Code of Conduct
DEADFACE CTF is committed to providing a safe, fair, inclusive, and professional environment for all participants, volunteers, organizers, sponsors, and community members. This Code of Conduct explains the standards of behavior expected in connection with DEADFACE CTF, including its competition platform, website, communications channels, community spaces, livestreams, events, and related activities.
Community Commitment
By registering for, participating in, volunteering for, sponsoring, or otherwise engaging with DEADFACE CTF, you agree to follow this Code of Conduct.
Be Respectful
Treat everyone with dignity and courtesy
Play Fair
Compete honestly and within scope
Be Accountable
Take responsibility for your actions
Purpose
DEADFACE CTF exists to promote cybersecurity education, technical growth, lawful competition, and community engagement. We want the event to be competitive, challenging, and fun without creating harm to participants, organizers, sponsors, or third parties.
This Code of Conduct is intended to:
- ›promote respectful and ethical behavior
- ›protect the integrity of the competition
- ›help ensure participant safety
- ›maintain a welcoming environment
- ›set clear expectations for conduct and enforcement
Scope
This Code of Conduct applies to conduct occurring in connection with DEADFACE CTF, including but not limited to:
- ›the scoring server and challenge platform
- ›the event website and registration systems
- ›community chat platforms, forums, and social spaces
- ›direct messages related to the event
- ›livestreams, video calls, and online meetings
- ›sponsor interactions
- ›volunteer and organizer communications
- ›public posts or communications that materially affect the event or its participants
This Code of Conduct applies whether conduct occurs publicly or privately if it impacts participant safety, event fairness, or the DEADFACE CTF community.
Expected Behavior
All members of the DEADFACE CTF community are expected to:
Prohibited Conduct
The following conduct is prohibited:
A. Harassment and Abuse
- ✕harassment, bullying, or intimidation
- ✕threats of violence or harm
- ✕stalking or unwanted sexual attention
- ✕abusive, insulting, degrading, or demeaning language
- ✕discriminatory conduct or hateful content targeting protected characteristics
- ✕personal attacks, dogpiling, or targeted harassment
- ✕sustained disruption of conversations, events, or community spaces
B. Dishonesty and Unfair Competition
- ✕cheating or attempting to gain unfair competitive advantage
- ✕unauthorized flag sharing
- ✕using multiple accounts to evade rules or manipulate rankings
- ✕interfering with another team or participant's ability to compete
- ✕exploiting bugs in the scoring platform or infrastructure for unfair benefit
- ✕collusion outside allowed team boundaries
- ✕impersonating another participant, team, organizer, or sponsor
C. Unauthorized Technical Activity
- ✕attacking, probing, scanning, exploiting, or disrupting any system outside the expressly authorized event scope
- ✕targeting the scoring server, event website, administrative systems, sponsor systems, participant systems, or third-party infrastructure unless explicitly designated as in scope
- ✕launching denial-of-service attacks or other disruptive activity
- ✕attempting unauthorized access to accounts, infrastructure, or data
- ✕introducing malware or harmful payloads outside intended challenge environments
D. Privacy and Safety Violations
- ✕doxxing or sharing another person's personal, confidential, or identifying information without permission
- ✕posting private communications without consent where doing so would reasonably violate privacy or safety
- ✕encouraging harassment, pile-ons, or retaliation against another person
- ✕attempting to socially engineer organizers, volunteers, sponsors, or participants for unauthorized access or advantage
E. Inappropriate Content
- ✕obscene, sexually explicit, or graphically abusive content unrelated to legitimate event purposes
- ✕unlawful content
- ✕spam, scams, or malicious links
- ✕misleading or fraudulent representations connected to the event
Competition Scope and Responsible Participation
DEADFACE CTF is a lawful competition with explicitly defined boundaries. Participants must stay within the authorized scope of the event at all times.
Unless explicitly identified as challenge infrastructure, participants must not target:
Normal use of the platform for registration, challenge interaction, flag submission, and score viewing is permitted. Offensive testing against event administration systems is not.
When in Doubt
If you are unsure whether something is in scope, assume it is not in scope until organizers clearly confirm otherwise.
Community Standards
We encourage technical competitiveness, but not hostility.
Good community behavior includes:
- ›helping newer players learn without unfairly giving away solutions
- ›disagreeing respectfully
- ›giving feedback constructively
- ›crediting teammates and contributors appropriately
- ›respecting that people come from different backgrounds and skill levels
DEADFACE CTF may involve dark themes, fictional criminal personas, or adversarial storytelling as part of the event narrative. That fictional content does not excuse real-world harassment, threats, hate, abuse, or unsafe behavior.
Reporting Concerns
If you experience or witness behavior that may violate this Code of Conduct, report it to the DEADFACE CTF organizers as soon as possible.
Reports should include, if available:
- ›what happened
- ›who was involved
- ›when and where it occurred
- ›screenshots, links, logs, or other supporting information
We will review reports in good faith and take action as appropriate. We may not be able to share all details of any investigation or outcome.
Enforcement
DEADFACE CTF organizers reserve the right to investigate potential violations and take any action they deem appropriate, including:
Enforcement decisions are made at the discretion of the organizers and are intended to protect the event, its participants, and its integrity.
No Retaliation
Retaliation against anyone who reports a concern, participates in an investigation, or assists with enforcement is prohibited.
False or malicious reports made in bad faith may themselves be treated as a violation of this Code of Conduct.
Organizer Discretion
Not all harmful conduct can be anticipated in advance. DEADFACE CTF reserves the right to take action in response to behavior that violates the spirit of this Code of Conduct, even if the specific behavior is not listed word-for-word above.
Relationship to Other Policies
This Code of Conduct is in addition to, and does not replace:
Where multiple policies apply, participants are expected to comply with all of them.
Contact
Questions or reports related to this Code of Conduct may be directed to:
Cyber Hacktics / DEADFACE CTF