🌟 Internet Famous Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

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The ATF Disliked That powiedział(a):
I've seen mixed opinions about DEF CON. I've seen in this thread it being described as nothing much and really intermediate skillsets, and then out in the general public it's the grand thing of awesomeness.
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Remember that the puzzle events are only part of what DEFCON is about.
Like I said, anything in the public space is pretty well neutered

Also I was wrong about the CTF.

Now, full disclosure without PL too hard:
I've never offically been to DEFCON, but I ran in circles with people who did back when it was worth a damn. One guy said he would buy a burner cell and a used laptop each year before he went and throw SE Linux on them, and then immediately dispose of them once it DEFCON was over. And only carried/paid for everything cash from plane ticket to hotelroom and meals - if he ran out, he would get someone back home to send him more Western Union to an alias. That was a guy I trusted to know about such things, so I'll take that as necessary steps.
He didn't want any real-world information (address, phone, ID #s, banking info, etc) to be scraped as I guess quietly breeching the airline databases to see who's coming was just expected; I didn't keep up once we didn't have a professional relationship so have no fucking clue what he's doing about RealID requirements; maybe he drives in now.

I was invited to come along as physical security a couple times by someone who was attending and buying something not officially for sale. One time when doing this I was given someone's badge to go around the venue, and it was just like any tech conference.
this is much,much less exciting than it sounds. He just wanted someone who looked serious to stand outside the door while the deal went down in case the other party tried to either have him ambushed or bolt with the money. Absolutely nothing happened.

Anyway, there was some event some this guy was telling about where it wasn't just crypto puzzles, it was serous physical/digital security. It might have been an unofficial event.

The teams were all given stuff to keep safe while taking the other teams' secrets (sometimes digital, sometimes physical), and while there were rules and challenges (i.e. one of the digital things was you had to have a webpage running with something like 90% uptime on a 2003 IIS box with an 802.11b wifi router on the same network as the digital secret, you had to keep your physical item inside the hotel)
Getting access to the secrets was 100% no-holds-barred, anything that didn't cause serious physical injury was allowed.
 
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Local archive of Dropped Frames Episode 396 podcast for posterity.


Ghostse powiedział(a):
Anyway, there was some event some guy was telling about where it wasn't just crypto puzzles, it was serous physical/digital security. It might have been an unofficial event.
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DEF CON is pretty corporate now but it has a lot of good info and good people there with some interesting panels. There's also Black Hat going on around the same time every year and is much more serious/professional. There's a lot of overlap in demographics but DEF CON is like the party/fun one.
Internet-Denizen powiedział(a):
Incidentally, none of the streamers on that podcast have had anything to do with him publicly since that stream, and all criticised or laughed at him following the WoW saga. You have to wonder when they became aware of how full of shit he was - whether it was during this episode (and they just played along), or at some point over the next few months.
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I've thought about that, too. They don't make me want to check them out but I figured if they know their stuff at all they would pick up on it quickly and suffer through it, clipping anecdotes for views and hope to move on from it.
 
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Aidan powiedział(a):
I think it's funny and telling that there is an entire set of social engineering challenges that you can get a black badge for and Mald has seemingly never talked about or even attempted those.

No it's from DEF CON 23, though he is possibly part of why that rule had to be explicitly stated. There are plenty of jackasses like him in the space though.
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You can find puzzle walkthroughs here. This is all documented properly earlier in the thread.
Mald: https://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon-23-badge-challenge
Elegin: https://web.archive.org/web/20240614084735/http://elegin.com/dc23/
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Why is bro standing like that?
Defcon23_Jason.webp L4D_Clown-2.webp
He's so unnatural, it's like he photobombed the picture. Are we sure that's even his team?

I reckon he knocked out the guy on the floor (through sheer stench) and took his place before any of these nerds could physically react.
 
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The longer he takes off, the worse the hit is going to be when he comes back.
He's not done iDubbbz done, but this one's going to hurt a lot more than he realizes I think. It will be interesting to see his view count and sub count when he goes back to streaming.
 
Billy Bong powiedział(a):
The longer he takes off, the worse the hit is going to be when he comes back.
He's not done iDubbbz done, but this one's going to hurt a lot more than he realizes I think. It will be interesting to see his view count and sub count when he goes back to streaming.
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I bet he will announce big donation goal for some outside org or new hype train to artifcaily boost it and view bot it, so "everything is ok in Maldyverse"
 
From what I've read, the big CTF at DEFCON is considered to be one of the biggest competitive CTF's in the world, but that's not what Jason does. Jason participates in, what is essentially a puzzle DEFCON organizers volunteer to make for fun which is significantly less competitive and less challenging than the actual competitive CTF, but the winners of both get defcon badges.
If there was an "olympics for influencers" amateur celebrity charity event that took place at around the same time as the real olympics, in the same facilities and that gives out similar gold medals, Jason would be flaunting his gold medals like he won the real thing and would make 100 youtube shorts about it
 
The only reason this is even worth talking about, as with so many things to do with Mald, is that he brags about it way too much. I'm not aware of anyone else with a def con black badge that brags as much as he does and like you say, the CTF is the big one that's highly competitive. There's nothing wrong with any of the other challenges, it's all for fun at the end of the day, but Mald in particular brings it up specifically to foster this hacker/puzzlemaster image he's tried so hard to foster. Just like him playing puzzle games, no one would care if he cheated if he didn't try so hard to seem like a genius.

He can't help himself, it's great.
 
Aidan powiedział(a):
The only reason this is even worth talking about, as with so many things to do with Mald, is that he brags about it way too much. I'm not aware of anyone else with a def con black badge that brags as much as he does and like you say, the CTF is the big one that's highly competitive. There's nothing wrong with any of the other challenges, it's all for fun at the end of the day, but Mald in particular brings it up specifically to foster this hacker/puzzlemaster image he's tried so hard to foster. Just like him playing puzzle games, no one would care if he cheated if he didn't try so hard to seem like a genius.

He can't help himself, it's great.
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No one who's actually earned a black badge would give a solitary flying fuck what normies think, which is why you don't see them bragging about it.
 
DefinitelyNotMe powiedział(a):
Honestly i hate the fact that people give "credit" to Jason for saving SKG
Nigger harmmed it the most and people simply responded to repair the damage.
Oh well, all well that ends well i guess
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it is undeniable that through sheer hatred for the ferret fucker the initiative's support skyrocketed

plus im sure saying he was so stupid he saved it probably makes maldster sleep unwell at night
 
Aidan powiedział(a):
Timestamp of Mald bragging about abusing a position of trust and blatantly lying to participants and 1o57/Lost himself.
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Someone else posted about how his team stopped winning challenges around a certain time.

I would guess that was around the same time that 1o57 stopped doing the badge challenge. All of those psychoholics guys are friends with 1o57, and he was notoriously bad about procrastinating the badge challenge stuff. So usually the first couple puzzles were pretty well thought out, but it very quickly degraded into riddles fueled by whatever music/movies/tv he was into at the time, which people close to him would have knowledge of, and thus be able to abuse. He also was ironically kind of gullible, so I don't put it past any of them to abuse their personal relationship with him to get ahead in the challenge. We already know Jason did by abusing the trust 1o57 put him in the one year.
 
GarbanzoBeans powiedział(a):
All of those psychoholics guys are friends with 1o57,
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I know nothing about 1o57. So, 1o57 theory: 1o57 is a huge furfag, a gayfag, a faggotryfag, and a tool. There's no other reason to keep that ferret shit-covered narcissist around if you're not extremely gay and also have poor taste in faggots.
But maybe it's possible 1o57 only saw him as "that new guy to psychoholics?" :optimistic:
 
Aidan powiedział(a):
Mald bragging about abusing a position of trust and blatantly lying to participants and 1o57/Lost himself.
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I'm kinda shocked the people running that show would give a yes man "HAHAHA THATS SO AWESOME BRO" response, since its not social engineering in the proper setting, but just being a fucking manipulative sociopath. Might as well say he cheated by sabotage.

And when hes so willing to be like that openly and BRAG about it, it looks worse for potential shit he would hide
 
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