Just as in Sobol’s and Suarez’s vision, the highest form of competition does not merely consist in excellent individual achievement, but the degree to which an agent can help and raise up her fellow agents. We hold an event every year that challenges our agents to gather knowledge from all across the conference, from villages to other events to communities like DeafCon, and use it to compete for the top honor our community members can achieve. Our primary goals are to promote community efforts in learning new technology and promoting good information security practices. Sobol foresaw a clash between those who would use technology to centralize power in an elite few and those who would use it to empower individuals to maintain their autonomy, power and rights in an increasingly complex world.Īt DefCon, the DarkNet Project team has come together to inspire the hacker and maker communities. Sobol and activated by news of his death comes to “life” and begins recruiting people to embark on a mission that will change humanity forever.
The DarkNet was inspired by a community concept of the same name presented in Daniel Suarez’s seminal books, “Daemon” and “Freedom.” In it, an autonomous artificial intelligence implemented by the visionary Matthew A. I did better than I expected and finished 14th/564 competitors (top 3%).
The competition was a ton of fun although my sleep deprived brain was totally fried in the end. This year at DEFCON I decided to skip all the talks and try my hand at competing in the Darknet challenge.
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