It's nice to see that when DEFCON says "Don't support rapists" they really mean it.

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

It's nice to see that when #DEFCON says "Don't support rapists" they really mean it. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/hacking-conference-def-con-bans-three-people-linked-to-epstein/

[mark@mastodon.fixermark.com]

@evacide I hate to say this, but I am... Surprised, and moderately impressed.

(I hate it because the bar should be higher.)

[oldguycrusty@mastodon.world]

@evacide

Links to #Epstein are proving to be toxic.

Release ALL of the #EpsteinFiles
#Unredacted Now.

[dave@alvarado.social]

"Joan Vollero, a spokesperson for Iozzo, told TechCrunch in a statement that Def Con’s actions are 'entirely performative, given that Mr. Iozzo has barely attended the conference in the past twenty years.'

'It was a rush to judgment not based on any investigation or wrongdoing by Mr. Iozzo,' the spokesperson said."

File under "Streisand Effect".

@evacide

[meph@social.treehouse.systems]

@evacide they should ban everyone else mentioned in those files too.

[mpuckett259@hachyderm.io]

@evacide i mean, in this case

[samantazfox@infosec.exchange]

@meph @evacide That has to be done carefully. The files contains a lot of everything, including victims names and totally unrelated people (for instance, there are multiple open source software license files, as well as user manuals. the people cited in those are extremely unlikely to be related to epstein).