> For example: there isn't the slightest reason for any security > conference to happen, per se. There's no need to heat/cool a meeting > place, no need to expend jet fuel/gasoline/diesel transporting people > to it, etc. It's completely possible to do the entire thing > virtually -- and while that also uses some energy, of course, it's > far less.
Yes, but the benefits are also substantially less. You lose all the meetings at meals, yakking with randoms met in the hallway, etc, which in my experience usually rival and often surpass in value the overt business of the conference. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.