It's incredibly disappointing to see DEF CON, a conference where you can still show up and pay for entry in cash, adopt a centralized, hosted, unencrypted system (Discord) that requires both:
1. that you enter into an abusive legal agreement wherein you agree to give up your civil rights
and
2. that you dox yourself to get an account (you have to give either a non-VPN IP, or a non-VoIP phone number)
My Discord account got banned from being created from Tor and using a burner number and linking my own friends to my own website in DM (because they spy on all the unencrypted messages, natch).
This means I won't be able to participate in DEF CON this year. :(
1. that you enter into an abusive legal agreement wherein you agree to give up your civil rights
and
2. that you dox yourself to get an account (you have to give either a non-VPN IP, or a non-VoIP phone number)
My Discord account got banned from being created from Tor and using a burner number and linking my own friends to my own website in DM (because they spy on all the unencrypted messages, natch).
This means I won't be able to participate in DEF CON this year. :(