As promised, (although a few days late) here is the first BSidesLV Challenge Puzzle, provided by @mrtoph:
The link brought you to this picture:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6yDKxsKYPWkU3ZROWdQcHNkMlE/edit
Changing the extention to .zip and unzipping gets you this .wav file:
Open the file and run it through an audio editor. (We used Audacity.)
Opening Lo-Tek.wav in the Spectrogram log(f) gave you this message:
Email password “Lavender Finger” to Banasidhe (at) bsideslv (dot) org
Congratulations to @legion303 for being the first to crack it! And a close second Honorable Mention (and we mean CLOSE – he was less than a minute behind) to @DarthNull
We promised to list the first five, but no one else bothered to answer the challenge.
And of course, thanks to @mrtoph for providing us with this year’s challenges!