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Episode: 4006
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Title: HPR4006: Holiday Challenges Ep 3 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge and KringleCon
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4006/hpr4006.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:31:52
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4,06 from Monday the 11th of December 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Holiday Challenges at Three Sands Holiday Hack Challenge in
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Kringlekin.
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It is hosted by Trey and is about three minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, discussing the Sands Holiday Hack Challenge in Kringlekin to help you
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enjoy the holiday season.
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Hello and welcome to the final episode of my Holiday Challenges series.
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This is Episode 3 discussing the Sands Holiday Hack Challenge with Kringlekin.
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Since some of the information you are about to hear is time specific, I want to let you
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know that I am recording this near the end of November in 2023.
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If you missed the first episode, which introduces this series, you can go back and listen
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to HPR Episode 39.96.
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The Sands Holiday Hack Challenge is an interactive online technology and hacking game combined
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with a virtual security conference, beginning in the second week of December.
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By the time this episode drops, it may already be live.
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You can tour the North Pole's conference facilities, meeting people, interactive
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non-player characters, and maybe even some villains from previous holiday hack challenges.
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You can solve problems and gather clues which you use to help you save Christmas.
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Everything can be done from within the browser.
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And did I mention there is a virtual security conference called Kringlekin, some of the
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biggest rock stars, and honestly most humble and brilliant people in cybersecurity each
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year speak at Kringlekin.
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Many of their talks also provide clues to solving game challenges.
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Ed Scotus and his team, the same people who build Sands Net Wars, worked tirelessly
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year after year to create the most amazing experience, complete with custom music.
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This has become one of my favorite holiday traditions each year.
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You can learn more about the 2023 challenge by watching Ed's Inside Sands Holiday Hack
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Challenge 2023 YouTube video at the link in the show notes.
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You can also access this year's challenge by visiting sands.org slash holiday hack,
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that's all one word, or by visiting an additional link in the show notes.
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There you will learn more about all things holiday hack before the game opens in the
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second week of December.
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If you want to play now, or just get a feel for it, you can access three of the previous
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years challenges right now at the same site.
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Note, I am not associated with Sands or the holiday hack challenge in any way other than
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to have participated for several years now, and I have watched other people learn and
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grow by taking part in it.
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I hope that you have enjoyed this short series.
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If there are other online challenges you find interesting or informative, I encourage
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you to record a show about them.
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Have a wonderful day.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR Listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the Internet Archive
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and our Sync.net.
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On the Satellite status, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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