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> This dude, as a contractor-for-hire, injected unwanted code he calls "just an easter egg" in the final firmware of the badge. This "unwanted code" is a screen asking for bitcoin donations and self-aggrandizing himself.
If this is how you feel about an easter egg I suspect you misunderstand the point of DEF CON. Maybe the organizers of the conference do too.
Besides what other commenters wrote, I think it'd odd to gloss over Defcon stiffing their Badge HW vendor while attacking Dmitry, Defcon's other business partner, for not having "a responsible business dispute".
Where are you getting this information that Dmitry was a paid contractor?
If he was working as an unpaid volunteer with the "compensation" being a part of a talk on stage... What was he protesting before the event even started when he injected the screen asking for money? That's a pretty garbage thing to do, but he did it before the consequence he claimed he was protesting.
The hardware vendor was stiffed and Defcon scratched their trademark from the badges, so this man added an easter egg asking for donations to them, not himself, as far as I understood.
Could you please tell us your source on that? Specifically that he was paid for developing the software.
Did you do these things ?
Were the presenters he yelled at people who he was protesting against?