Cliff'sEsportCorner2d ago
DEF CON

DEF CON 34’s theme is ‘Agency’. We’re focusing on self-determination in our use of tech. Charting our own course and helping others do the same.

Let’s start moving our valuable attention to tech that supports our agency. Let’s find the places we can help and choose to act.

Read more at: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-34/dc-34-theme.html

Visual style guide and homework assignments coming soon!

#defcon #defcon34 #agency

Mar 10 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadDEF CON1d ago

First DEF CON 34 reading assignment!

As you may know, the DC34 theme is 'Agency'. Wresting self-determination from the machine.

The story 'The Machine Stops' by E.M. Forster contemplated a situation very like our own all the way back in 1909. One year after the introduction of the Model T.

Read, enjoy and share your thoughts.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890

#defcon #defcon34 #agency

The eternal moment, and other stories by E. M. Forster

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg
Show threadAlun Jones19h ago
@defcon Fortunately, I already read this over forty years ago. Can thoroughly recommend. Shook me, and I'm sure it influenced my career in information security, because it sits in the back of your mind, with this nagging thing of "and what happens, when it ceases to be useful, ceases to be maintained, ceases to be monitored?"
Show threadDEF CON14h ago
@ftp_alun seems like it just keeps getting more relevant with the passage of time.
Show thread1tr3x12h ago
@defcon I miss that current writers avoid this deep a subject. Especially relivent is how as the system breaks down the people adapt and quit filing complaints.
Show threadPrasketMar 10
@defcon
Have you dropped Discord yet?
Show threadAdam Shostack  2d ago
@defcon Agency obviously includes the right to repair. The right to repair must include the right to interoperate and build new clients. Looking at Slack, discord, and so many others.
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸2d ago
@defcon I love this theme!
Show threadViolet Madder2d ago

@defcon

I wonder how many people will be using their agency to avoid attending a conference in a nation whose transportation hubs are increasingly overrun with kidnapping-happy fascist goons who want to root around in everybody's underwear and social media accounts.