defcon is going to be weird
uh this year i mean we all acknowledge
that but it's going to be weird
in such a cool way uh for one reason
specifically and it's
it is specific to me but it felt like i
need to share it with you guys and this
video is going to be a little
weird i've always tried to be either
creative or entertaining or
give a story and this one feels like
weirdly more
about me but it i wouldn't have this
opportunity if it wasn't for for you and
watching my channel and spreading my
videos
uh so it felt weird not doing this video
and not
not sharing it with you i started going
to def con
defcon 16. that's 13 years ago
i've missed one year it was a year uh
one or two
after that and it was my first job
my manager decided to go with employees
i was left behind and i left the job
actually because of defcon and it's
insane i've met
so many friends and def con is going to
be weird this year because some of them
aren't going to be going uh but it's
gonna
probably feel more like an intimate con
but the thing that makes this
khan so much different this year
is because i'm gooning and what a goon
is if you don't know
is it's staff and it's not like staff at
a workplace where you apply
and defcon gooning is beyond that it's
something you're asked
to do and i was asked to do
video specifically bring the
in-person conference uh to you guys who
might be
virtual and not be able to make it and
it's such a um it's it's overwhelming
uh because it happened because of of you
sharing the videos it was the urinal
cake video it's the defcon urinal cake
video i did
which was one of the first ones i i ever
did on my channel i've had to learn
editing and video and
lighting and i'm still like bumbling my
way through it
so this video is really saying thank you
uh to to
you all who have subscribed who have
watched my videos have encouraged me
have commented on them
uh it's amazing i went to defcon for
years
i started going to talks and then i kind
of
got bored with talks and well they're
really good and the speakers are
incredible
i there's just so much more to the
conference than than the talks
so i started getting involved in the the
sky talks and then the villages
and then then the contests i got
involved with
dark net playing and at defcon 22 i won
my black badge
and i continued playing and command code
asked me who
is one of the leads for darknet why why
you
why are you still playing and i i
commented i'm like i
because what what else what else is
there at the conference for
me to do like point me in any other
place in the conference where i can have
a community like this with gaming with
with strategy
but among which just the community uh
point me there and i'll go and he's like
well
you know you can join staff so it's like
it was a moment where i was like oh well
i'm i'm an idiot like how can i
i didn't think it was something i could
do and i joined
staff and since that time i've been on
darknet staff and it's been oh my
goodness we're doing our 10th year
anniversary and
i've met amazing people and if you watch
this channel you've met some of these
people you've met gulo
in his remarkable stories in his
uh terrifying challenges he's done at
darknet
and you've heard some of them i still
have a few more to share and i know
there's probably
oh i know there's definitely more to
come but you have
a gowri and his just amazing
expertise and ability to jump in and
learn and you've met
gator bite in his just amazing
love for the hacker community and people
and you've got to experience that on my
channel
and and that's just one piece of darknet
but
in darknet is is the biggest conference
at defcon
which is a really big conference and i
always looked at goons
as these people who helped run the
conference
and gave so much of themselves to make
it
so great uh grifter running contests and
i mean all the contest
runners are just so amazing bringing so
much joy
but staff always seemed to make it was
what brought the conference together
kept it running everything from
skyria when she was working in
production
making sure water was filled at all the
areas for all of us
uh but yikes it's just thinking through
the conference there's so many moving
pieces
but spinning back to this channel i made
this channel
uh last year i think it was around like
november i did a
course uh which just helped jumpstart it
and started pumping out videos and where
it is now
is never where i expected it to be i
expected it to
you know get some views and i i went
into it thinking i was going to do
uh penetration testing and hacking
tutorials like a john hammond or uh
um a cryptocat who's just like they're
so
they're so good at what they do and if
you haven't seen their channels and
you're into technical like go
go check out them out like they're
they're amazing they push out great
content
but it shifted my channel shifted when i
introduced
people to the darknet community and
friends and
i want to expand so much more of that
and then
sharing stories and you all have been
there while i've been growing this
channel and it's not big but i don't
care it's not that's not my goal like i
don't need this to
to make money i run a business i own the
business so
i wanted this to grow a community and
interact with you
and i get i got that opportunity
a few weeks ago uh defcon reached out
they asked me if i want what my plans
were
for the conference and i said i want
to make videos of a conference i want to
bring this this weird year this just
screwy year
of between covet and virtual and in
person and
uh some things are remote some things
are virtual but i
wanted to bring that that joy and again
i thought it was going to be a full
conference when
i kind of like harebrained scheme this
thing together
but with it going virtual i felt like
that that pull even more
to to bring this the in-person
conference virtual and take video but i
was so nervous about it because
defcon is is very private
and and people are very security
conscious so i was
i was unsure and i shared that with them
and they were they were encouraging i
got
introduced to other goons uh who
who have just talked to me and rallied
and
encouraged me and that so that's what
i'm doing this year i'm going to the
conference
do just sharing it and the question is
like what does this mean
what what does this mean for you the
viewer uh it's gonna
it's we're we're getting weird that's
what it is we're getting weird
uh you're probably gonna get more videos
like this like you'll notice there's no
cuts here like this is this is
this is raw um raw and un
uncut probably not the best thing to
probably do at def con but uh we'll
we'll try
and uh that's what's gonna happen like
the next two weeks stefcon goes from
like the fourth
to the eighth i'm gonna hit the ground
i'm gonna try
all sorts of content everything from
shorts to like vloggy like content
we're gonna try and do a live stream at
the conference
i'm gonna try and upload as much as i
can
some of the videos are going to be
edited some aren't i just want to
introduce you to certain
different areas around the conference so
like whether it's the chill out lounge
whether it's the artists i would love to
have you guys meet the other goons
in and interview them so i don't know
where the content's gonna go
i just wanted you guys to know uh it's
gonna get weird
i'm gonna shove out content where i can
but but
mostly i wanted to make this video to
let you know
that i'm gooning which i'm just pumped
about it and
in the channel is going to get weird for
a little bit and then we'll kind of get
into a little bit of a rhythm afterwards
i'll
have some b-roll and i'm sure we'll have
tons to talk about
but as you know with this channel it's
still kind of forming i don't really
know what my
long term i don't i don't have a long do
i feel like that that part and and
uh dark night where he's like dude
do i look like a guy with a plan uh i i
don't
uh but i wanted to share it's getting
weird but more than any of that
more than gooning uh more than defcon
more than like the next two weeks at
this channel
it's it's to say thank you i never
i never ever thought my channel would be
where it is right now uh for being a
geek in his
his basement uh never never doing video
before never doing lighting or mic or
audio
uh thank you thank you for putting up
with uh the wonky-ness of this channel
at times and videos going up and getting
pulled down and learning like content id
systems for like the live stream that
just went live at like
uh an hour ago at 9 30 at night like
that was a content id thing i had never
dealt with before uh thank you just
thank you
thank you for like i i plan to do a q a
uh at one point but just thanks guy
thank you thank you thank you so much
uh for watching thank you for thumbs
upping uh for subscribing
for sharing uh it's made
it's it's brought joy into my life
at a point i i needed needed this joy i
needed this connection with that with
the hacking community
uh so thank you um that's it i it's
it's it's gonna get weird it's getting
weird uh it's
here it's totally i even have this lens
now it's it's getting weird it's totally
hello i mean i don't know i i i
i've bought equipment just for defcon uh
if if you're there in person come meet
me
hit me up on twitter i would love to
meet as many people who have has watched
us as possible who has
looked at this as goofy face uh but if
you're
virtual i hope i can bring
the in-person conference for you for at
least this year
for the time you're away um or even just
bring the conference for someone who's
never seen it before
um yeah with with that thank you
for watching and hack on