Comment by EvanAnderson
Comment by EvanAnderson 3 days ago
I didn't know Dan personally, but everyone I know who knew him said Dan was good people. I wish I'd gotten to know him.
Piling-on your story: I'd love to know who the guy was I hung out with at Defcon 3. My friends' flights were earlier than mine and I ended up alone in Las Vegas, newly-turned 18 y/o and w/ very little travel experience outside of Ohio.
I ended up hanging out talking with a Unix hacker in his mid-late 20s who struck up a conversation w/ me on the con floor. We hung out the rest of Sunday until my flight left. It made what otherwise would have been a lonely and stressful day a lot of fun.
He gave me an email address to hit him up after the con. It turned out to be fake. I've never been able to find any references to his "name", the domain name on the email, etc. I don't know if he gave me the fake address because of the stigma of a "hacker con"(being worried about real identities, etc). I hope it wasn't because he just didn't want to hear from me again (albeit I do recognize I was pretty insufferable at that age).
If you remember hanging out w/ a long-haired kid on the last Saturday of Defcon 3 I'd love to touch base. (My God... that will be 30 years ago in a couple months.)
Most likely, that was just bad handwriting. It has certainly happened to me that others couldn’t decipher when I meant o or 0. But wasn’t me, I’ve never been to defcon.