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1. The biggest hurdle is to get a visa to get to the US. Yes it is a big deal these days. Especially for people going from India. In the article if you noticed, I could not get a visa. SO I had to get everything done remotely, which was a challenge. 2. As a startup it is not possible to get a booth. There are costs involved and money is better spent elsewhere. Instead of getting a booth, I convinced another booth owner to let me use his booth the showcase our product.

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Social Engineering - wow. Should have used that in the title of the blog post.

Sorry, CES took up all the bandwidth. Got some time now. Will be making a new video of the OS. Will post it on HN soon.

Thank you. Glad you liked the video.

Thank you. CES was a dream come true!

Thank you for pointing out the hard-work and persistence part. I had to do day and nighters to pull this one.

IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word. Your comment is well-taken.

> IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word.

If not in the truest sense of the world, then in what sense does this come under the term hack?

Well, what I meant is - this is not like I was sitting and hacking a network or something. This qualifies as a hack because I had to overcome a significant hurdle.

If you continue to imagine that hacks can be performed only on computers and networks. Then this may not make sense as a hack. Hacks can be social and/or real-world hacks too.

Well, hacks can be social too. I know quite a few social engineers, in fact I've had them speak at my security conference[1]. However, it seems that overcoming a significant hurdle (which isn't something to be sniffed at) isn't really a hack in the grand scheme of things. To put things into perspective, you've faced a pretty big challenge, but that's what it is - a challenge, not a hack. In fact I'd say to call it a hack is to undersell what you've overcome. I think some might underestimate how hard it is to get into CES. I understand that. I also think you calling getting in a hack demeans the concept of hacking not because it wasn't 'good enough' to qualify, but because your situation was so displaced from what would normally qualify as a hack. It doesn't mean you haven't made an effort - clearly a herculean effort was made, but does that constitute a hack? I'm not convinced.

I do think, "How I shipped a product from the far far FAR east of the (indus, not silicon) valley to CES for a demo" would've been a better title, but that's a job for marketing people IMHO. Hack, it is not, it underplays the effort you put in. Effort, it certainly is, for that you've given in spades and more.

[1] - http://www.44con.com/

Well not as far as I can tell. We thought it was quiet original.

Love it this is simple!