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And we had this big notebook we were all throwing notes into for each other. And we were on a Zoom call for the entire weekend talking to each other. And it was very high stress. It took me a few days to recover. But I really feel that it forced me to level up. And I'm sure you felt similarly, Jared.

And we had this big notebook we were all throwing notes into for each other. And we were on a Zoom call for the entire weekend talking to each other. And it was very high stress. It took me a few days to recover. But I really feel that it forced me to level up. And I'm sure you felt similarly, Jared.

Yeah, but it's so satisfying sometimes when you see, you'll run a couple of commands and you'll run who, for example, and you see someone's logged in and then you find their process ID for their telnet session or SSH and then you kill the process and you're just like, they're out. And it's like, then you're sort of scrambling. And so it can be incredibly satisfying.

Yeah, but it's so satisfying sometimes when you see, you'll run a couple of commands and you'll run who, for example, and you see someone's logged in and then you find their process ID for their telnet session or SSH and then you kill the process and you're just like, they're out. And it's like, then you're sort of scrambling. And so it can be incredibly satisfying.

Yeah. Yeah, we ended up having, we ended up using Tmux and just opening all of these different sessions. And we had Who running and Top running and, you know, Netstat and everything. And we had them sort of self-updating constantly so that we could just keep track of it. And everyone was assigned two machines to look after. And that was way too much overhead as well, right? It was just so hard.

Yeah. Yeah, we ended up having, we ended up using Tmux and just opening all of these different sessions. And we had Who running and Top running and, you know, Netstat and everything. And we had them sort of self-updating constantly so that we could just keep track of it. And everyone was assigned two machines to look after. And that was way too much overhead as well, right? It was just so hard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, something that's burning up a lot of CPU too. Some of the tools are really badly written, so they'll rise to the top of that list and you'll actually see it burning a lot of stuff.

Yeah, something that's burning up a lot of CPU too. Some of the tools are really badly written, so they'll rise to the top of that list and you'll actually see it burning a lot of stuff.

It has been really difficult, yeah. I've stopped participating in the team months now because of that, which sucks. The last team one I did, I actually was in San Diego for a work trip, and so I stayed an extra couple of days through the weekend because there happened to be one going on, and that was really cool. Hacking from the hotel, it felt even more...

It has been really difficult, yeah. I've stopped participating in the team months now because of that, which sucks. The last team one I did, I actually was in San Diego for a work trip, and so I stayed an extra couple of days through the weekend because there happened to be one going on, and that was really cool. Hacking from the hotel, it felt even more...

hack a movie right from a hotel room do people travel to do these a lot like is that is it meant to be in the same space really is that where the the fun really is that like co-located yeah prior to COVID I think that was much more common the cyber defense competition that I did we all did it remotely but if you for the regionals but if you make it through the nationals you actually go there in person and you're put in a room

hack a movie right from a hotel room do people travel to do these a lot like is that is it meant to be in the same space really is that where the the fun really is that like co-located yeah prior to COVID I think that was much more common the cyber defense competition that I did we all did it remotely but if you for the regionals but if you make it through the nationals you actually go there in person and you're put in a room

And you can only bring print books. You can't bring anything digital. And so you've got Linux freaking command line books and you've got all of these printouts of cheat sheets you're going to use and stuff. And so they're very strict and locked down. And I think those can be really fun too. But I mean, a lot of people go to DEF CON because there are a lot of

And you can only bring print books. You can't bring anything digital. And so you've got Linux freaking command line books and you've got all of these printouts of cheat sheets you're going to use and stuff. And so they're very strict and locked down. And I think those can be really fun too. But I mean, a lot of people go to DEF CON because there are a lot of

ctf competitions there too i went to b sides in canberra last year which is um our capital state so there were lots of feds there as well um but they were holding a ctf and you could just go into the room and just play the ctf from there and pop in and do a little bit of it if you wanted to so i think it's like esports there are a lot of in-person stuff i would see it as an esport almost they're probably doing them live on twitch you probably twitch stream this

ctf competitions there too i went to b sides in canberra last year which is um our capital state so there were lots of feds there as well um but they were holding a ctf and you could just go into the room and just play the ctf from there and pop in and do a little bit of it if you wanted to so i think it's like esports there are a lot of in-person stuff i would see it as an esport almost they're probably doing them live on twitch you probably twitch stream this

Yeah, a lot of people are probably doing Hack the Box and Try Hack Me, which are both like online VM platforms that give you puzzle boxes to solve. There's a lot of people on Twitch doing those. Even if they're not talking, they're just streaming themselves doing it.

Yeah, a lot of people are probably doing Hack the Box and Try Hack Me, which are both like online VM platforms that give you puzzle boxes to solve. There's a lot of people on Twitch doing those. Even if they're not talking, they're just streaming themselves doing it.