Jeff Moss
“Dark Tangent”Founder of DEF CON
Building the conferences where the scene meets
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Scouting report
Threw a going-away party for a friend in Las Vegas in 1993 and accidentally founded DEF CON, now the largest hacker gathering on earth. Also founded Black Hat, served on the US Homeland Security Advisory Council, and spent years translating between the underground and the institutions that fear it.
Curator’s note
Every other legend in this set has stood on a stage he built.