http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-was-this-texas-congressman-doing-at-the-hacking-conference-def-con
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Staff Writer
motherboard.vice.com
August 11, 2015
Among the almost 20,000 people who went to this years’ Def Con—perhaps the
world’s premiere hacking conference—were hackers, cybersecurity
professionals, lawyers, activists, and also an unexpected guest: the
former CIA agent turned Republican Congressman Will Hurd.
You don’t see many politicians at Def Con. In fact, Hurd might very well
be the first one who’s ever took the trip to the desert in Las Vegas for
the conference just to attend. But in reality, it makes sense for Hurd to
go to Def Con.
Before being elected as the representative of Texas’ 23rd congressional
district, Hurd was a partner at the small cybersecurity firm FusionX, and
he graduated in computer science from A&M.
When he took office earlier this year, he brought his technical background
to his new job. He organized the first congressional hearing on
encryption, and what the FBI calls as the “going dark” issue, an
hypothetical scenario where unbreakable encryption is so pervasive that
agents don’t have access to relevant data during investigations.
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