Get ready for Arther 2: The Electric Boogaloo!

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I'm going to hold off until they're more polished ;)

I’m a bottom left kind of guy ;)

And then there’s me!

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Many people didn’t notice the blue porta potty in front of the @defconscavhunt.bsky.social booth next to CTF.

Did you make it to the contest area and look inside the Trauma Dump: Hacker Confessional?

No, they’re keeping it in their own lab for mock competition and network simulations.

Spent the weekend putting together servers for another cyber student club.

Small keystone jack with RJ45 ethernet under a wall shelf for easy temporary access wired network for the 23b shop.

A UniFi Flex Mini switch under a wall shelf with four 10ft. Cat6 patch cable connecting the switch to the easier to access keystone jacks.

The roof of the building, with an antenna pole in the center of the frame. A utility box mounted to the pole houses a UniFi Flex Utility switch to provide PoE access to other devices on the roof. A Ubiquiti Rocket dish is also mounted to the antenna pole.

A close up of the clear door utility box mounted to the antenna mast. Cable pass through glands are mounted under the box with cables attached to the switch inside the box.

Added a PoE switch to the roof, and a small switch for the shop floor at 23b.

And no clipping enabled.

The team consisted of all DEFCON staff Goons.

So much fun!!!

The finished VHS Cassette mod Lenovo M90 with a LCD monitor plugged in showing results from lscpu, free, and df

I wouldn’t recommend it, the original case is much sturdier and you lose a mount point for the primary m.2 port. But the thermals were slightly better.

Having an 8th gen i5 with 8GB of RAM makes this thing quite overpowered for my use case.

If I could only afford more storage!

VHS tape taken apart and Lenovo M90n with the case removed on a table, some tools and bits of plastic from inside the VHS tape cassette strewn about.

Shucked Lenovo M90n mounted on the bottom half of the VHS cassette.

The bottom half of the VHS cassette showing the Lenovo M90n mounted.

The VHS cassette flap being lifted to show the Lenovo M90n peripheral ports perfectly exposed.

I guess it’s my turn to #makeshitmonday since
@elcannibal.bsky.social hasn’t yet.

I decided I need a portable video server, since we travel to places with intermittent signal and limited internet.

This is a #Lenovo M90n fitting perfectly inside a VHS tape

Folding table with computer and console parts strewn across haphazardly. A portable LCD monitor displaying MrChromebox.tech custom coreboot firmware script.

Looking at the group of people in front of the 23b hackerspace. A Tshirt being displayed on someone’s body that reads: “Don’t let infosec distract you from hacking”

Had a great turnout for OC2600 on Friday, with over 70 individuals from all over Southern California showing up!

We had a few ad-hoc activities, like tearing down a PlayStation 5, another rebuilding the Kubernasty with upgraded Chromeboxes. Lots of student cyber clubs sharing notes.

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Our newest addition to the weird at the @defconscavhunt.bsky.social table; Trauma Dump Hacker Confessional. I created the logos and glitch art that played on our “priest screen” along side installing the cloud. A late start project, so it’ll be a little more dressed up in the coming years.

A blue portapotty next to a sign which says DEF CON Scavenger Hunt with the CTF stage in the background

The Dark Tangent on the phone inside of the porta potty converted to look like a confessional booth containing rack ladders of cabling, LCD screen and prison phone.

The porta potty inside of 23b hackerspace being worked on by duald.

Lightning and lighting effects of the inside of the porta potty. Polyfill layered over the ceiling to create a cloud effect. The rack ladders and cabling below with 32 white and blue cables in a pattern decoding to dd&z from binary.

Built the “Trauma Dump: Hacker Confessional” for Humans and Goons to absolve their syns and resolve 127.0.0.1 for #defcon33

So good, well done!

We'll probably have more... FYI

I hate that cutting it close is my normal. I want one year where everything is just ready and I can relax.

We had a screening a week or two ago at the 23b Hackerspace. All the new kids were screaming when they realized you shot some of the interviews in our shop.

Electronic road work sign which reads: “DEFCON IS CANCELLED, EXIT AT BAKER GO HOME”

Have you considered a magnetic USB C charger cable adapter.

Something like:

www.amazon.com/Tciogrxp-Mag...

Showgirl standing in front of a wall of motherboards while holding a sign that says Scavenger Hunt

We’re two weeks out from @defcon.bsky.social
Are you ready to join us in fabulous Las Vegas for a weekend full of shenanigans and mayhem?
#DEFCON #DEFCON33 #hackersummercamp

This, Moka pot, Cuban coffee… my favorite!