Last time I went, I was 17, so I had to lie to the hotel to even be allowed to stay. Contract relies on direct liability.

Cool vinyl record badge thing though, with coded message on it.

don't bring any tech to def con if you don't want someone to hack it the brag about it

I brought a fresh Chromebook for that reason.

I'm glad I did, since I ended up installing crouton at the conference, so that I could use a USB serial lead which was part of the tamper-evident village challenge, which sadly none of us completed. Nobody else was comfortable plugging a completely random USB lead into their precious ThinkPads.

(though I did my part, figuring out that the baud rate was 42 on that serial adapter, and decoding the [vaguely enciphered] message.)

god, this doc is from 2003 and mentions dial-up modem

oh well, the tech might change, the basics dont

I still use phone-based modems, albeit in a point-to-point config. Though I can't exactly tell you why, it was really the best option for what I was doing four years ago when I set it up. (and the modem could mostly be encased in resin, which was a big plus)

who wants to do some background searches

https://datasociety.net/people/directors-advisors/

@Timcast I'll do it for a shout out

Bear in mind that this list may not be complete. Any particularly controversial members may have been omitted. They have no obligation to provide an accurate record.

they are left leaning, they don't really have "controversial" members

Danah Boyd's blog. She's a real gem.
<http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/>

Her undergraduate thesis was titled ""3-D computer systems used cues that were inherently sexist.""

How does someone take this person serious to the point where they get a job at Microsoft?

"Most Americans have been socialized into believing that all forms of capitalism are inherently good (which, by the way, was a propaganda project)."

with a link to this: "https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/article/fun-and-facts-about-american-business-economic-education-and-business-propaganda-in-an-early-cold-war-cartoon-series/664FAB7E513C39EA17E860627C0393AD"

they do have controversial

members

ive tracked one already

Alexander Macgillivray seems okay, worked with CAMFED, which is seemingly a fairly transparent and well functioning organization.

rofl <https://github.com/cbracy>

Anil CEOs Fog Creek, which I'm sure some people here are familiar with, and I don't think he's done anything controversial there. He worked with the Obama administration.

Anil seems to be connected to people at Twitter. Alexander Macgillivray worked with Twitter as GC. So Anil + Alexander a Twitter connection makes, though somewhat weakly.

Anil recommended to Twitter that they more aggressively police the userbase, and endorsed the use of community-maintained blocklists like Block Together (and IIRC he was involved socially in Twitter adding the block list import feature).

https://youtu.be/iU2hy0L5lgg

_Catherine Bracy_ doesn't have a clickable profile on that page, which could be a sign.

Catherine Bracy's tumblr: http://cbracy.tumblr.com/

Catherine Bracy also worked for the Obama administration (on Code for America), in a similar capacity to Anil Dash (“adviser to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy”[0]), it seems.

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-02/-making-the-tech-world-more-humane-and-ethical

_Anil Dash_ has defended the SSRC (of which _Alondra Nelson_ is President) in public,
https://twitter.com/anildash/status/983408275164225536

@Timcast would, too

@Atkins that is... a pretty disappointing GitHub profile. All of the commits are documentation (barely), it seems.

that's the point

these people are parasites

they don't produce anything that has an actual function

Most of these people seem like typical East coast "startup culture" types.

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Soul-Panther-against-Discrimination/dp/0816676496

https://giphy.com/gifs/l378qdk6ZhFXucgbS

John is guilty only of inexplicably whoring out the image of his family on his baby company: Giphy.

I think I ~~know~~ have met a couple of these people.

I'd look at the odd ones out: the west coast folks. ;- )