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And the 1@st shall be first....


Yes, my friends, we've done it. The world is now officially upside down. 1@stplace took First place at the recent Defcon Capture the Flag!
Wow. Too much to deal with right now... and I haven't slept since then (back to work already)...

Major choops go out to my team.
drb for his automagic, quick sploit writing, and helping me keep the balls in the air
wrffr for his binary leetness and c64 multidimensional mindwarping sploit
apu for his flexibility (and McD's!), working both defense as well as bringing his understanding of exploits to the sniffer when it went active
psifertex for his defense-fu... and how he was able to play offense too
plato for scavenging keys like a madman, and even manually piecing keys together for one sploit

unfortunately, shiruken was unable to join us, and we felt the lacking. We did temporarily conscript two guys who deserve honorable mention:
john, who not only helped with defense, but really livened up the party
brian, who helped out on defense when psifertex had to leave early (and brought me coffee!)

beyond these great things, these folks all shared in several key traits which made a serious impact on the game, as well as the outcome.
They were indeed a team. The people which embody the huge intelligence are choice people. They were all patient, eager, and ready for each task. They were all self-starting and driven. They worked well "with little supervision" and were simply a pleasure as teammates.

Many choops to them.

Thanks go out to the many folks who gave us support. Your words (and beer!) did not go unremembered. Thank you.

Greetz to the fellow teams, each of which hold my respect. I particularly want to mention Skewlmaster, Giovanni, fednaught, the blueballs team...er.. "Our wives are pissed", the ad hoc team (who came to the con not expecting to do ctf!)
MAJOR CHOOPS to the Far East team, who came all the way from South Korea! Very glad they could come!

wow. What a weekend. It was also great to see good old friends and make some interesting new ones!

atlas

ps. Solaris is a pita.

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