All right. Defcon. We're going to try something new. It's going to be kind of a shocker for you. It's something we haven't really done too often. It's called starting on time. And you're going to notice we've tightened up the closing a bit. Every year we try to make it more compact and be sensitive to your time. And so normally it's about used to be two hours. How many remember that? Yeah. Then it was an hour and a half. And now we're targeting an hour. So you can get out of here and get to the bars and hang out a little bit more. So we're going to try to do it in an hour. So before we really get started I need a little bit of audience feedback. How many people noticed this year there's two things we did to try to make things a little bit better for everybody. One is five more minutes between tracks so you don't feel so crushed getting from room to room. Was that good? Excellent. Okay. So we'll stick with that then because did anybody really feel like a 45 minute talk was that much shorter than a... Excuse me. We have a tradition at Defcon. And I believe we have a first time speaker at Defcon 21. A Mr... What is it? Mr. Tangent. So we have a shot. I'm supposed to drink this? Yes you are. Thank you sir. All right. To Jeff... Sorry. Mr. Tangent is going to represent all first time attendees at Defcon. Thank you for coming. Thank you. I was saying... I was saying very smooth, very smooth alcohol. The finest that money can buy. So that was one thing. And how much did you guys get into the villages? We almost doubled the sizes of the villages this year. So you notice we took away space from one of the tracks and we basically gave it to the villages. And that whole idea was how do I break you guys into smaller sections, smaller groups so you can spend time and make new friends and kind of get that smaller one-on-one kind of creative problem solving thing going in. So we added 20 stations to the hardware hacking villages and they were like filled. So next year we're going to probably add another 20. And it's... So you can sort of see where this is heading. We might actually, depending, we might actually have to cut a track of speaking but instead we'll end up with all these extra villages and all these other contests and things you can participate in. So that's really where we're trying to go with this is get you guys into smaller problem-solving groups and just really, you know, really enjoy it. And it'll be on us when we're selecting speeches to try to just really pick the best speeches. And that's what's happening. So I'm glad you guys are buying in on it. That's what we're doing next year. So very, very good. Yay team. So we're now going to start the closing ceremonies. And this is a tradition we've done for a while. We're going to announce all the winners of all the various contests. We have up here all the black badges that get the winners to the black badge rated contests into DEF CON for life. It changes year to year what sometimes what the contests are based on the amount of effort involved, technical skill needed. And to a large part, some are just tradition. Everybody always plays in the hacker jeopardy. So hacker jeopardy always participates. It's also the first year of the new copter, the flag organizers, the legit BS. And so I think they've done a fantastic year this year. So we'll be finding out who the winners are. So I've got my sheet. I've got my numbers on it. And I think I've talked to my five minutes. So I'm going to wait. I got two minutes and 43 seconds. You better hold that up to everybody. See, look. Look at that. You know, if we get too much more organized, we'll be threatened, we'll be confused with somebody with a plan.  So let me see. There's a really old embarrassing picture of me somebody's found up on stage. So I want to introduce Lockheed. Remember last year when Lockheed retired? It's like, what are you doing here? Yeah, because that worked out well. That's right.  So I'd like to introduce Lockheed. And he's going to go through some of the items here. And we're going to pass the torch on a few of our staff that are retiring, like Lockheed. So we fully expect to see them back maybe next year and doing something else. But for now they're changing their main role and maybe transitioning into something else. So Lockheed, take it away. So first question. How many people believe that they have survived DEF CON now? I have some bad news for you. You did it wrong. First of all, I've really got to take just a couple minutes here. We have an amazing staff that puts this together for you guys. We work literally all year round to make this happen. So I've got to call out all the different teams. Cheryl and Dule with production. We've got Noid, CJ, Lee with security, keeping you guys safe and organized. Speaker operations who make sure speakers show up. The network team who provides you internet access for the porns. Contest and event for what was it? 30% of the floor space? Yeah. Yeah. Registration who made sure that that long damn line moved as quick as possible. Dispatch, which you guys don't see, but they help keep us organized and actually talking to each other.  Info booth for providing you guys updates to things that were wrong in the program.  The press corps for making sure that the press gets the story right.  And of course, Neil and Nikita for working in Jeff's office and having to actually deal with him on every single day basis. And how many people saw the documentary? Good? You liked it? Yeah. So we definitely have to once again thank Jason and Russ for all their hard work, giving up their lives for the last two years to make this happen. Now as Jeff said, we have some friends who clearly have an act of fantasy life. So we'd like to take just a few minutes to recognize the people who believe that they are retiring. So we want to start with Zach Franken, who has run operations for the last 20 years. Just to make sure that your excuses you can't afford to come back. We're making sure you can get in for free forever. We've never done this before. It's really heavy and probably won't make it through x-ray. But we've had this special plaque made for you. You're the first person to ever receive it. Sort of lifetime achievement award. Goon emeritus. So we'll see you again next year, right?  Thank you so much. Well, no, we're not done yet. You need to keep the time so you know how much time is left until the next con. So here's a pocket watch for you to keep time. Thank you so much. This is from all the security guns, all the red sharks that keep you safe. Thank you. And Zach, finally, having been to your house and had dinner, knowing how skilled you are actually in the kitchen, and you're really good at what you do back at home. We wanted to provide you this very nice knife set to take back with you. Now, just remember when you go through security at the airport, this is a culinary art exhibition. So congratulations. And here's to another 20 years of DEF CON. We've seen it change so much over the years. We've grown up as a community.  So keep it up. You may have recognized his Mohawk and his guitar playing. But Romer has been a long time goon. One of my good friends, as soon as I moved to Washington, D.C., he moved to California. I don't know what's up with that. You need somebody to take care of the colo. Yeah, that's right. But now he's five minutes from the colo. So it's really convenient to swap out servers whenever necessary. So I don't know how I want to really introduce you. You found a niche at DEF CON by doing many different things over the years and you've done really well at every one of them. And so it feels really bad losing you. But you've done a great job in training your staff and promoting people over the years. And so it's going to be left in good hands, right? It better be. Because you're going to be back next year, right? Yeah, apparently this retiring thing doesn't work exactly the way you thought it does. So we've got something for you. Also probably not safe for X-ray. So if Zack is goon emeritus, let's see what you are. Goon is a drunkist. Guitars hammer us.   But Romer's been with us since DEF CON 7. And so I think he's put in his 12 years. A little bit. Yeah, yeah. So you don't get one of these black badges unless you've been with us for at least 10. So you've just made the cut, man. Thank you very much. It's going to be really sad seeing you go. The only thing I want to say is thank you to you for all these years. This has been an absolute blast. I've always done it because I love it. And I've always done it because I love you guys. And DEF CON would not be what it is without you. So thank you guys all for showing up every year and making this worthwhile for us to do. And next year, let's just all drink and me not have to work. Yeah, so we found this really embarrassing picture of Noid. And if you look at the badge, I think that's a DEF CON 5 badge. So Noid is one of a handful of people that I know I've met and known since DEF CON 1. There's, I think, Connell, the original goon metalhead. And Jennifer Granik, I think, came to the very first one. But there's not that many people from the very first one. And not only did he stick around for 20 years, he put in 21 years at DEF CON. And he doesn't know it. But I do this presentation and it has that little VW bug with all of the people from DEF CON 1 essentially sticking out of the VW beetle. And he's one of those people right up with LF 1 and some of the really early pioneers. So it's really sad. It's bittersweet to see Noid move on. But I fully understand it and I support him. And he's really revolutionized the way we approached it.  You seem to put out fires pretty quickly. Would you like to do that full time, sir? And so he's done a fantastic job. And you can guess what he's getting from us. He is Meredith number three. And anyway, it's just, it's one of those things where it's kind of tearful to see you go, man. But I know you, well, anyway, we'll see if you come back. Thank you so much. What's going on back there? What is going on back there? So I'm going to talk about this one. First off, thank you, Jeff. Thank you. And everybody else on the senior staff, it has been a pleasure for the last 21 years. It's amazing that I've been able to be a part of this thing and watch it grow from, what, 30 to 50 of us in a room to, we have storage rooms larger than the first DEF CON room. But what I really want to say is thanks to my team for allowing me to lead them all these years. And I think you all are going to do real good under CJ, who will be replacing me. Give it up for CJ. And again, thank you for letting me command for the last, I think we've been formalized as more than just me since what, DEF CON five? Or DEF CON two? Yeah, two. Jesus. Yeah, thanks for letting me be a part of this for as long as I've been a part of it. And I'm looking forward to whatever's next. Also, I have two people on my team that are retiring this year. They've both put in well over 10 years. And they have been a critical part of the success of DEF CON security. Linda Slid. Lando. Get up here, Linda.  Thank you, everyone, for letting me be a part of this. And I'm sure I'll probably see you at DEF CON 22. Yeah, for those of you who don't know the man, I'll tell a really quick story. In the planning for DEF CON 20, during some of the staff meetings, Jeff Astnoid, is there anything the security team needs? One word, battle axes. So we're still waiting on them. No, we give you goon caliber.  Yes, no one told me not to. Would you have paid attention anyway? There you go. Thank you. I'm skydog. Hi, everyone. We haven't fun yet. I want to do it. Figure it out on your own. My first DEF CON was 11 years ago. This is now my ninth year of being a goon. At year three, I earned my goon coin. When I don't have it in my pocket at DEF CON, it's permanently locked into safe. I treat it as my most valuable possession. It's a symbol of our brotherhood. Three years ago, I was given a wonderful gift. I got a set of challenge points made for myself that I could give to people in our community. The outside ring of my coin contains six qualities. Loyalty, fraternity and honor, sacrifice, dedication and passion. I give these away to the people in our community who exhibit those six qualities and who have gone above and beyond. You, sir, are the recipient of number 15. Please take the coin. Someone take this axe out of my hand. I'm really sure you want to give this to me. Could somebody else take the axe? The team has also prepared this watch for you, which says that you will always be our commanding officer. With a watch, if you take the winder and comes out as a garrote and you can plug everybody. All right. Well, for the first time in a very long time, I will not be presenting the network slides. You should cheer at that point. All right, so let me introduce Evan, who has taken over the knock. Where are you, Luis? There you are. On the right here. On the left. Luis, how's it going guys? So let's go real quick. Oh, I got ten minutes? Seven minutes? That's too long. So we're going to go over some stuff about the network team and what we do. In the case you don't know yet, this is some of the stuff that we do. We provide the wired infrastructure. We spend all week here and to provide things for speakers, vendors, contests, goons, servers, because like the media server from Jeff, it's connected to the network. The wireless network when it's protected or not protected, which we're going to talk about it. And DCTV as well. So if you're watching from your room, hello. So what else? The timeline, I know most of you know this already. Basically the timeline is we got here a week. We got here a week ago and we do set up for three days. Very intense work for the team. We have a very awesome team. And then once the conference starts, that's when the last-minute requests show up and we have to make it work, keep it working, and add some stuff to it. So and tomorrow we leave. We're packing up and we leave. But as Steve said, we plan this all year long. And it's not different from the network side either. But we usually start talking about what's going to happen in January and a brown March. We already have some planning stuff, deadlines for things, and when stuff gets red there, July, June, that's when we have lots of calls and stuff like that. The wired infrastructure, number one, we have an uplink of 120 megabits per second, which some might not, might say it's not that much. I have more, more than this at home maybe. But I was looking at the old statistics and at DEF CON 14 we had a six megabit per second uplink. So I think we're doing good. And what else we do? We have, we use free BSD firewalls, 10 managed switches and a whole bunch of unmanaged switches. And for the wireless stuff, we still have the same old trusty Aruba 6000 switch with about 50 APs. Hey, Luis. Yes. Did you burn out any APs this year? No, we didn't. Oh, that's very disappointing guys. But we got 8021X. We did. We have a slide for that. Oh, you've learned well. So talking about internet traffic, as you can see, you guys somehow, nobody here sleeps, right? But of course you stop using the network because you go to the bar and the casinos. But during the party you can see like Saturday night everyone was using that quite well. So really those dips are just where the network traffic transfers to LodgeNet. One way or another. And as for the local, so that was the internet traffic. This is the, and I'm going to go through this real quick. You, we're going to make this available in our website, defconnetworking.org. And we're going to add some more stuff as well there. But the interesting peak there is when Jeff put his media server on the network and it was working well and everybody was pulling stuff and we had to put, apply some quality of service so you didn't break the whole network. As for wireless statistics, this is the number of users. So we packed around 600 users and but we had almost 4,000 unique MAC addresses. We know that it doesn't mean anything but some stuff about statistics. We don't have like a historic one for this one for a number of attacks because there were some talks about 802.1x attacks anyway. So there's better information there for you guys. And on the right hand side you can see the coverage. This is like the real-time coverage of an hour ago. We always have issues. Some of them are sort of expected. Some are unexpected. We enjoyed this as well. So this year that we should make a t-shirt 802.1x versus Defcon Secure. As Mac, the other leader of the NOC said next year Defcon Secure should be called Defcon Gone Wild. And I'd like to thank, this is the team. Everybody's name is there. They do an amazing job. As I said, we do a lot of planning for this but there's some stuff that we, once we hit the ground here, is a lot of hard work. We all, this is a busy week for many people and these people, they really put their heart and soul and hangovers to make this work. So including in the transition phase, the retirement fail king, Lockheed, and the attempted retirement Heather. I don't know where Heather is. She's trying to retire but she can't. It was really interesting. Heather kept hanging around the knock trying not to do work and it, you know, that OCD just kept kicking in and she'd reach over and grab something. Sparky would go slap her hand and push her back to her chair. It just happened for the last four days. It was really amusing. Yeah, she got kicked out of the knock a few times. And I'd like personally to thank Mac for a lot of work that he put in. As I said, this is a busy week and I am really busy as well. And once we hit the ground he took care of mostly everything. So, Mac, thank you. I'd like to thank the hotel. Defcon staff, the AV staff at the hotel, they're amazing. They help us out a lot. We have a Twitter account so we can, you can follow us but we're not going to be posting much stuff until around this time next year. But this presentation is going to go to the Defcon networking website. You have there the website. Any feedback? Knock at defconnetworking.org. Yeah? Okay, so next, I know, I know. So yeah, so we're upgrading the wireless gear for next year. So, we're going to get more stuff. Thanks, Jeff. And lastly, I have 55 seconds. I'd like to thank the random guy who showed up in the knock and said and dropped off like some goodies for us saying I worked in a knock before.  This guy dropped off some stuff for us. Thank you, whomever you are. Okay, next up, we're going to have Nico. You're going to talk a little bit about roots. We're Defcon kids this year and you've got your countdown timer. All right, thanks, Jeff. Chris and Wynn, if you're here, come on up and help me announce the contest. We had about 300 kids and their parents this year for roots, Defcon kids. The kids found over 33 new zero days this year that will be responsibly disclosing to a lot of different vendors. So we had we had six contests this year. So kids, a lot of them have gone home, but if you're still around and you're a contest winner, you know what, go ahead and start your way up here. I'm going to start with the first contest we had called Sass Crack. Yeah, by a former White House executive Sass Crack for the kids, where they learned how to break into a site that very looked a lot like Facebook and Twitter and they learned how to break into those pretty easily. I think all six kids got in. But Sneaky McLaughlin, Kira Munson, and DCS Man were the best in that group.  Another contest we had that I think was absolutely the coolest contest in the entire kids world this year was. You guys might have heard about the Samsung Smart TV hack where some of the researchers taught you how to turn on the front-facing camera on 150 million Samsung TVs out there. Well, they also showed the kids how to do it and it turns out it's really easy to find zero days in Samsung Smart TVs. So three of the kids found zero days within an hour and they're going to responsibly disclose these and actually make a lot of money for them because both Samsung and Facebook has bug-bounding programs. So we showed the kids how to submit. And as part of that, they had to pledge if they were imparted with this knowledge that they had to give one third of their bad bunny proceeds to the ACLU or the EFF. So we also made some money for them this year. So Bryce got third place in that contest.  Neil got second place and Syfy got first place. They all found zero days. Bunny Muffins also had a contest. We had a scavenger hunt this year much like the adults have but without the kissing or flashing or anything like that obviously. And the rainbow team won.  Syfy had her contest for the third year of the row where she teaches all the other kids how to find zero days in apps. And Kryptina won. She found 27 new zero days this year in apps. Chris Hadnaggy, are you here to talk about social engineering? Okay, so we have no time.  They were our first place winners, Connor and T-Boar, if you're here. Second place winners. This year we had a lot of a lot of help. Michelle and Amanda and the team made the CTF for kids and we were told it was one of the best events they ever had. These guys traversed all different types of ciphers and also two military trained snipers shooting Nerf guns at their heads at high velocity just so they can win this competition. Great job guys, good job. Those are by the way quad copters with hidden cameras in them. Which come on, that's just freaking cool, right? Okay guys, we're going off. Mass confusion. This was the first year of Hacker Jeopardy for kids. It was awesome.   Well, never mind. Had two great teams, 7 to 12 year olds. They are better than any adult hacker Jeopardy team in history.  My little ponies won room 7 to 12. They got the rewards and prizes. If you guys are here, stand up. We don't have a lot of time. 13 to 17 year olds. A group called No Comment did awesome and one word of advice for all the people that you know that are haters about what we're doing with the kids here.  Bring them on. Bring the kids here. It is awesome. They're the next generation. Thank you. My little ponies. I keep thinking of the pony awards. Okay. We're going to talk about the fundraisers. We have a lot of fundraising activities happening at DEF CON for various number of charities. First up, we're going to talk about, let's go to the next slide, the EFF fundraising. So, Mel, you want to talk about that? Or have you disappeared, Mr. Mel? What have you done to him? Oh, he's way over there. Okay. Mel used to, for many years, watched over the, remember the shooting game we would have?  And then before that, the dunk tank. They're like, well, the shooting game is kind of getting a little old. What should we do? Like, well, we can do the dunk tank.  I'm not standing outside and burning myself. So instead, he's kind of taken on a new role. And so when one thing ends at DEF CON, you can never escape. And I want to hand it off to Mel to talk a little bit about the fundraising activities we've had going on and announce some of the numbers that we've generated this year. So, Mel? Okay. So, wow, it's been really busy this time. And there's so many things going on that I want to tell you, but they said I got to keep it short, so I'm going to try to run through it. Okay. There were a lot. There were 10 different organizations that were contributing to the EFF here. The Summit. Hack of Jar is going to come up and talk about that. They're doing an awesome job up there. So I'm not even going to give their number. I promised if I wouldn't do that. But there are others. The Mohawks. Any of you got Mohawks this time? Let's see. Stand them up. Stand them up. All right. All right. Well, the Mohawks for the EFF raised $5,058. How about that for craziness? Okay. Yeah, go Mohawk. And our fantastically bizarre and creative Edmys, the Wise Edmys. I know I get it right this time. The Wise Edmys has raised $3,000 with his artwork for the EFF. Oh, that's something. And wait, not to be undone. We also have, oh, the fail panel flapjacks. Flipping flapjacks for freedom. They raised $1,500 for the EFF today. I'm just on a roll. Don't stop me now. Okay. Then we got Cycle Overdrive is in a $1,215. Good job, Cycle Overdrive. That's right. Pedaling it from coast to coast, raising money. All right. Info Booth. Did any of you go to the Info Booth?  Well, even some of the people by there gave them money. They got $642 in donations at the Info Booth. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And the list goes on. Wi-Fi Village. Wi-Fi Village is there for $610. Okay. Open Wi-Fi. You rule. And we've got, in the hardware village, we've got Learn to Sotter. And Learn to Sotter is a great program we had going. They raised $600 for the EFF. And not to be forgotten, Hacker Jeopardy. Did any of you see Hacker Jeopardy? Yeah. Yeah, that's my boys, my buddy team. They won that. The major props out to them. Socal Rules. Hacker Jeopardy and Vanna Vinal with their photo opportunities raised $118 to kick in. And they raised $100 for the EFF. And they raised $600 for the EFF. And not to be forgotten, they raised $118 to kick in as well. Now, I'm going to hold off on the final number here because there's a couple surprises. But I want to speak a little bit about the EFF. And there's a lot of initials in the business.  Okay. And as long as D.C. won. What's that? Drink? Who's got a beer? Hey audience, what does EFF actronic? Foundation. Correct. You know, you're right. I always mess that up because I always think of the freedom thing on it. But I'll drink. They're responsible for why I'm still free. They've helped me out before. I love the EFF. Okay, great. All right, where were we? Well anyway, as long as Deaf kind has been around plus one year, so they're my plus one buddies, the EFF has been out there fighting to protect your digital rights. And I know in particular is very concerned about personal privacy. Am I right? All right, for many years we've talked about this here. We've had talks on it. We've had demonstrations showing things about it. You know, it's been an ongoing theme at DEF CON. And the basic focus here is that there needs to be some more controls and accountability for some of this stuff. Okay. Now, many of you know in the news recently, there's been some discussion regarding a certain three letter agency. Who will remain nameless? You can guess on your own. Anyway, as a result, corporations and individual citizens themselves are realizing that without greater transparency, the impact of this on our personal freedoms, the Bill of Rights, and the First and Fourth Amendment may be severely impacted. So, the EFF is fighting the good fight to preserve that. And, you need to know that there are many powerful interests involved in this fight. As a result, the EFF needs your support and your help now more than ever before. So, I'm asking each of you, go to EFF.org, learn more, look and see what they're doing, be part of it, be making a difference, be part of the solution. And that's my message to you. And with that, I think we're going to I'd like to invite our EFF friends to come up. And Hackajar. Hackajar, are you there? All right. I guess the EFF has elected for me to go first. So, my name is Hackajar. I'm part of Vegas 2.0 as you see up on the monitors there. We run a fundraiser on Thursday night for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The gist of it is that we convince all of the speakers from DEF CON and maybe some other conferences that are going on in town near the same time to come into a private event that you have to pay $40 at the door to get through to. And then you get direct access in a very small, intimate manner to all of the speakers throughout all these conferences and actually talk to them and get more information about their talks in a more direct not, hey, that was great, move on. Like, hey, I got this thing I'm doing that's very similar to that. We have a lot of great success stories with this format where many people have sent us testimonials that now they're doing projects with other people as a result of that. And really pushing forward all these different interesting things that you come here to see. We also have a bunch of entertainment and so much stuff there. And as a result, everybody wants to be there on Thursday night. And I don't know if I cue somebody to hit the button to show the actual numbers that we raised. You ready? Yeah, so this year at the EFF summit we've shattered last year's number by three times and our ultimate record by double. So this year, and I think this noting character might have had something to do with this, here's how much we actually raised. Not too shabby for four hours worth of work. It was on the back and on the back end we logged over 800 hours that we know about of actually planning and everything getting to this point. And so I want to congratulate all of you out there that made it out and made this number possible and everything. Also, if we can hit the button again, I got to get a shout out to all of our vendors that paid for the bar tab. It was like a $15,000 bar tab to get you guys free booze at this event. So thank you Google DLF. Thank you Occuvant. Thank you ISEC partners. Thank you to CrowdTilt. CrowdTilt gave us our seed funds to get this going. And thank you to Tennergy. They do the little power packs for you that you can plug your iPhone and other devices in to keep them recharged when you're not near a charger. Tennergy's a really great last minute partner. Thank you so much and I'll turn it over to the EFF now. Thank you. Before I turn it back over to Kurt with the EFF, I just want to give some final totals here. So we had Packager, awesome job man. Just keep that up. You rock. You rock. So with the 35,000 plus from the summit and the contributions from the other groups, that came to a total of $48,175. But wait, wait, wait. That's not all. There's more. At the EFF table themselves, they had a banner year. And they're still counting the money, but the number they've given me so far was over $45,000. Together, that's about $93,000. I think when they're done, we're going to be very close to $100,000 raised this year for the EFF. Thank you for all of you for doing a tremendous job coming out for this. Thank you. Thank you so much. You guys are amazing. It is such an honor to be here, to be hanging out with you guys. Your support helps us fight for your rights to privacy, fight for your rights to free speech, and I'll keep on allowing you to hack all of the things. We are so honored to be able to defend this ground and get so much support back. So thank you. Before we continue on, one thing, I'd like to bring up Edward really quick. This is the girl, this is my lovely wife, and she's also the founder of Mohawk Con. They also raised money for several other charities and other things, so I wanted to give her a chance to let you know some of the numbers that you guys helped contribute to to some of these organizations. Hi, Med. In addition to the EFF, which, like he said, our total was $5,058.58. Part of the contributing factor that was a bounty on Render Man and Fun Balls Mohawks. For those Mohawks, they raised, you guys raised $1,857.76 just for those two Mohawks. There's Render Man right there. I also had... You look good with a hawk, Render Man. I also had one fellow walk up to me at a B-Sides party and show me his fundraiser and no idea existed, and he raised $1,000 for his own Mohawk. And then there's another lovely woman who raised $155 for hers. In addition to the EFF, we support Hackers for Charity. This year, we raised $2,288 for Hackers for Charity. So I want to quickly thank you all for donating so much. Call out to my Mohawk Con cutting crew that shaved all of your lovely heads. And Mohawk Con's grand total this year was $7,346.58. All right. Next up, we're going to talk about a couple of the other fundraisers that we have here. These are very near and dear to most of our hearts because we have people in the community that are directly affected and who benefit from these types of fundraisers. So I'd like to call up the organizers of Be The Match. You could come up and please join me. Do we see them? Are they here? Oh, they had to take off yesterday. So the big thing about Be The Match is that this is a bone marrow registration. A lot of people get freaked out when they hear about bone marrow registration and there's all kinds of weird, crazy things about how painful it is or whatever. All of that stuff has been surpassed. The new technology makes it to where it's very beneficial. I don't actually have the numbers for you, but I know that it was hundreds of you went out and signed up for this and are wanting to contribute and to be part of it. They did have a match last year where they were able to get a DEF CON attendee who was able to contribute to somebody so that they were able to save their life. Blood code. Do we have the blood code organizers here? Please come up. Excellent. Jason's coming up right now. How's it going, guys? I want to know that we totally did something different this year and it was really subtle, but I think it was really important. There were no gimmicks. There were no contests. There were no, I'm going to give you some of these stuff if you donate blood, and this was still one of the best blood drives they've had. It's like, so we don't need incentives to do something good. The numbers were, for Thursday, total 29 donors, 42 donations. Friday, 44 donors, 58 donations. Saturday, 45 donors and 65 donations. Also, she wanted to say, Julie, that helped out with this, she said the people who came to donate were some of the kindest, most generous people I've met in a long time. With or without gifts, wager prizes, their hearts are always in the right place. And that speaks a lot from someone who's not in the community but can see what the community does. So, guys, once again, y'all made this awesome. Y'all made this wonderful and you made it. That's the reason why this is such a great community and a great place to be. Thank you once again. So I would, I would just like to add something to that. So, being here for so long, I told you before, I watched this community grow and mature. Last year, they had to, we had so much blood from blood codes, it had to be shipped out of state. She was literally welling up when she said, you guys, absolutely kickass, you totally beat the doctors' conferences. And I think that's awesome. So I would like to say, going forward, there's a lot of people in this room and I would like to see everybody give a pint of blood at Defconn. I'm sure we can try and arrange something like that. But absolutely. This is a classic example of showing the world what our community can do.  So I'd like to, for those of you who have got something to drink, I want to just take a brief moment to we've got a little presentation, but I'd just like to call out, this year we lost two really key people of the community. A lot of you know or knew of Barnaby Jack, Dark Spirit, and Brad was an amazing guy. This guy always ran at full speed. His brain was overclocked. I think that's probably something that did him in. He was thinking and talking twice as fast. And an amazing individual. And we just want to call out and say that while they're gone, they'll never be forgotten. And just give us a quick moment here. Oh, a quick moment here to just reflect on what it means to be part of community and contribute to something bigger than yourself because these people did and they had a great time doing it. It wasn't painful. It was actually really enjoyable for them. So let's just give them a round of applause. Have a drink tonight at the bar. Yeah, so it's pretty amazing when you and your memory and your work will live on. The things they did were just unforgettable. I know when I get hit by my bus I hope you guys will raise a drink for me here because this is an amazing community. Okay, I'm not going to keep harping on that or I'll start crying. So let's kick off the contest winners. I want to hand that off to the contest coordinator, Pyro. We're going to work through it. We've got black badges up here. We are going to go through this quickly but in the interest of even spending more time there's something a little special I'd like to do. Most people don't know this. Falker sitting here on the front of the stage it's his birthday today. So would you please join me in singing Falker happy birthday? Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you more sir. All right, we're going to run through these really quick. For those of you who don't know we kind of changed the way that we do contest events this year. I'd like to take just a second to thank all of my goons but to give you an idea of how large this department has grown, I first started in 2017. There wasn't really a formal contest event group at that time but there were people that were doing contest events and these people were out in hallways maybe the occasional small room. It was absolutely insane. Here at DEF CON 21 I've moved kind of I tried to retire and Jeff wasn't going to have any of that. So I moved into kind of an executive position I'm now overseeing two lead teams but to give you an idea of how large contest events has grown to we have 242 employees or their supervisor or I'm sorry their supporters.  That includes the villages, all the individual contest and events and everything else you see there. It's about one third of the DEF CON floor. So I really do want to give the big props to all of those teams that have helped me out. You guys were exceptional this year. I heard nothing but props and thanks. All right, so we're going to keep moving on here. Beverage cooling contraption, beer sidle first place, Hebrew number two, still using ice number three. Now to give you an idea still using ice for the winners from last year and these guys won by stacking cups in top of each other last year and then pushing ice through it. These other guys this year they were allowed so that's commonly used in brewing beer. But they did exceptional work. We got a little good information there. Crack me if you can. I don't have the numbers here but I know that the winner had cracked hundreds of thousands of passwords. It's absolutely insane.  But that was 16 systems. Black bag, obviously you can see up on the screen. I'm not going to get into really hardcore on this. But this is an amazing competition where people are having to go in, do physical security, virtual security, they're having to hack a PC, they're having to do lock picking, they're having to find files and they're having to photograph them and make sure that all that information gets put back to where somebody can't tell that they've been there. True proper red teaming and I love the fact that Deviant has really expanded upon what used to be Gringo Warrior to really bring you guys this competition. Winners this year, 3rd place, hackers with Harriers, 3rd place, fuzzy hat and still in the running, swords of thunder. Crashing and Brial, Fink Rules won this. Are you guys familiar with Crash and Paul? Everybody going to see it? Yeah, that's great, isn't it? I love watching really, really smart people get punished by getting drunk. I swear there was one guy up there that was just like, oh, there you go, over there. See that awesome die?  But they had to rule them and what they were going to be writing their code in. And I swear this one guy was just there to get the free beer because he'd be like, A, compile, oh, it didn't work. Drink, B, oh, compile, it didn't work. Drink. But it's great. Defconn Scavenger hunt this year. Too old for Captain Crunch was the winning team. Indian Jonesen was team 2 and Spam was team 3. Again, this is a crazy, crazy competition and I was very disappointed because I really wanted to beat one of you guys for coming up and singing a 303 song to me.  They took our handle. They took our logo.  Nobody ever came and got the points for it. Exploit Hackathon. This was great. Last year Exploit Hackathon came in. It was their first year and none of you guys could beat it. We didn't have anyone that was able to actually complete the conference or the contest.  So big props and big ups to him. Hackers Against Humanity. This is the amazing card game. If you guys have not seen this, they're going to be giving the decks out for free. You'll be able to get the PDF and be able to print your own decks. They also have decks available for sale, I think, through their website. But the winning teams this year, Ass 1. Number 2 is Lawrence. I have no idea how to say that. Number 3 was Keith. Yeah, Keith. What a good handle, buddy.  Network Forensic Puzzle Contest. Red Team was number 1. Tom Pohl was number 2. Ninja Cyber Target Range. Again, first year contest, but I'm actually really impressed with these guys. They had all kinds of different things these guys had to do in order to win different types of Wi-Fi events and other things that were there. It was really cool. Casey won. Brandon was second. Enrique was third. Yeah, again, really horrible handles here, guys. When someone asks your name when you're signing up for a conference, or a hacking conference, you don't write down your legal name. Give them your handle. Hack Fortress. Best hacker this year was Silk. Best Team Fortress 2 player was Punks. And the winning team was Jolly and Friends with Zelda.  I really appreciate all the work that Logan and Bruce and everybody else have done to bring that to DEF CON. It's very much become one of our more popular contests in the last couple of years. Definitely try it out. You don't have to be a hacker. If you can play the damn video game, you can go and compete and get somebody else that can do the hacking side of it for you. Hacker Pyramid. Zaws. And who's your teammate at Zaws? Lim Chal. There we go. Lim Chal was the, did I say it right? Close enough. It's over a microphone. I just kind of slurred. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Noctuveroctu or something. But yes, they won again. This is two years in a row. They destroyed it every single time. So you guys need to bring some strong competition to beat them. So Zaws took his winnings. You get 10,000 Canadian pennies. He split them with his team member, cast his, and I think it was epoxy. He was carrying around his pimp-tacular flavor-flav, 5,000 Canadian penny necklace. But you've won again. How can you carry 10,000 pennies around you? I expect to see another one next year on your back. There you go. So for those that didn't hear it, they donated all of the winnings this year to the Mercurial Fund. For those of you who don't know what that is, that's a fund that's been set up to get hackers and students here to DEF CON to help them break into this community. Pimp my rascal. This was awesome. If you guys didn't see the really cool rascals that were all pimped out with lights and like an IV drip for Yeagermeister, it was nuts. The people who made the best ones all work on my staff. Contest and event staff are not allowed to participate from a competitive standpoint. So next year, go over in a rascal. I was going to bring it up. It's like $70 for the entire weekend. That's a pretty easy way to be able to walk around so your feet aren't just killing you. Project 2 this year, ponies. IORA 2. Team DG. What is it? RDG.  They were the big winners this year. Project 2 is another one of those where unlike CTF, where these people spend literally year round getting ready for this competition, you can show up and just ask to play project 2. They'll give you information. They'll give you tips. They'll give you hints. It's a really fun multi-approach type attack contest. Definitely look into it. Beard and mustache contest. You didn't see the winners up there. I'm not going to go through each one of them. This year, Redbeard sadly has told us that he's going to step down. I guess he's going to try to hand the contest over to Jack Daniel if he's interested in running it. Which kind of makes sense, right? But Redbeard is coming back next year with a brand-new competition. I'm not going to tell you anything about it because it's absolutely amazing, but you do not want to miss it. In my opinion, it's going to be one of the strongest, coolest first-year competitions we've ever had. Light contest. This was great. This was a contest that I proved about a week and a half before we had gotten everything locked down and closed. Deadline was over and done with. When he called me up and told me about this, we had to do it. Red Snow won. The real Edward Snowden came in second place, funny enough. Snowy was number three. Ionic was four. Ed Snowden number one was number five. Tamper Evident this year. It was a popular contest and gotten so big that this year Tamper Evident and Hardware Hacking Village ended up sharing a space and even though they did their competition it was kind of neat to be able to see people wandering in and just kind of learning the technologies. Jeff created this contest three years ago, four years ago, and it's incredible to just see how much it's grown in that time. This year, first place winner was iParted Event. Team Slack and Gotta Have One. And we definitely want to thank the professionals for running the village. You guys did an exceptional job. Again, to all the villages you guys if you spend time in the villages give these guys love because they're spending months and months of time spending up getting it ready for you. The Defcon Darkneck Project. This is a first year competition brought to us by Smitty and some of our other really good friends. They're winners this year. We're Friday. Captain Nick and Joe. And I am going to make a recommendation that will be a black badge. Jeff gets the final say on all that kind of stuff. I just make the recommendations. But after seeing the amount of work, time, and effort that people had to put into this event I definitely think it deserves one. Schemaverse Championship. This is when you're going in hacking a huge database and doing all kinds of work with it. It's quite impressive. Shepard took first place. Yin got the most money. Final Bitcoin Panopolis Conqueror. I think I said that right. We're talking about how cool this was because I guess that one of the guys, Yin, who had the most money, just went in and hacked it and completely loaded his thing completely full and then dosed it so that nobody else could get any money. And then Chris Bix got honorable mention for style. And if I remember right, it's because he was just stealing money from others. The Warlock Games came in. Again, another wargame type situation. Whoopman won first. Workaholic second. Noll was third. Happy Together fourth. And Doxog was fifth. Wireless Panathalon. Again, five different things that you have to do in Wi-Fi to be able to win this competition. Each one of them a different style of hack. Total Harmonic Distortion plus Yin was number one. Red Baron, number two. And by the way, he functioned alone. Red Baron was all on his own on this one. And Simon J. was third. Hacker Pyramid. Hacker. Like you guys to come up and give your announcement on that because I didn't have your paperwork in time. Run. That's Hacker Jeopardy. There he comes. You're moving. Run Forrest! Tell us who the winners are. Zaws and Lintel won.  So now I mean, you know, you're more than welcome to run all the way back. Okay. That's happening? Lintel, get your asses up here. Thank Jeff.   I didn't know this was going to happen. But Lintel already left.  I guess that means you only get one badge. No. No, wouldn't do that. So here you go. For outstanding achievement in dominating Hacker Pyramid twice in a row. Black badges for you both. Excellent. Yeah, so very outstanding achievement, you guys. You've got to make room for people who are not quite as skilled next year. Pardon me if I fall off, Steve. Excellent. Next up we have Hacker Jeopardy. As you all know, win retired last year. Win retired last year. G-Mart came in. And what do we all say, guys? Perfect. We had a good time. Hey, cast members. Come on down here. We have a team of 10. We've got Vanna, Kitties here. Lintel is on a plane. Alex is out. Ginny is here. Fizzgig, Hacker Jar, Bokejohn in 128. This being a full production. This year was pretty good. We had, finally, we got Tover to track ones. We had enough room. Come on out next year. We're going to get even more interesting. First game we had taking a WikiLeaks won that. Second game. We call them win job, but their actual name was GameCree F and Mord won. For the final, nice act grade defending for the fifth time, failed to hold onto their crown. And win job is the new winners. We have a new set of Hacker Jeopardy winners. We've got Daku, Freck and Jake 23. Don't drop it, right? It's very fragile. Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to jump over to capture the flag winners. We have to go a little bit out of order because they've got to run for an airplane. And we can't take the badges away from them because this is too much of an amazing event. If you've been paying attention about several years ago, three years ago, I really wanted to grow the size and scope of capture the flag contest and really try to turn it into sort of like the world series of hacking. And with the new organizers, legit BS, they've really done that. And they've made the contest more transparent and they've also continued the tradition of having teams that have qualified in other places, at other contests around the world pre-qualify. Winning team from the previous year gets seated and then the rest goes to open quals. And so for the first time ever we had a team from China. We had teams from other countries that have never participated before. And it's really been an amazing experience. So I want to have legit BS come up and I want them to say a couple words and then we're going to announce how the teams went and who the winners were. So let's welcome the new organizers for an amazing first year. So when you're ready, just take the badges from there. Good evening. I'm Vito Genovese and we are the legitimate business syndicate. We're proud to have been selected We're proud to have been selected to host the DEF CON 21 capture the flag event. We're up here and we're going to share the results and a quick summary of what the game was like. So first of all, we'd like to thank Dark Tangent for taking a chance on us. We'd also like to thank the Security Goons for keeping our room clean and entertaining and safe. We'd like to thank the DEF CON Network Operations team for providing all the teams wired internet access throughout the whole competition. And finally we'd like to thank all the teams that qualified for running a clean and honorable game. So this year we limited teams to eight people and to support this we gave them fewer and more difficult services to torment them with. We also ran the game on the ARM architecture for the first time. So what this meant was each team had an individual server all to themselves. It made it a lot easier for us to administer this and it also tortured the teams without their well-honed x86 reverse engineering skills. So DEF CON capture the flag is the highest level of computer security competition. Some teams ended with very, very few flags but they competed well with great skill. And up next to introduce our winners is Guino Fage. By the way I want to thank you guys show them the computer again. For you that didn't appreciate it that is the computer that the teams were hacking like protecting and hosting. In the past when we've done this the organizers have literally rolled out a bunch of servers. These guys hosted all of it in one, one you. To you. Sorry. In one, two you. It was amazing. All right. Hi, I'm Guino Fage from legitimate business syndicate. Second and third place teams will receive the hardware that they played the game on this year so they can maybe bump up to first place next year. They will receive that after closing in that hallway. I'll come up here when we call you out. First place will receive eight black badges. In third place we had Rayon ASRT. In second place we have the men in black hats. And in first place we had PPP the Plaid Parliament of Poning. Thanks everybody. Winning team please call them up. You got to give me your badge. Yeah, DT asked if they were multiple year winners. PPP has won the DEF CON CTF so they have done very well at other CTFs. Yeah, thank you for for running a very awesome CTF this year especially for your first time.  Our secret techniques are secret.  Oh, there we go. Jeff's swapping out. Look at that.  Drink. What was the pit to drop? I can fix it. Social engineering CTF for some reason you don't have a slide here so we don't know who won so you're going to have to come up here and tell us. What's my time? Okay I just want to take a couple seconds to thank everybody in the audience who kept nagging Defcon for a bigger room because you made what happened today possible with Apollo Robbins coming in to get in track four and for the guys who moved into our room you guys were really awesome and cool so thank you for that. Really, really appreciate that. Pyro, I love you bro every year. I love you too man. And Cheryl, we're Cheryl. Right here on the internet. Is she not the queen of Defcon people? Come on, queen of Defcon. Who don't know Cheryl? Cheryl is your bit coordinator. She deals with the union the hotel, the fire marshals, literally everything without her we could not do this so give her a big round of applause. Seriously. And if you see Betsy roaming around the hallway give her a hug. She needs it. She's still working and we're all here partying. Give Betsy a hug Dammit. Where's the DT? Thank you. Awesome, awesome this year. So anyhow, I want to just say thank you to everyone who competed this year what we did. We had men versus women. I won't go through the whole competition but I want to say ladies, you killed it this year. Wow. I mean you just murdered us. Really, seriously. For the women. For the women. Wow. I don't normally do this but I'm just going to say there was hundreds of point difference in between the first place winner and the next person underneath them. That's how awesome the women did this year. It just blew us out of the water. I'm a little embarrassed to be up here. I should have had Michelle do it. Anyhow, just before I get there I want to thank my whole team because without this Eric, Nick, Jim, Michelle, Amanda, Thomas, Billy, Anna this stuff would have never happened this year. Okay, Lily's got a flight. You want to hear this? 730 and she's waiting because she won first place. 720. So get her up here. And Lori, Lori if you're here you're the second place winner. Run up here quick. I want to thank the guys from Ace Hackware because what she gets is like, if I can show you, we had time it'd be awesome. She gets like the coolest little SE gear. There's lock picks, bump keys, a shove knife, like one of those little Wi-Fi, Pony, Express the number 100 SE coin for the year. But but where's the coolest part? Where is it DT? Where is it Pyro? This? The broken one? No. That one? This one? Black badge. That's Lori.  Okay. I got one minute left.  Lori gets a similar thing, just not a cool case, but a lot of really cool SE stuff, bump keys, lock picks, and one of those a pen with a little mini camera in it.  Come back next year and play it again. See you guys next year. And at this point I'm going to hand it back over to Jeff, who can close out again. Oh, capture the packet. See, you guys, you guys made me drink over and over again.  Alright. Thank you. Capture the packet. They're coming up next. Where are you gentlemen? There they are. I'm drinking. Come on up. We got capture the packet. What did you guys think of the area this year? Like the DJs, the Wall of Sheep, all the new things we brought? Yeah? If you didn't find us, you didn't get swagged. If you played, you learned, you did anything, you got swagged. This year, capture packet, and it's fourth year, 2013. We had over 100 people step up for the challenge. We played, we had them have to sort through over 20 terabytes of traffic. Third place was My Little Ponies. I'm sure it's not the same team that played in the kid competition. It explains everything. Second place was Digirev. First place was CCSF Hackers, who scored 2,500 points. Thanks to our sponsors, RSA donated two MacBook Air Pros to them. I think that's about it. We trained over 1,000 You want to have them come up? Are you guys out here? Sam? I got plenty of time. Look at that. I can like stay up here. Where are they? Someone give them to me. Are these them? They're going to share one badge, so I think one's going to sneak in and the other one's going to come back out. You did an amazing job. Look for us next year, because we're going to give you a lot harder challenges. Since we still have time on the clock. So really quickly, one of our challenges, we decided to pull in a little bit of physical security inside of the network forensics. So the challenge, you had to pull an image of a physical key out of the stream and then figure out the pin code and that was the answer. Good luck next year.  But we had a whole bunch of stuff over in the next area where you could just learn, and we've trained over maybe what, 200 people that knew nothing about digital forensics network forensics from zero to capturing a lot of traffic. So come to us and learn. We have a lot of time left over, so I'm going to mention the Wi-Fi Sheet Plant. We have a lot of ID tags on all the goons, and they were running around, and you had to run into two goons to get a password. Also, we tagged them with... We tagged them with NFC tags. So this right here is an NFC tag poster. Kind of strange, we have all these tags around, and you guys were just like, oh yeah, free stuff, let's do this.  We're stand up guys, we have ethics, so we Rick rolled you, we gave you discounts on stuff, free music, but we also showed a demo with malware that can drop on your phone and then all your SMS texts can go to any one of us. So be very careful, use this with caution. I'm getting some of yours now, so... Yeah, so thanks to everyone that helped at the Wall of Sheet, captured the packet, all our stuff. And thanks, Jeff. So what did you guys think of the badges this year? So we had a lot of people participating, it came down to the wire on Saturday night, it was two teams that were like neck and neck and Team MLF, I think that stands for Muppet Liberation Front. Actually went ahead and pulled out and freight in front. If you guys are here, come on up, like quickly, we're in a hurry. The MLF guys. So, give them a hand. So, for those of you don't know, these guys worked pretty much all of Khan on the contest. They had to collect information from every single variant of the badges out on the conference, including the press, the speakers, all of the human variants. They had to do all kinds of OTP with the four different pieces from the different suits, each suit was a different crypto puzzle in and of itself. Then they had to OTP all those together. There was just a lot to it. It took them pretty much the entire Khan. So, we've got one here and due to an unfortunate accident, we're one short. So, you guys are getting actually three black badges this year. So, everybody thanks to Jeff for that. So, you guys want to take just a few seconds really quickly and tell something about what you did. Time and alcohol and doing absolutely nothing but looking at the code and that's it. That's really all we did the whole time. What was something that was hard? Oh dude, it was hard to find the red paper. Oh my God. So, I kind of screwed these guys at the very end. They had to give me a solution and I said it has to be written on red paper. So, just one little more thing to drive them nuts. So, they had worked hard to get this solution. They're racing other teams and they're like we don't have any red paper. So, I saw them running through the hotel looking for red paper. Anyway, guys, get my hand. It's an incredibly difficult competition. So, again, I hope you guys like the badges. I'm always open to suggestions for stuff for the next years and I hope everyone had a little bit of fun looking at the code on the back. Make one that I can't break. Have you noticed a trend in badges when loss has been worked on? It seems to be electronic. And then there was that physical badge. And then last year I think it was electronic. And then this year it was physical. Correct. I wonder. I don't know. So, I tried to... So, all the Rot13 that's on all the badges that you guys have, that was actually just a red herring as far as the contest was concerned. So, they had to do different things with OTPs and stuff like that. I hope you enjoyed this stuff. So, this is the last one. All right, so that winds up the award ceremony. So, I've got just a couple announcements, minor announcements. One is a reminder, for those of you who came in late, if you are missing a badge, you have a paper badge, you don't have a real badge, we still have a limited number of real badges up here. We'll swap out, we'll take your old one, give you a new one so you've got that. And then I also have a message. I don't know how many of you guys went to the Telefreak party last year, but they're doing an after party, a DEF CON after party. Everybody's invited. I'd like to see you all fit. But this is, I mean, what do I know? I've got a text message, and he's like, yeah, invite everybody to the Telefreak 2600 net party. It's 8 p.m. at area, followed at Telefreak or find someone with a pager, they gave out these cool pager watches that gives the exact room location. But go to at Telefreak and if you want an after party, you're still around tonight. I dare you to try to wedge yourself all into the area there. Yeah. We'd love to get feedback by e-mail. Send us e-mail, go to pics.defcon.org, upload your pics, share your experiences with everybody. And with that said, I want to have a round of applause for everybody as much as possible. And for you guys, we'll see you next year, right here.


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Beautiful day in Wellington, just perfect for the badge of course, but also for an outdoor breakfast with the lovely kids of Larvae Primary School. They have looked after us so well, they are just gorgeous. Now we haven't got too big a day today, off to Masterson with a few stops, lots of schools, and a very special appointment with the P.E. Oh, okay. Hello, Your Excellency. I thought you were really the Prime Minister. Oh yeah, well, I'm not the Prime Minister. Explain it. Have you seen my rat?  It's great to be part of it. I've been to a number of charity events along the way, and it's just a fantastic cause, and there's so much energy, enthusiasm and people are happy.