When it came to COVID protocols, this wasn't the case. One would think that with this being a hacker conference, many would go against authority, rebel, and refuse to follow the rules. Nothing was recorded, no pictures or copies kept, just a quick visual check. They checked that you were indeed yourself, that the name on your ID matched the vaccine card, and if all was good, they gave you a wristband as proof you had been validated. All that happened was when it was your turn, you showed an ID and your COVID vaccination proof to one of the workers. The conference had a third party brought in to perform the validation. Traveling with my medical data and showing it to someone I don't know seemed a bit sketchy to me. Many people had concerns with how vaccination status validation would go. I had planned to spend my morning in line, so it was nice to gain some of the day back to explore and go check out Blackhat (more on that in a minute). I was surprised when the whole process took me less than 30 minutes. I thought it would be even worse this year since we had to take the COVID screening check into account. Like the start of any other DEFCON or hacker conference in general, it all starts with “linecon.” In years past, it’s my understanding that the registration portion for DEFCON often took hours to get through. This was my first chance to get out to “hacker summer camp” and wanted to share my thoughts with you all. I just wanted to take a few minutes to tell everyone about my experience at DEFCON 29.
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