Hacker Jeopardy
Where
Events
DEF CON 34
Duration
2 hr 5 min
Hacker Jeopardy at DEF CON 34 has teams wager points on security trivia spanning HTTP status codes, DNS tricks, industrial protocols, cloud metadata and AI terms.
Summary
Hacker Jeopardy, the live quiz show at DEF CON 34, opens with the hosts thanking the production crew and introducing the three teams, who compete for points on a board of security-themed categories. The format mixes trivia with heavy crowd banter, and the early rounds cover HTTP status codes, x86 flags, C evaluation rules and well-known bugs.
Across the rounds the questions reach into protocols and industrial systems such as CAN bus, ACARS, AIS, DNP3 and Modbus, along with DNS record tricks, cloud instance metadata, JSON Web Token internals and AI terminology. Contestants often miss, the audience is called on for answers, and a few scoring disputes and microphone failures slow play. Wagers and final questions shape the standings, and the hosts announce that the match continues the following night.
There is no hands-on technical lesson in the usual sense. The value is as a fast, memorable refresher on classic attacks, standards and disclosure history, delivered by a crowd that enjoys getting answers wrong.
Materials
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