I’m especially interested in the taunting. Because if there’s one thing (other than typing in the magical patterns that make computers go*) I would imagine a Defcon organizer being good at, it would be taunting. Hackers can be really fucking funny**
Edited… Now with youtube video!
Kicking and running, Michelle Madigan*** has left the building
August 03, 2007 (IDG News Service) — It’s a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC — and they’re already a step ahead on their at-the-scene-reportage.
Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas Friday after show organizers were tipped off that she was trying to film show attendees with a hidden camera.
Madigan ran from the show after organizers publicly threatened to escort her from the event at the beginning of a 4 p.m. conference session by noted hacker HD Moore. “She literally kicked the door open,” said “Priest,” a show official who declined to be identified. “She made the mistake of running. Had she taken it like an adult, she would have been treated with kid gloves, treated with respect.
Update: Undercover TV producer booted from DefCon
Make sure to check out the photo gallery here:
More from Wired:
Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera — Updated: Mole Caught on Tape
The DefCon site:
Welcome to DEF CON, the Largest Underground Hacking Convention in the World
*which is what I tell little kids I do for a living
**some day, when I’m not up to my eyes in shit, I’ll dig up some examples from back in the day that will make your eyes water with laughter
***I know the shelf life on the meme is not infinite, but I’m sorely tempted to create a lolmole, if just to make myself laugh- “i’m in ur defcon filmin ur dudes”
[edited to add- i did it. it was too tempting. I did chuckle a couple of times making it. I bet it will still make me chuckle tomorrow when I’m not drunk]
RSS - Posts