Hi there, my name is Sandy Allnock, and I want to extend a special welcome to Watercolorists. For some reason lately YouTube has been sending me lots of new people when I post watercolor videos. So welcome. I'm glad you're here. I do have some watercolor playlists you're welcome to check out and they're for all different levels of people. So you can go see if there's something of interest to you because I love to teach. Today, I'm going to be doing a watercolor on some Windsor and Newton paper. I'm going to talk about that a little bit. I'm going to be painting the Yankee Clipper, which is a boat that I did some sketches of in my previous video. I did some watercolor thumbnails. If you're interested in seeing that and understanding the process of thinking through which photograph I chose to do for this particular painting, I'm also going to talk about masking fluid and when to use that versus gouache and when to use that. Because I find they have two very different purposes and two very different looks. So let's talk about all of that and paint the Yankee Clipper together. When deciding between masking fluid and gouache, figure out whether or not the elements need to be white of the paper or whether it's just a small element you'll be adding in later and we'll talk about this more. But masking fluid has to be put on first, so it reserves the white of the paper and this misket that I love when I do use masking fluid, which is not terribly often. It's orange. It's got an tint to it. You just shake it up to make sure it mixes in and then you can actually see it on the paper once you start painting with it. I coat my brush in a little bit of liquid dishwashing soap, so it protects the brush a little bit. It's not going to make it last forever because masking fluid is just going to be really hard on brushes, so don't use anything good with it. But you'll just dip into the masking fluid and then start painting anything that needs to remain white. And the problem with this that I find is that you still can't get, for the most part, unless maybe somebody else is really good at this and I'm just terrible at it. I can't get a super crisp white line. There's always repair that's needed. And that's not always a bad thing because depending on what's behind it, you may find it's really easy to fix that. If there's a dark green behind your elements, then you can paint in with that dark green around some edges to clean them up. But as much as I would love it if I could get a really nice crisp line, I just am not capable of it. So I knew, even as I was working on this, that I was going to have to do some repair work later. And it's just a matter of whether or not the repair is going to be while using gouache or while using the color behind it to cover some areas up. Because until you remove it, you don't really know. So I've just gone around the entire boat. There's some areas, like on these rims of the boat, the trim, where it's a lighter gray rather than being the black paint and then even the bottom section of the boat is darker. So I did mask those off and then I'll use layering and glazing over top of them to bring all that together later. So those are not going to be white areas, but you can mask things that you plan on painting in later as well. But here's a really good example of why I wanted to use the masking fluid for a lot of those white bits, not all of them, just the thickest ones of them, because I wanted this wash, this soft tree wash behind here to end up going right behind all of that and not to feel like I had to very delicately go in and make each section in between all those white bits, make it all match. I wanted to keep that washy look across the whole thing, because that's just how I paint. I like to have all of those areas join together, but I didn't want the trees to be really dark. A lot of times I'll make my trees rich and dark and I'll get into a lot of details, but I wanted the main thing to be the boat. You'll see here I'm putting in a shadow that goes across the white portions of the boat and I wanted that to join in with everything else so the colors will just kind of keep merging throughout the whole painting, but that white area I didn't mask it out and when you're painting you'll start to realize eventually whether or not you're capable of remembering to leave that white or whether or not you need to mask it out because your brain is going to shut down because it happens to the best of us and if you're going to leave that white you need to be able to know what you can paint out and what you can't and here for the red I didn't want the red to entirely be over top of color so I left the red trim on the bottom of the boat in white just so I could mess around with it later. I'll have lots of other issues with it as I go you'll see, but you know there's there's some areas where I knew from my sketch that I was going to have have some issues with trying to figure out how to crisscross those areas and get the red to look like it's actually in the water and get it to merge with some of the colors that are there. So next was to add more darks into the greens and again this allows me to be really fresh and loose with the greens because I don't have to worry about you know starting and stopping a tree on one side or the other of that masking fluid because there's a lot of times when I start doing some really detailed work I'm trying to go around things I love to do negative painting and I could have done this with negative painting but trying to match the the green trees on the left and right side of every single one of these beams would be crazy ridiculous hard and I was not feeling in the mood for crazy ridiculous hard and I also wanted this kind of loose fresh background it didn't want everything to feel like it was you know labored over because the boat's going to have so much labor so this allowed me to just put some edges you know with my my fancy liner brush onto some of those trees I added more detail you know I was trying to put in for a little bit here some of the stems the trunks the trees and branches that ended up going away because this also started feeling like too much detail and I didn't want that much taking away from the boat because the boat's going to have a ton of little itty bitty detail in it so in order to recover from having done all that I just sprayed the heck out of it and let those colors move around pushed all that color around on the paper and fortunately somewhere in here I was interrupted by a friend of mine who rang the doorbell normally if I am at this stage of a painting I will not even answer the door because I need to keep going while things are wet but in this particular one I had finished these trees so right at the end of the trees was when their doorbell rang she was bringing over for me which was really really nice a painting that I had won she had done a painting and I had entered a raffle and she had told me recently that I won so she was bringing it over and she was also picking up some of my black paint that I had used for my kitchen cabinets and my dining room table because she was inspired by seeing my my tour of all the art in my house if you miss that one I will put a link to it in the doobly-doo because I recently did a big renovation which I manually did most of the work myself because I didn't have any money to do it so I was just yeah just making sure I muscled through it all on my own and she was so inspired by seeing it that she was going to go paint some of her cabinets and I told her hey come and get the paint because I did not want to have all that paint left over so we had a nice visit and by the time I was done I was ready to dump jump in here on this portion of the boat so I combined using some some black and some paints blue gray I was debating whether I wanted a more washy look or if I wanted it to feel more solid this was not drying quite as well as I wanted a lot of it was due to the masking fluid because the masking fluid pushes things away from the edge of it and I also was painting this on an angle I had my desk pulled up at about a 30 degree angle for this so I could get all that paint moving and that caused some movement of the paint as well so I did end up having to put another wash of color over top of the boat to really make it good and black but then came the water and just playing around with how I was going to render that I knew from my sketch that I was going to have deep dark rich color along one side of it down to this left and then I added more of the red in there because I realized how weak that that had dried by the time I was all said and done and just kept adding to it and with the water I couldn't decide whether or not I wanted to have there was some white ripples in the photo and I wasn't really liking those white ripples because I didn't have enough intention to render them really well and that was going to end up making them look crazy so I did simplify by the time it was all said and done this bottom area because I started putting in the waves and when you're doing wave ripples I did a video on that recently when I talked about close up like right in front of you you're going to get more of an overhead view of water so you're going to get more curviness and bigger shapes and as it moves into the distance away from you it's going to get flatter and with smaller shapes so I was trying some of that but it was just feeling like I didn't have an anchor to the bottom and so you'll see as I progress that I did decide to just kind of paint more of that in and darken that whole bottom section I added some more wave texture over in the right hand side and I got a little bit overly fussy with it I didn't want this part to be as prominent as it was going to get but I did have a plan in my head if this didn't go right because I knew I wanted all that water on the left hand side to get much darker and I could just do a glaze over all of it and darken the entire thing because there really isn't a whole lot of pure white white jumping out of that water so I wanted to smooth out and join all of those sections so on the right hand side I did that with mostly water first and then was able to go back in with a darker glaze on the left hand side and just use more blue in there as well to change the color of the water and try to bring it all together so you can watch it kind of develop as I just start darkening in those areas you can use a small brush and do a thousand strokes like I was doing here you can just get a big brush and wash over the whole thing which is what I eventually decided to do my nice big flat brush and that just pulled everything together so it had that same kind of water texture that smoothness that the boat has and that's kind of what I wanted to match I grabbed my rubber cement pickup which is basically this thing that is sticky and you can rub it across the surface and it'll grab onto the masking fluid and pull it up now if you're not using good paper this can be a very dangerous moment because you could ruin the surface and then you won't be able to go back in and paint anything where the masking fluid was because it's ripped off that top layer always test it and don't test it by just putting some masking fluid on a scrap of whatever you're testing put it on there let it dry paint over it let it dry paint over another layer let it dry and then remove it just to make sure that it's going to work in actual context so now I have some nice crisp white lines that I'm going to be able to deal with and add all this detail into the painting this bottom section remember I put the trim on using the masking fluid now I'm going back in with some paints blue gray and then I'll use some black as well to start to cover that up so that I get the look of having black trim on a black boat and I can you know go around carefully all the buoys and start to add some sharpness to them because they lost their sharpness the masking fluid just wasn't wasn't really helpful in terms of getting some nice crisp outlines to it but around this black area it was really easy to fix some other areas are not as easy so the bottom section of the boat is darker since it's in shadow and then just a little lip under the top and then get into a lot of that detail work because there's a ton of little itty bitty details in this entire boat just lots of little windows elements that are part of the boat itself trying to create some grays within the blacks and this is where if your surface has pulled up from the masking fluid that you won't be able to go back in and add these visual differences between a gray and a black and a white and like that you know there's some areas where some transitions across the white are going to make it look realistic instead of looking like a ghostly white bunch of lines it needs to look like these are posts and some of these posts and beams and everything are going to be gray and if I use a really light wash a very thin mix then I can paint it right into there and even if I get a kissed edge I've talked about kissed edges before where you're painting something and there's already something right next to it and you end up getting a dark liner along the edge where the two cross I don't have that much problem with it when I use a very very pale wash so sometimes I'll use a pale wash two three four times in order to make sure that I get the rich color that I want but that I don't end up with too much of a kissed edge I ended up having to repaint that shadow again that I was hoping was going to just stay there from the earlier wash but watercolor always dries 30 lighter than than it goes on and I just never seem to be able to figure that out when I'm doing my first wash of anything there are some elements on this boat that have darker areas and you know they're just they're dark poles of some kind there's also a dinghy in the back of the boat and those things can get painted on last because they're darks painted on top of the darks in the background I've mixed up some red so I can make the buoys red I decided to make all my buoys red even though some of them are white in the photograph because I just thought they looked festive being all red here and sorry about the color on this it just kind of blasted out I don't know what is the deal sometimes with watercolor things just get a little on the crazy side there is a guy in the front of the boat and he's working on something there's some pieces up there in the front of the boat that I'll add some detail to a lot of this little stuff when it comes to painting boats buildings cars that sort of stuff rather than trying to paint every object I find I actually prefer the look of suggested details as opposed to carefully delineated ones you know letting lines come and go let letting them disappear suggestions of small shapes but without trying to make everything look hyper realistic because even though my work has a good sense of realism to it if you look close up there's just not a lot of perfect detail in it and that makes the painting much more joyful for me to paint and a lot of why I paint is because I enjoy it and I don't enjoy spending that kind of time on that sort of detail now I also wanted to mention about this paper this is the Windsor Newton professional watercolor paper this is the rough version and in my video a couple weeks ago where I painted on this I mentioned that it's more expensive than arches and I was not surprised that it performed beautifully because it's got money cheaper papers are just harder to paint on and don't give you as good a results but when I was doing the supply list and checking my links on that video I discovered and I did put it in both the blog post and in the comments on YouTube I discovered that if you buy 10 sheets it comes down to less than six dollars a sheet so it goes from ten bucks a sheet to six when you buy 10 now I know not everybody can afford to buy 10 at once but I save up so I can buy 10 at once and then I feel like I have lots of paper and I don't treat it as so precious so I I put that forth to you as a paper that you might want to consider because I'm definitely going to order some up very very soon there is a dinghy in the back of the boat I believe that's a dinghy and it has a structure around it everything but I did forget to put masking fluid on the top of it so that is going to require a bit of a highlight using the white gouache when I'm all done so it's very clear to me it's just about time to bring the gouache in and start doing a little bit of repair work and one of the reasons I don't like to use gouache unless it's absolutely necessary is because it ends up looking like repair work it looks like something is painted on top of a watercolor painting and there are some places where you know if you enter a painting into something and they say they need it to be all fully watercolor and you say well you know I have watercolor plus a little gouache there's a lot of people that don't understand that gouache is watercolor and you may find that you won't end up being able to enter your work into a particular show because it has some gouache on it but there are some things like painting the words yanky clipper on it that are impossible absolutely impossible to paint around that and it's really difficult to try to do that kind of little lettering using masking fluid the brush that I had used during the masking fluid portion was actually the equivalent of probably a number one brush and even that was not able to get in some of the very finest details and this is a zero brush that I'm using with my gouache and I'm trying to get not perfect lines I'm trying to actually create some dry brush lines so that it fits with the character of what's in my painting because the character of the painting is loose there's a lot of dry brush kinds of edges already going on and gouache if you use it full strength and nice and thick looks like it's a stroke of acrylic across the top of it or something and it can end up looking very fake and not suit the character of your watercolor so depending on the cleanness of the lines that you've already got in your painting you may choose that you don't want to add some gouache to it there's also the possibility to add titanium white watercolor if you want something really really soft and I considered that for this but I also needed some of these you know big beams that I was adding in I needed some of them to be white white and titanium white just doesn't get me that kind of whiteness but playing around with it and just trying to make some random marks so that it doesn't look like everything is super careful I don't want it to look like it's a gel pen I've seen some paintings where they've used gouache so it looks like they've basically drawn it in with a gel pen and that does not suit the character of my painting hasn't suited the character of the ones that I've seen it in but each to their own getting some practice knowing how crisp or how clean of a line that you can make with masking fluid versus gouache will help you to make decisions on which parts you want to leave for the masking fluid and which ones you want to leave for gouache and whether or not you can even leave some of that as negative painting so here's my painting I want to invite you over to the blog if you want to see nice close-ups and study some of these areas in more detail than there are some juicy photos over there for you to enjoy I'm glad you stuck around for the end of this video because I want to let you know there's a 10 off coupon code that you can use for watercolor classes through the end of July 2023 and that code to put in that checkout is WC 2023 and it's good on any of my 31 or 32 watercolor classes I think I have quite a few and they're at all different levels so hopefully there's something you're interested in learning and getting a discount as well I'll see you again next week I'm here every Tuesday and Saturday 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So I got to tell you, this was an amazingly fast year for me. It feels like we just opened this and pen and teller and now we're sitting in a room across the hotel and I'm telling you goodbye. So I'm going to cry. Since we have so many more people in the room and I can actually sort of see everybody, can you raise your hand if this is your first year, please? Big hand for yourself. All right. For everyone else, I promise you we will try to make this as short and painless as possible. So in the interest of time savings, I am going to move on to my thank yous. My name is Russ and I am the acting chief of operations for the conference this year. Thank you, Banshee. It was actually an accident so I'd like to throw a shout out to our boy Lockheed. He had a family emergency so if I could get a round of applause for Lock. This is actually his first DEF CON to miss in 20 years. Yeah, so it's a pretty big deal. What? Oh sure, now you won't say anything. Chicken. All right. So first I want to say my voice is my passport. Thank you. Some people got it. All right. So we have a lot of people that make this conference happen. You know, if you've been here for any amount of time, you can remember back when we counted ourselves in hundreds or less and not in tens of thousands. So it takes a strong intelligent and proactive team to make this happen. So I can't mention all of the names so I'll apologize now but I do want to mention the people and the groups that make this happen. So from administration we've got Nikita, Neil, Romer, and we have Will and we also have Lost Boy. And so I'd like to get a round of applause for them.  I'm not even going to list it. I don't know where you got some of this. So round of applause for production team, please. So for the rest of this I'm just going to kind of read everything off and we can applaud everyone at the end because I've got about 15 groups and I just realized it's going to take me about a half hour if we do it this way. Thank you. So for registration we've got Seastone and his team. For speaker ops we've got Agent X and his team. For swag we have Secret and his team. For the red shirts we have CJ, Flea and their team and I'd also like to shout out to Priest who's helped me on more than one occasion this weekend put out some fires. Contest we have Hackajar and Coleslaw. For villages and parties we have Grifter. For QM we have Major and we have Tom and I think there's actually a song about that. Yes. For radios we have Crossey. For dispatch we have Heather and her team. For the knock we have Effin and his team. For press we have Nicole and team. For vendors we have Wiseacre and all the people that help him out. I also want to thank HiWiz and the rest of his team for putting on a great DC 101 this year. And for everybody else I did not mention that is on staff I'd like to say thank you. For my first year to ever actually step up and be the man in the hot seat you made it incredibly easy. And most of all I want to thank every single one of you because we do this because we were in your seat once and we freaking love DEF CON. So thank you all for being here. All right I got one more item of business and I'm going to hand it off to DT. Where's Eddie Mice? All right so Eddie Mice did all the faces of death. How many of you saw our faces of death? Faces of DEF CON. All I have is water. Sorry. Aw. Have been sober all weekend for the most part. So he did a whole bunch of artwork. And they've gone through the trouble of having a whole ton of us sign this. And this was done under the guise of donating this to EFF or Hackers for Charity and Raising Funds. But actually what we've done is we've all signed this for Eddie as a thank you. And so if we could get a round of applause. I don't know what to say about that.  Thank you so much. And so with that I'm going to hand it to the dark tangent. Yeah. Yeah I want to just echo what Russ has said. I mean this is a community, this is a team sport right up here. You just see some of the team players but we have about 300 volunteers not counting just attendees that do it themselves and make stuff happen. And somebody came up to me just before the start and he said you know what this is my third DEF CON and the first one I went to is I didn't know what to do and I was really kind of antisocial and the second one I started to get the vibe and said yesterday I was partying, I was dancing and my wallet fell out and I lost my wallet. And then an hour later a dude called me and returned it. And he's like this is the best community you know we've ever had. And so that's a super cool. Okay so it's a space to advance? Space to advance? Or the arrow. Arrow key to advance. Okay so that's the spirit we're really trying to build here. So a couple of things I just want to mention for next year.  So some statistics. This year I started a couple of years ago you guys might have noticed I did a media server. And this year it turned into an engineering problem. How do we get data to you so quickly that you're not downloading all con long. So we bought these big disk duplicators and we started what next year is going to be a data duplication village. And we served up 304 terabyte hard drives of data. And we could have done more but two of our disk duplicators failed. 3 percent failure on disks in the number one culprit seemed to be western digital green drives. So just be careful if you're using those. It might not last very long. I want to call up a couple of people that have run some services and let them step through some slides and let you know what's been going on. First up I want to get Effon ready. Where are you at Effon? Effon is the man for the DEF CON network that we all rely on and he's put together some statistics for us. So here we go. I'm sorry. We have a little tradition here at DEF CON. Some of you may be familiar with it. You know what we've been thanking first time speakers for the entire week. I think it's time we thank all you first time attendees. So DT and Russ, could you come up here? A shot for the first time attendees. Thank you so much. Hello DEF CON. Still alive? So let's do this really quick for the sake of time. We're going to make available the slides on DEF CON networking.org. There's a link at the end. So especially for the first timers, what do we do? Wired infrastructure. DCTV for the drunk ones and wireless for the hungover ones that are able to make to the floor. What's different from last year? We got more gigabits. So we did some upgrades. Thanks DT for doing some of most of this, right? So we got a new firewall with two gig interfaces and you can read all of this. The wireless gear, we got some new supervisor modules for the Aruba gear for the controller that we have. That way we saw the core and the media server that DT brought was really awesome. And you guys, he's going to talk more about that, right? So I'll leave for him. And the core switch as well. So for the first time we're going to actually see the network topology of DEF CON. This is the network topology. So the airplane is the network and you guys are around it, right? We have some good attendees and some not good ones. At the end of the day it's a freaking hacking call for us, right? So that's what we do for all week and tonight or today we feel kind of like this. But it sort of worked for the most part as far as we know. So some challenges that we usually have and they change every year. This year was again iOS devices with 8021X and certificates. That's why it took us a little while to put the Wi-Fi range server up there. Because we want to make it easier for you guys. I'll put some notes on the slides later. And there's never enough time, right? When as they night we plan to go to dinner and we're like, you know what? Dinner is going to be at the knock and we keep working. So that's how it is. During the conference some devices not really behaving like they should, unplug the APs and all the good stuff. Some of the stats that's what people like to see. So we have 120 megabits uplink to the internet. We I think reached about 100. So it's not too bad. But the internal amount of data that we transferred was way, way bigger than the past few years. So congratulations to you guys for using it. And we had like about 4300 devices registered. That doesn't mean much or doesn't mean anything. But it's good, right? It's a lot of stuff. Wi-Fi statistics specific to the wireless network. We have about 50 access points, 41 as access points, providing service and then 10 as air monitors. Just watching what you guys doing. And we get about an average of 600 users per hour doing con time. And attacks about 2000 per day. All different kinds of attacks. Oh, I know you can. Trust me. I'll go back to the Porsche slide. DCTV broadcasted the real rooms. How many of you watched? How many of you watched? Yeah. Pretty good. These are the drunk people. So one of the things that video man did, he played the Defcon documentary. And for the next year and the following years, if we get original content from you guys, we're going to be more than happy to play that. So keep that in mind for next year. This is the knock team. Not going to list everyone, but we have the old timers. We have four new noobs that helped with every single thing including getting drunk on the off hours on the three hours that we didn't work. And I want to thank everyone here. I want to thank DT, Will, who helped us a lot. Cheryl is always on every single email that we send to everyone. Caesar, Steph, Encore, you guys. The one random guy that shows up every year and drops some snacks for us and we're still alive. So that's good, right? And we get some feedback as well during the conference. And that some of them are very constructive. So here's how you get these slides later. Give me a day or two to put it there. And this is the email to send the feedback. And that's it. Thanks, everyone. Okay, this year we have a new contest that Long Time Goon Waz put on. And I'm going to introduce him. It was our TD Francis X hour film contest. And we're going to show you the winner. So Waz, take it away. Whoa. That person's had too much to drink. First off, it was a team effort. My buddy, I don't drive cars. Yes, that's his handle. I guess he doesn't drive cars. He wants everybody to know it, but he is supposed to be walking up here right now as well. So he's not here. Anyway, okay, so this is the first year of what we hope will be a multi-year project, the TD Francis X hour film contest. It is a five minute film contest this year. The attendees or the registration teams show up, register. They've got 48 hours to make a five minute film from the time that they register. This year's genre was science fiction. We had seven teams registered, four of them provided awesome, awesome entries. And we even had two celebrity judges. Crap, where are my glasses? I can't see. You want to plug in? All right. I'm going to plug in. So we had William Newbag, the signal, and Brian Nappenberger, who has directed the hacktivists, the internet zone boy, the Aaron Swartz story, which played this weekend. Right. So we, sorry. Where's the thing that I clicked? Okay, so great. And the winner is after we show you what? Okay, great. This is exactly this is exactly the way we researched. Rehearsed this. What are you trying to watch? I'm trying to, yeah, try turning it off and on again. You know, we never played. Okay. So here you read it. You get to read it. Okay, go ahead. The sound on our celebrity director who's going to announce the winner is messed up. So we're going to dub it. So you're playing a video? Yeah, my name is Brian Nappenberger and I'm a director, writer, director, recent blah, blah, blah. It's playing in the background still sign pot has got to be one of the greatest films of all time. It's going to go ahead. Oh, excellent. This year, 17 is the first time in TV, Francis likes how it was tough to choose a winner. There it is. Alright, I'm gonna start it back at the beginning. Hi, my name is Brian Nappenberger, and I'm a documentary writer and director. My recent films are we are each in the story of the hacktivists and the recent film, the Himmels own boy, the story of Mark Swartz. You know, cheap sci-fi has got to be one of the greatest film genres of all time. So it's pretty cool to see it alive and well here at DEF CON 22. This year, 17 set out to make films in the first ever TV Francis X hour film contest. And it was tough to choose a winner among the teams that competed. But one definitely stood out as representing the general mayhem, the incredibly high production values. And let's just say in depth, massively sophisticated special effects we've come to respect. The winner of this year's contest is the UberLab team with invasion of the booty. The winning team UberLab couldn't be, UberLab couldn't make it. They're at Detroit airport over right now. Everybody say bye. Sign up next year. Everybody sign up next year, please. It went really smoothly. We need I hack charities and didn't hack. Who was going to talk about this? Where are you still? Hey, what do I do now? Okay, do my thing. Okay. Hello DEF CON. Okay. Well, let's see. We're all having a good time now. You know, I've been involved in the fundraising here for some time and it just, do I have slides? Okay. Those are somebody else's numbers. Those are somebody else's numbers. Yeah. Anyway, I've been involved in this for a long time and you know, it continuously amazes me on our community here and how willing they all are to help and share with others. And whether it's returning a loss to all that are giving blood, you all continue to excel and exceed everyone's expectations in that area. And you really deserve a big hand for the wonderful things that you've done. And I'd like to talk about a couple things here. One of the donations to, there's many charities, large and small. And one of the, one of the charities this year was a hacker space called DenNet. And with the help of Mohawks, they raised $230 to help that space and we think that's great for them. Get them off the ground. Now, I know there's a long way from here but probably some of you know where Uganda is on the map. And it's a developing country. The people there need a lot of help. And back in 2007, John and Jen Long started an organization called Hackers for Charity. And they help non-profits with technology issues. They help them solve problems. They provide food. And working with lots of people, thousands of students are being trained by them on computers and computer education to really prepare them for the future. And the future is coming soon for them because Google is considered wiring the place, their capital city with fiber. So they're going to have the high speed access and they're trying to give them the skills. So money was raised for these people and like to recognize those contributors. One, Hacker Fortress, all you Hacker Fortress players out there, gamers for a good cause gave $45 in there. And then of course the Mohawks are outstanding. Mohawks have raised $1,820 for the cost. There's no doubt that Eddie Mayes is a pillar in our community. I guess that's the best I can put it. Because Eddie's raised $4,100 for the Hackers for Charity costs for them this year. That brings us to a total of $5965. But wait, that's not all.  Giving us a grand total of $33,569. Thank you, DEF CON. Thank you all. Now we're going to move on to EFF. They get a little bit more screen time since there's a lot of people that do stuff for them. So we'll start off with everybody else. Besides the big fundraiser, Hacker Fortress, $145. Mohawk Con, $3,660.76. It's pretty amazing. $4,220. These were not fully tallied yet. So there's more in there than that. Info booth, $928. Eddie, that's $4,100 for Eddie. Half of that that he raised went towards IAC charities. And DC Dark Net by selling the badges. Another $3,000. Is that right? Yep. And now we'll move on to one more event. So that's a subtotal of $15,933 for EFF. But wait, there's more. The summit at the door, we raised $19,633 $770. $2,579 in auction items. Cash, there was a lot of credit charged. $720 cash for raffle. $13,000 in VIP presales. $2,500 in general admission presales. At the credit cards, whether it was door auction or whatever else, $9,775 for a in-room total of $48,351. Plus, $4,000 for EFF. So that's plus the EFF booth raised another $10,000 while at that event. For a grand total of $58,000 raised just in four hours. So we want to point out that was a Thursday night party hosted by Vegas 2.0. Special thanks to all the staff that made this happen. It was a 10-year anniversary of that party. Up until now we raised $175,000 in the last nine years. So if you tack this extra $58,000 on that, you can do the math. We raised a metric-ass ton of money at this party over the last 10 years for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. So far we have a grand total of $64,284 plus their own booth donations of $58,711. So we broke last year's record of $100,000 by about $14,000. Thank you all very much for your contributions to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And here from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is Kurt Oppschol to receive you. To say thank you, thank you, thank you. It's so great to be back amongst this community here. Your support from the individuals who came up, become members to all the wonderful people who have found a creative and wonderful ways to raise money for us is the support from this community that really helps us keep going. And you're helping us defend the internet, defend the hacker community, and we can't thank you enough. So thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, blood code. You got to move faster than that.  Hello, thank you very much. Oh, that's not the first time that's happened, but it's one of the best. Thank you. Thanks DevCon for once again being a great community and trying out and helping out with blood code. Got bad news. We only had 90 units this year. It's like there's no other way to put your foot around on that one. I do know that I've talked to DT recently and we're going to be creating a bleeding edge track next year where we're going to actually have volunteer speakers come out. We're going to have a screen for entertainment. It's going to be like interactive entertainment because you're going to bleed and you're going to see entertaining stuff. So I think this should work out for everybody. Yeah, you're going to learn while you bleed. So that should help. I'm not going to take up too much more of the time, but I think we need to, I think it's important. One, Julie, who couldn't be here, the one that runs the blood donation center, said that she actually had some people coming up, new timers that weren't familiar, like why are we having a blood code? Why are we having a blood drive? Who's this blood code person? What it's about. Isn't that over? And the key thing is, we're having a blood drive because it helps. Hackers aren't just about fixing computers. We're supposed to be fixing everything that we see wrong with something. And that's what it's about. It's trying to do something good. It's trying to show a positive impact. It's showing people that don't know maybe how to hack an airplane or hack something like that, but they're seeing this stuff out and they're seeing good things come out of this conference. And one of those things is they're helping other people that they're never going to see live by donating blood. And that's a beautiful thing. And that's one of the things that we should be showing our community and what we do. So thank you DEF CON for hosting that. Thank you for being so supportive. And thank you guys for actually bleeding for the calls. All right, hi, everybody. Over in the Crown Theater, kind of separate from all you crazy people, we ran Roots Asylum, which is a nonprofit where we're teaching kids age eight to 16 how to love being white hackers. This year we had 400 attendees, their kids and kids and their parents were there. So record number again. And what's a little different about the kids event besides that they're smaller and sweeter is that it's about 50% girls, which is really great to see. So what we try to do is bring in the most famous best hackers in the world to teach the kids. This year we had 30 presentations. Some of my favorite were Deviant and Howard taught the kids how to elevator hack. Thomas Cross, who's been here since DEF CON 1, taught all the kids how to break into lawful intercept machines. Charlie Miller taught us how to hack cars, render man, airplanes, Caesar, traffic control systems. Parisa, Princess of Security at Google actually donated 300 Chromebooks. So every single kid got a Chromebook and then she taught them how to poem them. I'm always looking for more kids speakers. So if you've got kids that have some amazing research, please have them reach out to us on the website Roots.org. This year we had two kids that presented. Esau actually taught all the kids how to do Metasploit. And Muffin Boy talked about white hat hacking. We also had six contests this year. One of them is now an official DEF CON contest. You'll get to hear more about that in a little bit from Chris, the Social Engineering Contest. We also had lock picking, name that PLC, code breaking, hacker jeopardy and land sniffing. It's pretty interesting. We have a lot of adults come over to the kids' sessions and try to hack their way in. Because I think who doesn't want to learn from Joe Brandt how to hardware hack, right? And so what we've done is we actually launched Roots TV. So if you can find us on YouTube and all of you here too can see what we've been up to. Thanks so much. Alright, just an interesting note. I wanted to tell you we kind of can compile the statistics of how much time we put into the show just on site. And if one person in the audience were to work full time as much time as all the staff on DEF CON work, you'd be working full time for four years just to make this happen. So I'd like to get Hackajar and Kulsal up here for the Black Badge events for contest.  And we've done sort of a reboot this year for a couple of reasons. So contests that historically have gotten Black Badges aren't. And contests that haven't are. And so what we're doing is we're creating a Black Badge Hall of Fame where we're going back into our history because we realize like everything else, we're moving so quickly, we're not capturing our history very well. So we're going back and figuring out every person that's ever gotten a Black Badge, what team they're on, what they did it for. And we're kind of trying to create a Hall of Fame for them. And we're also trying to be better about the amount of effort you have to put into get a Black Badge. And so to keep everybody on their toes this year, no contest knew who was going to be a Black Badge event except for Capture the Flag. So for a lot of these people they didn't even know. And so the contests were working extra hard to try to make it challenging in a really good game. And so a lot of the teams really stepped up this year and made improvements with the added motivation. So Hackajar who watches over the contest is going to go through who the winners are this year. And we're going to introduce some of the teams that have earned a right to entry for life. So Hackajar. Thank you. All right, you know, Coastal and I have been working really hard all con long. Really, we not only have to make sure that the contests are a well-oiled machine, all the villages are going, all the nighttime events related to contests are going. But we also have to kind of spy on every single team and see are they really bringing it as contest organizers and are they really bringing it as contestants. So it was a lot of hard work between the two of us. I'm going to introduce the first contest team to come up. Which is black guy. All right, and before I introduce the first contest real quick, I would just like to say thank you to the FCC or FTC, excuse me, for coming out and doing the Zapping Rachel Contest. How many people raised your hands? Have you heard about that or participated? All right, for those of you who are not aware, the purpose of this contest was to help eliminate those annoying robocallers.  I think they're up front, so let's give them a hand real quick. It's nice to be working with the government for once, I will say that. All right, and without further ado, we're going to have the black badge.  Hello, hello, hello. How many people came to the Lockpick Village, learned how to pick locks? How many people came to the DEF CON shoot and put a bunch of holes in things in the desert? All right, so they're both about physical penetration and the big contest that we ran this year is the black bag show. It is a break in, gather intelligence and break back out again kind of contest. Everyone who saw it, everyone who played it, everyone knows how much goes into it. You know it's really fun. You should all try it in the future. Follow the Twitter account that was in the program. It was really easy to qualify. We had five incredible finalists this year. In third place, we had Sexlut from Salt Lake, Utah. 120, sorry, 1,297 points, really excellent job. They did a fine job, a big applause for them. In second place, we had the Normative Deviants.  That was 1,477 points because they were the only team to get this fed device called a hot plug to properly jack a computer out of the wall without turning it off and switch the power. Big hand for the Normative Deviants. But in first place, we had our German friends, the strange invaders, here they are, big hand. Over 1500 points, virtually every single objective, they did the fastest time, 6 minutes and 50 seconds. They were in and out, they were fricking rocking it and you guys are absolutely amazing, you're wonderful, and we have some wonderful things for you here. You got your locketrons, right? You also get this. Thank you so much, Deviant, and for everybody who hasn't been locked in, I can say it was as much fun as winning cannonball but half as illegal. So do lockpicking. Alright, up next we have Capture the Packet. How's it going everyone? So this year we did the packet hacking village. What did you guys think? So one of our events there was the capture the packet event and it was chosen to be a black badge again this year. We did some ridiculous stuff again. As Team Brodyo here, the first place winners, give them a hand. Right? Stego challenges for the final rounds after lots and lots of little rat holes all over the place. There was a picture of a key and they actually had to decode the pins on the key. So we kind of mixed in a little bit of stupidness but we want to congratulate them. This is a brand new MacBook Air and they're getting a black badge for it and then awesome, here we go. And then for Dark Tangent we have his packet hacking village staff badge. Excellent. Now I can go into the room. We did it. Locked out. But thank you everyone.  Thank you all much. All right. Let's keep this party going. Next up we have the DEF CON dark net project. Who wants a t-shirt? One of the last 36 limited edition t-shirts we got printed up for the crew this year. So enjoy that. The DEF CON dark net project was an MMO in real life that we set at DEF CON and instead of talking to some guy with a yellow question mark over your head who sends you on a quest to go get like 14 virginal rat scrotums or whatever. We send you on quests to go learn skills. Things like learn how to crack web, learn how to crack passwords, learn how to play the game. That's what the kids were for. That kind of stuff. It was a lot of fun. We had a fantastic response. We had over 330 people playing. 157 of them were actively playing. Before I do I want to thank my crew. Zero altitude, fish, crux, neon, spetku, Fletch, Bunny, Skyrea, Gator bite, so much. Probably the best part about this game is the diversity of the people who play the game. We have a lot of women and a lot of children who are playing this game. The whole point of it was to teach people starting at assuming zero knowledge and teach you how to do these things as opposed to seeing how neat you already are. So in that way it's kind of a unique game. I want to thank you. The third place with 4,788 points was Caspian. In second place with 590 points was Deviant Satan. Not to be confused with Deviant Olam. First place, the guy was crushing it. We were looking through the database to make sure he wasn't faking it. 650, 690 points was Silk. Best yet, we got $3,000 for the EFF. Thank you so much for buying all the kits. We will make more next year. Thank you very much. One more thing. The DC dark net is not just at DEF CON. You can play it online throughout the entire year. DCdark.net. Thanks. Next we have social engineering. Capture the flag. How many? Come on. Shirts. Are books too hard to throw? Anybody want a book? You said it wasn't too hard. Don't be a win. That was an epic fail. Okay. Book. Book. Excitement. First things first. I got to thank dark tangent because this year he turned the village into an actual DEF CON track. We had six or seven human-based speeches and it went awesome. You were lined up for 45 minutes outside. Thank you. It was recorded. Be on the DEF CON DVD. That's awesome. I got to mention the second place winners. Nico mentioned the thing for kids was an official DEF CON event. And then our SECTF second place winners was Broshel engineers. Broshel engineers? Broshel engineers. More pause than that. They got some cool SE stuff. Here's the cool story. I got a minute and 40 seconds. I'm going to talk fast. Stop telling me. The team that we had, we had tag teams. They had to go in the booth and what we had was the first team the guy got sick. And he couldn't make it. We yanked the guy out of the audience and said you're going to get in the booth and be this woman's partner and we're going to give you a half an hour to prepare. They won. They just beat him. Here's the best part. It's his wife. The best part is the black badge. That's going to be a fun ride home. I guarantee you. Thanks guys. We'll see you next year. All right. Next up is Open CTF. Hey guys. So my name is Sohan and I'm part of Vann. Vann ran Open CTF this year. And Open CTF is a Jeopardy style competition where challenges range from every single person in this conference can do it to a very, very hard challenge. So we had tons of people really excited about this and we were really sad that this didn't happen last year.  We got at the contest together and we had so many people wanting to play we ran the competition on modems. So we had people coming in and soldering together modems just so they could play with us. So we had 31 teams compete and we had half a dozen countries represented in that. Let me just go ahead and read off the scores. So for third place we had an Australian team 4979 with 3700 points. We had a French team who their first time to DEF CON they played petite bite with 4200 points.  This is the backbone for all the telephone system using the competition. So thank you guys thank you very much and we welcome everyone to play open CTF next year. All right I assure you folks we're on the homestretch we're getting there. Another black badge contest event here is right here on stage Mr. Lost to talk about his contest. So those of you that saw the 1057 room on the conference floor and were wondering what that is if you wandered in 530 in the morning several nights you would have seen a number of people working furiously on the ciphers that are all throughout the conference. It was part of the badge challenge. How many of you by chance solved the lanyard cipher this year? A few. So if you take a look at your lanyards on the back of them there's a medieval numbering system complete with Chinese and Korean monikers to give you the pattern to make a lattice work of all eight individual unique lanyards that you needed to weave together to produce a solution that drove you to a website but it wasn't quite obvious that it was a website the clue was do not miss the point in curious codes driving you to the URL curious.codes and this is just an example of one of the many steps that the badge challenge took this year I'm humbled every year by the ingenuity and the intelligence of the people that make it all the way through the badge challenge it's a very difficult contest and it's very humbling to me to see this so the MLF guys can you come up here as quickly as you can because we're on a tight time run run run so these guys are the Muppet Liberation Front can you guys for like 30 seconds give a quick what it's like to go through this because I think a lot of the noobs don't have any clue what you guys went through to do this I can tell you we showed up on Wednesday evening and we just stopped it was a yesterday morning I'm not even sure on the days at this point but in three days to all nighters a bunch of guys in a room and our brains are still bleeding a little bit but we did it quick quick quick I mean anything that was difficult things you hate me for things we hate you for well we didn't sleep at all I was in a room with a bunch of people who were and yeah that's a shout out for everyone else who made us work as hard as we did we my teammates were up in the room and they were like can we go to sleep yet and I was like hell no we have people on our ass we're about to lose so thanks to everyone else who made us try as hard as we did we'll see you next year so interesting side note while I take it upon myself to not go to bed until they do so if they decide to continue to work I stay with them I got a gun right alongside all of them if you notice the code in the program this year and the weird numbers on the pages it actually decoded to a google voice number which I'll give to the audience and I'll tell you why in a second and that is 251 a secret which actually called a phone that I kept on my personal conference and from Wednesday on the phone has rung non stop so I have been getting hundreds and hundreds of google voice mail and I'm going to actually put them up on a website if anybody's interested to see what crazy ass things you guys say into a phone that you get a random number from a program at a hacker conference it's quite interesting some of the things that come through my wife was actually saying some of the things were just quite terrifying so congratulations on the marriage thank you so one last quick thing so while we were in the contest room and they were working on the batch challenge we didn't want to solve their shirts so our guys turned their guns on to that and we solved it in about 30 minutes so anyway, those of you that competed thank you very much, those of you who are new I encourage you to try your hand there's a varying level of difficulty for everything from ROT 13 all the way to OTPs and cryptologic puzzles to twist your mind so welcome to DEF CON and thank you very much for the teams that make the contest for me to see what it is, thank you last but certainly not least and this is I think one of the coolest things that happens at the entire conference we've got the capture the flag team legitimate business syndicate, come on up good evening, I'm Vito Genovese from legitimate business syndicate and we've just finished our second year of DEF CON capture the flag first, thanks to the DEF CON organizers the wonderful goons our friends and families and the global capture the flag community do not do this without your support and friendship as returning hosts we decided to step up our game with all new challenges a new processor architecture and new evil tricks the most visible change is the DEF CON capture the flag badge which includes an MSP 430 processor a 900 megahertz radio and a custom exploitable networked service called Badger we also had three ARM services and a service that switched from emulated 386 to ARM halfway through the game we apologize and you're welcome also knew this year was an attack visualizer on the screen behind us built by Hoju this led to the busiest capture the flag room ever we've had a few growing pains too a new scoring algorithm designed to keep teams from zeroing out to the bottom of the scoreboard resulted in teams zeroing out to the bottom of the scoreboard we also had hardware crashes that made life difficult for a few teams we have retabulated the scores to make sure this was handled in a fair way we know you have improved your capture the flag we know you we know how important your CTF time scores are so we've recalculated the scores to make it right we'll be posting details, source code and database dumps soon hi everybody I'm Guy Nefage from legitimate business syndicate all teams have received the odroid hardware that we hosted the game on this year so do not expect to see that next year we're stepping up our game even harder next year they've also each team also received one of the CTF badges to take home with them we will be releasing source code build materials and build sheets for this later on this year our team will receive eight black badges and eight leather jackets so without further ado I'd like to announce the winners in third place a newcomer to DEF CON CTF Dragon Sector I believe they are from Poland I believe they are from Poland in second place HITCON from Taiwan from Taiwan and in first place the champions PPP it's a fun time everyone should try to play it was a great contest see you guys next year thank you and have a good evening if you wonder what we do with all of your money we make cool podiums like this we have a surprise announcement to show the depth of commitment our attendees will go to come on up Joe Grand my name is Joe Grand no applause please this is we had an opportunity to turn a crazy dinner conversation into a fundraising event by permanently marking the skin of our fine Shaggy from 303 and what we ended up doing is Shaggy got a really crazy tattoo with my signature on it and a logo of the JTAGulator hardware hacking tool I made last year and some amazing art by Eddie Crypt paid for it so his signature is on there and besides being completely insane Shaggy was like well why don't we try to raise money for the EFF at the same time so instead of getting mohawks he decided to brand his skin with this amazing piece of art if you want to see it on your phone or computer or whatever go to at Joe Grand I live tweeted his event from was it last night already? if you want to see it in person you can come up here after the event Eddie's going to be standing with him he'll lift up his leg this fine piece of meat right there and you can throw a few bucks to Eddie which is all going to go to the EFF here's a sneak peek don't show too much sneak peek and come up take a look give some money to Eddie for a little final EFF fundraising thanks and this just shows the commitment people that are doing stuff for DEF CON and free EFF whatever you can do to make a change is appreciated so thanks I know I know thank you okay alrighty so there's been a lot of rumors floating around and while I can neither confirm nor deny I just want to let you know it's about that time to pack your bags no people didn't want to know people tweeting stuff out and so I'm going to confirm that those of you who have been speculating and twittering that we're moving to the Paris but like everything DEF CON it's not what it seems because we don't want to tell you ahead of time it's not that we don't trust you it's that we don't trust you it's so where we're at now the Rio has about 160,000 square feet of space and we don't know what happened this year I mean it went crazy like we filled up faster I mean we have projections and because we don't take pre-rej we just have to we do a lot of math and we look at what black hats doing and we try to guess but you guys came later than usual and you came in more numbers than usual and it totally screwed us up so we're worried that we're worried that 160 from going from 160 175,000 square feet oh the Rio is 175,000 the Paris is 140 that's not going to be enough so we've decided we're also going to take over ballies so if you combine if you combine both of the square feet we're going to go from about 175,000 to 315,000 square feet so it's sort of like this embarrassment of riches what do I do with 315,000 square feet but luckily I have you guys I've got the community so it's predictable we're going to have more villages more contests yes hardware hacking village will increase in size where how many of you people remember at the old Riviera we had those party spaces on the top floor yeah so we have the entire 26th floor of of ballies and we have like 6 banks of express elevators that only take us there so so you can expect to see parties and shit happening on the 26th floor so I just want to say that we will have plenty of space and we're going to do a lot of cool stuff that we've only been wanting to do over the last few years so on one hand we got lucky it was a big surge this year but next year we might actually have to close space off because we're not going to have enough stuff to fill it yeah I'm not so sure about that the other thing is you know those of you who are in registration lines that like sucked and were like out there and vortexing around the pool you know you've never done that before normally you did Friday normally by Friday evening you guys did halfway through Thursday so I don't know what happened the pattern changed and so next year we're going to have it's not even going to be funny we're going to have like registration everywhere like there's no way for you not to get registered would you like a little registration with that yeah so so expect more kinds of music more kinds of parties this year the variety of parties we had and spaces yeah who saw the crazy robot army that would dance to your hands so I love that stuff and with all this space next year we're just going to have more stuff to really showcase what we can do as a community so I'm really looking forward to it so we might end up working extra hard but it's going to really rock next year I'm going to give you guys the heads up to be ready for that and to make life a little easier for you guys it's going to be surrounded by other hotels and so it's easier to get to and so we've done a deal with the Paris ballies the people that own those hotels so we're going to have a bunch of space in the hotels around Paris ballies so the rooms are going to start at like $49 at night so finally we can get you out of your housing and so we're going to have Planet Hollywood Flemingo, the Quad Caesars in Paris and ballies with good rates so cool so before we shut it down and I call for a round of applause for everybody I just want to have everybody acknowledge the awesome work the hotel has done here and how good they've been a good home for us for so many years and it's sad to outgrow them so you got to move on you got to grow so let's give a big round of applause for the Rio they've been awesome ok so with that I'm going to officially call it to a close and I will see you at the bar thank you


It is August 2020, and the world news cycle has been interrupted from its COVID obsession, with one hell of a disaster. The virus, at least on UK news, is pushed down the reporting list, with parts of the city looking like a war has ravaged through it. Although looking like a bomb has gone off, this destruction has been caused by what to laymen may seem as something not very dangerous, a main ingredient in fertilizer. Although to you my loyal watchers, you know how deadly this stuff can actually be. No surprise that it piqued the interest of the news media. So today I probably don't need to introduce this video subject, but I will do anyway. This Saturday we are looking at the Beirut explosion, a ship and a harbour. The city of Beirut has been the proud owner of a port since the 1880s. It has a long and interesting history, with it playing an important role during the Lebanese Civil War. After the war, and as the city began to rebuild itself, and as the country started the process of reconciliation, the port would go on to become one of the largest and busiest on the eastern Mediterranean. So ships come and go, freight is loaded and unloaded. All pretty standard fare for a harbour. Another not unheard of thing is that of ship abandonment. Where vessels come into port, the owners disavow their property, and often the crew are left high and dry. The lucky ones usually get to bugger off, but sometimes some poor souls are left aboard. This would be the similar situation of a cargo ship entering the port of Beirut on the 21st November 2013. The ship's name is the MV Roses. She is a 1900 gross tonne cargo ship, built in 1986 in Naruto, Japan. Originally as a dredger, named Daifuku Maru No. 8, but over the years she changed hands, names and even changed use. To her final form as a cargo vessel. Her final owner was Russian businessman Igor Grechuskin from 2012, who was living in Limosol Cyprus. The MV Roses, as she was now known, flew the Moldovan flag. This was Grechuskin's first goer owning a ship, and it wasn't going to go so well. In July 2013 the MV Roses was held up by Spanish authorities in the port of Seville. She was falling apart and was not the most reliable. She was set sail once again and be chartered to transport 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in bags in September 2013. The company that chartered the load was Rostavi Azot LLC, a Georgian fertiliser maker. It was to be shipped from Georgia to Fabrika de Explosifos Mozambique in Matola Mozambique. By the 27th of September the MV Roses was loaded up and ready to depart from Batami. She set sail, stopping at various ports along the way towards the Suez Canal. On the 21st of November 2013 she entered the port of Beirut. You see the ship was having financial issues, with worries the owner did not have enough funds to pay the Suez Canal toll. The ship's owner had found another shipment of cargo that would be dropped off along the way to Mozambique. Perfect. This would pay for that pesky Suez fee, but there was a small snack. The MV Roses important cargo hatches were rusty and weak and as captain Boris Prokazhev would later say to the BBC in an interview, the hatches were buckled and weak so we couldn't take it, we refused. You see refusing the cargo came with a fine, a fine the owner refused to pay and on top of that and port fees. As such the MV Roses was impounded, all but for the crew managed to flee the ship and escape back to their home country of Ukraine. The remaining crew including the captain would be stuck aboard the ship for around a year, when after selling some of its fuel to hire a lawyer managed to secure their own release. But the MV Roses stayed in port. The owner had claimed to be bankrupt and the cargo owners by now had lost interest. As such she stayed in Beirut. But not just the vessel stayed. Her explosive material was aboard and also sat there. The cargo was brought to shore in 2014 and placed in a building named Hangar 12. Over the years the cargo would sit and the MV Roses still moored in port would eventually take on water and sink. But although financially damaging for the ship's owner, the MV Roses' cargo was now one big headache for Lebanese customs officials. They had essentially now got to house a 2,750 ton bomb. Officials tried to find someone to offload the literal ticking time bomb off to, by sending out letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issue. In July 2020, Lebanon's High Defence Council informed President Aoun that there were dangerous materials in Beirut's port. He immediately ordered military and security agencies to do what was needed in order to remove them safely. But sadly the cargo would languish inside Hangar 12 until disaster would strike in August that same year. The explosion. It is the 4th of August 2020 and some welders are working on a hangar door repair. This was the same hangar that was the home to that couple of thousand tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The same building had also been home to a stash of fireworks. At around 1745 sparks landed on the pile of fireworks and this started a small fire. A team of firefighters were dispatched. Upon arrival just 10 minutes later the hangar was emitting strange noises and the fire was getting increasingly more intense. An explosion rang out at an estimated yield of between 1.5 and 2.5 tonnes of TNT. This was at 1807. Fireworks flashed and sparked as hangar 12 showed some signs of damage. 33 to 35 seconds later a much larger explosion erupted from the hangar. Some estimated it at 1.1 kilotons of TNT. The explosion could be felt some 150 miles away in Cyprus. The shockwave blasted out into the city of Beirut. An orangey red cloud descended upon the city. A common sight after an ammonium nitrate explosion. Next door to hangar 12 was the country's largest grain store. It was severely damaged leaving the country with less than one month supply of grain. Multiple buildings including three hospitals were obliterated. Buildings within a six mile radius suffered varying levels of damage leaving around 300,000 people displaced. Some of the buildings damaged even included cultural heritage sites, museums and embassies. Ships in the harbour suffered extensive damage including the cruise ship Orient Queen which was subsequently capsized. Anyone who could in the city helped by pulling people out of the damaged buildings and any working vehicle in and around the port area was used for emergency transport for injured people. In total 75 ambulances and 375 medics were dispatched to assist the injured and trapped. Local businesses offered food and medical supplies where they could and the international community arranged help for the city including the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK also sending search and rescue teams. A day after the explosion Prime Minister Hassan Dayeb declared a two-week state of emergency and the government launched an investigation into the explosion. Over the coming weeks debris would be disposed of by local residents as they tried to rebuild their lives and several hotels were opened up to house the displaced. Eventually the death toll would become apparent. A surprisingly low but still tragic number of roughly 218 with another 7,000 injured. Included in the dead was the original team of firefighters dispatched to the original firework fire. The city like many across the world at this point in 2020 was already feeling the financial pinch with Covid shortages. As such it hit the country hard financially with an estimated cost of around 15 billion US dollars. The investigation. Now usually at this point in the video I go over the investigation where those responsible are identified. But with the Beirut disaster the investigation was and is shall we say less than ideal. The government formed an investigative committee led by Prime Minister Hassan Dayeb. Although he resigned from his job on the 10th of August 2020. A day after the explosion 16 Beirut port officials who had overseen the storage of the material since 2014 were placed under house arrest. The number would increase to 25 within the first few days. Interpol also asked to detain the Russian ship's owner and the captain. And red notices were issued. Judge Fadi Sawan was appointed to head up the investigation. He started summoning various ministers and surprise surprise he would be relieved of his position in February 2021 with Tarik Baitel taking over the same month. The investigation would soon fall into infighting across the country's political lines. Prime Minister Dayeb and three former ministers were also charged with negligence over the Beirut port explosion. The investigation ground to a halt because higher ups in the Lebanese government were immune to investigations. And by early 2023 all suspects had been released. And he was looking like the investigation wouldn't carry on. But surprisingly Tarik Baitel resumed his work in March 2023. He would bring charges against Lebanon's most senior prosecutor. But so far it hasn't led to anything substantial. Meaning the investigation is still ongoing at the time of writing this script in mid-2023. The investigation or lack of has created concerns in the international community as it has highlighted issues with the Lebanese judiciary. The city would go on to rebuild but in 2022 the grain silo which had taken the significant portion of the explosion caught a light and collapsed. The disaster showed how deadly ammonium nitrate can be when ignored. Most of the players in their disaster had just not really appreciated the bomb they had in Hangar 12. And this is all too common as we see across the world with ammonium nitrate explosions. This is a plain difficult production. All videos on the channel are creative commons attribution share alike licensed. Plain difficult videos are produced by me John in the currently, because it's night time, cold and dark southern corner of London UK. I have YouTube members and patrons so thank you very much for your financial support and the rest of you who tune in every week to listen and watch me talk. I have Instagram and Twitter where I post up behind the scenes photographs and the like. And I also have a second channel made by John. And all that's left to say is thank you for watching and Mr Music, play us out please.


She said, I hear that monks are looking for shelter in many homes. Why don't you come and stay in my house? Gautama said, if she's inviting you with so much affection, you must go stay there. Then people saw, see, he's gone. Gautama, the Buddha, with a large group of his disciples who was continuously traveling made a rule that during the monsoon season, those two-and-a-half months, you can stay in the same place. The rule for the sannyasis or the monks who were with him is you should never stay in any place for more than two days. Normally, the monks were sheltered in many homes. So this rule he passed, more than two nights you don't stay in one house because it will be too much of a burden for the host. They are housing ten people, you don't stay there for a month. Two days, it should have been one day. Two because you have walked a long distance and come, bit of recovery time. But during the monsoon season, he said up to two-to-two-and-a-half months you can stay in one place because walking through the jungles of that region, during the monsoon season would be treacherous and many would lose their lives. So this is a time like that. They stayed in a large town and they were spread across in many homes. The monks went out to get their arms from the people. Ananda or Ananda Tirtha, as he was known, who happened to be Gautama's elder brother before his monkhood, went out and there was a courtesan or a prostitute in the town. She gave him arms, looked at him, a handsome young man tall and straight. She said, I hear that monks are looking for shelter in many homes. Why don't you come and stay in my house? Ananda said, I have no issue, but I must ask the Buddha as to where I should stay. Then she became really taunting. She said, oh, you want to ask your guru? Go and ask him, let's see what he says. So Ananda brought what he had collected for the day. Gautama was sitting, he came and placed it at his feet. And everybody is supposed to find food and shelter wherever they go. Ananda asked like this, this lady is inviting me, can I stay there? Gautama said, if she's inviting you with so much affection, you must go stay there. The townspeople who are sitting here, they said, what? A monk is going to go and stay in a prostitute's home. This is it. This spiritual process has become corrupt. Gautama looked at them and said, why are you so worried? The lady is inviting him. Let him stay, what is the problem? They all started getting up and started shouting. He said, wait, I am on this path because I see this is the most powerful way to live. Now you're telling me, her ways are more powerful than my ways. If that is the truth, I will also go and join her. I'm here because I see this is the most precious and powerful way to exist. If you think her ways are better than mine, I should also go and join.  If you found something much higher, you go for that. Then people shouted and many of them of course, leave. Then Ananda went and stayed with her. Months and time because of rains, it gets cold. Monk is wearing a thin habit. So she gave him a nice silk wrap. He covered himself. Then people saw, see, he's gone. She made nice cooking and gave it to him. He ate. Then in the evening she danced for him. He sat watching very carefully. That most attention, then when they heard the music, this is it, finished. Things went on. When the time was up, when the rain stopped, when it's time to move, Ananda came to Gautama along with a female monk. So the power of being on the path of truth has been there, but has been many times at its height, but never got mainstreamed. I see that today, because of our ability to communicate, because of the tools of technology, the natural longing, the innate longing in a human being to find truth. This is not a thought thing. This is not something that been taught to people that you must seek truth. It is natural for human intelligence to seek what is highest. If you are given an option, any human being, given an option, either to be here or there, he will always say, I want to be there. Right now he may be caught up here, but aspiration is to go to whatever is the highest. It is just that we have to show him that there are better highs than getting drunk, there are better highs than drugs, there are better highs than being caught up in social drama, there are better highs than being better than someone else. We just have to show it to him, we have to make him understand there is a better high. Forever, many sages, saints, yogis, gurus have been doing this, but as I said, they were gentle people. They didn't have a voice like me. They didn't have a microphone. They didn't have tools with which they could speak to somebody there. They could only speak to people here. In spite of that, they did tremendous things. For their times, many of them did tremendous things out of sheer grace and energy. Millions of people around them, they transformed. Millions of people around them, they put them on the path of truth, on the power of truth. But the time has come where our ability to communicate is such, we can make truth slip through every door. We can make truth knock on everybody's minds and hearts. Never before this was possible. Technology has rendered us to this place. I felt this is the best age ever to make truth mainstream, to make, to be truthful, to aspire for truth, to seek truth. The main force on the planet, because we have tools that nobody ever had.


Hi everybody, my name is Alexei Volkov and I'm representing Binion company, small startup from Slovenia and actually we are international team from Exsoyot Union and ex-Yugoslavia and we are building cloud service based at top of NextCloud actually it's own cloud in production yet. Our mission is delivering the philosophy on NextCloud of our own cloud of private self-host storage to ordinary people and how today I will at my workshop I will show how we do this. So what is a traditional approach for building public cloud storages? You have your server and you provide running instance of NextCloud and you provide storage. From the user point of view it's not much different from any other any other cloud storages from Google Drive or from Dropbox. You have to upload your data to this server. You have to trust this service, you have to upload this data and you create sometimes in some cases it's overkill to upload your home storage. It may be terabytes, large disk to share your materials, to show your content to your friends, to your family. It's absolutely no necessary to sync it. And our approach to solve this problem is splitting the stack into parts. We provide only an instance of our cloud running in cloud and we keep the storage on the user side. NextCloud runs at top of our virtual file system. It's a demo on the server which communicates with backends. Install it on the desktops at user home PCs, file servers in small companies, traditional windows shares. So we actually keep this philosophy of privately hosting, privately host file storage while keeping this by providing this NextCloud and GUI interface. And the whole stack of applications that NextCloud provides. So it looks like this actually. This is this picture in more details. So web service is built on NextCloud instance as we have GUI and our own virtual file system layer built in C++. It's a demo. It provides secure software communicating with disk to client. It is supported for all operating systems, disk to operating systems and also for embedded devices. Today on workshop I will show how to connect Raspberry Pi. It's actually with almost zero configuration. Just plug it in the network. Type the PIM code in the cloud in your user profile on cloud, NextCloud and to access the data stored on the device. And also you can try out the desktop client. I plan to update the desktop client to show the new version of the desktop client but I have broken it yesterday. So in coming couple of weeks we will make new release with much, much more easier, much more user friendly desktop client. And this slide I usually show these slides to people not familiar with NextCloud. This is a use case demonstrated. Why do you need such kind of service when you are, for example, this use case demonstrates big multimedia data that you want to share directly from your disk. Our friend is waiting photographer and he captures fancy waiting videos and his job is delivering these materials to his clients, to his customers. And often it is overkill to upload each version of the video to some kind of video service. So he uses this on my disk service to share the link directly from his device, from his desktop. And it's our team and I think that is all. Much more information and you will be well-built up with my workshop today. So everybody welcome.


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