We don't give many hints, but there's a reason why our first content drop is something called "Stonks Financial." When you're hacking an organization, you should understand the full context of it, who's important in the organization, and what is both most vulnerable and most valuable.
Hackers usually go straight for IT systems. What's really valuable, though, is the assets, information and capabilities of the organization. The shortest path to those is often not through IT systems, and even if you have full control of IT systems, you won't necessarily understand the full context of information you're seeing.
Learn about the business side of an organization! That's what we try to teach you in the TeleChallenge--just a little--along with building a really fun puzzle for you to solve. We hope to see you next year, and we are so grateful to DEF CON (npub1dqd…8xy4) for giving us the space to keep doing this crazy thing.
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