Def Con 31
July 30th, 2023
Everything you need to know about our upcoming CTF
Trace Labs is designed to be a catalyst for improving the state of missing persons location and family reunification. We provide a modern, cost effective and transparent solution to a problem that is destroying families.
Learn MoreThe Trace Labs Search Party CTF is a non theoretical, gamified effort that allows for the crowdsourcing of contestants to perform a single task: Conduct open source intelligence operations to help find missing persons
4 person teams provide many benefits which include the coaching of more junior members. Often a great learning opportunity if you are able to pair up with OSINT veterans.
The Capture the Flag (CTF) event is a gamified version of what real trackers do. While the ultimate goals is to find the person, we do this through finding individual flags that often build a picture of where the missing person may be.
In order to ensure all submissions are high value and contribute to the location of the missing person, our community comes together to support each event with a coach panel that vets each submission.
Beginners can score many low scoring easier flags while experts can go for the harder yet higher scoring points. At the end, all contestants get a badge of honor to show the community they participated in the event.
We do not get involved nor theorize or speculate. We only do OSINT. We do not go after bad guys. We are not the police. Instead, we simply collect previous intelligence and provide this to law enforcement so that they can pursue the appropriate course of action.
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Awarded to the team submitting intelligence demonstrating exceptional effort, unique technique and/or exceptional value to an investigation. Recipients of this badge in/after August 2022 will get free admission to future CTFs.
Awarded to members of the 1st place team at any Global OSINT Search Party CTF after August 2022
Awarded to members of the 2nd place team at any Global OSINT Search Party CTF.
Awarded to members of the 3rd place team at any Global OSINT Search Party CTF.
Coaches begin earning their first badge right away as well. At the end of coaching their first Global OSINT Search Party CTF, they will have earned their first Coach Badge.
By participating as a contestant in a Global OSINT Search Party CTF you are automatically eligible for the Contestant Participation Badge.
The Trace Labs Committee Badges are awarded to those who help complete a project as part of a committee or continue to the operational aspects of a committee.
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