This thread is transplanted from Twitter before I delete it there:

I want to tell you a story, but doing so is bit of an OpSec fail so I am struggling with whether I should or not. So let's just agree that I don't need to be OpSec shamed or OpSec 'splained for one of the details in this story.

Do you have a beverage? You'll need one. /1

Aug 15, 2020
Replying to
@RayRedacted

This last weekend was DEFCON. This is the world's largest, important hacker conference. DEFCON is the Rose Bowl of hacker cons- it is the granddaddy of them all, and one that you must attend.

It is usually held in Las Vegas, but this year was held online. /2

Aug 2020
his year the volunteers for DEFCON itself (called "Goons") and the various villages volunteers faced enormous challenges, because pulling it off virtually in the "Spirit of DEFCN" would be a monumental task.

Long story short: it was a phenomenal success. /4

I am proud to say I volunteered in several capacities for the first time at DEFCON, spending most of my time helping with resume reviews, speaker prep, or as a volunteer speaker ops person in the "Blue Team Village" /5

(SIDENOTE: volunteering for the Blue Team Village was one of my favorite DEFCON experiences EVER, because the content and the staff was just absolutely incredible). /6

But anyway.... because I was so super super busy last weekend, I have spent several hours today playing "Catchup" on the
@defcon
youtube channel watching some of the talks I missed. /7

I was actually watching many of these on my apple TV, and multitasking. Here is a bit of my youtube history. /8

At some point, I had to leave to go work on my podcast, so I basically just walked away from the apple TV. /9

90 minutes later, from my office, I hear my good friend Jayson Street giving a talk on the apple TV. Then I hear another one. Then another one.

This can't be right. Why would the DEFCON channel play five Jayson Street videos in a row, going back like 9 years???? /11