort little sub menu I see twirl and I kind of clued in on that from the hint that we read right if there is a filter We could use to remove the distortion that is this twirl Let's use that Okay, and now this little Box popped up and I could adjust the angle or how this is twirled. So let me try and rotate this It looks like to the right. Oh, and I actually see Josh right somewhat legible already there, right? See if we can get that any cleaner Josh right. No, it looks like he's getting pulled, but I can read that. I think just barely. I see prox mark Do you see the same thing? Yeah, that p.r.o. x looks pretty clear and crisp And that is an a I'm feeling Prox mark that might be what we need to submit Maybe that's what Josh right wants for Christmas and that's on the gift list So that's all we needed to do for this challenge looks like I see clay wants a Darth Vader suit I see Uh, is that Todd is that Ted? I they want holiday lights. Okay, Jeremy. Maybe wants a blanket Brian, I can't tell what that says. Ellie All right, whatever. We don't need to we don't need to keep tinkering. We we know the answer that we want now So let's hop back over to our badge Within kringle con And let's go ahead and submit prox mark as our answer Click submit here And there we go. All right achievement unlocked. We uncovered the Christmas list and now we could see that item in our badge, right? We have marked this first objective as complete Excellent. We still don't have any narratives unlocked, but we could go talk to jingle ringford We can go talk to that elf and see if there's anything new that he might be able or willing to tell us So what's up jingle? How's it going? Great work with that? I'm sure you'll be able to help us with more challenges up at the castle Yep, that's it. All right. That's always gonna give me let's hop in this little tram here and let's go up to The sanis castle. Ooh a lot of stuff new narrative another objective Okay, that that all went away, uh, but I see some more elves here as I'm hopping around jewel logins Welcome to the sands. Holiday hack challenge 2020. Have a great time Be sure to join us on discord. Yep. Yep. Remember you can get hints for each of the objectives in your badge by clicking on the elves If you help elves solve their own technical terminal challenge, they'll give you some ideas about how to approach the objectives Oh, and if you see any odd objects lying around walk over them to pick them up You might even find one as you approach the castle Okay, and that's the end of the dialogue there. Um, what else we got? We got pepper min stinks Pepper min sticks. Sorry. She doesn't stink. Howdy. I've been playing with tmux lately and golly. It's useful The problem is I somehow detach from my session Do you think you could get me back to where I was admiring a beautiful bird? If you find handy There's a tmux cheat sheet you can use as a reference. Ooh another hints. Good I hope you can help and if we were to click on that unescape tmux little terminal challenge We could probably work with that. Oh, there's sanna And the three french hens Oh, this is so cool All right, shinny up a tree looks like you have cringle kiosk as a terminal challenge and investigate s3 buckets So what do you have to say? Hi? I'm shinny up a tree Check out this cool cringle con kiosk quite a cringle con Tongue twister you can get a map of the castle learn about where the elves are and get your own badge I didn't read that in time. Be careful with that last one though. I heard someone say it's ingestible or something Oh command injection hint. Do you think you could check and see if there is an issue? Uh, okay Maybe we can do that next but let's chat with sanna and these elves. Oh, excuse me these french hens Uh, bonjour That's nice. That's very nice sanna What's up my man? Hello and welcome to the north pole. We're super excited about this year's cringle con three french hens My elves have been working all year to upgrade the castle. It was a huge construction project and we've nearly completed it Please pardon the remaining construction dust around the castle and enjoy yourselves Okay, looks like that's all he's willing to give me. So looks like we have a few things we could do here um The unescape team ux terminal challenge is something we could go take a look at and there's also this cringle con kiosk Let's do a little sanity check and check out our badge Uh narrative looks like we have got the first narrative down now cringle con back at the castle set the stage But it's under construction like my geosities page ooh And now we have five new objectives or now we have five objectives in total We got four more after we finish the first one. So we need to investigate the s3 bucket when you unwrap the overwrap file What text string is inside the package? Talk to shinny epitree in front of the castle for hints on this challenge. Okay, so we need to Talk with shinny epitree and he's the one that's asking us to do the um Cringle kiosk challenge so we have some hints for that And we also have the one for the team ux cheat sheet with pepper minstings over there So we've got a few things we can do tackle some new challenges and objectives and keep cruising through this, but I think that's enough for this video, you know, we've been talking for a while And I hope this kind of wets your appetite and gets you interested in having fun with what the sands haul to hack challenge is all about Let's uh, let's do this in the next video But I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope you're going to enjoy and have some fun with this video series So, uh, thanks so much for watching everybody. I will close out the video now I am still playing with this new like video style and structure I hope you don't mind like the little circle webcam Or if there's there's anything good or bad with the lights or the audio like let me know I want to know i'm trying to try to make this fun and make this good and make it quality So thanks so much for watching everybody. I hope you enjoyed this video If you did, please do press that like button and leave a comment Do the subscribe hit the bell all of the youtube algorithm Things thank you so so much everybody. I love you. I'll see you in the next video. Take care