PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

two quick notes:

1. it's really just "Lockpick Village" most of the time when we say it. Although "Lockpicking Village" is ok, i suppose. But we don't tend to hyphenate it. And Lockpick / Lockpicking are always just one word.

2. i no longer run the BCCC event. NzO has taken that over completely.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

1. it's really just "Lockpick Village" most of the time when we say it. Although "Lockpicking Village" is ok, i suppose. But we don't tend to hyphenate it. And Lockpick / Lockpicking are always just one word.

Thanks for the correction. I've applied the name change to the forum and the description. :-)

2. i no longer run the BCCC event. NzO has taken that over completely.

Right. I was so familiar with you running it, that when I read your reference to it in this post I didn't read more details to see that is it being run by other people.

I've since sent an email to the forum account associated with the user claiming the same name, and am waiting for a reply. Without response from him by end of January, I'll probably remove the forum until there is confirmation from him.

Thanks again, man. :-)

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Maintenance is scheduled for this weekend. I'll be taking down tamperevidentwiki, forums, pics, and test forums.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Maintenance is scheduled for this weekend. I'll be taking down tamperevidentwiki, forums, pics, and test forums.

First round of maintenance include down-time for:
* Forum
* Test Forums
* Pics

Expecting to be down for an hour.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

First round of maintenance include down-time for:
* Forum
* Test Forums
* Pics

Expecting to be down for an hour.

First round of maintenance is complete. Please let us know if you see problems. If you can't post the problem, email us: defconforums@gmail.com


Next maintenance goes to tamperevidentwiki which will also be down for about 1 hour.

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

happy the forums are up... thanks for the fast maintenance.

still generating errors on all Android devices for me, however.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

happy the forums are up... thanks for the fast maintenance.

still generating errors on all Android devices for me, however.

Yep. The work I am doing has nothing to do with the errors on android devices. DT says he thinks he identified the problem, and he will be working to correct it soon.

I have one more cycle of maintenance on each of the services, but the next rounds of maintenance do not require all servers to be down, just have each one down, one at a time, in sequence.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Yep. The work I am doing has nothing to do with the errors on android devices. DT says he thinks he identified the problem, and he will be working to correct it soon.

I have one more cycle of maintenance on each of the services, but the next rounds of maintenance do not require all servers to be down, just have each one down, one at a time, in sequence.

Maintenance now will take place on forums, then pics then tamperevident wiki as a separate round of work. This shouldn't take long... maybe 5 minutes.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Maintenance now will take place on forums, then pics then tamperevident wiki as a separate round of work. This shouldn't take long... maybe 5 minutes.

Only one more expected outage on forums is planned later today.

pics is next.

Again, if you notice problems, please let us know.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Only one more expected outage on forums is planned later today.

pics is next.

Again, if you notice problems, please let us know.

No more work today. Will continue tomorrow.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Added eris as forum leader/organizer to "Defcon Short Story Contest" under the Defcon 21 space. (She is taking this over from Nikita as the primary organizer of this contest.)
(Other judges can be added later once the list of returning judges is known. Please be patient. I have an old discussion in PM with eris, and a just brought it up again today.)

Beverage Cooling Contraption Contest forum has Nz0 as a forum leader/organizer.

Goon and user priest added as forum leader/organizer to the "Spot the Fed" forum.

User Abstrct added as forum leader/organizer to the "The Schemaverse DEFCON Tournament (When Space elephants attack )" forum for Defcon 21.

User HighWiz has been added to the "DC101" forum as a forum leader/organizer.

Deviant Ollam has been added as a forum leader/organizer to the forum "Defcon Shoot" and "Lockpicking Village"

User DaKahuna has been added as a forum leader/organizer to the forum "Wireless Village"

User Bluknight added as a forum leader/organizer to the forum "Skytalks"

Please remind if if I have omitted to edit the existing forums to include a previously approved forum leader/organizer back to have controls of their respective forums this year like previous year.

Sorry about forgetting this. Thanks to HighWiz for reminding me. :-)

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Blakdayz has been promoted to be a Goon and SuperMod on the Defcon forums. As many of you know, he is the primary coordinator for all DCG. This new access is to provide him with extra tools to help him with his job as the primary DCG Coordinator. Welcome blakdayz!

Other updates:

GreatScott!! is the primary organizer of official Defcon Entertainment. He has been the primary goon for things like the Pool Party, the B&W Ball, and other Defcon Parties. He recently asked to have some of these forums re-opened for Defcon 21. Two have been opened:
Major Forum Container for all Defcon Entertainment Forums:

https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=705

Sub-forum for general Entertainment discussion:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=706

An announcement by GreatScott! will be coming soon to the "General Entertainment" subforum.



"The Summit" An EFF Fundraiser run by members of Vegas 2.0 has been announced as returning to Defcon 21. A new forum has been created:

https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=710
twitter: https://www.twitter.com/effsummit
site: http://www.vegassummit.org/ (error message ATM. This may be an obsolete URL.)
Description: "Summary: theSummit is a Fund Raiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday Night between Black Hat and DEF CON events.(twitter), (site)"



The Defcon Hardware Hacking Village has been announced as returning to Defcon 21.
A new forum has been created for it:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=711
twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/DC_HHV
Description: "Just as the name implies, this is a forum for discussion of the new Hardware Hacking Village. (twitter)"



Be The Match is planning to return to Defcon 21.
A new forum has been created for them:

https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=712
site: http://www.marrow.org/
blog: http://bethematch.typepad.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/BeTheMatch
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BeTheMatch
Signup: http://www.marrow.org/JOIN/Join_Now/join_now.html

Description: "Back for its third year! Take part of the coolest "Bio-Hack" around... register with "Be the Match" at DefCon, and take the first step to become a Bone Marrow Donor. (site), (blog), (twitter), (FaceBook), (Sign-up/Signup)."

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

Sorry, no April Fools prank from me on the forums this year -- ran out of time while on vacation.

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

A new forum has been created to support year-long discussion of "Defcon Badge Hacking" as part of some plan towards world domination.

All threads from all other bade hacking forums have been moved to this forum and renamed with a prefix "[Defcon $val] " where $val is the number assigned to the defcon of concern.

New forum:

https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=714

"Forum: Defcon Badge Hacking (For All Defcon Badges)"

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

[TheCotMan]

Re: PUBLIC-NOTICES: Forum Changes/Fixes. Any Questions?

1) The organizers of "Defcon Kids" have announced their intention to
return to Defcon 21
on their website.

A new forum has been created based on this intention:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=715
"*UNOFFICIAL* Defcon Kids"

Site: http://www.defconkids.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DEFCONKIDS



2) A new group to run the Defcon CTF (Capture the Flag) was selected
an "recently"
announced.

Twitter announcements:
https://twitter.com/thedarktangent/s...03045792378882
"The Dark Tangent @thedarktangent

Congratulations to the Legitimate Business Syndicate @legitbs_ctf for
being selected the new #defcon CTF organizers!"

https://twitter.com/LegitBS_CTF
https://legitbs.net/

CTF Quals announcement on main Defcon site:
https://www.defcon.org/index.html#dc21ctfquals

Forum:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=716



3) GreatScott! has been in charge of what is called "Defcon
Entertainment" which has been header and container for all things
like: Chill-Out space, Pool Party, Top of the Riv (when at the riv),
and Black & White Balls. Since he has taken these over, he has worked
on the idea of multiple forums for each section with different
purposes:

"DEF-CON XXI (21) Official Arts & Entertainment Planning+Update" :
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=705

"General Updates/Planning"
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=706

"Black & White Balls"
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=707



4) "Defcon Military Veteran Meetup" is planning to return:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=717
Site:
http://www.myleverage.org/milvet/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/vetsec



5) Jeff Moss is bringing back:
Dark Tangent's Tamper Evident Contest
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=718
Site:
https://www.tamperevidentwiki.com/



6) New for Defcon 21, Jeff and Defcon are hosting:
Tamper Evident Village
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=719
This was announced here:
https://forum.defcon.org/showthread....011#post128011



7) QueerCon is returning to Defcon 21:
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=720
Site:
http://www.queercon.org/
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126504813280
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Queercon



8) SECTF for kids (Social Engineering Capture the Flag for kids)
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=721
Site:
http://www.social-engineer.org/



9) SECTF 4 (Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4)
https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=722
Site:
http://www.social-engineer.org/