DEF CON is made up of many people, all who know kung-fu and networking. Once per year, much like the quickening, they gather in Las Vegas to practice the arcane arts of drinking, socializing, debugging and crowd control. Without these core Goons™, DEF CON would not happen. It is due to their hard work and innate ability to survive on caffeine that allows the attendees to enjoy the con in a state of bliss.
The Dark Tangent
"When you can snatch this pebble from my hand."Superpowers: Multi-tasking, ability to exist with no food or sleep.
Best con moment: Having three network connections actually work.
Favorite con event: Not having the hotel blown up, TCP/IP drinking game.
Involved since: DEF CON 1
Web Page: You are here.
PGP Key: is here.
Agent X
(The Infamous) Minister of SpeakersSuperpowers: Warps time, circuits & space, to assure the speakers and booze
are delivered on time.
Best con moment: Speakers; on time, on stage, on track.
Favorite con event: Drink, drink, bang bang.
Introduced by: Artimage (it's all his fault)
Involved since: DefCon 6
PGP: By Request
Chris
Your Friendly Neighborhood Vendor Goon.Superpowers: Innate ability to drink and gamble all night and still show up on time to open the Vendor Area.
Best con moment: Speaking at DC 10
Favorite con event: The WarDriving Contest of course
PGP Key: On Key Servers
Introduced by: Russ
Involved since: DC 8
Web Page: www.securitytribe.com
Dead Addict
Helped DT with setting up and running DEF CON I. His contact juggling skills are most supreme.Superpowers: Can break anything, anytime.
Best con moment: Typing on an Enigma borrowed from the NSA museum
Favorite con event: Speaking, Listening
Introduced by: The Dark Tangent
Involved since: DefCon 1
Doolittle
The Voices in Your HeadSuperpowers: Can Cloud the Minds of Men, Knows where people are, and what is actually going on.
Best con moment: Briefly knowing where everyone is, and actually what is going on.
Worst con moment: Not sleeping at all.
Favorite con event: It happens in the hallways, and we laugh because of it.
Introduced by: Riverside
Involved since: Defcon 10
FAWCR
Info Booth and anything else neededSuperpowers: Lucidity with variations of C-OH
Best con moment: It's all good
Favorite con event: Contests and EFF Fund Raising
Introduced by: Russ @ DC 8
Involved since: DC 8
Contact: fawcr at defcon dot org
Web Page: www.securitytribe.com
Grifter
Vendor Goon, Scavenger Hunt and Movie Channel Organizer. New whipping boy & lab munkey.Superpowers: The Ability to shuffle being a Goon, Vendor, Numerous Event Organizer, and sometimes Speaker on almost absolutely no sleep without ending up "Smelling like a Goon".
Best con moment: speaking at the con
Worst con moment: Watching people start to leave Sunday night.
Favorite con event: The Scavenger Hunt
Introduced by: Russ
Involved since: DefCon 9
Contact: grifter at defcon dot org
Web Page: www.rootcompromise.org
Heather
Network Dominatrix and Controller of Bitches!Superpowers: Network Dominatrix and Controller of Bitches!
Best con moment: "Ok, this jack works!"
Worst con moment: "Jack # 42, ya got anything? How about now? Alright lets try the next one...."
Favorite con event: Beer Drinking!
PGP Key: Around.
Introduced by: VideoMan@DC9
Involved since: DefCon 9
Contact: Yeah, right!
Web Page: web pages are for weenies!
Lockheed
Chief Network Operative & NOC MasterSuperpowers: Master of the 72-Hour Buzz, Networking Blindfolded
Best con moment: Priest's Drinking Song.
Worst con moment: Flipping my car - twice!
Favorite con event: Spot The Fed
PGP Key: 0xBB794089
Introduced by: Dark Tangent (DC3)
Involved since: DEF CON IV
Web Page: http://www.defconnetworking.org// & http://www.random-ether.net/
MadHat Unspecific
DC Groups AdministratorSuperpowers: I don't do buffets!
Best con moment: Dunk Tanks... or drinking.
Worst con moment: the Mudge incident (oh wait, that was BlackHat).
Favorite con event: Coffee Wars
Introduced by: Self
Involved since: defcon 7
PGP Key: http://www.unspecific.com/pgp-key
Contact: madhat(at)unspecific(dot)com
Web Page: dc214.org || unspecific.com
Major Malfunction
QuartermasterSuperpowers: Leap tall routers in a single hop, crimp RJ45s with eyebrows, freshen tan with IrDA.
Best con moment: Priest exorcising Schneier.
Favorite con event: Keeping Bad Kitty's photo album up-to-date.
PGP Key: on key servers.
Introduced by: Zac, DT
Involved since: DefCon 5
Contact: majormal at pirate-radio dot org
Web Page: www.alcrypto.co.uk
Neil
Keeper of the Site & Designer of all things DEF CON.Superpowers: Content wrangling, drawing hot chicks and bending CSS to his will. Ability to produce designs out of thin air.
Best Con Moment: Seeing it all come together.
Worst Con Moment: Designing temp badges while everyone else is partying (or sleeping).
Favorite Con event: Traversing the parties, sharing some Jameson with friends, & chillin with all of you brilliant folks.
Introduced by: Nikita
Involved since: Defcon 14
Contact: Neil [at] defcon ]dot[ org.
Nikita
Speaker Liaison aka Administrator of KhaosSuperpowers: Getting speakers selected, organized and to the show with minimal loss to life or frontal lobe damage to all those involved. Appearing sober when it counts. Finding DT. Making "it" work. Never smelling like a goon, despite the odds. Can find a 3x black t-shirt and sell it in under 60 seconds.
Best Con Moment: "The schedule is finished, done, final, for real this time."
Worst Con Moment: "Can you change the schedule to___"
Favorite Con event: Seeing Grifter's immaculate & masculine head of man hair.
Introduced by: The Dark Tangent
Involved since: Defcon 10, Official goon since 13?
Contact: Nikita [at] defcon ]dot[ org
Noid
Chief Security GoonSuperpowers: Kung-fu grip, poor impulse control, spare liver for processing alcohol.
Best con moment: PoolCon
Favorite con event: Gooning
Introduced by: DT
Involved since: Defcon 2
Web Page: www.23.org
PGP Key: is here
Priest
A big, mean, ugly, white guy.Superpowers: Classified.
Best con moment: Its all good.
Favorite con event: See above.
Introduced by: noid
Involved since: DC 5
Pyr0
Senior Contest Goon /Retired Security GoonSuperpowers: Making things go BOOM, the ability to control large groups of unfriendly people with a single glance, and stealing all your infoz! (I'm in your corporation, bypassin' all your controls!)
Best con moment: I can't legally answer that.
Worst con moment: Realizing that some of the best people I have ever known will never be attending con again. (R.I.P. - PacBell/ P4ntz / Shadow / Ghent)
Favorite con event: Gooning / Drop kicking misbehaving children / 303 Party
PGP Key: on my servers :)
Introduced by: self
Involved since: DEF CON 6
Contact: pyr0 at pyr0 dot net | Web Page: www.pyr0.net
Reverend Gonzo aka Metalhead
Original Goon, Rabble-rouser & taller than PriestSuperpowers: Phear and Loathing
Best con moment: The flight into madness...
Favorite con event: Bad Craziness @ PoolCon
PGP Key: On keyservers.
Introduced by: Self introduced @ DEF CON I
Involved since: Pre-Planning DEF CON I
Contact: gonzo at goons dot org
Web Page: www.MusicScene.org
Russ
Contest Guru, and un-paid, underappreciated con security.Superpowers: Organization, acquiring workload, the headless chicken dance
Best con moment: No favorite... They all amuse me.
Favorite con event: The Contests
Introduced by: Himself at DCVI
Involved since: DefCon 6
Contact: russ at defcon dot org
Web Page: www.securitytribe.com
Sqweak
Minister of Data Transport & Newcastle ConsumptionSuperpowers: Able to quash large bottles of alcohol in a single swig, especially while crimping cables and testing jacks. Monkey Feet...OF DOOOOOOOM.
Best con moment: When 303 pushed Shipley in the pool at DC9.
Worst con moment: Everytime I show up with one less friend. (R.I.P. Ghent, Kam & Josh)
Introduced by: Self @ DC6
Involved since: Defcon 7
Stealth
Superpowers: Ninja art of invisibility
Best con moment: Really can't talk about it except to say that we won't be allowed back in that hotel again EVER.
Worst con moment: Had something to do with Pool 3.
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy
Introduced by: self
Involved since: Defcon 1
TW
Registration Pit Boss & Creator of all things plastic. Best con moment: DC7 Art and Bruce in the sumo suitsWorst con moment: DC9 getting handcuffed by the LVPD (yes that ended the party in my room)
Favorite con event: Drinking
Introduced by: self at DC6, Goon since DC9
Contact: tw at goons dot org
Web Page: www.NotTheFed.com
"Uncle" Ira
DEF CON load master, tech & moral support.Superpowers: Acquisition and Sales of Cool Techno-Trinkets. ÜberMemory* In both Technical, and Obscure-Info Modes.
Best con moment: What? They won't let you on the plane with Gel-Cells? Send your suitcases home UPS!
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy, DCshoot.
Introduced by: Dr. Nick 2000
Involved since: DefCon 5
Web Page: www.meco.org
VideoMan
Superpowers: Able to stop packets with 00000010 fingers (LE)
Best con moment: It's all good.
Favorite con event: CTF
Introduced by: Gonzo@DC6
Involved since: DefCon 6
PGP Key: On Keyservers
Contact: videoman at drstrangelove dot net
Web Page: www.drstrangelove.net
Zac Franken
Superpowers: Alcohol Consumption, SuperTeraUltraMegaMultiTasking, Haggling with Ira, Chainsmoking Xtreme, Equipment Scrounging, DT Locating, Schmoozing Hotel Management.
Best con moment: Suggesting to Winn that maybe he should become a game show host full-time.
Worst con moment: Escorting DT in the middle of a quad of goons out of the Monte-Carlo to avoid the cops.
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy & TCP/IP drinking game
Introduced by: Himself
Involved since: DefCon 2
Security Goons
CHS
Superpowers: drinking, able to identify make of firearm from 50 paces, drinking, offroading, drinking.
Best con moment: drinking
Favorite con event: defcon shoot
Introduced by: noid
Involved since: defcon V
PGP Key: http://www.23.org/~chs/gpg.html
Contact: chs at 23 dot org
Web Page: http://www.23.org/~chs/
Cjunky
Thirsty hacker & special ops goon.Superpowers: Zero-day exploits while chugging beer. uber-skipper. Ability to consume all alcohol in a 50 meter radius without moving his lips. Ability sense trouble through 8 feet of concrete. PoolCon co-founder. old school.
Best con moment: Defcon Weights and Measures
Worst con moment: Being the Lone goon controling 50 males and one naked girl.
Introduced by: Zac
Involved since: Defcon 6
Dc0de
Superpowers: Ability to smile in the face of adversity, Can spot bullshit at 1000yds,
Best con moment: Too many to recall.
Worst con moment: err?
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy, standing in as a Drunken Whore
Introduced by: Noid
Involved since: Defcon 13
Web Page: www.dc0de.com
PGP Key: @ pgp.mit.edu
flea
Superpowers: I know when to say when, girlfriend
Best con moment: each succesive moment has built upon the one before
Worst con moment: the time that guy in the black shirt did that thing
Introduced by: Pappy, kinda
Involved since: DC4
Website: http:// 23b.org/gallery/flea
GodMinusOne
Favorite Con Moment: Team Jesus at DC12.Involved since: Defcon 7, Goon since Defcon 10.
Contact: godminusone at godminusone dot com
PGP Key: Available on keyservers.
Web Page: http://www.godminusone.com
JohnD
JD, never late for dinner, hey you, etc etc...Superpowers: The same as The Spleen if you know what I mean...
Favorite con event: Gooning
Best con moment: DC 12 Pool 2 security guard waking up on the lawn of the AP missing his uniform.
Worst con moment: DC 11, not letting people into speeches due to fire code.
Introduced by: Cal, Noid, and Uncle Ira (the usual 206 suspects...)
Involved since: DC11
JustaBill
"Can Do Anything"Superpowers: Mystical troubleshooting ability, electronics expert, Bay Area Defcon Caravan organizer, founder and leader of Tri-Valley Security Group, knows where to find all the good parties.
Best con moment: Chillin' with other goons
Worst con moment: Gatorade (ask Cat about that)
Favorite con event: Saturday :)
Introduced by: Priest
Involved since: Defcon 7
Web pages: www.billzhouse.com or www.TVSG.org
kampf
Security Goon, Scavenger Hunt and Movie Channel staffSuperpowers: Ability to blend in and be seen at the same time.
Best con moment: Scavenger Hunt Finales
Favorite con event: Arrival
Worst con moment: Leaving
Introduced by: Shatter, Grifter.
Involved since: Hunt at DCX, Goon at DCXI
Contact: kampf at rootcompromise dot org
Web Page: http://rootcompromise.org
KevinE
Security Goon and alcoholicSuperpowers: driving dangerously.
Best con moment: Watching AlexRogan make fun of a lady because she was waving her hands...and then watch him find out she was deaf.
Favorite con event: do the parties count as events?
PGP Key: On Key Servers
Introduced by: Chris
Involved since: DC 10 I think...
NOBODY
is NOT a GoonSuperpowers: None.
Best con moment: None.
Favorite con event: None.
Worst con moment: None.
Introduced by: None.
Involved since: None.
PGP: Servers.
Pappy Ozendorph
Goon SupremacistSuperpowers: Cause Moderate Wounds (touch), Detect Law Enforcement (15' Radius), Auxiliary liver where my soul should be.
Best con event: Breaking up a rather nasty situation.
Worst con moment: I don't remember, and that is by design.
Introduced by: Noid
Involved since: Defcon 2
Queeg
Village DrunkSuperpowers: Able to leap a keg in a single bound
Best con moment: umm... I don't remember
Worst con moment: I don't remember
Introduced by: I don't remember
Involved since: I don't remember but defcon 8 sounded like a nice prime number
PGP: D.D.S.C.
Website: um.. something with 1`s and 0`s
Picture: http://23b.org/gallery/album168
Vidiot
Superpowers: Ability to download solid objects via P2P.
Best con moment: Speaking @ DC 14 and exposing the secret of the Mein Fraulein number stations.
Worst con moment: THAT hangover…you know the one.
Favorite con event: Defcon shoot
Introduced by: Self @ DC11
PGP Key: On keyservers.
Contact: infidel at loljazeera dot net
Web Pages: http://dc213.org | http://projectevil.org
xinc
Random security goonSuperpowers: Void warranties at thirty paces, sex-toy ninja
Favorite con event: DC-Shoot, carousing
Introduced by: Himself
Involved since: DC12, attending since DC7
Website: www.strangerthanfriction.org
In Memoriam
Dr Nick2000
1977-2006Dr Nick aka Nick Jeremicah lost the battle against cancer in the fall of 2006.
He is survived by his parents, siblings, wife and two children.
Dr Nick2000 was 30 years old.
Ghent aka Branden Hancock
1977-2003Ghent aka Branden Hancock died of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
He is survived by his mother and younger sister.
Ghent was 26 years old.
Josh
1978-2005Ted Turner Wannabe (Defcon TV Engineer), RBOC, Network Flunkie, Deputy Schmoozer.
Superpowers: Taking over cable networks without breaking a sweat, Cabling/crimping for 36 hrs straight, reading minds of lame telco installers.
Best con moment: We now interrupt the regularly scheduled programming to bring you Cindy Salsa
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy
Worst con moment: Fearing my life would end at the hands of a Lou Gosset Junior wannabe guard
"Died at sea after safe landing". Survived by his parents, sister and daughter.
Ned Cohen
Father of Joshua Cohen
Past Goons
Artimage
Gourmet chef. He also helps out with Defcon, securing speakers like Bellovin and selling t-shirts like a madman.Superpowers: This list is far to long to put here. But many would say his ability to find navel lint even in the dark was the one that proved most useful.
Best con moment: Besting the mighty Bruce Schneir in a physical battle of strength, aka Sumo wrestling.
Favorite con event: Drinking.
PGP Key: Available on request.
Introduced by: Himself
Involved since: DefCon 2
Bink
Master of Auditory and Visual Realities.Superpowers: Ability to work for 3 days straight. Ability to transform simple hotel convention rooms to alternate plains of reality
Best con moment: Not sleeping at all
Worst con moment: Not sleeping at all
Favorite con event: The club (never had time to see anything else... other things happen?)
Introduced by: noid
Involved since: Defcon 6
Web Page: www.23.org
Cat
Superpowers: Continuity
Introduced by: self
Involved since: Defcon 8? 9?