I attended SEC-T 2025 and it was mostly great. There were Good bits and Ugly bits.

The good bits was most of the conference. Nerds and nerd heaven. Lots of coffee, cool talks.

The UGLY bit. On a day that the IDF bombed schools and tents to massacre 65 people [1] because they were Palestinians, SEC-T thought was a good day to platform 2 IDF members (Tomer Nahum, Jonathan Elkabas) for a talk.
The IDF is an organisation that conducts ethnic cleansing, it is on trial for genocide [4], it enforces apartheid [5], its leaders are wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Hague [6]. The IDF is deliberately starving 2 million people. [2]
The IDF regularly snipes kids in the head. [7]

The talk presenters are suspected war criminals according to the UN Human Rights Council, Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, inc. East Jerusalem, and Israel. [3]

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/12/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-59-including-14-members-of-the-same-family

[2]
https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Famine_Review_Committee_Report_Gaza_Aug2025.pdf

[3] UN Human Rights Council, Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, inc. East Jerusalem, and Israel,
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/59/26
https://youtu.be/to1mdVNz0Qg

<"Our finding that the basic military strategy used by the Israelis Since 7 Oct'23 leads to the inevitable conclusion that all those who have played a role in any way in the implementation of this strategy are suspected of the Commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.That means:

• the air crew in the bombers that are dropping the bombs and the Rockets,
• the crews of ships off the coast that are shelling parts of Gaza,
• destroying fishing boats and the livelihood of fishers, the Palestinian people who depend on the sea,
• the soldiers on the ground who are implementing the strategy of destruction of infrastructure and killing of people in their thousands.
• Those who are far away from Gaza, who were piloting and controlling the drones that are inflicting slaughter on the Gazan people
• Those who man the checkpoints to implement a strategy of starvation against the Palestinian people of Gaza.
  ">

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_apartheid

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders

[7] *What the wounds are telling us *
by Maud Effting en Willem Feenstra
13 september 2025, https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza
Chris McGreal
2 Apr 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza
by Feroze Sidhwa
Dr. Sidhwa is a trauma and general surgeon who worked at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, for two weeks in March and April.
Oct. 9, 2024
https://web.archive.org/web/20251001101307/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html

Single Shots to the Head: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza
September 17, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/17/gaza_update