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Alethe Denis was on maternity leave when she decided to participate in DEF CON’s Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition in 2019. She took her three-month-old daughter and her husband to Las Vegas and planned the trip to the finest detail.

“Things could have gone wildly wrong,” Denis says. “It was extremely exhausting just to be there, let alone to compete.”

Bringing an infant to a security conference, where crowds are loud and rooms are filled with cigarette smoke, is not something she recommends. “I found myself standing in a bathroom stall nursing quite frequently, which is pretty gross, or changing her quick enough that nobody would walk by and potentially see and be alarmed or disgusted,” she says.

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