it is good to be back uh man it's it's
so cool uh def con is over which is
unfortunate and bittersweet but the
channel has grown to over a thousand
subscribers thank you thank you for that
that is
not what i was expecting in such a short
period of time i wanted to share though
my thoughts on def con what went well
what uh how many mistakes i made it's uh
significant i also
found a secret uh how to get over
anxiety that gowrie showed me uh it's
it's embarrassing mostly for him and i'm
going to i cue you on in on that a
little bit later uh first though uh my
defgon experience started in chaos when
last night my flight was canceled i'd
even know that was gonna be a thing or
how that's a thing but zero hour spirit
decided to cancel like half the flights
in the country and i was scrambling i
found another flight i did book first
class on delta so
that's a thing which i'm kind of excited
about but my wallet hurts just a little
bit i'm dealing with a hotel
confirmation issue but man i am going to
defcon and i can justify all of these
expenses because of you
i got to goon uh which is why a ton of
videos have been going up uh they've
been uh interesting we'll say uh both to
edit to shoot uh tons of mistakes i
think the biggest thing i learned was
audio uh having a dedicated mic made the
videos sound so much better so if you
have been watching them i definitely
plan to use a dedicated mic for next
year but
i'll keep pushing them out uh whether or
not the audio's great on them uh is yet
to be seen also if you have been
watching them you'll notice a wonderful
mistake i made
consistently i sounded like a broken
version of the lego movie where
everything
is awesome
i kept saying oh that's so awesome
that's so cool i think uh part of it was
anxiety
part of it was it was incredibly hard to
hear through a double mask on some
people while the mic picked it up really
well i was having issues hearing um and
i wish i would have just taken some time
to pause
and
just
talk to them hear what they were saying
processing it maybe even doing a second
take
though
all this really started though
um after i got to the hotel room
so let's start the beginning of the
story i got to the hotel room after the
chaos of like a hotel room that wasn't
canceled the airplane but i got to the
hotel room i was so excited to start
shooting i did uh two uh selfies one was
about preparing coffee and then acting
like a hobo trying to bum hot water off
another goon which worked successfully
but i went to take the second selfie
and it went well and i made a mistake
and i was like okay cool i'll re-shoot
it and i started reshooting the selfie
and halfway through it i realized
something um i went over to the bed i
sat down
and the weight of defcon hit me
i was looking out at the vegas strip
and i realized that
holy crap i can't do more than one take
uh i i actually i remember the first
thought that went through my head was
this is going to suck because i can't do
double takes
i can't uh
do like there's no do-over with it
and i i started getting a lot of anxiety
for it in some of the videos i shot i i
released them a little out of order so
those were the ones where i tended just
to ramble say that was awesome
in
i focused more um
on the contest in events
and less on people which was one of my
biggest goals i had at the conference
wasn't introducing you to the ctf and
the contest so i i did all of that
i wanted to introduce you to the people
and that's one of the things i feel i
learned from this year which i'm really
excited for next year because what def
con is is the the people it's not the
contest so those are there
but the people in the community i mean i
did some of those interviews with
individuals what is your handle how long
you've been coming to khan and what
keeps you coming back and time and time
and time again it was the people what
keeps you coming back it's the people i
mean the the hacker family so that's
that's the other mistake i made i
focused a lot more on the event
and not the people but i mentioned the
anxiety i was feeling overwhelmed not
sure how i was going to get so many
videos done
and this is where gowrie came in
uh he's live streamed there's tons of
live streams where he's just again
awesome he's just awesome like i i
started a newsletter i actually
mentioned him in it because he without
him there's no way i would have gotten
as many videos done not only was he the
one behind the camera most of the time
holding it but he was the one pushing me
to say hey let's go interview them let's
go talk to them let's move over to this
contest and he pushed me through it
but i promised you one thing i promised
you
i was going to tell you how i overcame
some of the anxiety
shooting
oh oh it's good uh
what ended up happening was i wasn't
sure how to be in front of the camera
but i also had never shot and moved my
camera in front of other people where i
was the one shooting among a crowd where
i always had that feeling oh my goodness
someone's gonna be looking at me taking
video of them and tell me to stop which
actually never happened there's two
reasons for this one because i had a
giant gimbal
so it was huge everyone could see that
they were being recorded no one actually
said no most of the people came up
introduced themselves and wanted to be
in front of the camera which was
just awesome it was really cool uh we
actually meandering one more time we had
people come up to us during the
conference like i'm
i mean it's not a big channel a thousand
subs i mean is huge for me but like in
the grand scheme of things the fact that
people recognized us with or me with a
mask on came up introduced them so i was
like oh yeah you're the you're the
youtube guy oh that was that was so cool
okay but how i got over the anxiety was
i did a glamour shoot of gallery oh yeah
it's good
and you're wondering where that footage
is
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and this was at the pool party where
there is tons of people all around and
he gave me so much encouragement it
wasn't that i was behind
the camera shooting but more or less
that i'm like if that man can have the
confidence to saunter out of the pool
like that i can have the confidence to
talk about hacking in front of the
camera so thank you gauri i hope you
guys enjoyed uh thank you so much for
watching my gosh defcon 30 is going to
be
awesome we're going to be covering
scavenger hunt we're going to be
covering tons of people's stories i'm
hoping helmet con makes a reappearance
tons of ctfs tons of people
cannot wait to do it thank you for
watching and hack on