a friend<\/a> from many years ago and a number of students of cryptography. I was disappointed to see the prevalence of black hat, anti-government hackers at the event. I was hoping that civilized humanity had come to agree that using cryptography for deception, harm to others and plausible deniability is bad, m’kay? When one speaks of the government as “they,” nobody’s going to get anywhere really quick. Let’s take responsibility for the upkeep of the environment in which we find ourselves, please.<\/p>\nDespite what I perceived as a negative focus of the presentation<\/a>, it was good to meet with peers in the Seattle area. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that better than half of the attendees were not male, that many of the socioeconomic classes of the city were represented, as were those of various ethnic backgrounds. I am really quite proud of the progress of our State University, even if I’m not always in agreement with the content that they’re polluting our kids’ brains with. I guess I should roll up my sleeves and get busy, eh?<\/p>\nV\/R,<\/p>\n
C.J.<\/p>\n\n