 Hello everyone, my name is John Hammond and this is an announcement video that I am super duper excited to bring to you. Finally, registration for ActivityCon CTF is open and available and live and accessible and you should absolutely go register right now, pretty please. So if you've been wondering why I have been so absent and haven't been producing content and really getting anything out or just being part of the online community, first of all, I'm sorry. Hopefully I'll be back soon, but the reason is I have been stressing and going crazy and trying to make this CTF come together and now it's finally here. So the game starts this Wednesday, like in two days. First of all, we are a little late in getting registration open and accessible and available to everyone, but it's finally here and we're cramming. I'm screaming about it on social media. I'm trying to, I don't know, spread the word. This event is happening and I'm really, really excited about it. So let's, let me show you what we've got here. ActivityCon CTF. ActivityCon is a conference being hosted by HackerOne and they had asked and approached me, hey John, we had a great time with VersetCon and we had a great time with NomCon. Would you like to do this again for us with ActivityCon? So here we are. This is the third capsule flag event that we're gonna be hosting. At least that I have put together between VersetCon, NomCon CTF and now ActivityCon CTF. It is open and we're super excited about this one because we've got over $5,000 in prizes for the top three teams, but it's starting in two days. So I need to spread the word. I'm trying to scream about it. Please, please, please go register. It's on Twitter. You've seen me retweet it. You've seen me share it on LinkedIn. You've seen me share it on Instagram. I'm just trying to spread the word. Finally, it is on CTF time. So for those of you that, hey, just want to climb up that CTF time ladder, that scoreboard or crazy about the points, check it out. Now you can go see over in the upcoming events we have ActivityCon CTF coming up super duper soon. So please, please, please go take a look. Go register. Let me fire it up right here. ActivityCon CTF. It's open. The rules that we've been working with are the same rules as all the time. This game will be kind of similar in the sense to non-conversed.com. So if you really, really like those competitions and I sure hope you did, this one's going to be, again, hopefully just a great game. I added in an explicit rule, please do not blatantly ask for hints. It was a tough time trying to keep track of everyone. It would just say hint, please, and not really showcase anything that they've done or tried. So I want you to learn and I want you to have fun and I want you to enjoy the game. So again, we're going to be rolling with the static flag format, just flag, and we have the hacker 101 discord server is going to ask as our support platform. So if you want to hang out, you can join that channel, hang out in the CTF channel and message me or anyone with the ActivityCon CTF role to ask any questions about the capture flag when the game is on. Let us know if it challenges down or if there are any technical difficulties. We are here to support you. That's the point. Again, we are going to be doing some mid game challenges. We're going to be releasing some new challenges throughout the game to keep it interesting to spice it up. So make it show that the players that are really hard charging and fighting to win and are in the to win it, then we're still going to have something fun for those advanced players that are the hard hitters really, really thorough. There's a schedule. We found out the best way to do this is to let you the player know what category is going to come out with a new challenge and when. So we've released that schedule and that is publicly available to you. You can see we've got a little bit more web that we'll pull in. We've got some binary exploitation, obviously, cryptography, scripting, mobile and even as little scavenger hunt stuff. So that should be an absolute blast. There is an interesting gimmick with this game in that when you register, you need to register with a at we are hacker one dot com email address. I know that's a little bit of a stumbling block and it might not be what you're used to when you're trying to register for a capsule flag game, why we're doing this for one thing is to help maintain your privacy, your security, your anonymity as fellow hackers. So you will have to unfortunately, but it's really for the greater good. And it's a great thing. Create an account with hacker one. And once you've created that hacker one account, you'll have a new email address readily available to you. That's just simply your name at we are hacker one dot com. And that will act as a relay or a simple like loop or redirector to point your real email address when you're just going to simply be using that hacker one alias or that kind of thing to mask and hide your legitimate actual email address. That way maybe if you're doing bug bounty, if you're doing a penetration test, if you're playing a captive flag, whatever the case may be, you can use this kind of hidden and masked. We are hacker one dot com email address and then you're hiding your real email address that maybe you don't want shared or visible to the rest of the world. All you have to do to register for the CTF is to go create that account at hacker one and use that email address. I realize, hey, a little bit of a stumbling block, but I don't want that to stop you from playing and enjoying and having a great time with this capture flag. I think we're almost a thousand registered. I am super duper excited about it because Nomcon had 5000 people register. Versa con was about 2500, so we were trying to increase those numbers, but we are late to getting this registration out. So I'm scrambling, I'm screaming about it, I'm trying to spread the word. Please, please, please go register. The game starts this Wednesday and you're going to have a great time. I promise you that it's going to be a ton of fun. Please go register. See you at CTF dot activity con dot com. And we'll see you when it's game time. Take care, everybody.