He was given a 30 minute notice that he was disinvited. That’s pretty egregious.
Especially since they were okay with him giving the talk as long as he apologized. And he offered to say “I didn’t mean to offend anyone”.
So for a misunderstanding and mistake to drag him off the stage is stupid and ridiculous.
> What should they have done better? They didn't have the option of doing better with Dmitry, right? He deliberately set up the confrontation with security.
Maybe I misunderstood, I previously read that as “what could they have done better about the situation”.
Did you mean “what could they have done better once he was at the stage?”
I got locked in a hotel room by an actual goon who demanded a line-item veto of my slides (clients! what you'll do to keep clients happy!), and ask Mike Lynn how he feels about the response to his talk. Being asked not to take a stage to take credit for the annual DEF CON badge toy seems pretty low on the scale of security conference dramas.
The "drag him off the stage" thing was his own arrangement.
Especially since they were okay with him giving the talk as long as he apologized. And he offered to say “I didn’t mean to offend anyone”.
So for a misunderstanding and mistake to drag him off the stage is stupid and ridiculous.
> What should they have done better? They didn't have the option of doing better with Dmitry, right? He deliberately set up the confrontation with security.
Maybe I misunderstood, I previously read that as “what could they have done better about the situation”.
Did you mean “what could they have done better once he was at the stage?”