It’s been a privilege to attend Defcon:  the annual congregation of hackers, law enforcement and security staff (red/blue team) for the last 15 years. My inaugural Defcon experience occurred when I was barely old enough to order a drink from the Alexis Park hotel bar in Vegas. By 2005, I was working for a very small security consulting firm that serviced the financial industry. Back then, Defcon was very small and only had a few thousand attendees, and lacked gender and ethnic diversity. To call the DEFCON of 2005 raucous would be an understatement. The attendance was predominantly younger males navigating the conference chaos making it both exhilarating and intimidating for most that were outside that demographic. The general Defcon shenanigans at the Alexis Park were so well known, the hotel would itemize all of the furniture or equipment in the room and disclose the costs associated with replacing the items in it, just in case you decide to destroy or tamper with it.