Are you sure Dmitry was a paid contractor? Let's see if Defcon disputes that Dmitry was basically asked to informally work on a friends and family basis.
Where are you getting this information that Dmitry was a paid contractor?
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.