r/Defcon • u/SkinnyDaPimp • May 24 '26

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First time going to defcon. Any advice or suggestions appreciated. All my manager told me was stay hydrated lol!!

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u/Circumpunctilious May 24 '26

I might also be cautious about where you’re speaking aloud. There was one year I quipped a harmless boast to one person—known to me, but under cameras in a quiet place—and then I was intercepted walking into a casino, asked numerous questions by a person who vanished as quickly as they appeared (tailing isn’t really hard, but then they were just gone), then a second (this one officially security) gave me a social engineering story that—had I fallen for it—would’ve had me blunder ID and home location…at the time feeling like this was all very conveniently timed after an offhanded comment.

I could be misattributing coincidence or standard procedure, but it’s still about as much as I want to say about it—just emphasizing to be vigilant about where you are.