Anonymous. Meet Dark Tangent, the hacker behind Black Hat and DEF CON. Jeff Moss founded the hacker conferences Black Hat and DEF CON, which take place this week in Las Vegas.
Jeff Moss, aka Dark Tangent, founded DEF CON and Black Hat Both conferences are for hackers and computer-security professionals Moss says hackers can help make the Internet and computers safer (CNN) -- The word "hacker" evokes all kinds of scary images. But Jeff Moss says hackers are exactly what the world needs more of, because they can make the Internet safer for the rest of us. U.S. government hankers for hackers. Anonymous & LulzSec. Hackers Said to be Planning to Launch Own Satellites to Combat Censorship. Hackers reportedly plan to fight back against Internet censorship by putting their own communications satellites into orbit and developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with them.
The news comes as the tech world is up in arms about proposed legislation that many feel would threaten online freedom. According to BBC News, the satellite plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.