DEFCON 23 Uber Badge Replica

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If anyone's wondering, the Korean text is translated to "yot jangsu" - candy seller "mam dero" - depends on the person. Yot Jangsu is a street vendor of the Korean traditional candy Yot. The seller cuts the candy from a larger block for each individual customer, so they have discretion on how much exactly to give each person. So essentially, how good or bad of a deal you get depends on who you are and how you treat the Yot Jangsu.

Can someone explain this to someone not familiar with DEFCON. What's a badge challenge and what type of competition were they doing?

This explains what the uber/black badge is and how people obtain it: https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-bb-policy.html

Here's some blog posts about people who've run the gauntlet:

http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon...

http://elegin.com/dc21/

https://1o57.wikispaces.com/DC20+Badge+Contest

In hacking circles, this is kind of a big deal to get one of these. It gives you a lifetime free admission to any future DefCon conferences and you're entered into a Black Badge HOF and plenty of bragging rights.

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-black-badge.html

The first link is a great read. The amount of work required to earn one of these is amazing. Well earned and certainly deserving of the amount of respect awarded by the community.

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