CIPHER 3 (aka germany - country of hackers)
It has been a while since I made my last posting, but i hope i can add some content again in the near future.
On thursday, 12.07.2007, the CIPHER 3 took place and we as the CInsects participated in it. For those under you, who doesn’t know what this is finds here a little summary what a CTF is. I had more or less voluntarily agreed to set up our infrastructure, but, as it is in live, hadn’t as much time as I thought I would have. So partly therefore and partly because we always seem to start a little confused we started pretty slow and ranged in the last few places. But as the end got closer we slowly made it more towards the top. In the finish spurt we wrote some obviously pretty good advisories, which brought us to the lead in the advisory section and aggrandised us to the 4th position in the end. We were really excited about this result, since nobody bargained for such a good place after our mulled start.
The results and some statistics will be available next week on the CIPHER 3 homepage. Very interesting is the fact, that the first 6 teams are from Germany. So Germany seems to be getting the country of hackers … erm … I mean security experts ;). Well, possibly it this is only, because it is organized and held by a german team. Here is the final scoreboard. If you are interested in which team is from where and representing whom just compare the numbers with those on the CIPHER 3 homepage.
I want to thank here again Lexi and his crew for making such a cool event possible, taking all the time it needs to prepare it and keeping calm if the players complain when something doesn’t work the way wanted. Naturally I would thank all the other participants too. It was a great game and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. :)
Update: Stats are available here.
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on July 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
just out of curiosity, how the new legislations will affect that hacker culture in Germany? David (DK) wrote something about it over here: http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/security-tool-controversy
on July 17th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Well, I’m not that much into law, but as far as I got it, it will be lawful in a few weeks, since it got approved by both instances who had to nod. And if i heard right it’s now even possible to get sued for writing an advisory (with the right/wrong judge), because someone might utilize this to “do something evil”. But as I said I’m not much into that topic … well I guess I should change this, if I want to keep my interests ^^