Originally posted by astcell
One thing I would be worried about is upsetting people who have different impressions of history. Time has a way of causing people to alter their perception of history.
Best way to counter this is get enough people contributing to each event in order to have the depicted history be accepted with little controversy.
You want another part of a story?
(In a grandpa-like voice...)
During the DC when someone decided to be a wiseguy and perform a DoS attack against hotel employee use of radios (by providing a much stronger signal than the in-house radios were able to compete) they decided to have the source for generating the signal be one of the presentation rooms...
(One thing to not do at DC is something like the above. There are many technically skilled Goons who have the technology, time and energy to make triangulation of a source this strong trivial, and expulsion even easier... after repeated introduction of various blunt objects to the offender:
"Excuse me, have you met mr Side-handled Baton? Yes? Ohhh but he is so sad that it has been too long since the last meeting and wants to *hook-up* with you again...") )
Ok, so back to the story, Priest happens to come into our presentation room (where a small crowd of maybe 40 people in the audience is watching attempts made by people to socially engineer their way into or out of scenarios contrived by people in the audience: the attackers and defenders are con attendees and its all about role playing.... yes, it sucked from a technical standpoint, but was very funny and entertaining to watch.)
Priest says: (paraphrased)
"It has come to our attention that one of you miscreants has demonstrated your lack of mental prowess by jamming the radios used by the hotel staff here at the con. We know it is someone from one of these presentation rooms because we can hear your signal, and the content of your signal from everywhere in the hotel. You know who you are, and I suggest you stop.
This is a dumb thing to do. First, the hotel employees use their radios in cases of emergency, and if someone happens to have a heart attack, or need medical attention, you can get in big trouble. (blah blah blah, about being in prison as a new wife to "bubba" blah blah blah... few more minutes.)
We can and will track you down if this does not stop, and you will know what it means to be (blah blah blah another minute.)"
Okay, so whoever was doing it stopped doing it, and we returned to the "social engineering" demo. They asked for suggestions for the next social engineering scenario, I raised my hand and was called to issue a suggestion, and thus I spoke:
"You have just been caught with a radio transmitter in your room which was providing a signal so strong as to overpower the hotel radios. Priest is there, and he has 2 enforcers."
There was much laughter from the small number of people in the audience, and the skit went horribly wrong, but it was still entertaining.
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Here is a really short one...
During DC5 and "Spot the Fed" contest, one of the people in my group decided to "Spot Priest" as a fed. This went over rather well, and a much larger audience laughed. It was a rare moment as it appeared that priest was caught off guard, and did not have an immediate response. I think he eventually said something like, "You.... Think I.... Am a fed?" and then rolled his eyes. He asked for reasons, which were given, but the member of my group did not get a Tee. (No, I was not the one who spotted Priest as a fed, but I wish it was. :-)
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