SPINNING UP FOR DEFCON 28

We had a phenomenal DC27 and it will be hard to exceed duplication of over 500 drives but we’re up for the challenge! We’re hard at work behind the scenes getting all the data ready (have you seen how many hundreds of new talks DT has added to infocon.org?!?) and working out the logistics of the brand new conference space for DC28.

By the way, infocon.org is actively looking for new and improved word lists. If you know of any, drop us a line at [info] @ [dcddv.org] or send them directly to [info] @ [infocon.org]. If we get enough great data, we may end up having to switch it up to 8TB drives this year!

We’re planning to open our Call for Presentations in April so start working up those talk topics. We’re looking for presentations about storage updates, techniques, attacks, protection, data integrity, transit, encryption, forensics, capacity planning, failures, recovery, corruption, or anything else that involves data management. Every year, we’re looking to learn more!

Get yourself spun up! Here we go!

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Duplicators hard at work

DC27 DDV smashed the record!

We kicked it in gear for 2019! With a lot of hard preparation (thanks, Will), we were able to duplicate every single one of the 510 functional drives given to us! 231 infocon.org drives and 290 hash table drives.

We increased our total number of duplication bays with over 50 more drive slots for a total of 145 duplicator bays running 24x4! Even with one minor power outage, we duplicated all of the other 510 drives! A new DDV record!

We received, cataloged, copied, labeled, and returned about 3 Petabytes of data in under 66 hours!

On top of that, our Pick and Pull File Transfer Server (Beta test) provided fast file system access to the infocon.org data on a closed and isolated network. We pushed another 112.57 GB of data out through that.

All the details can be found in the Defcon27 Briefing: https://dcddv.org/dc27-briefing

Drives ready to return

T-24 hours until we launch the DDV!

Hopefully, you have your drives ready to go! We’ll be primed and ready to launch at 4:00pm Thursday - just 24 short hours from now. See you at the village! #dcddv #dc27 #defcon27