An open letter to the security community
Your community appears to be a disaster. I’ve already read about the following happening in your community/conferences:
- Women stripping being used as a prize in hacker jeopardy
- Jeopardy game features the category “hot pussy”
- Invites to parties being handed out to male speakers and not female speakers
- Objectifying content on slides
- Hacking devices of new users at conferences is considered completely acceptable
I can only conclude you don’t want to be welcoming to new users.
And so I don’t participate. Congratulations. You’ve built a community so unwelcoming that otherwise interested developers won’t be a part of it.
Friends of mine in the security community: I beg of you, don’t enable this by continuing to attend events like this. Don’t validate this behavior with your participation.
Security community, fix your shit.