Feds put on "timeout" at Defcon - sudo-discuss

Hol Gaskill

11 Jul 11 Jul

10:56 a.m.

New subject: lockers

found some weird lockers in emeryville, maybe for us? i'll chip in if someone is able to snag these. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/3918857787.html

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Andrew

11:53 a.m.

Its really strange. The feds have been welcomed at Defcon since the beginning. Even when they were actively arresting people like Phiber Optic and Kevin Mitnick, the feds were more than welcome at Defcon. It's weired that DT has chosen this year to say something like that. Especially since the head of the NSA gave the keynote last year. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I haven't been to defcon in years... But it's shocking and also heartening -- Dark Tangent gets a lot of money and access with his deals with the feds, as do a lot of the infosec people there. To publicly come out like this is a pretty big deal, even though the whole thing is pretty much unenforceable. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:

Feds asked to avoid hacker meeting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23269125 _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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Andrew

2:38 p.m.

We'll see for sure. I'll be out there this year again. Last year the whole event felt like a job fair for the NSA. They had a table in the vender area with an Enigma machine to play with. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Yeah that's why I'm saying that the feds must have turned against some pretty key infosec people. Will be interesting to see what comes out of this. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com> wrote:

Its really strange. The feds have been welcomed at Defcon since the beginning. Even when they were actively arresting people like Phiber Optic and Kevin Mitnick, the feds were more than welcome at Defcon. It's weired that DT has chosen this year to say something like that. Especially since the head of the NSA gave the keynote last year. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

I haven't been to defcon in years... But it's shocking and also heartening -- Dark Tangent gets a lot of money and access with his deals with the feds, as do a lot of the infosec people there. To publicly come out like this is a pretty big deal, even though the whole thing is pretty much unenforceable. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Andrew <andrew(a)roshambomedia.com>wrote;wrote:

Feds asked to avoid hacker meeting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23269125 _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

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