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

Praveen Sinha dmhomee at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 13:54:33 PDT 2013


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 at 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 at gmail.com> 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 at roshambomedia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Feds asked to avoid hacker meeting
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23269125
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