 I want to share with you something I have just now learned, which is that if you open a beer, and you get the beer on your hands, and then you touch the mask, your mask will smell like beer for a long time. Just saying. What's the problem? Okay, so we're going to start off the closing ceremonies, and this is way more people than I thought was going to stick around this long. So give yourself, yeah. I've also discovered that this podium has no place for me to put the beer down. I love you guys. I really love you guys. Okay, so we're going to kick this off. We'll just set the stage. So welcome to the closing ceremonies. You cannot stop the signal. But unfortunately, sometimes nature does it for you. And so I just want to continue tradition where right at the start, we get quiet for a minute. We think about those giants who came before us, whose shoulders we're standing on, who inspired us or taught us, or maybe people in your own life or family who are no longer with us. Let's just think about them for a little bit and all the fun times and all the inspirational things that they brought to your life. All right. Fantastic. Let us talk about what just happened, what we all just did together. So this is the in-person portion of a hybrid conference, something we have never, ever, ever done, and something I don't want to do again. We did this because we had to, not because we wanted to. And I think it's because it's like two and a half conferences of planning. It's really super stressful on everybody, on the goons, on you, on the people putting together, the contests and the events. And we tried to do it in the safest possible way we knew how. And we stuck with our messaging the whole time and didn't change every time the CDC changed their mind about masks or something. And so now we're at the end of it, I feel super proud of us all. It's sort of like we did it. So there is the in-person, then we have the virtual, and then we had all the social in-between. And so hopefully, if this is working, the closing ceremonies are also going out to all the virtual Discord users. So if you're watching this at home on Discord, awesome. Thank you for making the virtual possible. LineCon forever. What's that? LineCon forever. LineCon forever, right. You cannot escape LineCon virtual or in-person. If we are super efficient, we'll just artificially slow things down to force LineCon. We uploaded, like last year, we uploaded all the videos of all the talks we could get our hands on. And you can see we had 11,100 hours of watch time, but more than 28,000 viewers of what we had on YouTube. That's as of maybe two hours ago or so. So those numbers will probably climb. And as we get all the videos from all the villages, we'll be starting to post them. So over the next couple of weeks, you'll see this barrage of announcements saying, we now have the IoT Village videos up. We now have the Blue Team Village videos up. And you'll just start seeing them all accumulate. Another thing, which was a first for us, was pre-registration. And raise your hand if you absolutely hate pre-registration. Yeah, I... Less than I thought, right? How many people actually love pre-registration? So we were dealing with 200 to 300 emails a day. That's not fun. Not fun at all. We had no other way to judge how many people were showing up. How are we going to be in two hotels, one hotel, five hotels? So thanks for bearing with us because we could not figure out any other way to judge interest. And I think we started trying to terrify everybody as we'd run out of badges, and then we'd get some more, and then we'd try to tell everybody, hey, if you show up in person, you might not just get a... And because of all that, we actually ended up with enough badges. And so only three or 400 people showed up on site trying to buy with cash, which was, like, what, a couple percent? So that was great. So that's why we had enough ready. And so now we have too many badges. There's always a problem. So we're selling what we can over at registration, and the rest will end up selling online. But really, we were really close. So those of you wondering, we had about 86 or 8,700 humans, about 9,000, a little less than 9,000. Yeah. And if you figure what's our, like, protocol overhead, we have about 1,000 staff, village, contest, press. All the people that aren't humans are about 1,000. So for about every one out of 10 of you, there's somebody helping build or create the content, and then there's nine people participating. And so it worked out really well. We were, after a year like last year, we could not survive another year without actual people being around us. And so how many people here just felt like it really recharged your batteries? Yeah. It was the first time since February 2019, I think, 2020, that I flew, like a year and a half. I've been hiding in one country for that long, and it was really culture shock to come back to the states from Singapore. And it's like, oh, this is the correct side of the road to drive on, you know? This is what pizza tastes like again. So we really don't want to do pre-registration again because it's such a pain, and we really don't want to have to do a hybrid event unless we absolutely, absolutely have to. So we're hoping everybody behaves, and we can get to a all 100% event next year. Now let's talk a little bit about what you've got hanging around your necks. As you know, we had a call for badge designers, and it was very exciting, and in the end, MK Factor 1. They wowed us with their technical specs, their connections to the community, their thought process, the problem solving, and all of that, and what was really important is when I would float a crazy idea, they would say, I don't think we can do that. And so they could say no to power, right? They could tell me not possible. It's like, awesome, I need to know what my boundaries are. And so that was really refreshing working with them. So here's a slide on the badge, and up here you see these are the Uber badges, black badges that are going to go to contest winners. They look different, but they present as goom. So if you plug into them, you don't get Uber. The only way you get Uber is you have to hack your own badge to say Uber. So that's on you, right? That was a pretty cool maneuver there. So let's have MK Factor stand up. Where are you guys? You're hiding somewhere. MK, where did they go? Right over there, MK. And it was really difficult because I'd say, well, we don't know if we're hybrid, we don't know if we're in person, so we should probably do both. Well, we need it to work online with Discord, and we probably need the battery to last, and not electrocute people if they get pushed in a pool, because there might be a pool. And you just start stacking on these requirements, and then this Chinese supply chain started getting more and more sketchy. And if you saw the opening remarks, they tell this crazy story about going through four different chipsets before they landed on the one we used. So big kudos for crazy adaptability and adverse conditions. So if they're up for it, and they want to torture themselves again as the badge designers with a positive community feedback, they're invited back next year to design again. But this year, they don't have four months to do it in. They get all the months of the year. Okay, so this is something we started years ago, our transparency report. And it stalled last year, because it was very hard to do transparency on a virtual event. We tried, but the way that we gathered statistics and everything, it just didn't really make sense. So we're back to doing the all traditionale transparency report. And for some of this information, I have CJ, head of our SOC team, talk about the transparency numbers. First of all, I want to say thank you. It's been one of the most mellow DEF CONs I've been at. It was certainly, given that my team was 34 people, and in a normal year, it's about 200. So we were spread really thin. So we were spread really thin, and we relied on you guys and gals and other members of the community to help us. And you did a great job. My voice is going. That's kind of how it goes. But it was probably one of the best years in terms of how mellow and how safe it was. LAUGHTER So, let's see. I can't actually read this. So the virtual stats, we had 95,562-plus messages, and the moderation team only had to remove 127, which is 0.13%. Considering that's online, that's pretty phenomenal, you know? We received 30 reports through the reporter violation function that got put up, and across the 34,321-plus accounts on the Discord, that's all we had. We gave a total of 45 users warnings, temporarily muted 50 users, kicked seven users, and banned six users. Yeah. Pretty impressive, though. So now on to the physical side of things, which is a little bit more interesting. We had seven medical emergencies that EMTs are involved. Those of you who have been at DEF CON for a while know that is a really low number. Considering how much I saw people tying it on, everyone was in sort of little clusters distributed rather than being in lots of big gatherings, but people were really tying it on. But they were doing so responsibly that we didn't actually end up with the emergency calls we normally have. That is also really, really great. It shows a huge amount of responsibility on part of everyone here. Probably the toughest thing was it was really clear just how much people were struggling. We could see cracks everywhere. People were struggling to deal with social situations. People didn't know how to interact with other people as well as they used to. And so we had quite a few mental health issues that we had to support. And we had quite a lot of attendees seeking support and given that we didn't have our usual help line that was hard to cope with, but it was a pleasure to do because it was nice to see people come forward and talk about this stuff and supporting it. And the community again was by and large awesome in supporting their run. And I want to say, please keep that up. Keep an eye on your brothers and sisters. Keep an eye on everyone else in the community. No matter what race, color, gender they are, support them. And if you see red flags, you don't have to deal with it yourself, but call someone else and get someone involved. Just don't ignore it. For the first time this year we distributed feminine hygiene products to make sure that they were available. And because we got to get used to talking about this stuff, here are some statistics for you. 1,224 items distributed. That was 800 tampons, 295 pads, and 128 liners. It shows the need and it shows that we were there to service it. We also put these in bathrooms irrespective of gender. So everyone had access. Now to the policy and conduct, which is the people who don't want to comply or who have difficulty with structure. We had one lost passport. We had three photo violations. I wonder if that was low because we also had a significantly low number of press, both amateur and registered. We had three suspicious packages and I learned a novel approach for removing a suspicious package. The organization in question looked at the package, grabbed the package and ran out again. It wasn't a bomb. We had two people removed for not masking, approximately 25 people who were turned away because they didn't have the appropriate vaccination status. Well, hold on. Some of these folks either didn't have the right information because they hadn't been given it or some of them had been given incomplete information. Some of them came from different countries and so they didn't have information that we could pass. There was one guy who did say, what vaccine? Screw that guy. And we only had two who had to be removed from the vaccine line because they were a problem. My life is just pretty impressive. There's a couple of things that aren't on this slide that need to be called out. We had one chandelier shattered by a DJ who dropped the bass so hard it blew the ceiling out. Jackalo, you are a legend. And we had one goon who had to be requested to be muted on Discord because they couldn't stop helping people. Thank you. I hope to see you all in person next year. All right, so a large part of the virtual on Discord is managed and maintained built by the DevOps crew and representing DevOps is Riverside who is going to talk a little bit about what happened and come on up, come on up, man. I'm tired. Hey everybody. So this year was another year of a ton of work. I don't know if we're going to throw the slides up. There we go. Throw this down there. So the team up there did an amazing job. We took all the lessons learned that we had from the after action last year and rolled them into things. People were complaining about the infinite list of channels on the left so we built a menu system. We did a bunch of things. As the DevOps team worked their butt off on code and doing things then my work packet hacking village as well so they were like, hey, we'll help. So they were the test and guinea pigs for that and then the Discord team. So thank you all. This took a ton. They did an amazing job. All right. So we threw these slides up last year just some stats so you could see where people are coming from and kind of see around the world who and where and what. They'll be in the deck so you can get them later. I want to kind of go through the rest of the stuff. So we set this up in a really formal way. We have a request bot on board with stuff to go through so that all the departments can submit things. We processed 109 requests from the departments. We now have 31 bots 176 micro bots and 16 easter eggs. And we're now up to over 15,000 lines of custom code for all of you. So last year we threw up a bot and a component that would automatically take your lovely files and send them off to VirusTotal. And I don't know why but you just don't like giving away your malware to VirusTotal. The ODes just stopped. So we worked with Discord and they were like, yeah, that's a good idea and their tools are kicking ass. So we had zero detected by our process because they're doing all of it on the front end. So the collaboration between DEF CON and Discord really worked out well on that. We added three new bots. So we had the human plus bot which was helping process all the codes for the badges and Seastone led that and it was amazing. The info booth bot which I'll talk a little bit about later but Ari and those folks helped work that together and that is actually an AI bot and I'll talk about that in a moment. And then the line bot, the Aries line bot which was a village line bot and the DevOps team spent a lot of time for that before it went in and going through all the process and then there's the amount of people that use the menu system down there. Certainly had some little shenanigans over there to the side I showed you and then here's some more stats. The human plus and human reg we now have over 34,000 people on the Discord server so they keep increasing. It's getting bigger and bigger. How many of you use the Discord server by raise a hand just during con wandering around doing things? All right. How many of you felt it was a good way to communicate with people while at con? Wow. All right. The info bot that we put up started processing queries so the info team and all the other teams were really small. We all had staff issues and so last minute they're like we'll try to answer the questions and do the things and then if it doesn't know what to do, it'll call a goon. So that worked out really well mostly. I'll tell you. So the mostly is that Cotman asked the bot a question and the bot actually said it was a fed. So the DefCon AI bot apparently is a fed now. I don't know. Yes. You just asked the info bot a question and there it is. Yeah, right. A couple users decided to try to pen test the bots without talking to us but that's fine. It worked out. They got their nice rubber stamp and that was fun and then there were users posing and timing messages to look like air messages and do other things inside of there just for fun. The trolls were real. It was a good time. That was the majority of that. I'm sorry. So in the spirit of shenanigans and being silly at con and having a good time you heard CJ talk about random miscellaneous devices and that whole thing. When you're doing this and trying to do this stuff sometimes you get a little insomnia so I finished coding, working on a thing doing the day job, doing all that and I'm like, all right, time to go to bed and then two hours later you're still not going to sleep so I was like, I have this idea I think I'm going to make this thing and so this random, not a bomb looking thing with a nice sealed and what I did was I built a little phone sensor and a timer and we put this in some various places, maybe some bathrooms facing urinals, maybe some other places and then it would wait 90 seconds to make sure, you know, flow and other things were going if that was a thing. We've been trying to reach you concerning your cars extended warranty. Is there anything in the mail about your cars extended warranty? Since we have not gotten a response we are giving you a final courtesy call. Have a good one, everyone. All right, so keeping the packets flowing is the knock, led by Effin and with less attendees you would expect less traffic but he will tell you the mysteries of the network. So, thank you. Knock, Effin. Hello, Afghan. It's good to be back. So let's do the knock review I'll do this as fast as I can It worked. So if you have seen this presentation before, this is a recycled slide we do like Nicholas Cage and Guy Thierry in the knock. They're inspirational. But this year it was a little different as everybody knows, right? But we did what, very similar to what we've done in the past. So we showed up, a few of us showed up on Saturday last Saturday and we were here, hit the ground on Sunday and I'm not going to walk you through all this. You can download this presentation later from knock.datcon.org but everything for the most part worked and we have the issues the slide coming up and we're here and we're going to like the team is working they're tearing down some stuff already and tomorrow and or Tuesday we're going home. This is a nice picture of the knock network. We have two core switches, one at Bally's, one at Paris and a bunch, we use last equipment and last time for obvious reasons and people always ask what we have for the gear. We have it there. Interesting part in this slide is that we had last time about 80 something access points if I'm not mistaken and we use more than half of that here this year which is good, good coverage make sure you have the wifi and the internets. As DT was mentioning we do even though there was like a third of the people or so here or a quarter of the people here compared to last time we pushed more than half of traffic so that means use more of the internets here which is really good. Keep that going. On the wifi graphs the interesting thing on this slide other than the normal pattern that people actually leave the conference center and go to sleep and come back next day and use a little bit more and then on Sunday things go start going down. A quarter of you still use the open network. That's really interesting. Maybe you're trying to just play well with others. That's fine. That's why it's there. This is kind of a new slide is the different applications and destinations that people use the most. It's really good that HTTPS has been used widely. That's good. The media server as you can see was really well utilized there as well. And speaker ops is our top users or the top user on the wireless. This is all about wireless. So next year everybody should have the same username and we have just one name there. So speaking of the challenges which is one of the things that we like to share. We all make mistakes and we make a lot of them. We just try to fix them as soon as we were told that we messed up. We had one switch here in the contest area that was acting funny on Friday. Apologies to some of the contests and the Wi-Fi users. But the team worked out and we fixed the optics on the switch. And then after that was fixed, somebody somehow we lost power in that IDF and not only us but the hotel as well. So if you did that please don't do that again. Yeah. And we also had a couple issues with the radio server on Wednesday morning but that went away. I caused some hiccups with registration but we worked through that at 7 am. And one of the things that we should have done a better job was to test all the platforms that we list on Wi-Fi Rage. Apologies to the Linux users. And yeah, if we go back to actually we go back here you're going to see that we spent quite a few days tweaking Wi-Fi Rage for Linux. So we promise we're going to do a better job next year. And we also get some last-minute requests that really appreciate all the leads the different leads for the different teams for being nice to us and this was I think really had the fewer requests that we ever had. And no, the fiber that was cut was not in Las Vegas. People were showing up and they're not saying hey, Defconn.org is down. We're like we know it's not us. Right? That was somewhere else. These are our internal clients. The difference from this slide is that we provided the wire internet to one village and one contest. Everything else played well on wireless so that's good. These are the numbers so almost 7 terabytes of data went through compared to 12 and a half two years ago so that means you push more data with less people so hence to you. This is the knock team. Really I want to thank the knock team for doing what they do. Not all of them were able to be here with us. Whomever was not here they actually worked remotely and it worked out okay but probably they were not hungover which they worked more on. So if you want the information that used to be on Defconn.org that's no longer our website you go to knock.defconn.org and I want to thank everybody that is listed there especially Janet who did a phenomenal job helping us work at the hotel this year so thank you. And also a special thanks to Miles who's listed here as Mills that's his nick. Really to help he flew down to Vegas Monday Tuesday Wednesday not a goon just wanted to help and flew back home because he had family stuff to do. So Miles thank you. With that see you next year and again it's good to be back. Continuing a theme of networking we're going to move on to DCTV How many people by show of hands watched DCTV in their hotel room? That is thanks to video man and his intrepid crew we're DCTV Martin I'm video man. So this year we had a new hybrid model to work with and so while we've done hotel televisions in the past this year we added full online streaming of all the tracks plus additional content so Twitch that was new in managing that the other thing is that we're usually dealing with a live feed provided by a source of knowledge so this year we had to kind of balance this between live feeds as well as pre-recorded talks and trying to schedule those and make sure time slots fall in line and then we also added events and villages which are things that we have not actually handled in the past so we had a lot of new things we did stream to seven of the Caesar's properties listed here and we managed six channels on Twitch one of the things that was new for us was actually being able to schedule the talks in the past we rely on SOK media to send us a stream and then we rebroadcast that out to the seven properties essentially but this year we had to go through and actually get the talks and then pad those talks so that they would then start at the right time we had an excellent crew that helped out to make that happen it was actually really nice some of the other challenges were varying video sources some live, different encoders different file formats that people provided us different audio levels on all of these different files and so it was a lot of there was a bit of last minute tweaking and we borked a few things we're sorry we're human we had two talks we had to replay but it was fine I tried my best yes for content we had tracks one through three through the entire conference that was a mix of live and pre-recorded as I mentioned one of the new things we got to provide was villages this year and so villages provided pre-recorded content and so we got the adversary village the blacks and cyber security hardware hacking village payment village and IOT village both nights of hacker jeopardy that was fantastic that was a that was a pleasure we had a documentary channel and then we had a Dan Kaminski channel these are our numbers there was a lot I think the biggest thing is that we had 8,000 unique viewers on twitch that came in so that's more than half the con in a total of 31,000 hours streamed on twitch in addition to the youtube hours and I mean sort of the way that we do this is we have VPN tunnels that are separate from the defcon network because our video tends to kill their network or at least it did in the past so all of the data that you're seeing here is just our data going out which is pretty neat 63 unique tracks 53 village stocks 13 documentaries 372 hours and 89 hours of Dan Kaminski they're actually back monitoring the feed up to the internet making sure everything is working making sure everything is going but I want to thank our entire team they did a fantastic job one of them being remote from the netherlands so yes we have sandwich, ghost pepper robin bs squeak, ghost in the fiber aka eagle one in the corner there in the netherlands and tuna we couldn't do this on our own and we'd like to give special shout outs to several teams that all made this possible for us to do QM without them we wouldn't have the stuff knock without them we wouldn't have the fiber to be able to do the streaming SOK media without them we wouldn't have the TV content for track one defcon ops to coordinate all the channels and the hotels and everything got that going without their IT and their staff without their IT we wouldn't be able to deploy our decoders and their TV head ends sonify that put the stuff back onto the TV head ends and the hotels and partial foods to keep us partially fed and of course all of you both those of you are here and those who are remote the 8000 all right I'd like to bring up the info booth you have many questions that's right you have many questions and sometimes we actually have the correct answers sometimes we don't we just go with what the information were given at the time so first of all I'd like to think the whole info team both on site and remote have we had what about 30 35 people total and then I want to thank DT for you know hosting this event and Nikita Port and Janet and Wendy without you guys we wouldn't be here to make this happen so we really appreciate you guys so um ways to get a hold of our team are info.defcon.org our discord is the info booth text channel you can always reach us on Twitter and then we run the hacker tracker app the official app of Defcon that's part of info booth so how many of you actually downloaded and use hacker tracker on a regular basis awesome yeah that's great so if you have any feedback for how things went hacker tracker at Defcon.org send it because we can't make it better without feedback so so for our numbers on the respective platforms 1,000 users hit the website we had about 5,000 on Android and about 3,000 on iOS so definitely lower than our normal year but still a lot of information passed out so with that thank you all we'll see you next year okay speaker operations do a lot more than just get speakers on stages they do a lot behind the scenes coordination like make sure this presentation ends on time so I'd like to introduce the speaker operations team with PW Crack and he'll tell you a little bit of the stories behind making it happen PW so our goal is to be as transparent or not invisible as possible our goal is to make sure that the speakers have a great experience and we deliver as much content as possible to the attendees I'd like to have you all give a big round of applause to all of our speakers so this is the first year that we did a hybrid con last year we were able to pre-record about 32 talks this year we pre-recorded over 70 talks in the past we've also tracked how many minutes or hours we've lost to AV issues this year you'll note that was zero so that takes a lot of effort and I got to give kudos to my entire team for making that happen that involves planning and preparation and sort of knowing what's going to happen and what's coming down the pike kudos to DCTV worked great with them, great partnership getting that content out some of the talks were not pre-recorded so those were streamed live from tracks that was the first time we've done that we also supported three parties and meetups and again delivered a lot of content for you so that's for our goal, thanks a lot alright Megan tell us about workshops so this is our first year back after taking a year off last year and our first time back in Bally since DEF CON 24 when we had one floor and I think we only could fit like maybe a thousand students this year we had both floors in the Jubilee Tower 1600 seats actually over 1600 seats were filled because in some classes you could come in, leave and more folks could come in so we kind of lost count around 1600 we completely sold out in under 24 hours which is a little bit slower than previous years and we made sure that all rooms were kept to 80% capacity in order to allow for social distancing that's it thank you everybody I guess I could add on that workshops have been sort of a secret beta test for us for a number of years to see if people are interested in taking four hours out of their con experience to sit down and learn something a little bit more in depth and it's been so successful that I'm seriously considering planning if we have an in person next year to try to do paid trainings on Monday and Tuesday after the show because everybody else is doing it why shouldn't we so so if that happens you might just not ever leave Vegas just um so now we're done with the big content chunks and now we're going to move into some of the villages and first up we're going to talk a little bit about the data duplication village hello Defcon so we had a very light year this year as you might expect we had about a third of the amount of drives submitted for us um we ended up putting 169 drives through the bases and nothing against the knock thank you for the 6.9 gigabytes out but we did about a petabyte out so we're hoping that a lot of you are going home now with your invocon in your hand and taking it home and sharing it out there so long and short of it we only had one drive fail out of all 169 and that's pretty much it we had our dupes going from seven hours to one took 34 hours to do so we got them all back to our customers so we're good to go thank you okay for our next slide is anybody from arts and entertainment available to do the representation okay fantastic we couldn't find Chris so you are the new Chris no you aren't Chris what has happened just come up and tell me you weren't available I'm right here I've been here hey how's everybody doing thanks everybody for coming out we had a great time this year really good music really good entertainment amazing art that you saw around here but I really want to thank everybody that came out to the parties had a great time enjoyed the music this year we had some really talented artists here we had 25 live sets between the inside stage and the pool and we had Soma give us the chill out stream from 9am to 9pm every single day of the con if you were back here during the day and chill out you heard them all day long let's see here don't forget grab our official DEF CON soundtrack from our bandcamp site we have 21 tracks that were submitted this year just pay what you want so you can get it for free but any money that you do donate will go to the EFF so some more thank yous I want to thank everybody in arts and entertainment our core team of goons this year was just six on the ground here and two supporting us remotely additionally I'd like to thank Zebler Studios for all of the amazing artwork that you see around the con let's see our team from Mobius who makes everything sound amazing imagine stage lighting so if you've been at the parties and at the pool you've seen all the crazy lighting that was imagine stage lighting they help us out every year here on-core can't thank them enough they get us out of sticky situations and help us hang everything get everything up and powered up and we couldn't do any of this without DT, Nikita, Janet and Wendy from the DEF CON office really appreciate them for some numbers so for this show we've done a live stream of our performances here on site out to Twitch we did 640 gigs of total data transfer from here to Twitch and also from the internet down to us so because of COVID all of our Soma hosts were at home this year and we were streaming them in live into the chillouts on our Twitch stream we had 8,243 total hours of listening time we got 4,247 followers and 389 new subscriptions and those subscriptions resulted and I'm not making this up $1,337 that we will donate to the EFF and so you heard about some of the network flakiness that we had a little bit earlier so I want to give a shout out to CellphoneDude from Escape he's one of the DEF CON vendors in the vendor area we were running through one of his LTE routers so when the network fell down it automatically failed over to LTE and we pushed 30 gigs through LTE to keep everything up and running and so it's not just this show here we've been streaming ever since safe mode so since safe mode last year we've been streaming 24-7 for 525,600 minutes that's 7,773 hours of total watch time 2647 followers 277 subscriptions and between last year and the start of CON this year we had $977 to the EFF this is our as CJ talked about earlier this is our third consecutive year with a ceiling mishap so if you're here last year we brought down a couple ceiling tiles in the year before that as well so thanks once again for helping us bring down the house of these parties and on a more serious note I'd like to address some of the issues that we've had with Decor we have noticed those electronic table toppers that were on the tables back in the chill out they're really fun to play with you can bring your own parts and weave them in there and play with the electronics but this year someone decided to pick the locks on some of those pieces and steal the battery packs out of them which means that they're not available for anybody else to play with and it just takes that experience and fun away from other people I agree 100% and then there was one more thing a little more serious so this amazing video map sculpture that you see right here if you came into this track for the first session this morning you might have noticed that it was off and that's because last night somebody snuck in, went behind the stage broke into our steel cage that has the controller for this thing messed with the software that controls with it and then set a full beer down next to the laptop that's running this thing so really what I'm trying to say is there's one wrong way to do DEF CON and that's to negatively affect the experience of somebody else so please have fun explore everything around you pick the locks, we have the locks on the table but put it back the way you found it that's the way the next person can have some fun too so while we might be done here in person we're streaming our music 24-7 on Twitch check us out at DEF CON music.org thanks again and see you all next year yeah I'm always fascinated by the intersection of technology and music and I really think that one sort of stimulates the creativity of the other and so I really think even though you might argue that what did DJs have to do with hacking I really think that the music inspires us and we have to just like the art inspires us we're creative people and it all kind of works together and so I really want to thank Chris for the game over the years it's been really fun okay not just music, there's also parties so let's hear about them hello I'm always a little scared standing up here so this crowd is big and I thought it would be this year we were very light on DEF CON parties and meetups organized by the community we had some people that pulled out at the last minute due to COVID unfortunately but I hope that you all had a good time anyway we had some parties up on the 26th floor, we had some meetups that were hacking badges and things of that nature so I wanted to do a huge thank you to the meetup and party organizers for planning a space for people to come together whether in person, online or a hybrid approach bridging the divide between the two Haka Karaoke had a contest on discord and apparently Team Redcat won Haka Karaoke I'm not sure how you win a Haka Karaoke but they won so congratulations to them I want to thank you all for coming out stay safe out there, love you all and I hope to see you all next year alright I would like to introduce Zant for those of you who don't know him long time Goon running the village department look how many villages there are look how much Harry has left still yes thank you once again about just over 30 villages whether they were in person hybrided or online so hopefully you had a great time enjoying the villages I'd like to give a couple of shout outs to Kevin, Fox and Honi who are my second set up keep all the hotels running straight for me so it makes it easier for me to live of course the DT and everybody else the only other thing I have to say is Jeff this may come as a shock to you but we just need more space I'd like to thank everybody who came and everybody who joined us online hope you all enjoyed it okay that was a lot of villages here's some contests and events with grifter oh man what's up guys I am genuinely stoked to see all of your I assume smiling faces so yeah contest and events we had 44 different contests and events this year many of them hosted virtually a lot of them dropping out at the last minute unfortunately leading to only about 14 contests that were done on site so a lot of stuff being played from home big thanks to all the organizers who took the time to make it so that people could play in person and could play on discord as well I see evil walking up over here scavenger hunt actually for the first time made it so that only a single player could play on any team okay so that this way and last year when everybody was at home but so that whether you were here in person or you were at home you were on a level playing field so instead of a five person team coming up on site and being like okay let's all split up and do the tasks even if you were here you had to ride solo so that the guy sitting in his parents basement in Wyoming somewhere had a fighting chance so so the contest obviously there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes there's a lot of planning that goes on beforehand most of that planning is actually handled by my second Panadero who's over there I'm pointing at you Panadero just stand up and wave I'm bad at the emails but he's much much better but he is stepping down as my second this was his last year doing that so many thanks boo for leaving no it's alright seriously he's done so much work he's earned it but thanks to Panadero and then of course if you are interested in hosting a contest or running a contest of some kind and you have a weird idea whether that's from some incredibly complex capture the flag version of whether it's cars or boats or planes or satellites or whatever or you just want to make tin foil hats throw us a message say this is what I'm interested in doing we're always looking for new stuff as long as you're not trying to shill some product you got a pretty fighting chance we're going to get to the black badges here momentarily but first something that people may not realize is that Goons also run the demo labs so Heisenberg is the one who's in charge of that for us he goes through all yes he's not here that's why I'm standing up here or you'd see I should have wore his lab coat so Heisenberg had to take off so I'm up here to do this but the demo labs were an idea that we came up with a few years back where we said we know all these people are working on interesting projects or they might have something that's like an open source project that they're working on why don't we give them a venue to show it to the community it may not merit an hour on stage but it could be something that people want to just crowd around and take a look at we know those things go on in hallways so we just give you a place to do it there were 32 different projects that were received 21 were accepted 8 in person and 31 13 virtual so but the amount of people that flooded those rooms we know will also be needing some more space so just putting in that for demo labs more space you're working on that though I'm pretty sure you're working on it so we're going to start out going into the black badge winners yeah alright I like to start off by letting people know again we had 44 contests but we only have a handful of black badges that we give out if you see one of these contests up here and they have a black badge that doesn't mean that their contest was better than someone else's contest it doesn't mean that these people put more work than some of the other contests that didn't get a black badge we randomly assign them to different contests but people are playing the contest because whatever is behind it is something that they love so they're playing for the love of it not just because they want a chance of getting free entry to DEF CON for life so you play the contest and on Sunday you'll find out whether or not that contest is getting a black badge the only one that always gets it is CTF like the main CTF and that's because they're working on it all year if your contest also to the organizers if your contest didn't get one this year and you've got one in the past that doesn't mean we don't love you anymore that's just how this rolls so our first black badge contest coming up these folks put so much work into their contest that some years no one wins that's the truth the TELA Challenge alright so we work on the TELA Challenge for close to an entire year and this year nearly 100 people contributed to creating it and that resulted in DEF CON really stepping up to play we had 7,292 calls into our phone system constituting 167 hours of calls or 10,183 billable minutes the TELA Challenge is a very very hard challenge it takes your entire DEF CON to play and you need a team so 3 teams gave up before the first day but 7 teams spent their entire DEF CON playing and ET Pwnphone brought it home they scored all 11 points including the hidden one so we really want to congratulate these folks who worked very very hard one of them is here at their first DEF CON and won a black badge and we hope that none of them run into a sandstorm on the way home what are you doing to me I just tripped over Jeff's beer alright these next folks you know them, you love them you've seen them year after year it all started with a wall of sheep and it led to this, capture the packet hello again, long time no see so this year is actually the year of the wall of sheep 20 frickin years it's crazy so capture the packet was originally built out as a game to allow people to learn how to capture traffic on the network more consistently and have fun and do cool things so it's turned into an insane black badge event and this is the 10th time it's been a black badge event so we got it, it's pretty awesome so this year was definitely a Herculean effort as DT mentioned it's over a doubly effort for, you know, this plus half the staff or around that it wouldn't be possible without the DEF CON teams and staff the pack and hacking village group the Aries team and then the beats that Frecocious and the Los DJ Co put on to keep the life in that village going for all the competitions and things going on there so thanks to them for sure so this year was the first time we did a hybrid hardware and loop style event where we had physical hardware on the site and then we were doing cloud to allow everybody from around the world to compete and participate and so we had prelims and mains both physically and virtually and if somebody qualified on the discord and virtually they can come back next year into the finals we did finals for physical only and that worked out really well it was a bit insane but it was awesome and you know I think a good chunk of that came from some of the bots that we put in to auto register and automate the hell out of trying to get people in and play which worked really really well I want to thank Pookie for helping make that bot and get that together that was awesome so this year was two years of pent up insanity and energy from people at home and around the world building content to unleash on these poor bastards and you know we had a little over 3000 points on the board and the winning team hit 500 and this guy right here respondo has played six years in a row and every year he's gone for that and hit top three almost every single time and then you know the one of the teams from out of country they're super sneaky they hold points back and just when it's in the grass with a black badge for him they're like nope but this year he nailed it and the team nailed it so give them a hand and here is the coveted black badge there you go I know you can share it and then you also are getting some crazy SDRs that I know you guys have been going after so thank you so much for playing and bye everyone alright the thing about contests is that again you can pretty much turn anything into a contest and I think this next one takes it to a really interesting level they brought all of the internals of a yacht the CTF this is the maritime hacking CTF this is the first time we've actually been a competition on site and we brought this in DEF CON 27 as part of the hack the sea village we're partnered up with them trying to bring awareness to maritime cyber security challenges so it's big ships it's also big problems so we are excited to be able to bring it here in person it was a lot easier than trying to remote everybody in when we did it in 28 virtually and we're really excited and we're hoping to bring it to the actual ship instead of just the internals yeah it would definitely need more space so I wanted to graduate a team Edmund Fitzgerald for this so the contest on this is we actually had the physical components for the navigation bridge what you find in about a 100 foot yacht running on the Mia 2000 the hydraulic steering unit with an actual hydraulic component running on CAN bus and then a fly by wire propulsion system they were able to take over both the rudder and the throttle and most of the spoof the data to the operator at this point so any of all that actually operate ships should be a little concerned on that but it was a lot of fun we also had a lot of people coming up there that had never done maritime thing so most people have never had a chance to hack a ship so we tried to make this also a training opportunity and they had never actually touched any maritime thing to this competition that's the scary thing if you operate a ship that should scare you and then he's like by the way they've never touched the ship before holy shit that's the scary thing this next group this contest is getting a black badge their first year running a CTF we don't do that very often but the feedback that we were getting from the people who were playing they were like this is really good the challenge is a really different it's being done in a really cool way we were hearing that in person we were hearing that virtual and I went in there and actually got a walkthrough of what everybody had to jump through and it was impressive as hell so for the first year contest getting a black badge this year it's the Blackson Cyber CTF his handle is socks I should have said like oh it knocked our socks off that's oh not boo you accept it take it man this is this is pretty unreal this is crazy alright so I'm socks this is Michaela she's the CEO of Blackson Cyber Security so I'll give you guys cliff notes Michaela said hey socks you make CTFs and we've been doing pretty good at the local level but I want to spread awareness of like black contribution in cyber bringing up all sorts of really innovative ways to kind of spread how we contribute to the conversation of cyber and she said can you create some cool stuff so I said hey I'll try I reached out I sat down I built my own infrastructure used my own IPv6 slash 24 and I had two other two other people that worked with me JR Prezmi and I got to give a big shout out to Leo Pitts he was the guy that was working alongside with me many countless hours to try and make this thing come alive so thank you for trusting me with your vision also I'd like to thank Defcon because every year that I've come everyone's been very accepting and thank you for pulling us in alright so my first CTF at Defcon I was expecting for hackers to like grief my servers and destroy them because by the way I'm kind of a cyber guy but I had these great guys who came out and they said hey let's try this out 40 different teams this is representative of maybe um maybe 112 hours of content development and kind of thinking about how to like it's pretty hard I had to understand how to properly score a challenge versus the complexity that's involved in trying to try to accomplish it and uh and out of 40 out of 40 teams and those 40 teams were up to four people per team uh p pctf or pstf ptfs uh ended up coming out on top and there are black bags winners so I want to thank you thanks so much to socks for running this he did a wonderful job for his first CTF here and we learned quite a lot by playing in it thank you thanks alright um this next group will always hold a special place in my heart because I once ran this contest many years ago they put an incredible amount of effort to it much much more than I did back in the day that's for sure um yeah which is low that's a low bar I guess um but um but when you when you look at what they did this year it was that they decided they were gonna just do it at the same level they've done it every time except only one of their organizers could be here in person and so evil mofo stepped up um set everything up for the contest ran it all to the point of turning toward the contest goons and just yelling help and then we would walk over and he'd be like I just gotta pee you gotta watch my stuff um so uh getting a black badge this year the scavenger hunt alright so oh yeah I should let's see I should see um so I'm evil mofo I'm from scavenger hunt and uh as he mentioned we did hybrid um I've got what three people hanging back at home the fourth one just bought a house couldn't do Defconn at all and then we got her she got recruited she got recruited to be a goon and I think I've convinced her not ever accept that again um so uh one thing that's really special about this year we did a single player team so it was a level playing field and so everybody's at home they have access to everything and so we have a couple things that were specific only to this Vegas experience and so that's how we kind of balanced it out um and so with single player teams what ended up happening is the four the top four players are all identified as female so yeah so fourth place was hunting third place was seniorina thank you I may have been drinking seniorina fancy bottom who uh is also also known as Nikita so not not only does she help make all this awesome she somehow still found the time to submit some of the highest quality submissions that we had this year um I don't know if they've played that video yet or it's coming but there's a submission that at some point should be played tonight apparently um and that's from her doing I think five or six items at once uh and then second second place was jethers random stuff who was playing online on discord and first place was fiora who made this glorious moby duck the glorious moby duck that DT has was made by fiora here and so here is your black badge worth mentioning uh she didn't even start the scavenger hunt until the second day yeah um and also this is her clippy costume she was wearing uh and so scavenger hunt is the best way to experience defcon you should come find us at defcon 30 and come play I'll share a really quick story about the scavenger hunt had they were streaming in their remote organizers as well and you could actually talk to them on a phone that was on the table well last night before jason street and I battled as dinosaurs do um we needed somewhere to change so we went into the contest area and I'm in there like getting on a suit and doing whatever and I go I'm leaving the contest area and I walk past the scavenger hunt table and a phone starts ringing and I'm like well you have to answer it right and I just pick it up and he's like I fucking love you and I was like what? and he's like look to your right and I look and there's the camera so scavenger hunt always watching always judging alright uh this next contest um is the reason most of us are thinking about buying like a 68 vw bug and just calling it a day car hacking CTF past the baby past the baby alright alright thank you everyone um thanks for everybody for showing up obviously this year we were um also a hybrid but we're car hacking so we were intended to be hybrid see everybody knows this oh too soon okay I got you you take it you take it yeah dad jokes so some stats um so we have some stats we had one tiny car heist one borrowed license plate if you have borrowed it if you could return our license plate that would be great we did have 11 talks so thank you for our speakers we do appreciate that go talks we also had lots of badges as well and a ton of CTF teams we actually did two CTFs this year we did one main CTF which had very few challenges and were really difficult and one virtual one so we were able to include everybody virtually as well and we also had one amazing goon village goon Kevin thank you very much you were the man thank you you were awesome thank you we also had lots of chopsticks as well so if you have chopsticks thanks to Kevin as well and our main the CTF winner for the main CTF was unable to make it so on behalf of our main CTF winner we have lintel lookalikes and thank you to Matt Damon for accepting this thank you thank you grifter thank you Matt Damon over there thank you this one's actually pretty nice because we get to see them come up on stage and talk for a minute but that thing that's hanging around your neck isn't just a game of Simon it's also a challenge so next up the badge challenge alright so for those of you who got a chance to play the challenge there were a lot of you hundreds and I hope you all had fun and I heard a lot of people hate Jenny so I guess it was not meant to be that difficult so our winning team was Elephant Gambit these guys so they I guess have played some of the badge challenges in the past and gotten close this year they came prepared they got a hold of someone who got a virtual badge a couple weeks ago got the firmware decompiled it figured out what pins were connected to what that they had things traced out and ready to go so when they got on site and got a real badge they got through things really quick they were 19 hours faster than the next team it was super impressive well done guys so okay so part of the challenge was connecting to lots of other people once you all the badge types then you collected the signal and then you had to share it with a bunch of other people once you had done that you got a new URL went to website lots of challenges involving hacking on the badge itself cutting traces to get different parts of it lots of logic puzzles and weird puzzles to get through and in the end 73 characters they had to find through the old DEF CON programs it was brutal yeah it was awesome these guys did great and last but certainly never least the contest that is played all year round leading up to the main event here at DEF CON qualifier after qualifier and what I can only assume is an excessive amount of Adderall capture the flag hello hackers I am Zardis and we are the order of the overflow and we organize DEF CON CTF before I get started we have a lot of people to thank and it starts with DT and it goes all the way through all the goons everyone involved in making this possible we do share work but the amount of work that all of these people do is insane so let's give them a quick hand I am running on something like three hours of sleep this weekend hey hey he took a nap under the table the one hour of sleep last night was under the table in our organizing room I was so cold I dreamt that the goons had robbed us of our challenge coins and imprisoned me in a block of ice so yeah it was pretty good any goons that didn't get challenge coins from us in that dream encounter we have some for you so go find us anyways DEF CON CTF is a hell of an event and like another event that ended or will end today the goal of DEF CON CTF is to identify the best the most skilled maybe they are not so good but they are very skilled hackers on the planet what dark tangent wants to do with those hackers I don't know be fine for them order of the overflow started hosting CTF DEF CON CTF back in DEF CON 26 a rumbunctious first year when we realized just how much work this insanity is second year DEF CON 27 we had a whole lot of really crazy challenges we got xboxes for all the teams they hacked each other through the game network it was quite wild of course DEF CON 28 was virtual we had an insane system we had the 16 hour day to fairly accommodate all the teams playing widely around the world and this year DEF CON 29 we ran a hybrid competition with about half of our teams remote half of them here in Las Vegas but everybody able to hack and pull on each other this year marks the end of our tenure as the organizers of DEF CON CTF and personally from me and from everyone on our team I would like to extend a thanks to you thank you grifters is right this is an event that is played all year it's also an event that is organized all year an enormous amount of work we are proud to do it because we love the community and we want to continue to push it forward we want to challenge hackers we want to provide open infrastructure open challenges inspiration documentation and a path forward for people to get into this awesome hobby thank you thank you so I will real quick thank my team for their sacrifices and dedication over the last four years with us here today we have Adam D is basically my CTF spouse don't start your act like that Brooke is going to be really upset to hear that but they have a whole time sharing agreement on me anyways we have Eric Trickle we have Matt known as M7 we have Pepper S we have Sunnyvale we have Jeff Crowell we have Jay Karina and we have Mike Pizza should I tell them you are your AK and remotely I have to thank those of us who aren't here who can't make it who are stuck in countries that aren't as lucky as we are or just cannot travel here for other reasons we have Odo Null Pointer Balzerot Ray Yammer Captain Aimbot Slipper Anto Noob and that's it so that was a lot of names that's because this is a lot of work and we are retiring and a new group has to come in so think about what you can do for the hackers we are here to help and we'd love to make the next transition super smooth all right with that said let's talk about this year teams try to get into DEF CON CTF year around usually there is a number of pre-qualifying events other Olympic level events around the world winners of whom are invited to DEF CON this year we had the previous winners of DEF CON CTF AOE who are now known as Katzebin winners of HITCON CTF HXP CCC CTF Vlad CTF and PON2WIN all invited to compete at DEF CON CTF we also ran our own qualifiers the top and teams to make a total of 16 were invited to attend this year as well our own qualifiers included all sorts of crazy challenges and involved people from all around the world and actually all of this well not necessarily the exact IP tag data but the packet captures all of the challenges that are available on our website in the end we ended up with 16 teams this is them in alphabetical order and it's a little hard to see the kind of font color but we have about four teams for whom this is their first DEF CON CTF so welcome and on the opposite side of the spectrum we had two teams that have been competing for over 10 years quite a lot of time so it's the two teams one is the Vlad parliament of PON2WIN competing for 11 years and the other is Shellfish competing for a staggering 17 years Shellfish the amount of competition Shellfish has been in they're almost old enough to vote let's give these legends a hand alright so what did these teams do these teams worked on a large variety of challenges of course binary exploitation binary reverse engineering always a mainstay at these sort of competitions we threw at them a lot of different things overlooked computer architectures for example architectures that aren't often thought about but that run our lives the microcode engine in your network cards that offload stuff like IP checks some calculations and some encryption and so on things like that are not often explored in security we brought them in we had the teams suffer and push themselves to exhaustion to do this I say to exhaustion we didn't have any incidents this year we had unfortunate incident where CTF player played themselves into unconsciousness and fell out of their chair and like had to be you know, sat up and forced that was pretty intense they're okay now, yeah anyways this year we explored a series of challenges in which we built a virtualized network stack like a virtualized compute stack like AWS called O O O W S end-to-end, hypervisor, virtual devices the entire interface, everything you might launch it as a business venture when we retire maybe we'll go to space yeah, we could go to space, that's great oh in space anyways it was not something you'd want to run anything critical on because of intentional bugs and in other part because of unintentional bugs we had an entire vulnerable network from like the early 2000s we had a Windows 2000 box etc etc as a whole separate challenge of these like how crazy can a network get before people just can't even deal with it anymore and a whole bunch of other crazy challenges teams one of which was a video game inspired by the game Baba is You which is a great game highly recommended we had Zero is You a shell coding game that we will release on our website for free obviously because I don't know why anyone would pay us for anything but for your enjoyment if you are interested in learning about shellcode this is a great way we ran an enormous amount of traffic through the network you can't see this but basically during the competition we averaged like 40 megabits I can't see it either more like 20 megabits a second of like pure attack traffic it was insane like tens of thousands of requests every minute wild wild west for real this is oh this is the requests per second spiking up to 200 for some very eager hackers they got temporarily blocked told to slow their roll a little bit alright if you're interested in this we archive most of our challenges the ones that we can archive some of our challenges like mentioned xboxes and stuff have physical components we archive most of our challenges at archive.oo they are available starting tomorrow and throughout the week we'll be adding challenges from this year's competition if you are interested go tackle the challenges try your skills this hobby is super approachable at crazy high levels so go do it archive.oo alright let's talk about ranking so we'll start with the places 6 to 16 in DEF CON CTF and I want to stress that there is a team that got 16th place but there is someone that got last place at the Olympics but they were still at the Olympics throwing axes or whatever you know what are you watching? what Olympics are you even watching? yeah the guy stands anyways so these are Olympic level hackers come from across the world to show their skills and number let's go from 16th we have pastin, rickapig, shellfish macaroni, northcode dice gang organizers no relation samurai ptb, wtl that's pondybytes, wreck the line game null and perfect guesser so great job let's give these a hand alright let's start going up the list so 5th place in DEF CON CTF hailing from Taiwan it's hitcon balzen I never know how to pronounce the sword emoji so I'll just skip it great job in number 4 starbucks alright so starbucks was an in-person team so hopefully if you're out there raise your hand wave great job I'll shout out a special mention to starbucks they know virtualization quite well I'm insanely impressed alright in 3rd place at DEF CON CTF from China great job alright and everyone wants to know who's 2nd and 1st let's see if this works alright there was an epic battle for 2nd and 1st all the top teams actually participated at one point with their virtualization mastery starbucks shot out so far ahead I thought it would be impossible for anyone to catch up as you saw and there was this war of attrition exploit after exploit stealth attacks strategic disclosure of vulnerabilities through network traffic uncareful network traffic that intentionally pointed other teams toward various directions it was wild and in the end the rankings stabilized in 2nd place at DEF CON CTF hailing from the united states the plaid parliament of poning let's give them a hand amazing job and the winners of DEF CON there's a type on the slide DEF CON 29 CTF from China Katzebin they did also win DEF CON 28 CTF so the slide isn't isn't inaccurate so 2 years in a row great job usually we have them all walk through but the top 3 teams were all remote which maybe has something to do with being able to sleep in their own beds and eat their own food and all of this stuff exactly that's overrated DEF CON forever alright on that note thank you very much all all all out okay so we alluded to the reign of the OOO 4 years is over and we'll be opening up a call for CTF organizers next month once we've all slept and then we'll take the last call for organizers update it with lessons learned and as I mentioned OOO is really interested in making sure there's a smooth transition so they're perfectly happy to help provide feedback help whoever is selected really make their first year a successful year and I really like that that's sort of that spirit of continuity and really helping up the next group that's really cool so if you know of anybody who wants to sleep under tables CTF just tell them to start resting up now and get ready to submit so we mentioned this a little bit earlier there's a lot of departments that make DEF CON possible whether they're virtual or remote here's a list of all of them there's also groups outside of this that might be considered like contractors the people we use cost-wide promotions to print a lot of our shirts and our swag or network providers and so it's just it's a huge army of people all for 3-4 days and it's you don't think of that so much, you think it's a very kind of point in time but that saying that the show must go on is totally legit it all can't happen tomorrow it's got to happen today and that type of thinking and these kinds of teams that we've built really make it happen for you so I just want to give a big round of applause to everybody that's made it happen now something we do is just like contestants who demonstrate an insane amount of skill earn a black badge for goons we have what we call a gold badge and gold badges are for goons that have served DEF CON in the community for 10 or more years and then they say hey you know what I can't put in the time, I'd like to retire or take some time off we give them the gold badge to recognize all their service and just like a black badge they can come whenever they want for free and just hang out and kind of enjoy it from the other side so we have some retiring goons this year that have been with us for 10 or more years Forcus I cannot pronounce you Squeak, David M, Heather B and Nicole T and I think was it Forcus that had 23 years for Forcus Yeah that's a lot of institutional memory and so then we also have our current number of gold badge holders and then we always have the constant renewal we have noons which are considered new goons so every year we'll try out some noons and then if we don't scare them away or they're interested they just start becoming the next generation of goons so it's a really nice like a cycle of life cycle of goon and then we mentioned a little bit earlier a couple of people were thanking myself and others but really what happens is we have year round we have what we call the headquarters DEF CON HQ and basically we're just like the core staff the sort of administrative backend staff keep the servers running run the call for papers coordinate you know all the paperwork and so these are the people that 24-7 are on the DEF CON payroll making sure that everything is ready to go when the show happens so thank you some of them have stayed at home to deal with fiber cuts you know when somebody took a sawzall through the DEF CON network in the olden days if that had happened while we were on site there would have been nobody home it was all hands on deck but as we've grown we've been able to have someone whose job is to make sure the networks and the bots and the discord is working and that was been really fantastic especially in this hybrid year so thank you to everybody from HQ that was able to be here or staying back home to take care of problems thank you alright so all year long we've got DEF CON online just to remind you a couple of things line con line con for life hackers love discord right it's been doing better than we thought and we've got a line con there for your line con pleasure what we started last year after safe mode DEF CON movie night where yeah who here has done a movie night show of hands who's on movie night okay is Slee Stack in the room where are you Slee Stack Slee Stack is the person who runs movie night and he used to be a movie critic and I think I'm not sure if he still blogs on movie reviews but he really enjoys the craft of movies and he actually just with a lot of care he selects your movie entertainment and runs discord every week for you and what we're trying to do is just capture a chill moment where we can connect remotely and it's done so well I think we'll continue it and something we'd love to do you notice we had some hacker documentaries that we played and we tried to get the producers or the directors or some of the people so we're really trying to find those opportunities if you know of a movie that's got a solid hacker connection and you know some of the people involved we'd love to have some of the people involved in creating the movie also be available for sort of like a community chat as Chris mentioned we have A&E music streaming all year we've got everything going on YouTube and over the next month as we get all the videos that were live at the show or from other villages we'll be combining them and we'll be releasing torrent files and then at some point we'll announce like okay we've got everything we can find and then that will be sort of like that year's final torrent and we are now on the countdown to DEF CON 30 30 so you'll notice the dates really late and it's the latest or I think it's almost the latest we've ever done a show and that's because we have to coordinate our dates back to back with Black Hat and because of the new Caesar's forums and the way they are at Mandalay Bay and all of that the year after the DEF CON 31 will be much earlier so if we can survive next year's late dates then we'll come back into a more traditional kind of end of July thing so we're going to be at where we thought we would be two years ago the Caesar's forum now the good thing is we spend about three months four months planning how to use the forums and then through all that planning away because of safe mode so now we've gone back we've got it and we feel like hey we're three months ahead we already planned for all of this now that we know what we know we'll go back and we'll readjust but we're going back to a place that we kind of already checked out so if you're here in town or you're passing through Vegas and you want to check it out the bridge now connected between the Flamingo and everything apparently it's been totally enclosed and air conditioned and it's like walking through a tunnel you don't know you're above the street so we're looking forward to going there new infrastructure but of course we're going to be too big for it and so more space so so we've got the Flamingo we mentioned it right Paris Bally's Link, Harrison, Flamingo and so hopefully with all of that new space we also have which not mentioned to the right hand side if you're looking from the sky of the Caesar's forum there's like the Flamingo of like this giant outdoor concrete pad so if you wanted to bring in a helicopter or a boat yeah or kegs of beer but there's a lot of space and so we're trying to figure out what to do with that also so we have some new opportunities and also there actually is a pool on the roof and so a roller rink so we will have our own pool and that's something we didn't mention earlier and I want to see a show of hands who went to the pool parties and thought they were awesome we haven't had our own pool for a while and it really was reminiscent a little bit of the old AP day so no pool too no no pool too yes so here's just a little bit of the information of what the new space will look like and then finally the content all coming soon we've got our soundtrack we'll get some badge write ups from some of the badge creators on the DEF CON forums where we're trying to capture all the badge information we can and that is it it's time to end transmission thank you all