Past DEF CON Conference Content [Archive]

Dark Tangent

04-03-2006, 07:46 PM

So we are finishing up encoding the DC-13 speeches, and I had a wacky idea. I'm going to re-encode all past content in .m4a and .m4v format for podcast style download! Free! My data-bits want to be free!

I'll stop updating the realmedia server, and move to downloads of content instead. Now this presents a couple questions I would like feedback on:

- Bandwidth usage may be high initially. I was thinking of using The Coral Content Distribution Network (http://www.coralcdn.org/), but they limit file sizes to 50megs, and that about 1/2 of the videos will be over that size. Instead of Coral, I could seed with eMule/Donkey files and just set up an old laptop in the office to seed them. Then there is the standbay BitTorrent. If defcon gets a slashdot effect, I want a plan that will cope.

- I am thinking of a way to brand the videos with "www.defcon.org" or some title to help out when people rename the files and share them around. Does anyone have experience with any good batch processing video tools that can do this?

- I plan to start with the oldest files and move to the newest. Older conferences had less speakers, and will be faster to work on, providing feedback on my process faster. Once done, where do you recommend distributing them? Google Videos may be a good place to park copies at. Ideas?

- Is this a waste of time? Do you think people care that much about past content?

Thanks guys!

The Dark Tangent

noid

04-03-2006, 08:07 PM

I think it would be a great way to preserve something thats become part of the culture. Along those lines, I have the programs from Defcon 1-6 scanned as well.

converge

04-03-2006, 09:07 PM

...seems like a lot of folks have been using archive.org to break free of the bandwidth woes, so that may be an option to consider.

Deviant Ollam

04-03-2006, 10:36 PM

this is just me being me... but why not a format that everyone can enjoy, instead of just those who drink steve job's kool-aid? =) i suppose those of us who wish could just convert them to XviD and MP3 for playback on our own hardware... but i say it's time that apple people do that sort or work themselves if they want to use hwith their own special formats! :biggrin: hehe

converge

04-03-2006, 11:00 PM

lets just say the idea of xvids and bittorrents of these jingled my balls... I'ma grab them from whatever source and conform them though.. so then we'll see which torrent wins :p

in the words of a wise man I know ... "fuck apple"

Voltage Spike

04-03-2006, 11:16 PM

why not a format that everyone can enjoy, instead of just those who drink steve job's kool-aid?

Perhaps I am wrong, but aren't the m4a and m4v formats just the MPEG-4 container format ... in other words, a non-Apple (although Apple-derived) standard? A standard that current open-source tools (e.g., mplayer, VLC) understand? A standard that is often implemented using codecs (e.g., MPEG-4, H.264, and AAC) that current open-source tools understand?

Granted, I'd like to see the use of non-proprietary codecs, but given the choice between a closed codec everything can use and an open codec that I have to convert to the closed codec to use, I'm going to have to be a pragmatist.

Dark Tangent

04-04-2006, 12:00 PM

Perhaps I am wrong, but aren't the m4a and m4v formats just the MPEG-4 container format ... in other words, a non-Apple (although Apple-derived) standard? A standard that current open-source tools (e.g., mplayer, VLC) understand? A standard that is often implemented using codecs (e.g., MPEG-4, H.264, and AAC) that current open-source tools understand?

You would be correct!

Twigman

04-04-2006, 04:26 PM

a watermark on the videos is definately a good idea. I would make sure this was done as a top priority. other wise people are bound to claim it was them/they were there etc.
once they are encoded how big are they going to be? how much bandwidth do you predit they will need at peak? maybe someone in the business has a spare pipe that could be used?

Dark Tangent

04-04-2006, 06:46 PM

a watermark on the videos is definately a good idea. I would make sure this was done as a top priority. other wise people are bound to claim it was them/they were there etc.

Yeah, that way if people transcode them at least some of the data will go along with the conversion.

once they are encoded how big are they going to be? how much bandwidth do you predit they will need at peak? maybe someone in the business has a spare pipe that could be used?

Well, I am planning to make them the same size or smaller than the real media files. So anywhere from 30megs to 130. Average seems to be in the 50s for video. I haven't paid much attention to the audio files, they are so small by comparison.

One quick move would be to just release the real audio and video files. They already contain the metadata. My nokia phone comes with a real player built in, and the real player seems to be available for almost every operating system.. just not the iPod or other personal video players.

So it comes down to a mega project to re-encode all content to a new format (h.264) and then create text overlays with all the speech data for every speech video, then do the correct meta data for all of the audio files. Then when that is all done create the "pod cast" friendly html for every file so people can auto-import it all with itunes.

converge

04-04-2006, 09:53 PM

please please please don't put filters on them.

you can make them 16x16 animated ico files, drop 90% of the frames, play tricks with the metadata and slap banners all around it .. then name the files with additional defcon tagging.. fine. please don't put filters on them. filters are the reason I don't watch satellite tv. filters are the reason I fall asleep to the sound of my own tears and the reason catholic priests touch young boyscouts.

at worste, tag the beginning.. but not the absolute worste video habit ever created, thought of as a means to protect IP.. crappy filters. somehow society has deemed that it is now acceptable to lose 5-20% of your viewable video for these hapless, unsightly, proc intensive waste of pixels. they make the baby jesus cry and piss off buddha.

..imo..

I think folks would be happy with the .rm media just as well.. and it sounds like it would save a lot of work/time on your end.. if people want them transcoded, I say let em deal with it.

Deviant Ollam

04-05-2006, 08:38 AM

filters ?= text overlays at the edge of the screen

if so, then i agree 110% with converge's comments. in fact, as i just mentioned in a PM to tierra, i've reencoded all of the DCMC filler content (the second time i've undertaken this project, since the drive upon which i was doing this to the clips a month or two after DC13 died on me) and one of the things i did in the remastering project was the removal of all self-advertising URLs that people stuck on the funny bits of news, stupidity, and music videos they found online. if you really really want, i'd say it's acceptable to have a small text note fade in and then after five seconds fade back out at the beginning and end of a clip, sort of like how MTV or VH1 will tag a music vid with the artist's name, etc. really, however, i think that a simple insertion of credits at the end noting the who, when, where is sufficient. (i've actually added a credit roll to my lockpicking lecture videos... all of which will be online very soon, actually.)

Dark Tangent

04-29-2006, 01:48 PM

So I'm working backward, and am finishing up DC 10 this weekend. When I compare file sizes to the real media video files, the new h.264 files are a bit larger.

The rm files are encoded at 128kbit, and the h.264 files are at 192kbit for better quality. This makes them larger! If all of DC 12 encoded in rm is 2.84 gigs, then in h.254 it is 5.45 gigs.

Not too big a deal but it overwhelms the remaining storage on the media server, so that will have to get upgraded from 160gig disks to 500gig disks to allow room for growth.

Anyway, the question is: At what size does downloading speeches become inconvenient?

[Edited to add]
OK, well with no opinions I'll continue at the 192k rate.

Dark Tangent

06-01-2006, 08:58 PM

OK, so all the DC 13 files are done, the RSS entries made by Nikita and a little by myself.

It's a bitch getting it to play nice with iTunes, though. I've been hammering on it all day trying to get the formatting nice, file times correct, etc.

I figure if I am going to post this stuff once, I may as well try to get a bunch of it right. So once the rss entry is all groovy I'll post a link to it here and you guys can start playing with it. Then from there I'll put it on-line onthe web site and the iTunes store, etc.

The one thing I don't have experience with is torrent seeds. I'm deciding if I should figure that stuff out and run it on the media server as well, or just stick with http download. That's what I am leaning towards. I think I'll let others do the torrent thing.

Anyway, I wanted to have it done today, but it might be a late night!

Dark Tangent

06-02-2006, 09:41 PM

OK, give it a try...

You'll need an rss reader at first before we build the html pages.

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-video.xml

That file will change as some missing content is located and uploaded. Please let me know about any glitches, etc.

converge

06-04-2006, 07:40 PM

A torrent of the initial 69 videos has been set up at http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/

It won't be as fast as direct download until more seeders hit (I'm currently pretty bogged seeding CoWF hash tables until I get a torrent client issue resolved). If you have the fileset then just the just grab the nfo and the torrent, any seeding help much appreciated.. this is really cool content that will only expand as more years are encoded and released.

Dark Tangent

06-05-2006, 11:04 AM

There have been a few mistakes in the rss entry that I fixed yesterday, as well as a bad file and a new file.

Re-download v12, Robert Morris. For some reason the encoder auto-cropper cropped out almost everything. I re-encoded it and it is on-line now.

A torrent of the initial 69 videos has been set up at http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/defcon-13-video-content-release-2006.06.01.torrent

It won't be as fast as direct download until more seeders hit (I'm currently pretty bogged seeding CoWF hash tables until I get a torrent client issue resolved). If you have the fileset then just the just grab the nfo and the torrent, any seeding help much appreciated.. this is really cool content that will only expand as more years are encoded and released.

converge

06-05-2006, 12:25 PM

There have been a few mistakes in the rss entry that I fixed yesterday, as well as a bad file and a new file.

yeah, I've pm'd nikita will all that I could find as I parsed through.. a handful of duplicates. Will run back through and pull down changes.

Re-download v12, Robert Morris. For some reason the encoder auto-cropper cropped out almost everything. I re-encoded it and it is on-line now.

ahhh! I was wondering if that was by design.. thinking at first I had a codec issue but determining that it really was that way with crystal clear audio. .. well.. you know how elusive Dr Morris is ...

...

--edit: Today google reader says: "No feeds containing all your search terms were found. " ?

Dark Tangent

06-05-2006, 07:46 PM

The DEFCON 13 audio feed (.mp3) is now on-line at

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-audio.xml

The files are still being uploaded, so depending on what you grab it might not be there yet. Should be another hour or two for it to get on-line.

Please report any problems.

Once we have them all sorted out I'll do big posts to mailing lists, etc. letting everyone know. I just don't want to promote it too much until the bugs are worked out.

Dark Tangent

06-06-2006, 04:14 PM

I've fixed problems with two audio files that had mis-matched file names.. Major Malfunction and Chuck Willis.

Let me know if you guys spot any other problems.

Also The audio and video feed has been index by the iTunes store. If any one can suggest places to get them indexed, I'd be grateful.

converge

06-07-2006, 02:17 AM

defcon-13-2006.06.06-patch.torrent (http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/defcon-13-2006.06.06-patch.torrent) is now available. It contains:
* fixed Robert Morris video
* two additional videos

(this is intended as a temporary patch for those downloading the torrent, a full updated torrent rev will come forth as bugs are worked out and the feed is finalized)

audio is being pulled at the moment and will be torrented as soon as available.

here are the remaining feed bugs found in queue thusfar:

video -dupe feed . Defcon 13: Jonathan Levin, The Dark side of Winsock
no description . Defcon 13: Sam Thigpen, From Cyberspace to Hyperspace

audio -404 . Defcon 13: Keynote: Dr. Linton Wells (2005_Defcon_Keynote-Linton-Wells.mp3)

Dark Tangent

06-07-2006, 01:14 PM

converge

06-07-2006, 03:03 PM

More things in the audio feed:

404 . 2005_Defcon_V33-Johnny_Long-Death_of_a_1000_Cuts_Forensics.mp3
404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp3

Dark Tangent

06-07-2006, 05:50 PM

More things in the audio feed:

404 . 2005_Defcon_V33-Johnny_Long-Death_of_a_1000_Cuts_Forensics.mp3
404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp3

Retry Johnny.. I'll fix V36.. there should not be a space after the ,

converge

06-07-2006, 08:10 PM

hmmm..

`2005_Defcon_V33-Johnny_Long-Death_of_a_1000_Cuts_Forensics.mp3'
16:54:44 ERROR 404: file does not exist.

fresh from RSS grabbed at 16:54:43

Dark Tangent

06-07-2006, 09:35 PM

OK, should be fixed.. had one to many "r"s in Forensics.

hmmm..

`2005_Defcon_V33-Johnny_Long-Death_of_a_1000_Cuts_Forensics.mp3'
16:54:44 ERROR 404: file does not exist.

fresh from RSS grabbed at 16:54:43

Dark Tangent

06-09-2006, 04:48 PM

OK, I updated the rss feeds to reflect a found Dan Kaminsky Black Ops of TCP 2005. The audio is uploaded, and thevideo is uploading now..

converge

06-10-2006, 10:00 PM

woot! remaining RSS errors I see from the latest pull are:

video -

(dupe entry?) 404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp4

mp3 in video feed . 2005_Defcon-V39-Dan_Kaminsky-Black_Ops_2005.mp3 (iirc the kaminsky video _was_ working in rev1 of the feed?.. I already had it in the original torrent)

audio -

404 . 2005_Defcon_Keynote-Linton-Wells.mp3 (still mia)

(dupe entry?) 404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp3

Sam Thigpen entry has non-uniform description for video and audio sections.. I realize this is probably by design due to a lack of description.. but it still bugs me every time I run into it ;)

converge

06-11-2006, 04:09 PM

State of the Torrent Address:

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/defcon-13-video-content-release-2006.06.11.torrent
(current torrent for video, previous is now symlinked to this)

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/defcon-13-audio-content-release-2006.06.11.torrent
(current torrent for audio, missing keynote)

--

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/defcon-13-2006.06.06-patch.torrent
(patch torrent for video, for those that previously downloaded, gets you the content but not the automagically improved/uniform filenames of the new one)

Dark Tangent

06-11-2006, 04:56 PM

I fixed those up, but am working on a new forums machine. I'll put the updated files on-line tomorrow when I get back to the office.

We're having to re-encode the Linton Wells audo, so that will happen Monday as well.

woot! remaining RSS errors I see from the latest pull are:

video -

(dupe entry?) 404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp4

mp3 in video feed . 2005_Defcon-V39-Dan_Kaminsky-Black_Ops_2005.mp3 (iirc the kaminsky video _was_ working in rev1 of the feed?.. I already had it in the original torrent)

audio -

404 . 2005_Defcon_Keynote-Linton-Wells.mp3 (still mia)

(dupe entry?) 404 . 2005_Defcon_V36-Preatoni, Ghioni-Assemetric_Digital_Warefare.mp3

Sam Thigpen entry has non-uniform description for video and audio sections.. I realize this is probably by design due to a lack of description.. but it still bugs me every time I run into it ;)

TheCotMan

06-11-2006, 05:32 PM

but am working on a new forums machine
(And there was much rejoicing)
Huzzah!

Good deal with the torrents. I'll probably join that later next week to help serve.

Dark Tangent

06-12-2006, 08:33 PM

OK, I fixed two the of RSS problems.. waiting to get the Linton Wells audio working again. That should be the last problem. I'll be making the big announcements to mailing lists this Wed night I think.

(And there was much rejoicing)
Huzzah!

Good deal with the torrents. I'll probably join that later next week to help serve.

On the new Forums box front, the base system is almost installed and configured, and then it will be on to the applications..

Dark Tangent

06-12-2006, 08:38 PM

Here are the links to the Black Hat USA '05 talks. I'm going to announce them real soon, and want a quick once over before they go out.

http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-05-video.xml
http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-05-audio.xml

Thanks!

Dark Tangent

06-12-2006, 09:00 PM

Dan Kaminsky and some Random CDATA just got cleaned up..

converge

06-13-2006, 12:48 AM

sweet! starting to pull the videos, then followup with the audio. it seems like very few folks are opting for the audio when they can obtain the full thing.. but that may change when more broadly announced.. we'll see.

heh.. it seems like each advancing xml file has modified comments that require me to bone up the regex I'm using to pull the feeds... you devil you.

Dark Tangent

06-13-2006, 02:07 PM

Wow, what a nightmare of fixes.

Little did I know I had a grip of problems with the feeds starting with wrong charset and ending with mal formed tags.

I've fixed up the audio feed, and I'm on to fixing the video feed.

--

OK, fixored them up, as well as fixing some problems with http://www.defcon.org/defconrss.xml

converge

06-15-2006, 10:30 AM

finally done pulling video, starting audio and will reprocess video rss to make sure I got all the fixes you've made since I started. with my current log there are two hits for "\<404\ " .. but these may already have been addressed while I was waiting for the download...

--edit: I won't have specific RSS issues until I parse through the actual entries invidually... but:

Video:

404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp4
404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp4

Dark Tangent

06-15-2006, 07:20 PM

I'll check them out..

finally done pulling video, starting audio and will reprocess video rss to make sure I got all the fixes you've made since I started. with my current log there are two hits for "\<404\ " .. but these may already have been addressed while I was waiting for the download...

--edit: I won't have specific RSS issues until I parse through the actual entries invidually... but:

Video:

404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp4
404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp4

converge

06-15-2006, 10:28 PM

For audio:

404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V16-Sparks_and_Butler-Shadow_Walker.mp3
404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp3
404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp3
404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3

Dark Tangent

06-15-2006, 11:45 PM

OK:

V16 fixed.
V39 fixed.
V7 Looks ok to me..
V0 Looks ok too..

I'll check the error logs on the server and find out whats up with these last two..

Oh, and I fixed the Todd Moore .mp4 it was named incorrectly on the server.

For audio:

404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V16-Sparks_and_Butler-Shadow_Walker.mp3
404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp3
404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp3
404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3

converge

06-16-2006, 03:11 PM

After a little deeper inspection, here's the current tally per fresh feed pulls this morning:

--
Defcon RSS:

404 . 2004-Defcon_12-Todd_Moore-Cracking_Net2Phone.mp4
--
Video:

404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp4
404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp4
--
Audio:

404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp3
*404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3

* (2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3) seems to have made it into my collection, so maybe it was previously working? .. but at the moment request returns 404.
comparing the two URLs suggests that the RSS link refers to '/Vegas2005/' instead of current location of '/bh-usa-05/'. This solution does not carry over to V7 (Barrall) though.
--

-Also of note, Barnaby Jack presentation truncates credentials at the end of the RSS description for both audio and video feeds

This does not yet include content verification (ie, issues like the Robert Morris video, someone else's talk named as another video file, etc). That's a whole other queue of enjoyment and popcorn frenzy.

Dark Tangent

06-16-2006, 10:21 PM

After a little deeper inspection, here's the current tally per fresh feed pulls this morning:

--
Defcon RSS:

404 . 2004-Defcon_12-Todd_Moore-Cracking_Net2Phone.mp4
--
Video:

I'm showing success on that one.

404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp4

Not sure where it went.. will have to re-encode.

404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V39-Mandia-Effective_Incident_Response.mp4
--
Audio:

404 . 2005_Blackhat_Vegas-V7-Barrall-Dewey-Plug_and_Root.mp3

The elusive V7..
I just copied and pasted the file name from the web log over itsself.. if that doesn't fix it, I don't know what will!

*404 . 2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3

OK, fixed that.. will upload the new RSS soon.

* (2005_BlackHat_Vegas-V0-J_Moss_G_Louie-Welcome_Keynote.mp3) seems to have made it into my collection, so maybe it was previously working? .. but at the moment request returns 404.
comparing the two URLs suggests that the RSS link refers to '/Vegas2005/' instead of current location of '/bh-usa-05/'. This solution does not carry over to V7 (Barrall) though.
--

-Also of note, Barnaby Jack presentation truncates credentials at the end of the RSS description for both audio and video feeds

This does not yet include content verification (ie, issues like the Robert Morris video, someone else's talk named as another video file, etc). That's a whole other queue of enjoyment and popcorn frenzy.

converge

06-16-2006, 11:08 PM

I'm showing success on that one.
odd... well, I test good now too. shrug

The elusive V7..
the filenames appear verbatim.. maybe it was something in the path? at any rate, audio for V7 appears to be fine now.

Deviant Ollam

06-17-2006, 11:54 AM

converge... are you simply testing all the feeds and links or are you actually also going through the process of downloading everything? you might be a candidate for helping us with the Traveling TeraByte project, since i'd love to have all the defcon content on there. i suppose we could also send the drives to nikita or someone similar in the DC inner circle where the content resides formally. either way, i'm looking forward to kicking things off soon. woot!

converge

06-17-2006, 01:25 PM

converge... are you simply testing all the feeds and links or are you actually also going through

I'm downloading it all.

1) adding to my data server for internal pleasures
2) adding to my DVD archive for the future survival of knowledge after the fires die and radiation levels become tolerable ... or until a better optical storage comes along at workable price
3) torrenting to help distribution

I originally started by brute forcing the feeds manually one by one, performing all testing steps. This meant taking longer to actually have the files on hand. Then TheCotMan shared his brilliant idea of scripting the pull.. so I took it a step further.

The current testing process goes a little something like this.. 1 script tests a directory to see if content exists, if it doesn't then initial pull is assumed and all available files are downloaded from the feed. If previous files do exist, then the pulled RSS is diff'd to the existing list and previously non-existent files are pulled. The error logs generated from this compile my first line of issues, since a simple grep for 404's will start the ball rolling. This process is 99% automated.. so I run it and check back some other time of day.

Then when I get a 30-60 minute interval, I tear through the RSS feed manually to further test. For each entry, I copy/paste the speaker info into an open vi session for the torrent nfo (scanning for description truncation/glitches/etc), I click the link to make sure it starts download for the file, verify it starts downloading a file named similarly to the presenter, rename the cached file to conform the filenaming a little more, cycle. For missing video files, I create an empty shell named appropriately but similarly as a placeholder until resolved. Once done I close the nfo and copy it into the dir. Then I move on to the counterpart [audio|video] feed, but instead of manually renaming the filenames I simply copy/paste the previously worked names, keeping the appropriate extension. Once done, I proceed to annoy DT with another round of RSS gripes.

When enough of the issues are resolved, I create the torrent, begin seeding it, transfer the torrent to my webserver and post for others to hop on board.

Deviant Ollam

06-17-2006, 02:38 PM

what does the overall size look to be for all content in total?

converge

06-17-2006, 03:03 PM

So far 2005 audio and video is totalling 14.1GB, give or take.. with the handful of files leftover, I would guestimate 14.5 for the 2005 archive, maybe 15 if additional videos are 'found' and added as new entries to the existing RSS feed(s).

I've had to expand to a second torrent box, since my primary torrent box only has a 10GB drive. I can only guess that previous years of content will consistantly decrease in size as DT encodes backwards in time.. so the total collection should be well under 150GB. This will be spread out over time, since the project as a whole is quite tremendous for DT to be taking on.. then of course, the DC14 content will eventually come into play as a decent sized set, but that is considerably down the road <insert something about a horse and wagon here>.

converge

06-17-2006, 04:33 PM

..and with that said, here are the current torrents for Blackhat 2005. Audio should be good for the most part, a patch and re-release will be issued for the video torrent when the missing content is recovered.

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/blackhat-2005-audio-content-release-2006.06.16.torrent - audio

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/blackhat-2005-video-content-release-2006.06.16.torrent - video

ctx

06-19-2006, 07:43 AM

First off, thanks for the video DT. It realy is nice to see the con after not making it last year.

I started off downloading these on the 7th June. I've noticed that a number of them have poor audio, hissing etc. I was wondering if I should reget the ones that have problems, it sounds like some have been updated, although my feed say nothing but Dan Kaminskis talk has been changed since the 1st.

Can I assume that the missing talks from track 1 and 2 on day 1 and 2 will appear some time in the future?

edit: wasn't overly clear, but I'm refering to DefCon and not the Blackhat video

Dark Tangent

06-19-2006, 01:18 PM

Dark Tangent

06-24-2006, 06:24 PM

The .mp3 format of the DC-12 DJs and Bands is here:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/dc-12-music.rss

Dark Tangent

07-07-2006, 08:34 PM

OK, check out:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-music.rss
http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-13-musicvideos.rss

For music from the B&W Ball last year!

Dark Tangent

07-07-2006, 08:35 PM

DC-12 Audio coming soon, but you can find the videos here:

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-12-video.rss

Now audio is up as well..

http://www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-12-audio.rss

jur1st

07-07-2006, 08:49 PM

I'm getting a file not found error for the DC13 audio, video, and the DC12 videos.

Dark Tangent

07-07-2006, 09:13 PM

I'm getting a file not found error for the DC13 audio, video, and the DC12 videos.

Works for me and the feed validator.. Anyone else have problems?

DaKahuna

07-07-2006, 09:35 PM

Worked just fine for me.

jur1st

07-07-2006, 09:40 PM

that's odd...i had another person try it from a different location and they got a 404 too.

edit: just to be clear...it's a 404 for the content itself. the feed looks good.

deffux

08-03-2006, 03:17 PM

http://defcon.lostboxen.net/forums/blackhat-2005-video-content-release-2006.06.16.torrent - video

0 seeder :frown:

converge

08-07-2006, 07:06 PM

Should be back, try again.

Sorry.. 200GB took a dive during con and I was not around to recover. All should be well now, with more content slated to be torrented after I recover a bit and get life back in order.

st0rm

10-05-2006, 09:52 PM

TheCotMan

10-06-2006, 01:29 AM

Dammit....Am I too late :cry: i searched all over for this and I found this, the previous torrents i found were all zero seeds for weeks, now I dl'ed the torrents listed on this page, and boom! zero seeds. Im mainly interested in the BlackHat Con....been too broke to go to it...

Can someone kindly seed these or point me in the direction of aquiring the BlackHat Audio (and possibly other cons besides defcon)

any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks

Do I get to be abusive now? 0:-)

DT covered in this post that there were RSS feeds (xml format) that contained descriptions of the presentations as well as links to audio or video (depending on xml link selected) so users could see or hear what they wanted.

The torrents, so nicely put together by converge, just made it easier to share the load of all of each kind of content among many users, and package them conveiniently as a torrent.

For the audio/video for BH, check the link to the post above and you can download each audo or video file "the old fashioned way" with an http link by using a web browser and the information found in one of the RSS feeds.

The torrents for ISO of the CDs given out at BH and DC are covered in another thread.

HTH.

converge

10-07-2006, 01:45 PM

Apologies.. in an attempt to re-align my network of boxen for bigger, badder, better offerings I inadvertantly dosed some of the stuff I was hosting .. namely.. torrent/trackers. I then proceeded to get tagged with job changing, family re-visiting goodness .. so I haven't been able to revive them yet, hence the downtime and 0 seeds.

I have discovered that this has ultimately effected MY bandwidth, since things like the Defcon/Blackhat ISOs are still available on my functioning webserver but no longer served sanely through torrent. ATM my 2Mb pipe is tagged 24/7 .. mostly with Arabs downloading the mentioned ISOs .. go figure.

It will be resolved at some point, as soon as possible.. honestly. In fact, not only will all those torrents return, but I really do plan to keep pulling the remainder of the stuff I didn't collect before Defcon (iirc some music, etc).. as well as future releases of cool shit by DT. atm please anticipate a 1-2month slag of 'life' kicking me in the balls. If someone else has a tracker running, please repost a torrent for it.. I'll gladly update the torrent file on the webserver and set aside another functioning box to seed as much as possible (until I more effectively QoS my shit) Gracias.

st0rm

10-10-2006, 12:23 PM

TheCotMan

10-10-2006, 07:52 PM

Hey converge... it looks like the naming convention of the newly served files on the rss feed has changed. I'm not sure if the content of the files has changed though.

It would be good to find out.

Would you be publishing a different torrent for the new files, if the only difference in the naming convention?

converge

10-10-2006, 08:11 PM

I'll have to look into it .. if things change from the previous torrent, it will be an all new torrent .. maybe I can throw a script out there to conform naming. but..

What I found with the previous feeds was that filenames didn't *entirely* follow a convention .. per se. They had a method of naming, but the torrents I threw out there have renamed files to ensure they all conform to a naming convention along the lines of the RSS Feed versions that were released. For quality control reasons I believe my torrent sets to be superior, but if folks want to be 100% origin then I can either go the alternate set route (divides the torrent.. not sure I like) or toss a quick script or two to convert the naming to fit rss.

we'll see. first to get the torrent/tracker box back in line. on that note, I'm currently dealing with a couple a oddities, probably filesystem and java related.

1) I'm testing Azureus via an Ubuntu box and have discovered difficulties communicating on the same ports that the Windows revision used. No changes to firewall, even if client firewall is disabled. Testing the port appears fine, but Azureus is complaining about lacking the UDP port .. which, is similarly being NAT'd. *shrug*

2) Torrents/Files copied from an NTFS5 disk to an EXT3 disk have issues. Namely, Azureus believes that the torrents are incomplete and will not seed (obviously can't download the rest because, well.. its all there). Files copied back to an NTFS box check out fine. This is true about video content, CoWF hash tables .. pretty much anything outside of a single file torrent.

TheCotMan

10-10-2006, 08:28 PM

1) I'm testing Azureus via an Ubuntu box and have discovered difficulties communicating on the same ports that the Windows revision used. No changes to firewall, even if client firewall is disabled. Testing the port appears fine, but Azureus is complaining about lacking the UDP port .. which, is similarly being NAT'd. *shrug*
I've used one of those curses-based torrent applications. Let it run, and it periodically checks the configured directory for new torrents, or torrent files that have been removed and then adds/removes the torrents being served.

It is very nice, and allows me to configure service ports, number of connections and a bunch of other stuff, and leave it running on remote shells in screen sessions.

2) Torrents/Files copied from an NTFS5 disk to an EXT3 disk have issues. Namely, Azureus believes that the torrents are incomplete and will not seed (obviously can't download the rest because, well.. its all there). Files copied back to an NTFS box check out fine. This is true about video content, CoWF hash tables .. pretty much anything outside of a single file torrent.
If the torrent is a text file, or treated as a text file, but is being copied as a binary file, there may be a CR/LF or EndOfLine termination issue.

Next time you copy the file from the NTFS, cat the file through tr and delete all "^M". This should leave only the ^J-- a common *NIX EndOfLine terminator.

I'd like to see if this is the answer to your problem.

(When you download torrents through the web, your web client will often check to see if the MIME type is of "text/*" and if so, convert the EnfOfLine termination to that of the local OS. However, a filesystem copy usually does not do this.)

$ tr -d '\015' < infile > infile.new
or
$ cat infile | tr -d '\015' > infile.new

Whichever you prefer. :-)
(This is only for text files copied as binary from Windows to Most common *NIX.)

If this still does not work, then use tr to remove any "^Z" in the torrent file.

Don't use these tr on binary/8--bit files-- that would almost certainly break them.

converge

10-10-2006, 08:52 PM

I've used one of those curses-based torrent applications Yeah, I've been quite pleased with rtorrent.. does the job in style. I wanted to try Azureus under linux because it's builtin tracker/gui functionality has been pretty enjoyable as well.

If the torrent is a text file, or treated as a text file Nope, 101% binary. Like I said, videos and hash tables. No corruption in the .torrent itself. I suspect either the method used for CRC of each chunk, or possibly a seperate check involving overall filesize plays into it. ie node size vs cluster (? still referred to as clusters in win32?). I know it is not specific to Azureus.. rtorrent runs into the same thing when verifying the data sets.

TheCotMan

10-10-2006, 09:03 PM

Nope, 101% binary. Like I said, videos and hash tables. No corruption in the .torrent itself. I suspect either the method used for CRC of each chunk, or possibly a seperate check involving overall filesize plays into it. ie node size vs cluster (? still referred to as clusters in win32?). I know it is not specific to Azureus.. rtorrent runs into the same thing when verifying the data sets.

Checksums are suposed to be based on file content, and work at a higher level than the abstraction of the filesystem. These file checksums shouldn't even care about the underlying filesystem, or inodes.

Try an md5sum on the ntfs5 file while that fileystsem is mounted, and then try the same on the file(s) copied to the ext3 fileysstem in linux.

converge

10-10-2006, 09:11 PM

Checksums are suposed to be based on file content ..understood. At this point I'm still at the 'grasping for straws' phase of explaining the inconsistancy.

TheCotMan

10-10-2006, 09:15 PM

..understood. At this point I'm still at the 'grasping for straws' phase of explaining the inconsistancy.

I've not looked at torrents in a long time, but perhaps the datestamp of the file is included. Try preserving/archiving to keep the date/permission when you cp the files, and see if that helps too. (You won't be able to preserve ownership, but that shouldn't matter at all in torrents, but date and/or read/write perms might.

BonzoESC

10-10-2006, 10:45 PM

I've not looked at torrents in a long time, but perhaps the datestamp of the file is included. Try preserving/archiving to keep the date/permission when you cp the files, and see if that helps too. (You won't be able to preserve ownership, but that shouldn't matter at all in torrents, but date and/or read/write perms might.Nah, it's solely based on content, using SHA1.

converge

10-13-2006, 11:34 PM

It should be back for the most part.

Had a night off from work and got a few things done, one of them being fixing some of my broken shit. Tracker still has some issues.. namely, my client is only displaying a hex representation instead of string for Torrent names, so I don't know what is what. I do know that quite a few clients were still out there waiting and many torrents have a couple seeds with a handful of peers .. this *should* grow back as others realize its back in business.

Lemme know if you run into any issues. I'll keep plugging away at the minor stuff, but there shouldn't be another outage like this unless my box gives up the ghost.

== c0n_

converge

10-18-2006, 04:38 PM

UPDATE: All torrents should be seeded again (unless I missed something?) I have divided the tasks of tracking and seeding between a couple different linux clients and this seems to be working reliably for the moment. Will continue to re-org, improve and re-post as much content as feasible.

--EDIT: Please note that locations of the torrent files (TTL permitting) are now found at http://torrents.lostboxen.net. Several of these torrent files have been renamed from the original links posted on the forums, so go from that dir listing and not from the links here. I will be creating a master thread for torrented material in the near future to provide proper resource linkage.

converge

10-19-2006, 04:30 PM

Fellow Forum-goers, I present to you:

The Defcon Forums Content Listing (http://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=7997)

In spirit with getting torrents working again and compiling a centralized list of resources, the below torrents have been created and are now being seeded off of http://torrents.lostboxen.net/.

# Defcon 10 Disc
# Defcon 10 j3sus.net Banned Tools
# Defcon 10 CTF Image (Blue Team)
# Defcon 11 Disc
# Defcon 11 Haxxxor Vol 1
# Defcon 12 Disc
# Defcon 14 Disc
# Blackhat 2004 Disc
# Blackhat 2004 The Mezonic Agenda
# Blackhat 2005 Disc
# Blackhat 2006 Disc
# Church of WiFi Warglue Decommission Pack
# ISWC 2004 PDFs
# Recon 2005 Video

Enjoy. ...more to follow ;)

ßobÇat

10-20-2006, 12:05 AM

Doesn't work for me. Anyone have any luck?

st0rm

10-30-2006, 01:46 PM

the old torrents are working for me

I see just 1 seed (Whoever you are , Thanks alot mate ! your giving some decent speeds from time to time) I will seed afterwards.

P.S: Anyone aware when Blackhat 2006 and Defcon 14 Audio/Video will be released ? (hopefully not late next year , that would suck)

Thanks

Nikita

10-30-2006, 02:08 PM

P.S: Anyone aware when Blackhat 2006 and Defcon 14 Audio/Video will be released ? (hopefully not late next year , that would suck)

Thanks

I am putting them together now, Expect the DC 14 video & audio to be available soon. (Hopefully within the next 2 weeks.) As for Black Hat, Those should be released sometime shortly after. I do not have an expected release date for those, but am hoping it will be soon.

Deviant Ollam

10-30-2006, 09:40 PM

I am putting them together now, Expect the DC 14 video & audio to be available soon.hehehehe.... those of us in the inner-circle of the travelling terabyte project have actually already loaded the DC14 mp3s and mp4s onto the new volumes. they'll be part of the tan TTB (http://forum.defcon.org/showpost.php?p=83271&postcount=90) which will start making the rounds as soon as the OD green one comes back to me so i can do overall maintenance, sync, organization, etc. :wink:

we'll have to get a new recipient list organized soon. if you would care to nominate someone feel free to PM me. we're still trying to keep it (at least for now) as a list of people who were obligated in some way to miss cons recently, either due to service, job, charity work, etc. so if your brother was a katrina relief worker or your sister has been performing in USO shows at far-flung air force bases, etc. perhaps they deserve a visit from on of the TTB cases.

converge

10-30-2006, 11:08 PM

Doesn't work for me. Anyone have any luck? ..hmm. client not showing any seeds/peers? .. symptoms? If you have a specific request I can toss it onto my webserver for a short bit; I just avoid it because then all the bandwidth gets sucked by 3 people in the middle east individually downloading the same ISO.

I see just 1 seed (Whoever you are , Thanks alot mate ! your giving some decent speeds from time to time)Yeah, the only reason those speeds aren't stable is ..well, it depends how many *different* torrents get pulled off my box at a given time.. cowf hash tables are pretty popular atm with 3 seeds and 9 peers.. 2Mbit is my max upload off the home connection until I magically find money, or jesus .. I hear he's got individual OCs for every port on his firewall.

I am putting them together now w00t! .. hopefully I can catch up on the DC12/DC13-music stuffs in time to not fall too far behind.

hehehehe.... those of us in the inner-circle ..are all selfish bastards, each and every one of them!@! :p

theprez98

10-31-2006, 08:31 AM

I just avoid it because then all the bandwidth gets sucked by 3 people in the middle east individually downloading the same ISO.

I've purposely avoided downloading anything of size from Iraq because while the bandwidth is decent I'd rather save it for other things. Besides, I have cable internet at home doing nothing, so I share everything from there.

st0rm

10-31-2006, 10:03 AM

I am putting them together now, Expect the DC 14 video & audio to be available soon. (Hopefully within the next 2 weeks.) As for Black Hat, Those should be released sometime shortly after. I do not have an expected release date for those, but am hoping it will be soon.

2 weeks ? :eek: OMGZOZLOLZ! Sweetness. Thats gotta be the quickest release..

/me happy :cool:

converge

10-31-2006, 11:08 AM

... Iraq ... while the bandwidth is decent I'd rather save it for other things. Besides, I have cable internet at home doing nothing, so I share everything from there. that's cause you fuckin rock. That's it. You sir, just bumped yourself up to a second beer next available defcon.

.. I have actually created a textfile to attempting to track these this year ...

TheCotMan

10-31-2006, 11:28 AM

.. I have actually created a textfile to attempting to track these this year ...

This is what I do-- because the person promised the beer probably won't forget, even if I do.

Hooray for human swap space (aka, paper-form.)

Great news on the DC14 content.

st0rm

11-10-2006, 10:41 PM

Hey converge and (others who are seeding :p), Thanks again for being the only seed..I finally completed blackhat and defcon torrents after weeks of waiting :p appreciate it ! Theres a little problem though, I dont know why but a few talks are incomplete, namely the Johnny Long - Google Penetration hacking talks both on defcon and blackhat....anyone have the complete talk from johnny long ?

Since defcon14+blackhat06 torrents are going to be released soon, I wanted to ask about the quality.....I noticed that defcon AND blackhat (last year) had poor video quality (Im not complaining :), it was nearly impossible to see the slides), so if bh+dc 06/14 video is not yet encoded for release, Im sure people will appreciate a slightly higher quality video release.

Thanks guys :) Very appreciated.
(P.S: Converge, keep seeding the recon torrent :..: its going on slow..thx)

converge

11-11-2006, 11:29 AM

...I noticed that defcon AND blackhat (last year) had poor video quality ... is not yet encoded for release...From what I've heard, I'm not certain that the quality issues were due to encoding. To my knowledge the source audio/video was somewhat tainted and the encoding was just matched appropriately.

(P.S: Converge, keep seeding the recon torrent :..: its going on slow..thx)This is the one torrent that has me scratching my head. At many times you are the only peer consistantly connected to the box, yet you are only connecting in at 1-5KB/s max. At other times, like now, 0 torrents are being seeded .. then you'll magically pop back up. It does not make sense to me. *shrug* I'll keep investigating.

TheCotMan

11-11-2006, 01:45 PM

This is the one torrent that has me scratching my head. At many times you are the only peer consistantly connected to the box, yet you are only connecting in at 1-5KB/s max. At other times, like now, 0 torrents are being seeded .. then you'll magically pop back up. It does not make sense to me. *shrug* I'll keep investigating.

I've seen some torrent sources throttle the throughput of data to client with low sharing ratios, when nobody else is around. Add another client that can use the source and share/use the peer and I bet the speeds will improve for everyone using that torrent.

converge

11-11-2006, 04:44 PM

I just had to drop power to the box while I shuffled it over to a new resting place in the systems room. Before doing so I took note of a single downloader pulling from the recon2005 seed. It was going quite well, miraculously chugging along at 50-80KB/s .. quite a change from my last note. I also noticed that the seed had 0 active peers in the tracker .. quite odd.

So 1 of 2 possibilities is going on... either the tracker is more fucked than I understood it to be, or someone is using a less than sanctioned method to download from the seeds.

st0rm

11-11-2006, 05:08 PM

Ah ok..Thanks..Once I finish the recon torrent I'll seed it for a couple of weeks if anyone else is interested :)

Oh and again, Does anyone have the complete version of Johnny long's talk entitled "Google hacking for penetration testers/testing" ? I find it strange how in both BH and DC, this file is incomplete. If anyone has this talk, itd be cool if you could up it to some public server.

Thanks :)

Dark Tangent

11-11-2006, 06:40 PM

The new media server is on the way to World Domination HQ!

With 750gig drives (mirrored) it will replace the old media machine whic is old and full. I'll config it up, and copy all the old media on it as well as the new DC-14.

In preperation for this if you want any of your media hosted on it, please let me know. We will have the space, and a fair bit of bandwidth. The only limitation is that it will serve content through http only, no bittorrent.

If you want something hosted email me or send DVDs to the DEF CON address. I'm looking for DJ sets, the DC TV filler content, contest videos, etc.

I can't wait!

DT

st0rm

11-19-2006, 12:07 PM

Converge, Been stuck at 99.9 on the recon torrent, i think it'll finish sometime soon (hopefully) thanks again...

my question is : Does ANYONE have the complete talk of johnny longs google hacking for both defcon13 AND blackhat05 ? I find it strange that both talks are incomplete..

who has this ?

P.S: btw, alot of defcon 13 video and a few blackhat video has horrible audio..theres a very loud hiss/inteference going on (ears will hurt after a few mins), so whoever is encoding the new defcon14 and bh06 video plz take this into consideration. (HQ)

converge

11-20-2006, 01:49 AM

P.S: btw, alot of defcon 13 video and a few blackhat video has horrible audio..theres a very loud hiss/inteference going on (ears will hurt after a few mins), so whoever is encoding the new defcon14 and bh06 video plz take this into consideration. (HQ)

heh, dood ... like I mentioned above and as DT explained pages ago in this thread.. don't blame the encode... its not like they ripped "Defcon 13 The Movie" and chopped a mastered mpeg/ac3 as low as they could go. Quality is highly limited by their source video/audio. True, further mastering could help mitigate some of these blemishes, but would require additional editing efforts that would delay our enjoyment further than need be.

I'll have to check on the Johnny Long talk, but I think that's the best available via rss.

Odd about the 99.9% ... I'll have to logon to the box and make sure all is still well.

st0rm

11-20-2006, 12:31 PM

heh, dood ... like I mentioned above and as DT explained pages ago in this thread.. don't blame the encode... its not like they ripped "Defcon 13 The Movie" and chopped a mastered mpeg/ac3 as low as they could go. Quality is highly limited by their source video/audio. True, further mastering could help mitigate some of these blemishes, but would require additional editing efforts that would delay our enjoyment further than need be.

I'll have to check on the Johnny Long talk, but I think that's the best available via rss.

Odd about the 99.9% ... I'll have to logon to the box and make sure all is still well.

Ah ok..sounds good..hopefully the defcon14+bh06 audio wont be as bad. Thanks! :tongue:

converge

11-20-2006, 05:25 PM

Ah ok..sounds good..hopefully the defcon14+bh06 audio wont be as bad. Thanks! :tongue:

w00t.. checked the system and it looks like 2 completed data sets for Recon and 3 seeds now!

Dark Tangent

11-20-2006, 05:56 PM

Looks like the DC 14 and BH 06 is basically done, but no drive space till the new server arrives!

converge

11-20-2006, 06:25 PM

I've gotz teh space!! /me claws and prods

st0rm

11-21-2006, 01:23 PM

w00t.. checked the system and it looks like 2 completed data sets for Recon and 3 seeds now!

YUP! Im the 3rd Seed, I lost my connection last night but I will be up and seeding again starting tonight so others can grab em too.....for those that are interested I am also seeding the Hack In the Box conference 2005, and still DLing 04 and 03 HITB

DT: Thanks .... Hopefully before end of december... cant wait... watching these help absorb info alot better for me.

Thanks guys :cool:

deffux

12-01-2006, 11:16 AM

Looks like the DC 14 and BH 06 is basically done, but no drive space till the new server arrives!

great, when will the server arrive?

Dark Tangent

12-03-2006, 06:50 PM

Dark Tangent

12-03-2006, 07:02 PM

Agg.. server should have been here by now.

I think I'll go radical, and delete old content to make space. Then upload it and have it around while I am building and populating the new sever.

So, with that said, good bye old content, get ready for new!

OK, 85 file and 10 Gig of DC-14 video on the way..

I am also planning on putting up:
- the DC TV filler torrent if someone can point me to a source
- DJ action from Shatter once I get the videos from him
- DJ Jackalops 'Nervious Wreck' mix from the DC Con CD
- The DC 14 con CD

Am I missing anything? I'd love to get the video filler from Kenshoto!

st0rm

12-05-2006, 10:53 AM

OK, 85 file and 10 Gig of DC-14 video on the way..

I am also planning on putting up:
- the DC TV filler torrent if someone can point me to a source
- DJ action from Shatter once I get the videos from him
- DJ Jackalops 'Nervious Wreck' mix from the DC Con CD
- The DC 14 con CD

Am I missing anything? I'd love to get the video filler from Kenshoto!

10 Gigs huh ? Sweet. That should mean great quality compared to past video torrents. Great news.

Thanks DT. :cool:

Dark Tangent

12-05-2006, 04:38 PM

OK, 85 file and 10 Gig of DC-14 video on the way..

OK, video is up there.. now working on testing the RSS, making iTunes logos, etc. as well as adding the audio.

liberator

12-05-2006, 06:41 PM

OK, video is up there.. now working on testing the RSS, making iTunes logos, etc. as well as adding the audio.

This is great news. Unfortunately I must be suffering from Alzheimer's, because I can't figure out where to get it. I have searched through this thread and also tried the following usual suspects with no luck:

http://www.defcon.org/html/links/defcon-media-archives.html

http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-post.html

http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives.html

http://torrents.lostboxen.net/

http://www.defcon.org/defconrss.xml

Any enlightenment would be appreciated! Thanks.

converge

12-06-2006, 01:31 PM

Dark Tangent

12-06-2006, 03:31 PM

I think that by 'its up there' he means it is physically on the box .. I suspect he is waiting for most of the media to be ready, prepping RSS feeds, etc before actual linkage, although educated guesses based on previous resource location might yield current media ;)

Converge is a clever, clever man. And correct.
Tomorrow the beta of the RSS will go up.. maybe tonight if I can get to it. All the video files are there, though.

st0rm

12-06-2006, 08:42 PM

Converge is a clever, clever man. And correct.
Tomorrow the beta of the RSS will go up.. maybe tonight if I can get to it. All the video files are there, though.

Converge: Are you going to be incharge of releasing the torrents mate ?

DT: Thanks :cool:

Dark Tangent

12-07-2006, 05:19 PM

Here are two sekr3t testing rss entries:

www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-14-video.rss
www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-14-audio.rss

st0rm

12-07-2006, 06:38 PM

Here are two sekr3t testing rss entries:

www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-14-video.rss
www.defcon.org/podcast/defcon-14-audio.rss

Thanks alot DT. The speeds are horrible at this end for me though :confused: I think Im going to wait till the A/V Torrents are released... then I shall get Jiggy. :smile:

/me elbows converge

converge

12-09-2006, 01:47 PM

Defcon 12 Music - todo: none

-no issues

Defcon 12 Audio - todo: fixes from DT?

-missing:
* 2004-Defcon_12-v49-K_Wang-MORPH_Anti_OS_Fingerprinting_SW.mp3
* 2004-Defcon_12-v93-DousharmandDuncan-Credit_Card_Networks.mp3
* 2004-Defcon_12-v90-El-Khalil-Info_Hiding_in_Exe_Binaries.mp3
* 2004-Defcon_12-v03- "Peter D. Feaver and Kenneth Geers: The First International Cyber War" -.mp3

-gaps in sequence (may indicate missing talks? uncertain placement for some?):
* missing V01,04,06-08,10-12,14,15,22,25,29-31,37,38,42,46,48,51,56-58,61,62,65,72,73,75,76,78,79,81-83,86,95,96
* two unqiue talks both labelled as V54
* no sequence number for Dead Addict media talk

Defcon 12 Video - todo: fixes from DT?

-missing:
* 2004-Defcon_12-v84- "Jonny-Long_Google-Hacking" -.mp4
* 2004-Defcon_12-v93-DousharmandDuncan-Credit_Card_Networks.mp4

-same gap/placement issues

TheCotMan

12-09-2006, 02:34 PM

problems with URL to vids in RSS feed:
This:
http://media.defcon.org/dc-14/viDefcon14-V30-Jay_Beale-Discovering_MacOSX_Weaknesses.mp4
Should be
http://media.defcon.org/dc-14/video/Defcon14-V30-Jay_Beale-Discovering_MacOSX_Weaknesses.mp4

This:
http://media.defcon.org/Defcon14-V60-Schmiedl-Safecracking_without_a_trace.mp4
Should be:
http://media.defcon.org/dc-14/video/Defcon14-V60-Schmiedl-Safecracking_without_a_trace.mp4

converge

12-10-2006, 12:38 PM

The following torrents have been added to http://torrents.lostboxen.net -

http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-12-audio-content-release-2006.12.09.torrent - DC12 audio
http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-12-video-content-release-2006.12.09.torrent - DC12 video
http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-12-music-content-release-2006.12.09.torrent - DC12 music

Defcon 14 Audio Content is definately not up for the grabbing. I fixed my pull script (an issue previously visited but I copied the unfixed script for the new pull), but all audio requests return 404. Verified by duplicating through the RSS feed.

Defcon 13 Music - todo: none

-no issues

Defcon 13 MusicVideos - todo: fixes from DT?

-missing:
* DefCon_12_DJ_Wintamute.mp4
* defcon_13_3-Ms-DJ-Jackalope.mp4
* defcon_13_6-DJ-Casey.mp4
* defcon_13_7-Krisz-Klink.mp4

Other freshly copied torrents -

http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-13-music-content-release-2006.12.10.torrent - DC13 music
http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-13-musicvideo-content-release-2006.12.10.torrent - DC13 music videos

converge

12-14-2006, 06:33 AM

w0rdz!

http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-14-video-content-release-2006.12.13.torrent - Defcon 14 Video

Get it, seed it, live it, love it.

Major kudos to Mr The Tangent himself. Not only am I amazed at the turnaround on his releasing such recent content at such a quick mark, but IT IS 100% COMPLETE (to my knowledge). 10GB of pure Defcon 14 goodness. Enjoy.

More content to follow as it becomes available.

Deviant Ollam

12-14-2006, 09:00 AM

looks like that related content which i was uploading to you completed. check the SFV and let me know if anything didn't come through. (i did half from my work and half from my home, so i'm not 100% certain that the ID3 tags were identical on those MP3s... might generate a mismatch because of that) :confused:

st0rm

12-14-2006, 11:32 AM

converge

12-14-2006, 12:19 PM

Deviant:

At quick glance it looks good to me, but I'll run through unifying it later today. The only quick of-note is that there lacks an mp3 for the Phil Zimmerman Turbo talk. This was slightly awkward on the video side because every talk received relatively accurate sequence except Joe Grand and Phil Zimmerman, who were both tagged as V1 .. with 0 gaps upwards to the Awards Ceremony.

Solution? Count from 00!! And of course, since Joe Grand is way more cool than some guy that wrote PGP back in the day, he gets the pilot spot in my books :p

Nikita

12-14-2006, 02:20 PM

-gaps in sequence (may indicate missing talks? uncertain placement for some?):
* missing V01,04,06-08,10-12,14,15,22,25,29-31,37,38,42,46,48,51,56-58,61,62,65,72,73,75,76,78,79,81-83,86,95,96
* two unqiue talks both labelled as V54
* no sequence number for Dead Addict media talk

-same gap/placement issues

To clarify, the V01, V whatever, Is not a sequence thing, some will be out of order, some will be missing, some will both be labeled V54. This is an organizational system used here simply because the original tapes the video is on happens to have that number on the label from Tsok. I have started re-numbering tapes for some older footage we are updating, for my benefit, the V +# is simply a way for me to find the original tape as quickly as possible. There are many reasons why a talk may not be there, why a tape number is skipped and why two talks have the same number. Sometimes, two speakers are recorded on the same video portion, sometimes the tape quality is just so old or more to the point the audio/video quality sucks, that it is not worth the headache putting up, and sometimes, we cant find people in the archives. Now that I am here and its a major portion of my day to day grind, the video system is and will continue to get better, especially since we have dvds issued to us now. but considering there are hundreds of vhs tapes laying around to stub my toes on, its really easier to use the tape number as my catalog system. So that is the mystery and the confusion behind the V# issue.

converge

12-15-2006, 12:55 AM

Thanks to Deviant Ollam I have come into possession of the audio, so here it is:

http://torrents.lostboxen.net/defcon-14-audio-content-release-2006.12.14.torrent - Defcon 14 Audio

-missing
* Phil Zimmerman Turbo VoIP talk

Dark Tangent

12-21-2006, 09:02 PM

Nikita

12-22-2006, 02:39 PM

Some updates:

Nikita has hunted down two errors in the audio and video rss files, and the audio is now uploaded.

Please play and test.

Nikita is splitting out the Joe Grand and Phil Zimmermann audio / video as well.

PS: The new media server finally arrived! Woo!

Unfortunately the corrected RSS feeds are not online, so if you encounter errors, I'm terribly sorry. It will be back online later today.

As for The Grand-Zimmerman conflict of '06.
There will be no Zimmerman Video as there is none.
Joe Grand will be split into his own happy video clip asap, we are just working out some encoding kinks over here. In the meantime you will have to fast forward until it gets to his presentation.

The Audio is corrected and split for them both. The file name for both will still begin with V1.

deffux

12-25-2006, 12:04 AM

thanks for the defcon stuff :-)

are there any plans to release blackhat 2006 video files?

Dark Tangent

12-26-2006, 07:02 PM

thanks for the defcon stuff :-)

are there any plans to release blackhat 2006 video files?

BH 2006 is being uploaded as I type this.

I'm just checking everything over before adding DC 14 to iTunes store and making a more public announcement.

I had to wack the DC-7 content off line to make room, but with the new media server here there will be more than enough space for all the content we can think of.

st0rm

12-27-2006, 10:27 PM

thanks for the defcon stuff :-)

are there any plans to release blackhat 2006 video files?

Same here, Thanks. But I think (due to job/family shitzz) Im gonna have to wait a few weeks till I download the BH and DC 2006 torrent :doubt: Hopefully it'll still be seeded in 2-3 weeks.

Thanks dudez

deffux

12-30-2006, 06:05 AM

BH 2006 is being uploaded as I type this.

thanks for your work!

http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-06-video.rss

deffux

12-30-2006, 02:35 PM

thanks for your work!

http://www.blackhat.com/podcast/bh-usa-06-video.rss
(only audio + slides, no real video)

Nikita

01-02-2007, 12:36 PM

(only audio + slides, no real video)

A majority of the videos in the beginning are like that, however they were later informed to record the actual speaker, and there should be more videos later in the series that stuck to that request. So that in mind, you will have to put up with slides and audio for a good portion of the series. (We know it will not happen again next year)

I have not actually watched every video, but if you find the trend does not change around the 2nd day of video, let us know.

deffux

01-04-2007, 08:50 AM

A majority of the videos in the beginning are like that, however they were later informed to record the actual speaker, and there should be more videos later in the series that stuck to that request. So that in mind, you will have to put up with slides and audio for a good portion of the series. (We know it will not happen again next year)

I have not actually watched every video, but if you find the trend does not change around the 2nd day of video, let us know.

on none of the following records is the actual speaker:

30.12.2006 21:00 136.963.585 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V1-David_Litchfeild-All_new_0day.mp4
30.12.2006 20:07 199.096.744 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V11-Jesse_Burns-Fuzzing_Win32.mp4
30.12.2006 15:33 198.824.627 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V14-Saumil_Shah-Metasploit_Plugins.mp4
30.12.2006 19:20 169.361.375 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V19-Cache_and_Maynor-Device_Drivers.mp4
30.12.2006 17:37 201.137.757 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V29-Fischbach-Carrier_VOIP_Security.mp4
30.12.2006 18:00 178.710.142 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V31-Sutton_and_MacManus-Punk_0de.mp4
30.12.2006 21:23 228.260.693 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V33-Moore-Metasploit_Reloaded.mp4
30.12.2006 20:04 103.137.016 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V38-Butler-Exponential_Growth_Rootkit.mp4
30.12.2006 16:52 157.927.343 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V4-Ofir_Arkin-Bypassing_NAC_Systems.mp4
30.12.2006 22:34 141.118.520 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V40-Cushman-MS_Security_fundamentals.mp4
30.12.2006 23:05 140.872.929 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V47-Sotirov-HotPatching3rd_Party_Patch.mp4
30.12.2006 15:53 136.795.453 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V54-Silberman_and_Butler-RAIDEv1.0.mp4
31.12.2006 00:08 139.794.195 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V56-Gbadegesin-TCPIP_in_WIN_Vista.mp4
30.12.2006 20:16 63.213.424 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V58-Dwivedi-Shoot_Nxt_Persn_says_VLANS.mp4
30.12.2006 18:42 45.767.935 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V60-SQUIRE-Project_Cowbird.mp4
30.12.2006 17:20 148.779.738 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V65-Noel_Anderseon-Wifi_in_WIN_Vista.mp4
30.12.2006 16:34 165.682.571 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V66-Panel-Disclosure_Public.mp4
30.12.2006 21:53 110.977.819 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V70-Moniz_and_Moore-6_Degrees_XSSploit.mp4
30.12.2006 23:53 173.462.941 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V74-Marinescu-WIN_Vista_Heap_Mgmt.mp4
30.12.2006 19:47 200.318.691 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V81-Rutkowska-Subverting_Vista_Kernel.mp4
30.12.2006 15:09 113.688.224 2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V83-Franco-Case_Studies_Secure_Dev_IE7.mp4

http://media.blackhat.com/bh-usa-06/video/2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V48-Lambert-Sec_Engineer_in_win_Vista.mp4 = file does not exist

Dark Tangent

01-04-2007, 06:33 PM

on none of the following records is the actual speaker:

http://media.blackhat.com/bh-usa-06/video/2006_BlackHat_Vegas-V48-Lambert-Sec_Engineer_in_win_Vista.mp4 = file does not exist

That has been fixed.. a naming error!

st0rm

02-01-2007, 02:39 PM

Thanks for seeding the defcon 14 content 64.142.xxx.xxx passwall, whoever you are. thanks ! getting some decent speeds...I only download like 30 mins , 2x a week so gonna take a while. thanks everyone.

st0rm

05-03-2007, 04:57 PM

Anyone planning on releasing blackhat2007 AVI's via BT ?

deffux

08-03-2007, 02:53 PM

any updates on the blackhat 2007 conference content (slides,...)?

TheCotMan

08-06-2007, 11:22 PM

any updates on the blackhat 2007 conference content (slides,...)?

BH Conference slides and CD/DVD content should be on the CD/DVD given to you at BH. If you never received one, and received notice from someone else to check here for, wait for someone else to respond.

If things work like last year, one of our forum members may be setting up a torrent of and ISO ofthe CD/DVD content.

This would *not* be video content, but the content submitted by speakers, placed on DVD/CD.

Hope this helps.