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Trump’s tariffs just about killed DefCon #badgelife

The Parallax

LAS VEGAS—Politics and hackers always make for strange bedfellows , but this year’s DefCon badge hackers are getting an unexpected lesson in trade economics—thanks to the Trump administration’s tariffs on Chinese electronics. Ten years later, privacy attorney Whitney Merrill organized badge hackers into an official group.