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DEF CON 33 Theme

The theme for DEF CON 33 is 'Access Everywhere', focusing on creating a digital commons that is usable, accessible, and private for all users. The initiative emphasizes the importance of making technology inclusive, ensuring safety for users in oppressive environments, and prioritizing user privacy and security. Various efforts are being made to enhance accessibility, including updates to services and the promotion of federated platforms that respect user data.

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DEF CON 33 Theme

The theme for DEF CON 33 is 'Access Everywhere', focusing on creating a digital commons that is usable, accessible, and private for all users. The initiative emphasizes the importance of making technology inclusive, ensuring safety for users in oppressive environments, and prioritizing user privacy and security. Various efforts are being made to enhance accessibility, including updates to services and the promotion of federated platforms that respect user data.

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DEF CON 33 THEME

ACCESS EVERYWHERE
The theme for DEF CON 33 is ‘Access Everywhere’

Imagine that we’re building the digital commons from scratch. What could
we do to make sure everyone benefits? How would we make it a freer,
healthier place to inhabit? How do we protect each other from the worst
parts of the current system?
ACCESS EVERYWHERE

• Services should be usable no matter who you are.


• Services should be accessible no matter where you are.
• Services should not violate user privacy or security.

USABLE
Everyone should be able to use the tech. For example, low vision
shouldn’t keep you locked out of services. Slightly older hardware
shouldn’t mean you can’t join the conversation.

We’ve been updating our sites to work better with screen readers and
assistive devices. We’re updating our videos to embed captions and
generate transcripts to make DEF CON’s services more globally
accessible. We’ve been working hard to make sure that people using our
services aren’t harassed and have a clear pathway to report issues.

ACCESSIBLE
Some of us live in places where our opinions and identities create risk for
us in the analog world. Even those of us who are currently free of
repression should consider that things can and do change. It’s important
to think about how we can make sure that people can get the information
and community they need safely, or even anonymously.

Our sites are all available as Tor https://www.torproject.org/ .onion sites to


provide alternative network access not controlled by name servers or
certi cate authorities that can be used to censor, and we are exploring
additional options, such as Veilid https://veilid.com/, to expand our
o erings.

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PRIVATE AND SECURE


Accessibility also means services that are socially responsible.

We all participate in platforms in various states of decline and


enshitti cation. Some of them are badly moderated and allow their users
to be mistreated. Some of them manipulate your feed to make you a softer
marketing target and a more miserable human. Lots of them farm your
data and sell it indiscriminately.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can let go of the algo. Choose
platforms that are human-sized and focused on one to one
communication. Look for apps that care about moderation and prioritize
showing you the posts of people you follow. We’ve invested some of our
energy into DEFCON.social https://defcon.social and we’re boosting
federated services like Loops https://loops.video/ and Pixelfed https://
pixelfed.org/ The point is to choose a service that gives you what you
want, and makes its intentions with your data clear.

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VISUALS
We chose the font Atkinson Hyperlegible https://www.brailleinstitute.org/
freefont/ because it’s designed for maximum readability. We added the
very readable but gently serifed font Museo https://font.download/font/
museo for limited use in headers. Lato https://fonts.google.com/
specimen/Lato is the default font for DEF CON, and it also happpens to
tick the readability boxes.

The color scheme is based on Paul Tol’s ‘Bright’ scheme. It’s designed
to create good contrast and ease of use for people with color-blindness
and you can read all about that at https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/.

Mar Williams marwilliams.art created the visual language for the theme,
partially based on the idea “there is no substitute for sunlight”. The
aesthetic is about building a new, better world around the sturdiest of the
ruins. We’re creating something living, breathing and radically shareable
where the walled gardens use to be, throwing open all the gates to get
some sunshine in.

Now for your part.

On the lead up to DEF CON 33 we will be releasing "Homework


Assignments" that expand on the theme and provide inspiration on how
you can help out, as well as more information about what we are doing to
live the theme this year.

Interested in presenting at the conference? The Call for Everything is here!


https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-c .html

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