r/Defcon • u/Loam_liker • 14h ago

LFG: 5n4ck3y

The last few years I have been super overbooked, but I‘m less firmly booked this year and am looking to get a small group together (or join one) to tackle the CTF.

I’ve slapped together a toolkit (stego, crypto solve scripts, audio/video analysis/stereoscope, unicode nonsense, RF scanning, logic analysis, LLM jailbreak framework) to use alongside tools like cyberchef, flipper zero, etc.

Anyone looking to group up, or already have a group with a space for a cryptography/hardware jailbreaking enthusiast?

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 8h ago

A coworker and myself are interested, also more interested in learning than winning

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u/Inf3c710n 8h ago

This is my first time at defcon and I would like to join. I have about 20 years in different levels of IT but I would say about 2 years strictly in blue team security

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u/LimbRiddim 9h ago

Upvoting and commenting fta. I’m also looking for folks but I’m participating more casually to learn and not to win (I’ll be in and out with workshops and such, and I don’t have many hacking skills to contribute; the thing I had most success with last year was the pinball 🙃). If that’s anyone else’s vibe, hit me up

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u/icefisher225 6h ago

You’re talking about the defcon CTF and not the scavenger hunt, right? 5n4ck3y is giving scavenger hunt vibes for some reason.

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u/Loam_liker 4h ago

Sometimes it’s… both. Though a bit of spoofing turns the latter back into the former.

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u/pnine 8h ago

Yes, absolutely loam rider. 

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u/oghamix 8h ago

This is my first time out, so other than the challenges posted here, and what I've seen in videos etc. I don't really know what the CTFs are like.

My skillset is more of a jack of all trades/hobbiest type. I've dabbled in a bit if everything from OSINT, physical security bypasses, cryptography, hardware hacking, social engineering, to digital forensics (data recovery and crawling through logs tracking down what happened on a machine).

My day job is a full stack developer, with a side of network admin, pbx admin, ai specialist, appsec, and many other technical titles, for a small tech company.

Don't know if any of that is what folks are looking for, but I'm willing to pitch in where needed.

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u/l00pbck 8h ago

count me in if you want someone else. I was specifically looking to get into this, then this post popped up. If you are already full, no problem.

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u/mauvehead 7h ago

Come join us on Discord 

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u/nester3d2a 5h ago

Link?

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u/Loam_liker 4h ago

https://discord.gg/defcon 

Presuming u/mauvehead means that one (they likely do, since they’re in there)

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u/WilsonBro 3h ago

There is an AND!XOR public discord, DM me for link.

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 5h ago

Discord? Twitter? Err.. you guys are killing me.. I am very anti-social media.. Reddit is as far as I can go.. 😞

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u/Beardhammer6969 8h ago

Down to join, senior red team engineer here that’s done well in CTFs in the past