How the Best Hackers Learn Their Craft

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Presenter: David Brumley, CEO, ForAllSecure

Do you want to know how to build a top-ranked competitive hacking team? It's all about the system. In sports, we understand systems that coaches can use to build a system for identifying talent, recruiting them, training them up, and competing in big games. Learn our proven system for building an elite team of hackers that win DEFCON. It's surprisingly easy, but not what you'd think.

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To quote the infamous Rick Flair, “to be the best you gotta beat the best.”

chrisbeckner

Main thing is enjoying writing that first program and then stretching always to see how much more you can make it do and how beautifully. Having math intuition and sense of what is elegant helps. I think you can hone that over time.

sjatkins

This is no clickbait, this is real knowledge

ChandravijayAgrawal

Half way through the video, I absolutely agree. The best teachers and professors i've had regarding IT skills, understood that they didn't have all the answers, and allowed for creativity. The worst ones though not only made it really obvious that I knew more than them, but would only take a really specific, often unoptimal answer. and wouldn't try to understand or accept any others. Like, really? you're not even going to try and step through the logic? or ask me to explain it? And absolutely, I've had amazing teachers and professors, who also clearly knew less about a subject than I did, but they accepted that and like you said, found areas an topics for me to explore. Many of them also encouraged me to help others --probably partly to reduce their own workload-- but also inevitably when helping, I would get a question I didn't know the answer to, so I needed to either experiment, or research more, deepening my own understanding too. I always wanted to take a trip to defcon, when coronavirus is over, definitely going to try and plan my next trip to vegas for that. interesting you have that high school challenge pico ctf, I'll dig around . definitely sounds like something I would have loved to have when I was in highschool.

TheBlueArcher

I think it's about finding your passion, once you find it as soon as possible you can spend all your life on it without any doubts about what to do and when, but the path itself is another environmental problem because if you don't have an initial incentive at least it will be very hard you to proceed with discipline.

snk-js

This talk is great. It's ideas are easily transferrable throughout your entire life not just hacking

_keepitsocial

You're suppose to know binary analysis, web vulnerabilities, and common algorithm math before you go to one. If you go there just knowing how to use Kali tools you won't make it past one challenge

tjinspace

He even handled that hack diversity question like a boss

vladzorin

The first Teacher that understand what learning means

superfreiheit

great talk and also if you don't know much and get excited from doing ctf's . Don't stop. You'll see how much you're learning and also the last question about being biased because of CM students. I'll say this there's always going to be someone better. So don't feel discouraged and always try something new.

nogareru

A great video!

Also there's an error at 19:45 with the line 1.75+1.5+0.25 which equals 3.5 rather than 4.

KartikayBagla

What about middle aged people looking for new careers? Would this be a good start for someone without CS experience? What about a CS grad that's worked in non-programming, non-hacking jobs looking to get into much more technical work. Is this a good place to start?

jontnoneya

"once you learned basic arithmetic you learned trigonometry" who?!?!!?

eremundead

30:25 bell curve of ability. I learn slowly and can feel intimidated by difficulty. I may not do my homework. I also know that once I have gathered all the details, which I see more and deeper than others, and internalize them, I get faster and more able than average

teemum.