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And if they are seen as the "bad guy" then refusing is a principled thing to do...?

• nickpsecurity 10y ago
  Then that person is naive. The people at these conferences are just employees of companies doing their job. They're there to network & discuss issues. The reception of such a presentation would range from apathy to interest in fixes depending on which participants we're talking about. Theres a small chance of some changes happening. Whereas, that same presentation delivered to people outside the industry has near-zero chance of changes happening. I'm not seeing the conference participants as the "bad guy" if they wanted the hacker to teach them about the problems. I'm not going to say the hacker was the "bad guy" either so much as taking a selfish strategy that only reinforces the problems they research and present on.
  • willvarfar 10y ago
    My personal experience of these kinds of industry groups is that the participants who are technical and mean well are misunderstanding their part in the committee and eventually get replaced by political non-techies who better act in their companies interests. Sad but routine.