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Defcon 22 Badge Contest

68 points by JoachimS 12y ago

mburst 12y ago
Awesome write up! I love the defcon badge challenges
spydum 12y ago
This is pure crazy talk -- I love it. Just enough coherence to follow the progression, but chaotic enough to give the feeling you experience when chasing difficult problems through the rabbit hole. Truly a brain dump, as close as one can perform. I bet it felt incredible not just to solve the challenge, but then to try to extract the event from an exhausted mind and write it all down. A tad bit envious if I don't mind saying so.
- MrSourz 12y ago
  I agree, truly some of the thrill was conveyed through this post. The organizers of the challenge seem delightfully evil and I imagine it is a blast to organize. The Google Translate deciphering from latin was probably the most amusing part to me and no longer seems to work? https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20si%0ALorem%20ipsum%20do%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20s%0Alorem%20ipsum%20ama%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20amet%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20ame%0A%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%0Alorem%20ipsum%20ips%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lor%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lo%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lorem%0Alorem%20ipsum%20amat%0ALorem%20Ipsum https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20...
  - nobotty 12y ago
    It's defcon, I think they could've pulled in a favor from google.
    - MrSourz 12y ago
      I do wonder if that's the case.
evilpie 12y ago
Who is lost?
- alcari 12y ago
  1o57 designs the DEFCON badges every year.
necubi 12y ago
There's also this [0] write up, if you're looking for a more straight-forward read. [0] http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-22-badge-challenge-walkthrough http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-...
alcari 12y ago
> The first tidbit is “PERRIN” this is referencing Perrin numbers. I 100% confident that we are the only people to ever hit that wiki page, ever. Almost: I was on that wiki page while waiting in line around 3 am Thursday morning (speakers got badges, etc. early, and a friend of a friend was a speaker). We just didn't have the time to stick with it.
- wlesieutre 12y ago
  I read it as "we" being everyone working on the badge problem instead of his group specifically

68 points by JoachimS 12y ago

Awesome write up! I love the defcon badge challenges

This is pure crazy talk -- I love it. Just enough coherence to follow the progression, but chaotic enough to give the feeling you experience when chasing difficult problems through the rabbit hole. Truly a brain dump, as close as one can perform. I bet it felt incredible not just to solve the challenge, but then to try to extract the event from an exhausted mind and write it all down. A tad bit envious if I don't mind saying so.

MrSourz 12y ago
I agree, truly some of the thrill was conveyed through this post. The organizers of the challenge seem delightfully evil and I imagine it is a blast to organize. The Google Translate deciphering from latin was probably the most amusing part to me and no longer seems to work? https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20si%0ALorem%20ipsum%20do%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20s%0Alorem%20ipsum%20ama%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20amet%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20ame%0A%0ALorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%0Alorem%20ipsum%20ips%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lor%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lo%0Alorem%20ipsum%20lorem%0Alorem%20ipsum%20amat%0ALorem%20Ipsum https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20...
- nobotty 12y ago
  It's defcon, I think they could've pulled in a favor from google.
  - MrSourz 12y ago
    I do wonder if that's the case.

evilpie 12y ago

Who is lost?

alcari 12y ago
1o57 designs the DEFCON badges every year.

necubi 12y ago

There's also this [0] write up, if you're looking for a more straight-forward read. [0] http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-22-badge-challenge-walkthrough http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-...

alcari 12y ago

> The first tidbit is “PERRIN” this is referencing Perrin numbers. I 100% confident that we are the only people to ever hit that wiki page, ever. Almost: I was on that wiki page while waiting in line around 3 am Thursday morning (speakers got badges, etc. early, and a friend of a friend was a speaker). We just didn't have the time to stick with it.

wlesieutre 12y ago
I read it as "we" being everyone working on the badge problem instead of his group specifically