Toxic BBQ

 For off-season fundraising, we're trying Zazzle. Check out merch and get stickers all by yourself! https://www.zazzle.com/store/toxic_bbq Shirts, hats, mugs and stickers to slake your thirst as you wait and pine for the heat of the grill. We get a tiny cut to help us keep the BBQ running smoothly.

Thank you for making this trial run a success! 40 shirts and a bunch of money helped us cover the venue before the event itself!   Buy a T-shirt to Support Toxic BBQ! We need your help to feed 800 hungry-hungry hackers. For the first time in a while, we are holding a pre-cookout fundraiser. Get a shirt with The Toxic Zone logo featuring Rod Serloin himself, and help us cover venue, food, and equipment costs. Purchasing a shirt through this fundraiser will help us cover the costs of the barbecue and cover your body from the harsh desert sun. Both of these things will ensure that everyone has a great time. The fundraiser runs for one month to make sure it ships in time for the con. Pickup is also available. A shirt isn’t the only way to support Toxic BBQ. Here are some ways you can get involved: Donate food or funds: Every little bit helps! You can purchase food during the Supply Run or donate at the event. Volunteer: teams of volunteers help with setup, cleanup, and staffing the grill

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:  https://forum.defcon.org/node/430 Toxic BBQ DEF CON 16:  https://forum.defcon.o