Comments on: Capture The Root 2009

By: reverseh4ck

reverseh4ck — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:30:40 +0000

Tora,
Although I didn’t participate in Defcon 2009,
I’d like to meet you some time.

PS. Sorry I’m late,
you did well on Defcon 2009, Sexy Pandas.
I hope you get a better score next time.

By: dreyer

dreyer — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:12:36 +0000

Gynophage, It will be clear who abused of the rootage on the stats from ddtek. Also, if you knew about this the day before, why didn’t you tell the organization? Anyway this “root” can be also considered as part of the game this year, so it doesn’t matter that much.

By: Tora

Tora — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:32:05 +0000

Okay guys, in order to keep everybody happy we removed the names of the teams from the root thing. If Team Awesome managed to social engineer other teams, our kudos, we just added information based on what friends from other teams told us. As a side note I agree with psifertex, any team that discovered and exploited the bug deserves an special recognition. But it makes no sense to be adding and removing names from the post, that’s why we decided to remove them all.

I hope nobody got hurt ;P and we’ll be waiting for those writeups.

C ya mates!

By: Gynophage

Gynophage — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:56:34 +0000

Tora,

It would be sweet if you would remove us from the root list. We joked with a few teams that we had root, but we never actually succeeded. It only matters to us as an issue of pride. Winning with root is one thing; winning without root while your closest competition has it is something completely different.

Every team that played us was great. The level of competition at this CTF is unbelievable. I hope to see you guys at the CTF next year. If anybody cares Team Awesome/VedaGodz will be doing writeups about the binaries/general Defcon experience soon.

By: psifertex

psifertex — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:10:03 +0000

ItOt should be pretty easy to show who did and who ddnt have root once DDTEK releases the raw score data. Anybody who gets a whole cluster of keys across multiple services all of the sudden had root. Veda definitely didn’t have it, but if somebody else did, more power to them for finding it. (You can be sure ddtek will get that right next year!)

I hope I didn’t jinx you guys with that bio! You have a great team, I think that’s very obvious. Maybe more sleep and ration out energy drinks next time?

Best of luck next year. I’m hoping to see Kenshoto back as participants, 1@stplace, and maybe even some of the ex-sk3wl folks not on ddtek. We’ll see…

By: Tora

Tora — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:19:49 +0000

Hahaha, thanks friends for such kind words ^_^

@adc: we also wish we realized about it a couple of hours before we did xDD

@Hj: Shellphish told us they were the first to notice, I remember that. But we included VedaGodz in the list because a couple of teams told us Vedaz rooted them. Maybe it was any other team, but it’s hard to proof it now ;D Anyways if they want to be out of that list (is that really a problem?) we’ll delete them.

@Chloe: xDDDD i love u too :*

Thanks again, it’s been nice to see you all in Vegas!

By: Acuros

Acuros — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:36:09 +0000

hola!
This post is very clear to explain last Defcon CTF.
Well done sexys!

By: Hj

Hj — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:49:05 +0000

The VedaGodz didn’t know about the perms issue. Shellphish told us about it in the last ten mins but we were never able to take advantage of it. That was probably how Routards caught up to us so quickly.

As an aside, I can’t remember who it was but awesome work on mymqld you got further than I did and I should be publishing some write ups soon for those interested.

By: force

force — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:55:40 +0000

hey ero ~~ kill the woos xDDDDD

unfair competition

By: sexy woos

sexy woos — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:19:29 +0000

give my kiss to the sexiest ero’s leg.
I hope you have a good surgery, good luck to you.
even if I’m fan of tora, but my mind forward to you. XDDDDD