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I don't really care whether money changed hands. Secretly putting an ad into software that you know will be distributed to many people is the oldest scumbag mov
by viccis 2y ago
I don't really care whether money changed hands. Secretly putting an ad into software that you know will be distributed to many people is the oldest scumbag move in the scumbag book. All sympathy ended there, and that was weeks before he trespassed.
- josephg 2y agoEh. When I was young, I played a demo of Doom that came with a magazine. When you finish the demo level, the game show an ad that said if I ponied up money, I could play the whole game. I fail to see the problem. And in this case it wasn’t an ad. It was a page saying you could donate to the hardware company if you want, who were out of pocket $100k for making the hardware. That’s an incredibly tame prank by Defcon standards.
- kelnos 2y agoCharacterizing it as an "ad" feels a bit dishonest, as if it was an ad for some random product completely unrelated to the conference or the badges themselves. It was a shout-out to the company that made the badges! And that after DEFCON promised to give that company credit on the badge case, and then reneged on that promise. Even if Entropic shat the bed so badly that DEFCON's takeover of badge production was actually warranted (I'm super skeptical of this claim), the badges still consisted nearly entirely of Entropic's & Dmitry's work. DEFCON's removal of credit from the badge case was deeply unethical.