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Locked Out? We Found a Way In! #shorts

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Arriving at Bsides Frankfurt! Locked doors, random workers, and cleaning duties. Navigating the conference prep, one step at a time. 🤣 #bsidesfrankfurt #bsides #bsidesfra
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We didn't consider at all to go to the registration desk because why would we and we already knew that this was the building that we wanted to or needed to go to. So we did just went there and we were a bit afraid that might look looked something like that. Very busy, very many people, but no, it looked more like that because of course it was around lunchtime. Uh and nobody was there, right? Everybody was grabbing their lunch in the cina luckily for us. Um and we were there. So that building looked something like that with a huge glass front. Uh, turns out it was locked. We couldn't get in. It was a bummer. But

there was some random worker passing by. We just told them, "Hey, you know, we are the replacement guys. We got no keys. Could you please let us in?" And after rambling a bit about COVID, they eventually let us in. That was good. Now, we weren't there. Uh, but all the doors were locked. There was only a stairway going up. So we went up and then we sat there and all the um all the all the signs on that on those further doors said something like ah you know hazard to life there's electricity gases whatever it will kill you not cool uh we don't know anything about that we are not going to proceed here let's do

the sensible thing called the white team and ask them what to do I was around lunchtime they were not answering yeah um so then we sat there we were super exposed because there was that huge glass run and slowly people were returning back to work and we just didn't want to be sitting ducks so we actually started cleaning. You know, you have to to really fill in your role there. That worked quite well. Eventually the white team picked up. They um gave us directions throughout the uh the rooms there and we finally found our destination.