From: "Jonathan Peterson" Date: December 5, 2008 7:20:20 PM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Yes, we also had a lot of fun today. Thank you guys for the hard work you put into designing and running competition. - Data Miners From: Alex Date: December 5, 2008 7:13:08 PM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: [ctf-participants] Thank you Thank you for organizing another amazing contest! Just awesome creativity. It was tons of fun. - Team RPISEC From: "Shauvik Roy Choudhary" Date: December 5, 2008 8:13:09 PM PST To: vigna@cs.ucsb.edu Subject: ctf2008 acknowledgements + PhD program Dr. Vigna, Thanks for all your efforts. We enjoyed the competition and would love to see the results, statistics and challenge solutions. From: Lexi Pimenidis Date: December 5, 2008 11:45:06 PM PST To: vigna@cs.ucsb.edu, ctf-admin@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Thanks for the game Hej, thanks for the terrific game! Firstm we were really struck by the first challenge with a blackhead - but then the game really skyrocketed. It was terrific :-) A big thank you from me and our team! Lexi From: Engin Kirda Date: December 6, 2008 12:59:32 AM PST To: Jonathan Peterson Cc: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Dear Giovanni and the UCSB folks, Thanks once again for the hard work and the amazing contest you organized yesterday. I know how much effort goes into doing something like this. This time, the CTF was very different, but the fun factor, as usual, was extremely high :-) UCSB rocks -- and we love you! ;-) Best, --Engin From: matiasp@mail.linti.unlp.edu.ar Date: December 6, 2008 3:26:38 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: [ctf-participants] Thank you UCSB folks: Thank you for the effort of organizing the contest! It was really different from previous competitions. As usual, took us by surprise!!! See you next time. syper From: "Dmitry Stephantsov" Date: December 6, 2008 4:13:17 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Thank you, UCSB! Great contest! Amazing, fun and filled with excelent hacky stuff :) We've had a great time! SiBears From: Fatih Kilic Date: December 6, 2008 4:13:59 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Thank you UCSB for creating and hosting the great iCTF. The idea was really interesting and as usual we had much fun. :) And congrats to the winner ENOFLAG. -in23canation From: Matthias Luft Date: December 6, 2008 4:23:53 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Lots of thanks also from Team squareroots :) As always, we had a lot of fun - even if we could not 0wn you guys directly ;-)) Thanks & regards, squareroots From: "Mike G." Date: December 6, 2008 7:18:40 AM PST To: Giovanni Vigna Subject: iCTF Dr. Vigna, Thank you again for putting on this competition. This is a wonderful learning experience for our group. We had a lot of fun this year and really enjoyed the way this was setup. Also, I was wondering if it's possible to get a copy of the VMWare images that was our network? Thanks, Mike Gerschefske UCCS From: "Steve Elovitz" Date: December 6, 2008 7:28:12 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you UCSB, Thanks a ton for setting this competition up. Was challenging and we all learned a lot :) See you next year!, Penn State IA Club From: Jan Christoph Nordholz Date: December 6, 2008 8:12:29 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Hi Giovanni, Nick and all the people who have helped to make this happen, you've done a great job in creating this competition. Your iCTF is always something unique, something unexpected, which makes preparing tools or even workflows in advance much less useful if not completely pointless - it's the improvisation plus the proverbial little bit of luck that turns the scales in the end. We also wish to thank all competing teams - we really enjoyed participating in this event and we're eagerly looking forward to the next opportunity (so you can even the score, uh oh...)! Thanks guys, we had a great time. From: Martin Szydlowski Date: December 6, 2008 9:33:33 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Thank you for an amazing contest. We had lots of fun. The UCSB team did a great job (as usual), and Giovanni made his promise (threat? ;)) finally true and delivered something completely different. The new setup was really interesting and challenging and the fear of shooting down the web server for good and getting locked out kept our pulses racing for some time :) See you next year! Team We_0wn_You From: Frank Kargl Date: December 6, 2008 11:27:06 AM PST To: Steve Elovitz Cc: "ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu" Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Having set up CTFs before, I can imagine how much work this one has been. Thanks to UCSB for everything. From: Matthew Van Gundy Date: December 6, 2008 2:06:00 PM PST To: Giovanni Vigna Subject: Re: [ctf-admin] THANKS! You pulled it off spectacularly. Great fun was had by all up here at UCD, and I can honestly say that it was the most fun I've had being a grad student in quite some time. Thanks so much, Matt From: Jakub Zimmermann Date: December 6, 2008 2:29:25 PM PST To: "ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu" Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you UCSB, thanks a lot. Great challenge and impressive organisation. Looking forward to next year! From: "Frederik Braun" Date: December 6, 2008 11:50:40 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Hey Giovanni, Nick & all the other guys involved at UCSB, thank you for all the effort and work you have put into it. We had a gread evening/night and really enjoyed the competition. You can't believe how much the image and especially it's password confused us for the first minutes :) "The password was guessable? - Holy sh**t! The other teams got an advantage of nearly 12 hours" and "What, 500MB for FreeDOS? A Self-Destruct? We gotta analyze a fresh copy of the Image! Quickly.." ...well, you get the picture ;) We're looking forward to see some more statistics & further information about the defusal. See you next year, Frederik / Team FluxFingers P.S.: Further Thank Yous from our server-defense squad - it's never been so relaxed ;) From: "Stephen M. Nugen" Date: December 6, 2008 1:24:34 PM PST To: Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Add our thanks as well to the UCSB organizers and to all the participants. -- NUCIA From: "Mike G." Date: December 6, 2008 9:14:02 PM PST To: Subject: [ctf-participants] Thank you From the UCCS UCLions team we would like to thank Dr. Vigna and everyone else (Nick Childers and everyone we don't know about) who helped put this on. If there's anything we can do in the future to ease the burden, don't hesitate to let us know! Thanks Again! UCLions! From: Edgar Weippl Date: December 7, 2008 3:38:14 AM PST To: "ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu" Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Also thanks from Vienna; it was a "great first time" ;-) Cheers, Edgar. From: Joe Rogers Date: December 7, 2008 3:51:03 AM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Great job UCSB! Thanks for all the hard work setting it up. That was a fun new format! WCSC From: "Stefano Zanero" Date: December 7, 2008 3:52:06 AM PST To: "ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu" Subject: [ctf-participants] Kudos :) Reply-To: zanero@elet.polimi.it Guys, I regret that I wasn't able to take part in the event (I'm currently writing this quick note on my blackberry in Sydney), but from what I hear the Polimi team was as enthusiastic as ever about the competition. As usual, thanks to Gio for bringing this event to life every year. From: "Roman V. Mescheryakov" Date: December 7, 2008 9:28:32 PM PST To: Subject: [ctf-participants] Thank you Good day! We were glad to participate in this game, it was the present brain storm)). CTF changes, more likely the following game. Thanks for this magnificent game. WBR Roman V. Mescheryakov From: "Sajan Kumar.S" Date: December 7, 2008 9:30:15 PM PST To: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you Great realistic work! We never expected a real world scenario like this. Thanks Vigna for giving us an opportunity to learn something in Security. Thanks for all the people behind the scenes, they put efforts to make this competition a grand success! cheers, Sajan.S From: jackie Date: December 8, 2008 1:15:00 PM PST To: "Sajan Kumar.S" Cc: ctf-participants@lists.cs.ucsb.edu Subject: Re: [ctf-participants] Thank you We loved this challenge. Nice trick, folks! Thanks UCSB for being nasty little outguess they are :) You suprise us every year - we never feel prepared, and that's just so good. From: "Chris Eagle" Date: December 8, 2008 8:16:58 AM PST To: Subject: [ctf-participants] Congratulations First, congrats to ENOFLAG on their well earned victory! Nicely done! Second, thanks to UCSB for another job well done. We found the game very engaging this year with challenges that kept us busy right up to the last minute. Thanks for giving us all something to look forward to every December!