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After participating in DEFCON 22 and winning DEFCON 23's crypto badge challenge, we were inspired to create our own challenges for the community.

These puzzle challenges require critical thinking and research to solve. Some of them require forensics or web application hacking techniques. These may seem familiar to you if you have participated in a hacker CTF or ARG.

This past week we launched a new version of the website featuring accounts and leaderboards.

I hope you enjoy our challenges as much as we enjoyed making them.

I believe the newspaper was filled with clues for the DCDarknet challenge. That one was pretty rough, I wasted a few hours on it before 1o57 confirmed it wasn't part of his challenge.

1o57 never fails to impress. everyone who attends DEFCON should head down to the 1057 room for at least a little bit each con. there are a ton of people working together to solve the puzzles!

Burner everything: laptop, phone, clothes. There's not as much black hat activity at DEFCON as most people think, but it's not worth the risk.

D:

We started Wednesday night and finished Saturday morning (3-4AM ish)

You had to ask for one, but they were also selling them in packs at the store