| >>I don't want to kiss ass to war criminals. >Context? Iraq was a war crime and CMU doesn't have any distinction between the FFRDC and the uni. And the security staff at Defcon, a lot are ex CIA or special forces. >I've had someone legit tell me they didn't want to associate with me implying that it was bad for business despite the fact they helped me personally financially. The message between the lines was that somehow, they thought I was going to cause issues with attendance in their classes or association. Meanwhile, they are probably the most prominent member of the community. Absolutely ridiculous grandstanding. No one from the so called hacker community has given me so much as a couch to crash on, I don't feel welcome in it. I used to travel more, the "hostel people" were quite kind, but that's nothing to do with hacking per se and I'm at an age I'd be intruding if I got a bed in a dorm. (People don't use them like they used to, everything is a party now it seems -- the last place I stayed that threw people out for making noise in the sleeping areas and the like went out of business.) > A lot of white knights in the community as well who hide dirty secrets and make big noise about other people to deflect attention from themselves. Yeah I knew at least one guy who handed out a lot of unwanted hugs who now rolls with the so called badass army. People are performative. |