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Most people that I know have already heard: Whitehatters Computer Security Club at USF won 2nd place at the Southeastern Collegic Computer Defense Competition. If you know any members from WCSC that went to this competition, give them mad props for their work.

Some interesting points from the competition:

• WCSC was the leader of business injects, leading by about 200 points out of 1000.
• WCSC also had the best uptime of any team for their services. This was also the same case in the iCTF held by UCSB. We also had the best availability in that competition. Props to Jay and Dustin for maintaining our services.
• Vista on a Macbook Pro: NOT COOL Everyone in the competition agreed on this.
• Out of 9 teams, only two girls competed.
• We didn’t have any girls
• I think Dustin holds the record for the least amount of time it takes to drink a Red Bull. At one point, I saw him grab a Red Bull and step out of the room. I turned back to the machine I was working on and instantly turned back around upon hearing the door open. There was Dustin, empty handed and feeling good. Time to Red Bull: approx. 5 seconds.
• Many judges told us that we were the best organized and most calm team that they’ve seen. I’ll chalk this one up to having experience with the CTFs.
• About the UNCC SARS: One of the teams had a member who was mildly ill with the flu. A day later, Saturday, we heard that was so Ill that he had flown back home. One of their other members was also looking ill. On Sunday, there were many people that not only had been exposed to the flu, but also started to feel the effects of it. Sunday I was feeling not only a little bit like I had the flu, but also hung over… *Always try to get the waitress at the bar to have a drink with you. If it’s your birthday and you plead enough, you’ll win. :)
• Even if we won and we had a bid for the National competition, we wouldn’t have been able to go at all. There is a ruling that all members must not work more than 20 hours a week in an IT related field. For us, that’s 6 out of 8 members of the team.
• This is the second competition of the year that we beat UNCC.
• The fact I’m most proud of: I believe that our team was the most diverse in terms of majors and backgrounds. Most other teams have degree programs that are custom-tailored for this sort of competition. We faired very well despite this.
• Don’t drink on Spring DST. You lose an hour of drinking and the morning is an hour worse than it normally is.
• Everyone on WCSC surprised one another.

Much love to the WCSC team. You guys seriously made me proud to rock it with you.

After a night of drinking at Mad Dog’s at Charlotte’s Boardwalk, we get back to the hotel…

Matt picks up a Wall Street Journal and says:

“Who the fuck is DJ Stocks…”

“Oh, that’s the Dow Jones…”