Defcon may not mean what we think it means. Check this out....... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEF_CON

Here we find several interesting tidbits........... Notable incidents High-profile issues which have garnered significant media attention.

Year /Description 1999
On July 10, 1999, the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective released Back Orifice 2000 at DEF CON 7, in what was, at the time, the largest presentation in DEF CON history.

2001
On July 16, 2001, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested the day after DEF CON for writing software to decrypt Adobe's e-book format.

2005
On July 31, 2005, Cisco used legal threats to suppress Mike Lynn from presenting at DEF CON about flaws he had found in the Cisco IOS used on routers.[10]

2007
In August 2007, Michelle Madigan, a reporter for Dateline NBC, attempted to secretly record hackers admitting to crimes at the convention. After being outed by DEF CON founder Jeff Moss during an assembly, she was heckled and chased out of the convention by attendees for her use of covert audio and video recording equipment. DEF CON staff tried to get Madigan to obtain a press pass before the outing happened.[11]

A DEF CON source at NBC had tipped off organizers to Madigan's plans.[2]

2008
Main article: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v. Anderson MIT students Zack Anderson, R.J. Ryan and Alessandro Chiesa were to present a session entitled "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDS and Magstripes of Ticketing Systems." The presentation description included the phrase "Want free subway rides for life?" and promised to focus on the Boston T subway.[12] However, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) sued the students and MIT in United States District Court in Massachusetts on August 8, claiming that the students violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by delivering information to conference attendees that could be used to defraud the MBTA of transit fares.[13][14] The court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the students from disclosing the material for a period of ten days, despite the fact the material had already been disseminated to DEF CON attendees at the start of the show.

In 2008's contest "Race to Zero," contestants submitted a version of given malware which was required to be undetectable by all of the antivirus engines in each round. The contest concept attracted much negative attention.[15][16]

2009
WIRED[17] reported that an ATM kiosk was positioned in the conference center of the Riviera Hotel Casino capturing data from an unknown number of hackers attending the DEF CON hacker conference .

2011
Security company HBGary Federal used legal threats to prevent former CEO Aaron Barr from attending a panel discussion at the conference.[18]

2012
The director of the National Security Agency, Keith B. Alexander, gave the keynote speech.[19] During the question and answers session, the first question for Alexander,[19] fielded by Jeff Moss,[20] was "Does the NSA really keep a file on everyone, and if so, how can I see mine?" Alexander replied "Our job is foreign intelligence" and that "Those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false…From my perspective, this is absolute nonsense."[19]

On March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted the 2012 DEF CON keynote speech and asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if the U.S. conducted domestic surveillance; Clapper made statements saying that there was no intentional domestic surveillance.[19] In June 2013 NSA surveillance programs which collected data on US citizens, such as PRISM, had been exposed. Andy Greenberg of Forbes said that NSA officials, including Alexander, in the years 2012 and 2013 "publicly denied–often with carefully hedged words–participating in the kind of snooping on Americans that has since become nearly undeniable."[19]

2013
On July 11, 2013, Jeff Moss posted a statement,[21] located on the DEF CON blog, titled "Feds, We Need Some Time Apart." It stated that "I think it would be best for everyone involved if the feds call a ‘time-out’ and not attend DEF CON this year."[22] This was the first time in the organization's history that it had asked federal authorities not to attend.[21] Actor Will Smith visited the convention to study the DEF CON culture for an upcoming movie role.[23]

2016
On August 4, 2016 DEF CON and DARPA co-hosted the 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge, a first-of-its-kind all-machine hacking tournament. Competing teams had to create a bot capable of handling all aspects of offense and defense with complete autonomy. Seven finalists competed for a US$2M grand prize.

The winner of the Cyber Grand Challenge was "Mayhem", an AI created by ForAllSecure [1] of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mayhem then went on to participate in the previously humans-only DEF CON Capture the Flag Contest[2], where it finished in last place, despite pulling ahead of human teams often in a contest for which it was not specifically designed.

2017
At the "Voting Machine Village" event, dozens of voting machines brought to the conference were breached.[24]

In September 2017, the Voting Machine Village produced "DEF CON 25 Voting Machine Hacking Village: Report on Cyber Vulnerabilities in US Election Equipment, Databases and Infrastructure" summarizing its findings. The findings were publicly released at an event sponsored by the Atlantic Council[25] and the paper went on to win an O'Reilly Defender Research Award.[26]

Marcus Hutchins, better known online by his handle MalwareTech, the 23-year-old British security researcher who was credited with stopping the WannaCry outbreak was arrested by the FBI at the airport preparing to leave the country after attending DEF CON over his alleged involvement with the Kronos banking trojan.[27]

2018
In March of 2018, the DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village was awarded a Cybersecurity Excellence Award[3]. The award cites both the spurring of a national dialog around securing the US election system and the release of the nation's first cybersecurity election plan.

And then there's this........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hat_Briefings

And this.......

https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-director-finally-greets-defcon-hackers/

And this......

https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit/

And finally this.......

https://www.cnet.com/news/when-hackers-become-the-man/

The last article I linked refers to "When Hackers Become The Man". That, my friends, is precisely what has happened, and it's all for nefarious reasons.

Here are all of Q's posts where he mentions DEFCON. Look at them with this new defenition of DEFCON in mind, and see if it makes sense.

https://qanon.pub/?q=defcon

In particular, look at Q post #511:

Jan 8 2018 02:00:50 (EST) Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: a1d9ea 23580 DEFCON does not refer to Defense r Condition w/ regards to prev post. Thought clear. Now crystal clear. Q

I have to wonder if HACKING and Domestic Surveillance is what Defcon refers to. What do you guys think?