[cwkoss]

Here's a blackhat business model:

1. Be an attractive woman

2. Get a number of spy cameras and invites these parties

3. Get photos of the richest people in SV in compromising positions

4. Move to your favorite non-extradition country.

5. Extort them over TOR for $1M in Bitcoin or else you'll release the pictures to all of their families, partners, boards, clients, and tech blogs.

[cwkoss]

If you know where the parties are held, some drone photography could achieve similar results without revealing your own identity or needing to get an invite.

[tech4all]

Wasn't this basically episode 2 of season 3 of "Black Mirror"?

[cwkoss]

Pretty much :-D

Extorting them to do specific actions would certainly be more interesting. If you could get dirt on 1% of SV's 1%, you could use their power to change the region significantly.

[DoreenMichele]

I wish I thought it was so easy and simple to make the world a better place. The idea of being a kind of modern Mata Hari has a certain appeal, but seems pretty unrealistic.