Earlier quoted context omitted.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The feds were right. We need to shut down defcon.
This is interesting, I mean A.S. was talking about the merchant class but I suppose infosec professionals as well as commercial parties attend defcon. Are there market-directed shennanigans going alongside the tech workshops and talks? I wonder what Crowdstrike and AWS executives talk about at those kind of industry gatherings. I guess the NSA isn't a commercial interest exactly...
I think A.S. was not proposing a theorem as much as casting a jaundiced eye over such proceedings. But he never did a hackathon.