As was discovered by a reporter from Dateline NBC, who tried to ignore the rules at DEFCON and got caught.
There are a few disagreements in minor details between the stories on the Register, the Inquirer, and Wired, which makes me believe this really happened (as opposed to being a publicity stunt). InfoWorld has the most details, but no photos.
It's a sad commentary on modern news shows that they think they could have gotten away with breaking the rules, or that even trying to get away with that was the right thing to do.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
There are a few disagreements in minor details between the stories on the Register, the Inquirer, and Wired, which makes me believe this really happened (as opposed to being a publicity stunt). InfoWorld has the most details, but no photos.
It's a sad commentary on modern news shows that they think they could have gotten away with breaking the rules, or that even trying to get away with that was the right thing to do.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012