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.
Superpowers: Limitless charm, zero tolerance for asshattery
Best con moment: Participating in the Wardriving Competitions
Worst con moment: Blowing our team's insurmountable lead at HJ
Introduced by: Roamer
Involved since: DEF CON 10
PGP: Look it Up
Contact: [handle] at gmail
Amazon
Swag Goon Goddess
Superpowers: Being bigger than everyone else.
Best con moment: I remember the vodka. :)
Worst con moment: I remember the vodka... :(
Introduced by: Fox & Q
Involved since: DEF CON 18, Goon since DEF CON 19
Contact: Invalid Query
br00zer
Tall, bearded, tattooed and awesome.
Superpowers: Withstanding Zant's trolling.
Best con moment: Being educated about the Bronie phenomena in HighWiz's room.
Favorite con event: Hangovers.
Introduced by: Zant
Involved since: DEF CON 25 (Human since DEF CON 7)
Cjunky
Thirsty hacker & Chief Red Shirt 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: DEF CON Weights and Measures
Worst con moment: Being the Lone goon controling 50 males and one naked girl.
Introduced by: Zac
Involved since: DEF CON 6
Code24
Speaker Ops "troubleshooter"
Superpowers: Bottomless well of anger.
Best con moment: DC 8 or 9 Hacker Jeopardy, hearing several hundred hackers chant "Mousepad! Mousepad!" when the contestant was given the choice between an NSA mouspad, or removing a piece of Vinyl Vanna's clothing.
Worst con moment: Seeing nothing but the inside of the Speaker Green Room for 6 or so years.
Introduced by: Agent X
Involved since: DEF CON 7, Goon since DEF CON 9
coleslaw
Contest Goon
Superpowers: Alcohol-related time travelling
Best Con Moment: That one time I got alcohol poisoning
Worst Con Moment: That one time I got alcohol poisoning
Introduced by: Pyr0
Involved since: DEF CON 15
Contact: coleslaw [at] prisoncamp [dot] net
Crash
Speaker Reg and Harassment
Superpowers: I hunt speakers through time and space. But mostly time.
Best con moment: Running my autonomous hacking robot off the stage during the Fail panelÖ because it failed. But me + robot + DEF CON = win.
Worst con moment: Catching the flu, probably infecting most of the speakers, then going to the airport and begging the agent to let me go home a day early.
Favorite con event: Con.
Introduced by: Proctor (or whatever your handle is now)
Involved since: DEF CON 14
Contact: rmogull
cyber
Superpowers: Super Leopard Hair
Best con moment: VIP Extraction
Involved since: DEF CON 4
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: DEF CON 1
Doolittle
Production Maestro
Superpowers: 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: Being chased by hotel security and the FBI
Favorite con event: It happens in the hallways, and we laugh because of it.
Chief Networking Goon and Beer Drinking Tzar @ NOC
Superpowers: Technopathy, Energy Sourcing, 2.4 Ghz interference ESP
Best con moment: Flipping the switch to have all of those APs to light-up
the venue at once and start watching those malicious packets flowing through the network.
Worst con moment: Bad wiring for 1Q-trunks and crappy QoS at the bars.
Superpowers: Magic Touch,Telepathy, Making Vodka Vanish
Best con moment: Being yoinked out of the eternal reg line to pull shift on my second DEF CON.
Worst con moment: That one time, in that place, with the recorder...
Introduced by: Q
Involved since: DEF CON 15
Contact: AeroZaine@gmail.com
g-zigg
Swag Booth Ziggy Goon
Superpowers: Gamma ray skillz and space doodoo pistol
Introduced by: Beckie Mossman
Gadsden
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: Superb rifle skills, able to cook over fire in 115F heat
for hours, able to yell and people-herd for days at a time to make sure a good time is had by all.
Best con moment: All the Toxic BBQs, the AP days, the homebrew tastings.. the rest are classified.
Worst con moment: Pool 2 Girl, "The Asshole Incident", having ToxicBBQ cancelled.
Introduced by: Noid? Can't remember how I got roped into this...
Involved since: DEF CON 11
PGP: x90x90x90x90
Gattaca
Speaker Goon. Nasty, brutish and short.
Superpowers: Delivers bricks of enlightenment via high speed cranial infusion. Devouring the souls of project managers. Flexible morals.
Superpowers: Hide bullshit through multiple "random" TSA searches; be two places at once
Best con moment: First goon shift
Involved since: DEF CON 14
Contact: [find it]
gLoBuS
Swag Booth Goon
Superpowers: The ability to mostly remember where we keep stuff in the stock area.
Best con moment: I'm still under an NDA for that one...
Worst con moment: "Sorry, we're all out of that shirt in that size."
Introduced by: Sunsh1ne
Involved since: DEF CON19
Contact: karl@fosaaen.com
Goekesmi
Speaker Ops Dispatch
Superpowers: Making problems go away through the power of communication and coffee.
Best con moment: Watching people recognize me for the first time out of Defcon's context.
Worst con moment: Walking into a presentation room with a visibly angry audience, a
speaker provoking them, and knowing I was going to have to clean it up.
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.
Best con moment: Oooh, Sealab 2021! (and the rest of DEF CON 12)
Introduced by: Chris, Russ
Involved since: DEF CON 10
Jerel
Info Goon
Superpowers: Clean socks
Best con moment: Closing Ceremonies - 2009 ‘ish
Storming stage with ‘I <3 Nikita ’ boxers and tees.
Phat32 was on stage receiving award and actuated the storming by stripping down to his ‘I <3 Nikita’ boxers and tees.
Worst con moment: Having two new shirts swiped while I was drinking
Introduced by: Lizzie / Nickerson
Involved since: DEF CON 17
Contact: 0.jerel.0 (at) gmail (dot) com
jjarmoc
Swag Booth Goon
Superpowers: Transmutation of beer into urine.
Best con moment: Being both a Speaker and Goon at DEF CON 19.
Worst con moment: Saying good bye on Sunday.
Introduced by: Sunsh1ne
Involved since: Attendee since DEF CON 15, Goon since DEF CON 18
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 DEF CON Caravan organizer, founder and leader of Tri-Valley Security Group, knows where to find all the good parties.
Superpowers: Ability to blend in and be seen at the same time.
Best con moment: Gooning my way into a Caezar's Challenge party and playing music for hours on synthesizers with the winner of the first Badge Hacking contest.s
Worst con moment: The goggles, they do NOTHING!
Introduced by: Shatter, Grifter.
Involved since: Scavenger Hunt at DCX, Goon since DCXI
Worst con moment: Waking up outside in the hallway at Alexis Park.
Introduced by: Good question!
Involved since: Many Cons ago.
Leila T
Info Booth Goon
Superpowers: The ability to melt your face with a smile
Best con moment: The beard contest and mohawk con!
Worst con moment: Rope barriers! (to block the tv)
Introduced by: FAWCR
Involved since: DEF CON 19
Lisal33
Lead Vendor Goon
Superpowers: Knockout Smile
Londo
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: Able to be in any place at the con at any given time while maintaining adequate levels of booze as well as being the BBQ mistress running the Toxic BBQ.
Best con moment: There all good but winning a black badge was awesome!
Best con moment: Too many to recall, also ejected from that big party, you know the one.
Worst con moment: That Monday morning after the con is over.
Introduced by: Flea/Noid
Involved since: DEF CON 13
Mauvehed
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: Able to scale walls like a spider monkey.
Best con moment: DJing LOLBitcoin at DC 21.
Worst con moment: Being puked on before my shift even started.
Involved since: DEF CON 22
Contact:@mauvehed
Medic
Purveyor of high-quality information to the uninformed.
Superpowers: with cat, sed, awk and grep, i could take over the world.
Best con moment: DEF CON 10 - Hacker Jeopardy. Losing it all on a daily double and drinking to make up the points. Or winning the Mystery Box challenge.
Worst con moment: The tent on the roof of the Alexis Park.
Introduced by: roamer
Involved since: DEF CON 10
PGP: 0xE1D416E1
MelloMan
Infobooth Lead
Superpowers: knowledge of bathroom locations
Introduced by: Sl33py, FAWCR
Involved since: DEF CON 13
PGP: 0xE1D416E1
Contact: mello at defcon dot org
Web Page: www.melloman.net
Mojostico
Info Goon
Superpowers: The ability to change metabolizing alcohol into tasty pastry treats.
Best con moment: MC Frontalot!
Worst con moment: Having a friend take my car keys back to a different state.
Introduced by: Mar
Involved since: DEF CON 20
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: DEF CON 14
Contact: Neil [at] defcon ]dot[ org.
Nikita
Conference Planner, Director of Call For Papers, Administrator, Tribe, etc.
Superpowers: Can do a lot of stuff, and things. I don’t like to brag about how awesome I am.
Best Con Moment: The Niki7a boxer shorts rebellion? The baby shower? Drunk Hacker History? DEF CON 101? Too many to list.
Worst Con Moment: When it’s over, when the hallways and seats are empty. When I have to go home.
Superpowers: 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: DEF CON 2
P33v3
A midsized, mean, angry, Red Shirt Goon Cultist and Goon Spiritual Advisor
Superpowers: Able to out the un-outable, find the un-findable, fix any cluster f**k, and herd any number of rabid cats.
Best con moment: Seeing Dave Marcus meet Dave Marcus.
Worst con moment: Seeing some one foul themselves after passing
out while fouling themselves having previously fouled themsevles just before they
started to pass out.That's a trifecta of foulness.
Introduced by: Noid
Involved since: Attendee since DEF CON 1, Goon since DEF CON 15
PGP: @pgp.mit.edu
Pete
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: Being awesome
Best con moment: Goon Swim
Involved since: DEF CON 19
Polish Dave
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: true
Introduced by: CJ
Involved since: DEF CON 14
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: DEF CON 4
Contact: priest@23.org
Project Chatter
Info Goon
Superpowers: Remaining calm in the face of asshattery.
Introduced by: Acr0nym
The Public
John Q. Public, Hall Monitor, Finder of Things
Superpowers: Doing what I do very well.
Best con moment: Something about a pool.
Worst con moment: I don't understand the question.
Introduced by: Pyr0
Involved since: DEF CON 4
Contact: tpublic at tno dot org
pwcrack
Head Speaker Goon
Superpowers: Crypto
Best con moment: Welcoming speakers to Defcon.
Worst con moment: It was agreed that we shall never again speak of that matter.
Parties Goon, Retired Senior Contest Goon /Retired Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: 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
Best con moment: Reverse engineering the Alexis Park's on-demand entertainment.
Worst con moment: When we made an eight foot tall cardboard cutout of Derek. He got to visit all of the best talks and room parties. Oh, and that time we got dry ice...
Superpowers: Age, wisdom, a patient spouse, and a liver which has not yet failed. Plus, I float, can grow an award winning beard / mustache in less than a year.
Fav Con Moment: Dc0de, clearing a hallway at the Riv, and causing bodily injury by dropping the most vicious fart ever known to man. Dawgs worldwide are jealous....
Worst Con Moments: Clearing rooms, that damn tent on the roof of the AP, babysitting humans who overindulge, the stench of the Riv (even before Dc0de farted).
Fav Con Event: Gooning! Oh, and Parties, Bitches!
Involved since: DC8
Introduced by: Noid, I guess...
Contact: If you need it, you have it. PM me on the forums, or ask for a card.
PGP: On the servers if you know me.
xinc
Random Red Shirt goon
Superpowers: Void warranties at thirty paces, sex-toy ninja
1992-2011
Poolboy, aka Robert Conner Ashby, 19, of Ventura, passed away on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011.
Dr Nick2000
1977-2006
Dr 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
1977-2003
Ghent 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
1978-2005
Ted Turner Wannabe (DEF CON 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 DEF CON, 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: DEF CON 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?)
Superpowers: Eats Human badges for breakfast, can resurrect fallen
goons, can manifest insanely hot females on command, and can code a
better Stuxnet on a napkin.
Best Con Moment: Every moment. Every one.
Worst Con Moment: Attempting to walk back to my room on sunday after a
64 mile trek around the conference during the weekend. 2 feet. Stop.
Repeat.
Favorite Con event: ScavHunt!
Introduced by: Noid
Contact: blakdayz [a.t.] g.m.a.i.l
Cat
Superpowers: Continuity
Introduced by: self
Involved since: DEF CON 8? 9?
Dc0de
Red Shirt Goon
Superpowers: Volume +8, Can spot bullshit at 1000yds
Best con moment: being asked, "Hey, can you watch me for a few hours? I just took like 18 hits of acid..."
Worst con moment: err?
Favorite con event: Hacker Jeopardy, standing in as a Drunken Whore
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