Past DEF CON Conference Content

[converge]

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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.

[TheCotMan]

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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]

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...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.

[st0rm]

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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)

[TheCotMan]

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.. 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.

[converge]

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... 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 ...

[st0rm]

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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 ? OMGZOZLOLZ! Sweetness. Thats gotta be the quickest release..

/me happy

[theprez98]

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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.

[converge]

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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

[Deviant Ollam]

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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 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.

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.

[Nikita]

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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.

[st0rm]

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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

[ßobÇat]

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

[converge]

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Fellow Forum-goers, I present to you:

The Defcon Forums Content Listing

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 ;)

[converge]

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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.