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`88 d8' 88 .8D 88 88 88<br> `Y88P' Y8888D' YP YP YP<br><br><br> Cirque du 0day<br><br> C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N<br>
<br><br>===( What is it? )=======================================================<br><br> ! ! ! S P E C T A C L E ! ! !<br><br> ... like you've never before seen ...<br><br> A two-ring Circus at the most infamous Hacker Conference known to man!<br>
<br> Gaze in amazement as 0day is dropped before your very eyes in Ring<br>One while simultaniously in Ring Two acts of spectacle and wonder are<br>performed! Wonderous 0day such as the oldest 0day ever dropped and acts<br>
of specatcle such as tumbling 'little people' and sword eaters will fill<br>your eager eyes with the show that they so truly desire...<br><br> DEFCON 16 will be held at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in FABULOUS Las<br>
Vegas, Nevada, August 8th - 10th 2008.<br><br><br>===( What we need! )=====================================================<br><br> The Cirque du 0day logistics staff are seeking two very different types<br>of content to make our Circus happen:<br>
<br><br> ===( 0day )===<br><br><br> What would Cirque du 0day be without 0day? If you would like to<br>participate, and are both willing and able to drop an 0day on stage at<br>DEFCON 16, we invite you to submit your vulnerability! Full details of<br>
the vulnerability are not required, we simply need to know some basic<br>facts such as:<br><br> 1. What software or hardware the vulnerability is in.<br><br> 2. Some general properties such as whether it's pre-auth or post-auth,<br>
Denial of Service or Code Execution, Local or Remote, etc.<br><br> 3. Who you are or what persona/handle you will be presenting the<br> vulnerability as. (Anonymous is fine, see below)<br><br> Depending on the amount of time we are alotted at DEFCON 16 for our<br>
event, we will select the top vulnerabilities submitted that we can<br>cram into our time slot. Each presenter will be given 10 minutes during<br>which to disclose their 0day to the audience. Slides for doing so must<br>
be made available to the Cirque du 0day logistics staff in PowerPoint<br>(.ppt) format as we will be using a shared laptop and slide deck during<br>the presentation in order to save time and reduce hassle while switching<br>
presenters.<br><br> Donations are also accepted! If you are neither willing nor able to<br>participate yourself, but have an 0day you'd like dropped, simply note<br>that fact in your submission and if your vulnerability is chosen we will<br>
get the full details from you and have someone else present it, perhaps<br>while wearing a black hood and an "ANONYMOUS" t-shirt.<br><br> Please send all 0day vulnerability submissions to <a href="mailto:mchatner@gmail.com">mchatner@gmail.com</a> for<br>
consideration by the Cirque du 0day review board.<br><br><br> ===( Cirque )===<br><br><br> What would Cirque du 0day be without the Cirque? If you are a<br>performance artist in the general Las Vegas, Nevada area and specialize<br>
in circus, carnival, or freak show, and can perform your act within a<br>ten minute time slot, we want to hear from you! We are specifically<br>looking for the following acts:<br><br> 1. Tumbling "Little People"<br>
<br> 2. Sword and/or Glass Eaters<br><br> 3. Contortionist<br><br> Depending on the amount of time we are alotted at DEFCON 16 for our<br>event, we will choose from the available acts the ones that we feel<br>will be most entertaining to the audience or has a particular<br>
synergy with a selected 0day vulnerability. Acts will be performed<br>during a 10 minute time window alongside the presentation of an 0day<br>vulnerability to the DEFCON conference audience, therefore we will not<br>be able to have audible accompanyment to the act other than announcement<br>
by the Ring Master before and immediately after the act; during the act<br>the audience must be able to hear the 0day vulnerability presentation.<br><br> Acts may or may not be compensated, depending on how things work out<br>
with the conference, however your place in history will be secured,<br>having performed in the very first annual Cirque du 0day at the biggest<br>underground hacker conference in the world!<br><br> Please contact <a href="mailto:mchatner@gmail.com">mchatner@gmail.com</a> if you are interested in performing<br>
during Cirque du 0day.<br><br><br>===( Logistics )=========================================================<br><br> Obviously, participants will need to be in Las Vegas, Nevada, during<br>the DEFCON conference on August 8th through 10th, 2008. We are currently<br>
investigating how this will work with the conference, whether all<br>participants (including circus acts) will require conference passes,<br>local fire and police codes regarding what types of acts we will be able<br>to perform (likely no fire eaters or spinners as it's an indoor event),<br>
and so forth. If you contact us regarding 0day or Cirque acts, you<br>have the option to be put on our announcement list to stay updated as<br>things develop.<br><br> We look forward to your participation!<br><br><br>=========================================================================<br>
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