Ok, we can’t hide it, we finished on 7th place. That hurts. We will try to explain why or at least, what we think caused this madness.

This year we started like the previous one, although we didn’t draw first-blood (I think that taekwon or wowhacker did it). The team was working very well and we quickly got 5 breakthrougs (!!!). But that was all for us. At the end of the first day some major network problem took down the SLA of most of the teams and after that, we began to have serious networking issues. From that point to the end of the contest our network was really slow, with a lot of timeouts and lots of lost of packets. Also there was a strange behaviour of the other-teams services. We found very interesting the thoughts of Atlas from 1@stplace regarding this owning prevention.
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The D-Day is coming. In 7 days we will know which team managed to win the Defcon CTF’08. The pandas have been training hard, so we’re ready to go and (try to) kick some asses

All preparations are done: we improved our Sexy Panda Exploitation Framework, designed our new shirts, the Riviera ordered a high amount of bamboo, bought new networking hardware, got invitations for all-night parties… a lot of new things that would make this year funniest than ever.

One final note regarding the t-shirts. We’re trying to find/evaluate online stores where to publish the design, so if you are a panda fan or if your laundry bleached your ninja suit and you need a new look… stay tuned! (questions and suggestions can be sent to shirts@pandas)

Well, nothing more to say right now. Good luck to everybody and see you in Vegas.
GO GO PANDAS!!!