 So welcome to the first Hack the Sea Village at DEFCON. The voyage begins. So I'll avoid turning this into like an Academy Awards acceptance speech and save all the thank yous and the giant list of all deserved thank yous for our closing ceremonies. However, I did want to remark that you know putting together this village has been a herculean task doing a completely new DEFCON village and one that involved the logistics of bringing in trucks full of industrial control systems and other gear. So without the help of Chris at ABS and Zach and the crew from 5th and 5th, MPSI Sal and of course Bo and my other fellow volunteers from I am the Cavalry, we really would not have been able to make this happen. So why did we kind of go through all the trouble to put this event together? I think uniformly all the people I just mentioned would probably say it's because it's just that important like this this village this year had to happen. So you know you'll sometimes hear people talk about the maritime industry has a you know that in terms of operating vessels for cargo as an example it's about a trillion dollar industry like 19 to 20 trillion dollars a year transit U.S. ports in terms of trade and goods. So they'll say that maritime is you know a critical infrastructure sector but we say that about banks we say that about a lot of things. Maritime note truly is a critical infrastructure not because of the money involved. So you know with I'm a volunteer, Grassroots volunteer, I'm the Cavalry as well as Project Gunsway. I'm a co-founder of Project Gunsway sort of the maritime offshoot of I am the Cavalry and our you know our mission is core mission is making a difference where computer security intersects safety of life. So you know it's it's there are human beings at stake and not just the lives of people who are crew and passengers aboard vessels but as you know as with aviation or car hacking but more so in the sense of just like with the power industry right oil food just to mention two things depend on the ships showing up and the ports being open. So if that goes down just like the power grid going down millions of people are affected lives are going to be lost. So we really felt it was important to get this ball rolling this conversation going. So this is a village with a mission this year. So what are our objectives and what do we want all of you to help us accomplish with Hack to Sea this year? DEF CON's theme was for this for this uh the 27th year of DEF CON is technology's promise. So we will have the Seasteading Institute and immediately following myself and our keynote speaker we will have a talk from someone from the Seasteading Institute talking about building a better future for humanity beyond our shores and how we as a hacker community can help realize the potential of Seasteading which you know for example much like cryptography has the possibility to expand or otherwise kind of shrinking personal spheres of freedom uh as well as as well as a number of other other challenges that can be overcome. Our big focus though this year is to introduce the DEF CON community to the protocols and all of the technology involved in maritime industrial control systems and operational technology which may not be familiar to people who even if you have a traditional I'll call it an infosec background um hopefully we can open up that kind of a hatch to a whole other world of opportunities for people who do everything from bug hunting to working on open source code projects etc. To that end we actually hope we hope all of you are invited uh to join us in buoy talks which has been packed so far this morning which are our workshops to get people up to speed with one-on-one level knowledge about maritime systems and technology that's kind of peculiar to the maritime sector and then there will be opportunities for everyone to get hands on over on our Lido deck and hang out play with the gear participate in our if you want a more structured challenge participate in our uh capture the flag event that we'll have going on which instead of a CTF we are calling a CTF as in hack the sea and that would be that's the grace system that fathom five brought for us so you will have the opportunity to hack a ship here at def con if you so desire um the other kind of side of that golden piece of eight uh is we want to introduce uh all of you and the hacker community to the maritime world and you know we have organizations that we've brought in today like the American Bureau shipping and others who operate vessels and ports um as well as there are going to be some policy makers around today so we want to help you know provide the opportunity uh for you all to help line the cavalry and project way and kind of our policy hacking efforts to make sure that they're clearly defined legal safe ways for security researchers to make a positive impact and positive contribution in this area and in safeguarding critical infrastructure and maritime