[anaolykarpov]

Would you pay 100 usd to get on the front page of HN and who knows what other popular sites?

Maybe it's just a marketing stunt

[CiPHPerCoder]

What exactly could DefuseSec be marketing here?

Disclosure: He and I have been friends for years.

[nickpsecurity]

Advertising is always about grabbing attention. The more impressions, the more odds of sales or uptake. It's a legit consideration anytime some stunt happens in public spreading on media or social networks.

Not that I think that has anything to do with this. Looks more like normal goofing around by security or hacking folks. If anything, he looses money or precious beer from it.

[jsemrau]

I always wonder why in general there is such a distrust / avoidance of marketing in tech communities.

[CiPHPerCoder]

I can't speak for others, but I see marketing as manipulation and I see manipulation as a dehumanizing act that robs humans of their own agency.

[anaolykarpov]

He could market himself and his site in order to increase his self branding.

Even if it is a marketing stunt, it is a nice one.

[CiPHPerCoder]

Taylor (@DefuseSec) is one of the organizers of the Underhanded Crypto Contest at DEFCON; it started as an open invitation to try to social engineer him so he can improve himself. It wasn't a marketing stunt, at all.

[emerongi]

Why would you have to pay anything? Have a friend tweet the response.

[rbobby]

Even more clever...