Back for 2025! The Intercept is a hardware Capture the Flag (CTF) event focused on testing your skills in hardware hacking, reverse engineering, networking, programming, anti-tamper technologies, and more!

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This year’s contest includes challenges related to reverse engineering, hardware hacking, and hardware fault injection attacks. Normally we would let you flounder in a sea of your own despair, clutching at 10 point Discord flags, but this year we recommend bringing the following equipment:

• Probes and jumpers
• Fault Injection tools
• Oscilloscope
• Logic Analyzer
• Power supply

Contest starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday in the Hardware Hacking Village. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CONTEST!

If you are looking for a team to join or friends to make a new team, you can find others interested in our #theintercept channel on our Discord server.

Don’t forget, time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in ONE WEEK. Don’t wait, book now!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in ONE WEEK. Don’t wait, book now!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

We’ve also just posted the 2025 speaker lineup and conference schedule, check them out!

b0t – We’ll Do It Live: Experiments in Self-Modifying Code
cesi0 – Revenge of the Sol Stealers
Daryll Strauss – Covert Regional Communication with Meshtastic
Jack Baker – WINE for Video Game Hackers
Joe Rozner – Introduction to Fault Injection
Josh “savant” Brashars – Reverse Engineering Toys into Robots
m0zy – Microarchitectural Side Channel Attacks
machinist – Boo Boo Runs Wild: Guerilla Open-Source Manufacturing
Reet Kaur – Hacking the Machine: Unmasking the Top 10 LLM Vulnerabilities and Real-World Exploits
Sam Bowne – Securing AI Systems
Vincent Benzoni – Quantum Conundrums: Conquering Quomputing Challenges
wasabi – Amped up for (Learning) Radio

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

The LayerOne Demo Party is back again for another year of awesome demos! Demos are a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware.

2025 Demo Party Categories

• LayerOne Demo Board: Create a fantastic audio/video experience using a LayerOne Demo Board!
• ANSI: Create an awesome 80×23 ANSI art image using the standard 16 colors! (Please use this template!)
• Wildcard: Anything goes! Props given for creative use of hardware or software!

Enter your Demo or ANSI art now! Submit by emailing datagram@layerone.org with [DEMO 2025] in your email title! Please include your .hex file for Demo Boards and you .ans file for ANSI!

Time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in about 2 weeks. Don’t wait, book now!
Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Are you lonely?
Need someone to talk to?
Do discussions about volts, amps, watts, ohms, and high voltage excite you?
Are you a social outcast without a hope of ever finding companionship?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are probably already a ham. If you answered no to any of them, you probably aren’t a ham….but we can fix that!

Come ruin your social life the right way by taking the amateur radio exams at LayerOne! If you’re looking to upgrade (read: become even more uncool and/or lose your significant other) we can handle that for any amateur radio license class, too!

Sign up at THIS LINK! Testing takes place on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 18:00 Pacific time in the Lockpicking Village. If you have any questions, head over to our #ham-radio channel on Discord!

Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

The 2025 Call for Papers ends in ONE WEEK! Submit by April 12 to get selected to speak at this year’s conference! Speaking comes with a free badge, a paid honorarium, and the respect and acclaim of your peers. Check out https://www.layerone.org/call-for-papers/ for full details or head to https://forms.gle/EYhbD2vq7feyrj7j6 to directly submit.

Not interested in speaking? Don’t forget to register early to save $$$!
Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

More contest info coming soon, hope to see you in May!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff