DEFCON
No. 81 ·
Transcript
- [Panel 1]
- Samantha: So....why is the conference that you’re going to called Defcon?
- Randall: Oh! It’s named after a scale, that the government uses, to describe a level of threat...
- [Panel 2]
- Samantha: -gulp!
- Randall: For example, a nuclear war would be a level of Defcon one!
- Samantha: ...Oh my!
Samantha says…
So this is what my hacker husband, Randall, said to me when I asked him about the conference he was going to (last year). Yup. Pretty rogue-hackerish-sounding to me, and pretty normal – or “badass”- to him. DEFCON is an annual pro-hacking conference in the US that’s pretty well known for its often rebellious attitude. And just so I don’t get shot, I’ll clear the air by saying that “rebellious” can mean something like “rebellion via hacking in a righteous effort to create transparency”. And that’s all I know about DEFCON! I like how Scribbles looks in this comic. She’s just as cute in real life by the way.