When hackers target a conference code of conduct Seth RosenblattJuly 24, 2018
NEW YORK—Can hackers effectively mitigate a hack of their own subculture? Confrontations between Circle of HOPE conference speakers and a small group of male attendees wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and shirts leave the question wide open. The conflict began Friday afternoon, the first day of the three-day conference, during the question-and-answer portion of cryptography expert Matt Blaze’s roundtable discussion on hacking and securing voting machines and systems. A man wearing a white MAGA hat, using language sources say was coarse and combative, accused Blaze of wanting to be assaulted by John “Captain Crunch” Draper when he was a teenager. Draper was banned from multiple hacker conferences last year, following numerous public reports on his decades-long attacks against young men and boys in the hacker scene. Following the panel, the man continued to harass Blaze, who has spoken at almost all of the 12 HOPE conferences held since 1994 and is involved in the conference’s presentation selection process. Blaze said via Twitter that the man “cornered” and “browbeat” him. Attendees told The Parallax that they overheard the man later saying that during the Unite the Right neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., he had marched with neo-Nazis. < - big snip - > https://www.the-parallax.com/2018/07/24/hope-hackers-code-of-conduct/ _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list Infowarrior@attrition.org https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
