DEFCON: The Documentary Page #7

looking through applications.

It looks like you're doing things right.

Ok, is this on? Oh, Boy! Ok...

What I've tried to do with the whole

hacking community is raise the level

of discourse, that's the thing is,

to bring information, to make it

accessible and widely dispersed at a

reasonable price and make people happy.

And if I put a smile on their face it's like

"Wow, really, that's a great price and"

"I get that too?" That's good. I don't need

every last dollar. What are you gonna do

with dollars anyway?

They're just numbers.

Our main job actually is to create mayhem.

That's actually what we've been asked by

the management. Make sure we create a lot of mayhem.

We actually have official

DEF CON 8 posters from years ago that

we found, so, we're not selling them,

we're giving them away, but you have to

convince us to give you one, and that

requires mayhem in the dealer's room of

some sort that we don't officially support

but for some reason they end up with a poster.

Who knew, right?

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The people that want something one year

that you didn't bring, invariably won't

want it next year. It's like everyone wanted network cables.

Everyone wanted PIN card readers,

or prox card readers or mag stripe

readers, encoders, decoders, you know,

it varies every year. And then everyone

that leaves something behind, like

"We need a hub" It's like, OK...

I only have 53 tables in total that can be sold.

Some vendors are getting 2,

some vendors are getting 3 so you have to

decide what's going to actually provide

the most benefit to the attendees, what

are they actually gonna want to buy and

we certainly have made mistakes in the past.

For one thing...

It used to be we shouldn't have even called it the vendor area.

There were a couple of years, and I

can't blame anybody but myself for this,

where it should have been called the

"buy your t-shirts room." The only thing

that was for sale in there was t-shirts.

You had 2 hardware vendors

and 33 t-shirt vendors.

Hackers love their t-shirts. In a weird

way, it's like a way to kind of express

your identity.

I think we all do that through our shirts.

It's a way when you're

walking down the hall at DEF CON or any

other conference or at work or wherever

for people to kind of get

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