Defcon 4 Caravan Videos, Part 4 of 8: Picking out the Playlist

In which we pick out the plyalist ("Hello, Dad, I'm in Jail!") and get ready to roll!

Taken on or around Friday July 26, 1996

Defcon is an annual hacker convention occurring in Las Vegas. I went every year from Defcon 2 (1994) though 13 (2005). For a number of years, starting with Defcon 3 (1995), I organized a caravan from Orange County / LA to Vegas. The first one was crap, due to circumstances beyond my control (the unorganized and neglected job got dumped into my lap a few days before the event). This is a video of the second, which had a better energy and a larger turnout.

I brought my parents' video camera the first two years of the caravan. The tape has been collecting dust in the back of my desk drawer for 15 years (the camera, long since broken) and has persisted through 7,000 miles of moves. This year, I finally decided to get it converted to DVD for a nominal fee at a local camera shop, then ripped the DVD for nonlinear editing. I chopped it apart into individual segments, partly to keep the length YouTube friendly and partly because it felt easier to link to individual events along the trip. I suspect most of it is unwatchable in that "I guess you had to be there" sort of way, but figured I would share it as a piece of my (and to a minuscule extent, 1990s hacker culture) history.

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