Jeff Moss (hacker) also works with Mr. Robot's technical consulting team. DEF CON was portrayed in "The X-Files" episode "Three of a Kind" featuring an appearance by The lone gunmen. DEF CON was portrayed as a United States government-sponsored convention instead of a civilian convention. Actor Will Smith visited DEF CON 21 to watch a talk by Apollo Robbins, the gentleman thief and to study the DEF CON culture for an upcoming movie role. Jeff Moss (hacker) Jeff Moss, also known as Dark Tangent, (born January 1, 1975) is an American hacker, computer and internet security expert who founded the Black Hat and
Hacker Hacker A computer hacker is any skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem. While "hacker" can refer to any skilled computer programmer, the term has become associated in popular culture with a "security hacker", someone who, with their technical knowledge, uses bugs or exploits to break into computer systems. Reflecting the two types of hackers, there are two definitions of the word "hacker": Today, mainstream usage of "hacker" mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s. This includes what hacker slang calls "script kiddies", people breaking