Raucous applause filled the the large convention room inside Las Vegas's Paris casino: the government had arrived.
Seated behind a table at the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas was Congressman Ted Lieu,celebrity fuck - free hot xxx celebrity fuck videos and, joined by Rep. James Langevin of Rhode Island, he had come to ask a large crowd of hackers and security professionals for help. The once famously Fed-averse crowd was loving it.
But don't get it twisted — DEF CON hadn't gone soft. The mischievous and lawless side of this assemblage of the hacker community was out in full effect – assuming, that is, you knew where to look.
You might not expect attendees at a convention notorious for casino hacks, phreaked elevators, and literal tin-foil hats to embrace any authority figure — let alone those aligned with law enforcement — and for much of DEF CON's history that assumption would have been largely correct. That's not so true anymore.
Event attendees and organizers have mostly shed their overtly antagonistic attitudes toward the U.S. government and its officials. So much so, in fact, that the Department of Homeland Security has even sent representatives to present at DEF CON.
This year's conference, which ran from Aug. 8 - 11, was no different. In addition to Lieu and Langevin, Senator Ron Wyden attended and spoke about privacy. The government and the hackers, it seems, had become buddy buddy.
However, walking the floor of the four casinos playing host to this year's DEF CON provided a stark reminder that attendees haven't given up on wreaking a little playful havoc.
Things often go badly in Las Vegas, but typically on the receiving end of that pain are the tourists — not the casinos and businesses that thrive off extracting every ounce of possible value from the wide-eyed visitor.
One of DEF CON's undeniable charms is that it reliably flips that script.
In Planet Hollywood, for example, someone took the time to hack a Tipsy Robot drink kiosk.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
When we swung by to check it out, many of the ordering tablets were knocked offline. One man, wearing a DEF CON badge, got chased out of the bar by an employee — all for, as the former claimed, "looking at the TOS."
Other casinos surrounding the convention were home to a surprisingamount of malfunctioning digital slot machines.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Low-tech methods of dissent were also employed. Stickers seemingly mocking Vegas's all-seeing surveillance cameras showed up everywhere across the Strip.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
And, well, a lot of digital things just kind of seemed to break— a telltale sign that hackers are in town.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
This, of course, doesn't even touch on the untold number of official convention talks providing detailed explanations of how to stick it to the Digital Man.
In other words, DEF CON still has it.
SEE ALSO: Sledgehammers can’t even stop these hackersHaving just wrapped its 27th year, the conference has clearly grown from its early, more freewheeling days. You're more likely to run into someone working to secure elections than to subvert them.
Thankfully, however, that doesn't mean DEF CON has lost its troublemaking spark. On the contrary, if this year's DEF CON was any indication, the troublemaking is just getting started. Assuming the entire conference isn't canceled, that is.
Topics Cybersecurity
Chicago Bulls vs. Detroit Pistons 2025 livestream: Watch NBA onlineBest mesh WiFi deal: Save $340 on eero Max 7 mesh WiFi systemBest mesh WiFi deal: Save $340 on eero Max 7 mesh WiFi systemBest Beats Studio Buds deal: Save $50 on these noiseBest LG C4 OLED TV deal: Save $300 on the 65NYT Connections hints and answers for February 3: Tips to solve 'Connections' #603.Wordle today: The answer and hints for February 1, 2025Wordle today: The answer and hints for February 2, 2025NYT mini crossword answers for February 3, 2025Amazon First Reads deal: Get a free eBest robot vacuum deal: Save $755 on Roborock S8 MaxV UltraMark Zuckerberg removed tampons from men's restrooms. Meta employees put them back.TV shows by Black creators to watch on NetflixChicago Bulls vs. Detroit Pistons 2025 livestream: Watch NBA onlineLA Clippers vs. Toronto Raptors 2025 livestream: Watch NBA onlineThe best romantic movies on Netflix right nowNYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for February 4: Tips to solve Connections #134NYT mini crossword answers for February 2, 2025Los Angeles Lakers vs. LA Clippers 2025 livestream: Watch NBA onlineScotland vs. Italy 2025 livestream: Watch Six Nations for free Read an Interview with Paul Beatty, NBCC Fiction Winner Writ in Water: The Enduring Mystery of Keats’s Last Words When I Auditioned for George Martin: An Appreciation Alert: Mr. Darcy’s Dripping Wet Shirt Is Coming to the USA Lydia Davis Will Receive Our 2016 Hadada Award Klaus Wittkugel, East German Master of Book Design Rumphius Among the Lupines, and Other News William Horton, the Forgotten Artist Championed by Yeats Emilie Clark, ”Meditations on Hunting” An Interview with Jonathan Lee Three Paintings and Two Sculptures by Izumi Kato Ben Lerner on John Ashbery When Houdini Hired Lovecraft to Write for Him Visiting the Automaton of Marie Antoinette That Time I Went to the Russian Cat Circus Love Letters: Vita Sackville Remembering Louis Marx and Company’s Presidential Figurines “Nasty Girl”: Part 2—Continuing the Reluctant Exegesis Poem: “After the Loss of a Limb,” Elena Wilkinson, 1974 James Tate’s Last Poem, Found in His Typewriter
2.0992s , 8226.109375 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【celebrity fuck - free hot xxx celebrity fuck videos】,Defense Information Network