DEFCON 11 Pre-Planning

[pezz]

Id like to see something that directly addresses Sidewinder or NeXt Gen FW.

Do we have any experts on those?

[The Dark Tangent]

Do you mean Sidewinder Gen 2, or Firewall One NG?

[KeLviN]

Originally posted by JockVSJock
I agree that some sort of informatl CTF for newbies would be awesome and fun and a learning experiene at the sametime, and would help a newbie understand what is going on with the real CTF.

except you'd end up with assholes like me jumping in cuz i know i can rock some newbies world and take home the gold. how would you "verify" that someone is a newbie?!

[highwizard]

Originally posted by KeLviN
except you'd end up with assholes like me jumping in cuz i know i can rock some newbies world and take home the gold. how would you "verify" that someone is a newbie?!

Perhaps offer no prize(s) beyond pure knowledge. Make it an indepth learning expierence.... Though, whoever was to run/handle this, would have to have major patience and a love of youth.

[boogah]

Re: Re: DEFCON 11 Pre-Planning

Originally posted by Grifter

We already have the Note Exchange. I know it wasn't working last year, but hopefully Boogah will work out all the bugs before DC11. http://noteex.hatesville.com/

There were two problems with the Note Exchange when we tried to get it off the ground last year...

[1] I though it'd be a brilliant idea to bring the NoteEx box to con. That way if we had an issue with the connectivity it wouldn't be a problem, people could still access NoteEx... Not only did we have trouble getting the physical box into the NOC but the DNS was so hosed that nobody could have accessed it anyhow.
[2] There wasn't word one of acknowledgement of NoteEx in the program. If I'd known this I would have ran off some sort of quarter page sheet and handed it out at con but since I had to deal with some unexpected personal issues [see: girlfriend lost her purse in a cab] I had nowhere near the capacity or will to deal with it.

This year, NoteEx is sitting securely in the VP Labs NOC in Anaheim. It will not be installed on the DC LAN. I am also going to try and make sure that it is somehow credited in the program and if it isn't I will run off a thousand or so flyers at the local Kinko's and spend most of my con handing them out. I think the con can only grow with the open sharing of information that NoteEx provides. Of course my opinion is skewed because it is my project.

[BTW: The brunt of NoteEx was coded by JTX of http://hatesville.com/ who took one look at my plan for implementation and said "I can do that better than you can." If it wasn't for him the project still wouldn't be done.]

[blackwave]

yeah Note Exchange is a great idea, I kept checking back and even after the con was over... no joy :(

[pezz]

Originally posted by Dark Tangent
Do you mean Sidewinder Gen 2, or Firewall One NG?

Either would be very, very interesting.