> We're talking about defcon, where cheekily thumbing your nose at authority through code is the heart and soul of the conference. This single, hidden page asking for donations on behalf of the hardware company is a total nothingburger. Getting up in arms about it for being unprofessional is ridiculous.

People in this thread do seem to be very upset about a hacker doing hacker things. For a bit more irony, we're on Hacker News...