| I don't think this is about the soldering irons per se but rather about the trespass. Misleading title. Tweets referenced in the article: "Current status: two members of hotel security banging on my door after I asked to go into my room and verify them with hotel security. I'm on speaker phone with hotel security, asking for a supervisor to come verify. I'm terrified. What the hell is this @CaesarsPalace #DEFCON" https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1028375035285630976?s=20 "This evening, a man in a light blue collared shirt with a walkie talkie, entered my room with a key without knocking while I was getting dressed. He left when I started screaming. @CaesarsPalace is investigating whether it was a hotel employee. @defcon has also been alerted." https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1028498769732460544?s... A commenter on Ars put it pretty well: > They are sort of lucky nobody apparently called the police. I would have called the police and started recording. For the (contradictory) responses from Caesar's and DEFCON, scroll to the bottom of the article. |
I was present, saw a lot of what happened, talked to a lot of Goons about it and there was a lot of misinformation and exaggeration floating around.
Some of the highest profile comments on twitter about this are people acting like they were specifically targeted, which is almost surely not the case. Some of them, for some reason, felt very unsafe. This is also likely untrue. A luxury hotel/resort in a purely-tourism city is one of the safest places you can be, despite recent events.