I stopped going years ago. Too many damn people, it used to be a lot smaller and felt like more a community. The last time I went it felt like it was just... Different and not really fun anymore. This, would piss me the fuck off though and also anytime I was at the con I always had ALL of my electronics on me even if I was going to dinner.
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>Attendees of a cybersecurity conference had mixed reactions to a Las Vegas hotel-casino conducting daily room inspections as a response to their presence in town.
Several Def Con 32 participants staying at Resorts World casino-hotel said they were being treated as criminals because they chose to attend a hacking convention. Others said they understood the casino’s position, even if they disagreed with its effectiveness.
“(Security) had no idea what they were looking for,” said Korvin Szanto, of Portland, Ore. “They knocked and came in, and showed me a big, long list of stuff that they wanted to look for. It had things like random cables and a USB thumb drive. I said ‘You have these things.’”
I stopped going years ago. Too many damn people, it used to be a lot smaller and felt like more a community. The last time I went it felt like it was just... Different and not really fun anymore. This, would piss me the fuck off though and also anytime I was at the con I always had ALL of my electronics on me even if I was going to dinner.
Archive: https://archive.today/CqCfj
From the post:
>>Attendees of a cybersecurity conference had mixed reactions to a Las Vegas hotel-casino conducting daily room inspections as a response to their presence in town.
Several Def Con 32 participants staying at Resorts World casino-hotel said they were being treated as criminals because they chose to attend a hacking convention. Others said they understood the casino’s position, even if they disagreed with its effectiveness.
“(Security) had no idea what they were looking for,” said Korvin Szanto, of Portland, Ore. “They knocked and came in, and showed me a big, long list of stuff that they wanted to look for. It had things like random cables and a USB thumb drive. I said ‘You have these things.’”
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