To be fair @defcon has changed A LOT over 30 years. Expecting it to be the same forever is an exercise in futility. That’s OK. DC should morph, grow, change and be expected, even encouraged to change. But there is an image, an expectation, perpetuated by the media, and ourselves, of a techno-counter culture that IMO is no longer present at DEFCON. Thats OK! If you drink up the media and expect that version, if you go wanting the mythology of the past, you will be very disappointed.