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Bring back the Password Village at DEF CON! They help so many practitioners a year bootstrap from having zero cracking clue to actually getting it. That team works their butts off the whole con, often with minimal or zero external sponsorship, paying for a lot of stuff totally out of pocket, year after year, just to grow the practice and see the light bulb go off over somebody's head (when they realize that it's not just all about rainbow tables and how many GPUs you have). And the effort they spend crafting the CMIYC cracking CTF ... It is difficult to explain to outsiders how deeply they understand their craft. It is a love letter to the breadth and depth of password cracking. If there is any team that embodies what a practitioner's conference is supposed to be about, it is @CrackMeIfYouCan. Bring back the Password Village! #DEFCON34 #DEFCON