DEF CON 32 RFHS World Wide War Drive

[arkasha]

OK folks, it's GO time.

Registration for the @defcon 32 RF Hacker Sanctuary is now OPEN.

if you're already a WiGLE user:
https://wigle.net/contest/DC32

or to get started:
https://wigle.net/wwwdintro/DC32

Be safe, have fun, and happy stumbling!

[arkasha]

24 hours to go!

[d2k2]

can you explain the upload times?

Contest uploads must be received between 2024-07-19T12:00:00.000-07:00 and 2024-07-22T00:00:00.000-07:00 to be included in scoring.

What time zone is that? And there are 2 timeslots each between midnight and 0700 morning on the 19 and on the 22?

[arkasha]

that'a US/Pacific "DEF CON" time.
uploads go from noon today to the last second of Sunday night in that timezone.

[TZz222zZT]

So so bummed that I essentially missed this! Was really looking forward to it too! Well it will be interesting to see what happens regardless.

[arkasha]

oh no! how could we have provided better notice?

[Xenokilla]

ahhh so that's why the queue times are insane.

[mrmalkovich]

Server(s) seems to be swamped - nothing actually seems to queue, so there's almost 3000 trilaterating right now. Upload failed last night and at this rate it looks like it might be a few days before things are back to normal.

[arkasha]

things are queueing just fine - otherwise the queue wouldn't be full!

we've processed an absolutely unprecedented number of files in the last week.
regarding a failed upload, does it happen when you retry?

[mark571]

I also had a failed upload when the Q was very full, first time ever since the age of dinosaurs when I first joined Wigle.net. 20240722-00736 It was successful after resubmitting it later. It was just a single device small run which surprised me when I saw the failure. S24 Ultra with Wigle WiFi 2.86. Upload showed successful on the phone, but showed failed status on wigle.net later.

[mrmalkovich]

Mine are working again too. My failure the other day was 20240722-00444 using Wigle 2.86 on Android, but I resubmitted the file a few days later once the queue numbers were a bit lower and it went through fine.