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If they are going to ban the feds from attending the conference, are they going to ban the contractors who are working with the feds also? I imagine that the m
by wrath 13y ago
If they are going to ban the feds from attending the conference, are they going to ban the contractors who are working with the feds also? I imagine that the majority of the "security and hacking" type work is not done directly by the feds but by their contractor (e.g. in Snowden's case he was not working for the NSA but for Booz Allen Hamilton).
If they are just banning the feds then I think this is just a press stunt since it won't change a single thing.
- Udo 13y agoOf course it's a stunt. That's the whole point, to make a symbolic statement. There is no imaginable practical consequence from this besides expressing unhappiness. That doesn't mean the gesture is meaningless.
- rantanplan 13y agoTrue. To be honest I would be quite suprised if they didn't do something like this. Kudos to them.
- iuyiuyiuy 13y ago"I would've been quite suprised if they hadn't done something like this"