 Welcome back to DEF CON 31 and I am curious what is everyone's favorite DEF CON tip? So I have this signed right here, which is give me your DEF CON tip. I actually forgot the word DEF CON so it's right there, but I'm thinking it's perfectly fine to Hold this sign out where people can see me and people can come up and give me their best DEF CON tip. Let's see. What is your best DEF CON tip for somebody who's never been before? Go right up onto the mic Best DEF CON tip. Grab your book go through it figure out the things that you're interested in Mark it into three categories. I want to see would be nice to see Forget it and then always make sure that as you go to things you have your fallback plan because most things will be full DEF CON tip for newbies always plays scavenger hunt. Yeah What is your best DEF CON tip? Where deodorant? That is an important one very in-shower Very good one indeed if you want a badge run a department Very good one get involved at DEF CON very good one. Hey, what's up? It's no hack me your favorite goons favorite goon my approach tip to all you newbies out there Bring some insoles the 3 2 1 rule doesn't really matters burner phones are stupid because cell service sucks Get some insoles you walk more than you think you're on your feet more than you think get some insoles Next week your fetal. Thank you Use hacker tracker. It's not malware and you'll find everything you need all right drink plenty of water start hydrated and be open to Anything and to under everybody come say hi. Nice. Don't be shy Very good one drink lots of water meet more people. Love it probably hydrate before like I've been doing That's the best thing. I think water most people probably don't do it And they're gonna do a lot of other debaucheries that are gonna require the water lots of water. I said debaucheries to There you go good shoes Hydrate if you're if you wear X large or bigger baby powder This is about all the conversations you have in person the random ones the ones in the villages That's where the magic happens Merch will last longer than three hours. You don't have to go right away Don't plug in any device into your computer that you don't trust stay hydrated and Stay cool and don't underestimate kids ever My tip is don't trust anybody here, especially me Stay hydrated if you're here at DEF CON you got to make sure you drink lots of water because the in it is you're in a desert It's dry. You won't notice that you're getting dehydrated. So only drink water Trader Joe's run for half and half powdered espresso and you have coffee in your room without a line Don't stand don't stand in Starbucks Exactly a little powdered espresso good stuff medallia d'orro Okay So when you leave the flamingo to get to everything else because the flamingo is not attached through the sky walk You want to go through O'Shays? It's a restaurant. It's not really a restaurant because it's all still casino It's really big no one's gonna stop you or anything crazy like that But go around to the outside mall find O'Shays. It's a little bit past the Starbucks You're gonna be okay. Follow the signs from there. It's a very good one. Thank you I don't know why people are making this dirty. It says DEF CON people keep just telling me like just the tip It says for DEF CON you people are people are ridiculous. I Put this on the DEF CON discord and here are the responses without looking at them first We got here's the tip don't eff it up just the tip anything more requires a subscription to my only fans So so don't be afraid to do DEF CON by yourself So I have my group and we'll meet up at breakfast and dinner And we actually split up and go separate ways in between and you meet so much more people that way So even if being outside by yourself is a little out of your comfort zone everyone is great So it's totally worth it. My DEF CON tip for newbies is definitely going to be pick one or two talks That you just have to be at you want to see it drop live then the rest are on YouTube It's like don't try to get caught up trying to catch all the talks now Spend the time Networking hanging out watching people in the craziness that's going down through the hallways the villages the contest area the vendor area The chill out area go and network and meet other like-minded hackers and try to figure out what else is going on That's a that's what you should be doing at DEF CON my best DEF CON tip for newcomers is to use the hacker tracker Here's a tip for everyone who's coming up asking for the bathroom. It's it's that way in case anyone's wondering Here's another one from discord. We're comfortable shoes There will be significant amounts of walking. Here's another one coming from Twitter be selfish with your time There's so much to do and there's such a fear of missing out be selfish If you find yourself not enjoying the thing you're doing at any given time get up go find something There's so much to do pre-register for this. It was 20 minutes to go through the line I don't know how long it was for cash probably hours Best piece of advice that I can give you all out there is if you show up for cash at the door show up super Early so that you get an actual badge not one of these guys Show up early to pick up your badge if you're not registered if you have time register early That's huge. The next thing is this place can be overwhelming Definitely go in with some level of planning Some foresight some people you want to talk to villages you want to visit stuff like that Try out the talks see how you like them if not bail go to the villages hang out the people Here's another one from discord follow the three two one rule That's three hours of sleep a night two meals and at least one shower Lots of deodorant Furries are party animals are The best solution is usually the easiest you don't have to attend everything. Don't let the lines bother you have fun just Go trust your gut and just it's a community. It's it's not like any other comfort You'll ever be so just have fun. That's all I'm gonna say my tip for newbies here Is that if you get stuck just talk to a goon and the goons of the guys wearing red like my new buddy here? Silk is that your name silk silk. Okay. Nice to meet you There we go. All right. Cheers. Thanks. All right. So far. This is my first death con I would say my number one tip is just talk to people Everyone's really happy to say hi and like talk to you about what they're into and join you on a different talk So yeah, don't be afraid to make friends pack food Vegas is expensive Bring snacks or something. I brought a 20 oatmeal cookies and that's my breakfast for the next three days Hello Stay hydrated and just in case if anybody wants to come and get hired. We have a job right here airplane mode piece of advice from someone off camera was Only go to the talks while the talks are amazing and they're really good All of them go up online or most of them do the biggest benefit to going to some of the talks is the speaker comes off stage And you can ask him questions and get clarifications While the talks again are absolutely incredible A lot of them go up online. So instead of bumping into people trying to get in for a really popular talk Sometimes your best course of action is to catch it online and plan to talk to the person after they get off stage Great piece of advice. Thank you. I don't know why people are being dirty. It says it says for death con Somewhere in the middle there. I can't see the camera when I do this Yeah, if it's your first time at death con you should absolutely try out the scavenger hunt It's a great way to go around meet people try new things See interesting stuff and expose yourself to a part of con that most people don't even realize exists piece of advice off camera is don't go see the talks because they're all recorded and put online Go be social because that is one of the most important pieces of being in the community interacting and hanging out with other people So go enjoy things And do it while doing scavenger hunt because that Is a unifying experience another piece of advice Go find someone who knows something you don't know and learn from them And then go find someone who you know something that they don't insure it with them Whether it's at the lockpicking village Whether it's at any number of villages go teach go learn because that's really what the community is about Sharing information beautiful thing Drink water Yeah, my DEF CON tip for newbies is on the first day make sure you do start with rum That's it. What do you what do you drink after rum though? Another another rum But what about after rum? Yeah another rum What's half what's after rum? What's after rum? No, I'm asking you Is there something after rum? Is there What's your tip for DEF CON newbies? PHP is outdated, but also be careful with how you uh create your applications Um, I was actually at black hat and there was a vendor Uh, there was actually a vendor who had a AR game hosted um And so they have like a like a leaderboard displayed on a screen and everything Um, so I saw someone who got like a 300,000 score I was like, there's no way that they did that so I checked the source code and They were basically saving the score by making calls to a PHP endpoint with no authentication or anything whatsoever So I was able to just craft a link that said PHP is insecure and set my score to 69 69 69 For the DEF CON newbies, I have to say Don't eat the yellow snow. It's not worth it. Don't wait for lunch time to get your lunch Hello, I'm a bit short for this. There you go Okay The tip of the day reach out to cyber sec people from australia and u.s For cyber security talent if you want to make sure you make a lot of friends at this event Make sure you got your bluetooth and wi-fi on for everyone My tip is only bring one laptop carry a multiple gets pretty heavy Do you think goes for cameras one camera two is too many three is definitely too many Uh, here's got DEF CON tip. Don't fuck it up. Please don't fuck it up, of course, but talk to people talk like talk to your neighbors Meet someone in line line con's a thing. You're in line talk. You have interests. Maybe they'll teach you something Maybe you'll learn something. Maybe you can teach them something It's awesome like that. I make the best friendships here doing just that and bring stickers too The talks are all online and recorded so I highly recommend go to a lot of the villages Don't forget to network at DEF CON. We learn from each other. Keep doing it. Your first year is always going to be overwhelming It's okay. All right. What's your best tip for DEF CON? My best tip is keep it weird. DEF CON is a unique place. It's unique for you. It's unique for everybody here So keep it weird. That's what needs to be What's your best tip for DEF CON? Hey, there's a whole bunch of shit here that you probably don't know about learn something that you don't know yet Gator, what's your your DEF CON tip? So go play the contest whether it's like dark net scavenger hunt There's a whole bunch of different ones out there. Go play with it Hannibal, what's your tip for DEF CON? Tip for DEF CON? Talk to people meet people be weird and you will attract the people that you want to hang out with As I get back to the hotel room I realize there's so many other tips and I didn't really get to give a lot of minds So while I think hydrating is a good thing and good shoes and all of that I think here it would be the top piece of advice I would give to a new person who's never been to DEF CON and even some of the old ones First and foremost, I think that is a good tip to be selfish with your time And I don't mean that to be like be selfish But there's so much to see and you're not going to see it all so this kind of like There's a little ying and yang to this one The first one is be selfish with your time if you're finding yourself not having fun with something Stop doing it and go find something you are having fun with On the other side of things if you are having fun Don't feel like you have to leave that thing to go find something new because even like last year 49 videos plus like 10 other ones which we didn't even release and we didn't even see everything You could stay in blue team village and if you're having fun there You can never leave and there's talk after talk after talk after talk If you're having fun continue doing if you're not having fun go find something else Two if you're having fun or you're looking for some way to have fun Go check out the contest area. This is my favorite area to hang out like vendors is fun Speaking talking is fun. The villagers are fun. But for me, it's all about the contests in the three I'm going to mention are dark net because it's a great place to learn Especially if you're in that the education like mindset where you want to go learn There's fun things to be had there too, but it's just an approachable contest You can go you can do a little bit of it and you can walk away Another one you have to do a little bit of like if leg work if you want to compete But it's just a fun one to watch which is hack fortress One of my favorites to play but also just watch because you have gamers and you have hackers who are solving things And most of their physical challenges the team that runs it is great getting on the megaphone And I think there was someone dancing with roller skates last year And maybe they're going to do it again this year, but the pistol is distanced the thing which I absolutely Love at defcon is scav hunt. So I have a challenge I'm ending this video with a tip which is my challenge to you if you are at defcon this year or you ever come Go to the scav hunt table. It's it's fun to watch But here's my challenge Get a list Find one item there's like 200 items on the list find one item and turn it in And you will have So much fun and you have a story to tell I guarantee it and if it doesn't make you meet other people Then I think the whole contest is like it's the whole goal of this conference It's where you will find the most fun and here's the thing is this entire conference is about Meeting people it's not about the the technical stuff and it's it's great And it's great hearing about the new exploits and all of that, but you can find exploit information online You can find talking information online and this is why people said the talks are recorded What you cannot find anywhere else Is the people in the community to connect with at this conference is that is what it is all about And you're looking for your tribe and while people go oh def con's gotten too big And you see this in the jason street conversation. I have in which we'll be coming up Is def con has gotten big and that's what's so cool about it because you can find your tribe Throw a ton of different places. You can find it in shared interests You can find it in other places of the community But you can find people you connect with and you try with and you share a passion With so that's it. Go find right now Go find a single item on the scav hunt list and you I guarantee it will have a blast Thanks for watching the tips and as always hack on