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

[Andrew]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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