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When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
DEF CON has alienated many hackers by officially aligning its geopolitics with those of the U.S. military and announcing partnerships with the authoritarian countries of Bahrain and Singapore.
DEF CON founder Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss (left) downing a jello shot and shouting “Go Army” at the end of his fireside chat with former National Security Agency director Paul M. Nakasone (right) on Friday. Amidst a backdrop of continually airborne beach balls and a remix of the indie rock hit “Heads Will Roll,” entrants to the ‘Arcade Party’ on the second floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center on Friday were given free glow stick bracelets by the Military Cyber Professionals Association. Roughly six hours prior to the start of the NSA-affiliated Arcade Party, the prominent hacktivist Jeremy Hammond — recently released from a 10-year prison sentence for his role in the December 2011 hack of emails from the intelligence contractor Stratfor — was forcibly ejected from the conference at the end of a fireside chat between Moss and former NSA director Paul M. Nakasone.
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