Just attended my first defcon. Over the last few months, I've been traveling around meeting people broadly under the "security & privacy" umbrella in an attempt to solve some problems that don't fit into my corner of "crypto". My biggest takeaway by far has been that no one speaks to each other. Different groups will literally be working on the same problem, but use different terms and approaches - hardly aware of each other. We all have such misconceptions about the problems that other groups face or think are important. A particularly unfortunate example of this is how much synergy is left on the table because "crypto" has a bad name in a lot of communities. Having come up in the infra corner of Ethereum, I didn't realise just how widespread dislike, distrust and misconceptions have spread throughout should be our allies. There's so much potential energy left to be unlocked by bringing the right people together