Toxic BBQ

   Toxic BBQ Unofficial DEF CON Kick-off Cookout 15:00- 21:00 August 10, Thursday   Sunset Park Pavilion F ( 36.0636, -115.1178 )   WAS AWESOME! We had:   600 Hackers 600 Burgers 400 Hotdogs 98 Degrees 10 Racks of Ribs 2 Briskets 2 Gallons of Sauce and Several Smokin’ Hot Butts Photo Goon AJ702 provided some great shots   The announcement is preserved here for posterity: The humans of Vegas invite you to this year’s unofficial welcome party. Join us off-Strip in the shade of Sunset Park for a heat-blasted hangout. Burgers, dogs, and meatless options are provided.  Attendees pitch in to make everything else happen. Contribute more food and drinks, staff the grill or join supply runs, and relax under the trees with good conversation with new and old friends.  Be a part of what makes this cookout something to remember year after year.  Grab flyers from an Info Booth , and watch for #ToxicBBQ for the latest news. Important Times: 1PM -  Sup...

For the first time in a long while, Toxic BBQ was interrupted by rain.  Thankfully, the skies waited to fall until 9PM, but that made our egress even more difficult than normal. With the help of many soaked hackers, we got the pavilion clean and clear, and everyone back to their hotels. In a first, we did a pretty good job of collecting volunteer information! If we missed you, and you'd like to help organize next year, please reach out on the socials to get in on this. Thanks for helping us make it happen, year after year.  Feels like home. - DuncanYoudaho and the_bozo Innovations: -  Assorted grilled veggies and engineered meat - Countless mouths burned once again thanks to Peppercon - An assortment of strange jerky -  A whole-ass pork butt Stats: 800 Hackers fed  600 Burgers and dogs 10lbs pulled pork 98 degrees 1 Biblical Flood Pics:

Regional caravans are part of conference traditions, and the trip can be an adventure in itself. This history of Hackbus originally appeared in the Toxic BBQ History Zine . PacBell was the first hacker In could find that drove a city bus from Oregon to Vegas in the early days of DEF CON. EvilMoFo and Fpenguin followed suit in 2007. The HackBus was a 1956 GM PD 4104 bus delivered to Public Service Coordinated Transport in New Jersey. A quick vacuum and some old couches allowed it to make the trip from San Fran to DC15, but it didn’t return home until October. A laundry list of repairs, including a new engine, kept it on the road year after year. Those who rode it to DEF CON said it was one of the most entertaining, if sweaty, ways to get there. Bay Area hackers worked on it together to add amenities like 16G internet (4 carriers x 4G each!), pirate radio stations, and sometimes-functional AC. In addition to the road trip to DC, the HackBus ferried legions to Toxic BBQ, and it also resc...

For 2021’s Toxic BBQ, I reached out to a number of organizers within the hacker community for stories and advice on staging your own event within an event . Sc0tland told me about an incident that stood out as a good pattern for how to deal with disruptive elements at community events. An issue at BSidesDFW 2021 and its aftermath reminded me of this, so I tracked down someone who was there for a first-person account, metlstorm , “theme/art-director/webs/MC” for Kiwicon itself. Kiwicon was a hacker conference run 2007-2018 by a small group of friends that got together in the early 2000’s scene in New Zealand. Eleven cons in twelve years were marked by growth of the organizers as individuals and the scene as a whole. Looking back, they had a rocky start with aggressive themes: Kiwicon 1 artwork included Goatse, and the second rendition was “Kiwicon 2girls1cup”. As metlstorm put it, “We tried pretty hard over the years to get it right, and i think one of the overlooked bits of our story...

  Old ToxicBBQ.com sites 2017, Last Archive of toxicbbq.com 2016 - Cancelled due to rain; most attendees bivouacked at In-n-Out for the duration 2009, Toxic BBQ Site   Titanium Chef Overview 2008, Toxic BBQ Site 2007, Toxic BBQ 4 Site 2006, DC13, Toxic BBQ 3   Photo Gallery 2005, Toxic BBQ 2 Photo Gallery 2004, Toxic BBQ 1 Photo Gallery HackBus Site:  https://www.hackbus.net/ Archive HackBus but with Explosions:  http://www.hackbus.com/ Archive Old Logos DEF CON Forums Links Many Thanks to TheCotMan Toxic BBQ DEF CON 26: ?  Toxic BBQ DEF CON 25:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/226062 Toxic BBQ DEF CON 24: ?  Toxic BBQ DEF CON 23: ? Toxic BBQ DEF CON 22: ?  Toxic BBQ DEF CON 21:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/748 Toxic BBQ DEF CON 20:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/645   Toxic BBQ DEF CON 19:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/589 Toxic BBQ DEF CON 18:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/506   Toxic BBQ DEF CON 17:  ...

 Stats for DEF CON C&E: 300 hackers 1 park denizen on a razor scooter 1 roadrunner 116 degree heat 200 burgers and dogs Thus concludes Toxic BBQ's 15th year and 5th with DY and the_bozo at the helm. A lightning bolt, a klaxon, a true set of shockwaves, and the hacker world was riven in two! Our beloved crank-to-lift grill was replaced this year by the Clark County Parks Department. Though less squeaky, the one was still serviceable and a little larger. The grill was staffed by three crews that rotated through over the 6 hours to feed the horde of over 300 hackers. As in previous years, each received a commemorative bit of swag for their service.  This year, it was the Cheeseburger Patrol Patch . As many of the typical crew could not attend, it was great to see a new crop of volunteers step up to fill their capable shoes. Food safety improved by adding 4 meat thermometers to the kit, and all burgers, chicken and sausages were properly temped before coming off the grill. We ...

  This text originally appeared in the  Toxic BBQ Retrospective Zine, Grow your own Sideshow . The path from “there’s this thing we do...” to conference-legend can be rocky. We’ve collected tips from our notes and interviews into a firehose of recommendations for you and your team. We hope these will nudge you from `wishing` to `holding` your “thing-apart” for everyone’s enjoyment. - the_bozo and DuncanYoudaho Location Where? Make yourself easy to find. Stick close to your parent venue. If off-site, provide relative directions from the venue. Also give out an absolute location/address for taxis, an information desk, or maps app. Control the Space Reserve the site for your group’s exclusive use. Whether a con booth, suite, or off-site, ensure you can enforce crowd size limits, CoC, closure, and clean-up. Understand the Rules Be an expert on the rules of your venue so your guests don’t have to be. Is glass allowed? How loud can we be? ...