Data Duplication Village at DEF CON 24!

[KnightOwl]

Just spoke with DT on this today. I'll help to run the DDV this year.

We will definitely be accepting drives on Thursday from 6pm to 7pm (as noted in the top post) at Palace 7 (thanks for the location update on that, Cot). After that, we'll continue to accept drives on Friday from 10:00am until we fill up the schedule - possibly as late as Saturday afternoon but as Cot mentions, there are no guarantees on the timing. Pickups should be about 16-24 hours after your dropoff and we'll try to give you as accurate an estimate as possible when dropping off.

Space allowing, the last drop-offs will be no later than Saturday at 5:30pm as the last drives will be run overnight.

We have some additional duplicators this year so we hope to handle all comers this year.

-KO

[TheCotMan]

will this be open thurs-sunday?

I am not sure exactly how this will work, A team of volunteer was recently established (I think) and I am not sure how they have decided to run this event.

Some possible arrangements include:
* Open All the time? (Probably not. Volunteers will need to take a break, and physical security of drives provided by people will be important)
* Published scheduled times for people to stop-by, drop off or pick-up drives, and times when it will be closed.
* Additional to the above, published times when there will be a kind of "open house" to see the process and talk with the people and maybe meet others looking for the same?
* It may mostly end up being a person at a door that accepts drives, and hands a token for drive pick-up later, and denial of all non-volunteers from entering the room.

What days? It would probably be open for people to drop off drives on Thursday and Friday, but beyond Friday, there may not be enough time to finish duplication by Saturday. I would not count on Sunday pick-up. I would not count on a Saturday drop-off. I would guess on Thursday-Friday drop-off, Thursday through Saturday pick-up.

NOTHING I typed here is authoritative. I do not run this. These are only guesses based on past experience.

Hopefully, we will get more details from the people that will be staffing it on how it will work, and what will be open, and when.

I received an OK from DT to alter his top post here with new location information.

The top post has been altered to show the location on a map for Bally's where you can fine the "Palace" rooms.

-Cot

[shortstack]

will this be open thurs-sunday?

[TheCotMan]

Information from Nikita :

Data Duplication Village moved to Palace 7, same times.

I am reluctant to edit DT's top post.

[Frosty]

I have the NTLM rainbow tables from cryptohaze.com which is an app that can run rainbow tables with GPU acceleration, they're the best I've found and are 100% accurate across the full US95 charset up to length 8, from memory they're about 1.8Tb, I'll see if I can bring them up on a drive and drop them off thur. I also have the GSM tables used for Kraken which are around 1.6Tb I think, i might be able to bring those as well. Also got about 300Gb of good password lists.

[ne0n]

LANMAN ( 397megs) - SQL ( 1,483 megs) - NTLM ( 3,956 megs)

I'm assuming you mean gigs?

[Dark Tangent]

I assume so, but you would be wasting 2T of space, and the archive drives write at a slower speed and would slow everyone else down to your speed. That's wouldn't be fair to everyone else.

[securesocket]

Would Seagate 8TB drives work with the duplicators? Something like a ST8000DM002?

[r3b00t]

I have been going through the media drive from last year and trying to catalog as much as I can. It is great having the videos, but if you can't find the information, it isn't as useful. I have OSMC on a Raspberry Pi 3, and I have cataloged some of the big conferences and treat them like TV series. I have individual nfo files for each talk, and everything is presented in an easy to navigate menu. It is not perfect, but it works okay.

I haven't found a good way to pass this along yet. I have scripts written that will rename the various files from the different conferences to a common naming convention, and match up to the nfo files that OSMC will recognize.

I am currently checking infocon.org for updates, but haven't found a concise list of the changes that have occurred. I would also be really interested in a diff file between years.

I am extremely grateful for the work that has been put into this.

Thank you.

[Cheeser100]

If I am unable to attend this years event, can I still mail my drives in?

[Techlord2029]

Are the Seagate Desktop HDD ST6000DM001 6TB 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Drives a good bet to bring?

[Dark Tangent]

The WDRed drives seem to time out or not run at full speed. That was last year, maybe they are better now? But don't take the risk.

[Techlord2029]

Thank you TheCotMan.
I should have scanned previous posts for the answer.
Sorry.

[TheCotMan]

Just curious, what is wrong with Western Digital Red drives?
I will of course bring something else but I just wanted to know why they are bad?

See the discussion from last year starting at this post and then see the question and embedded reply (comment) on other drives which include WD Red drives:

https://forum.defcon.org/forum/defco...140#post221140

[Techlord2029]

Just curious, what is wrong with Western Digital Red drives?
I will of course bring something else but I just wanted to know why they are bad?