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[shaharhada]

In the link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ypw4wb/when-the-fbi-found-out-about-def-cons-spot-the-fed-contest
I don't understand dozen of things:

in huge letters: "Free HI15's Undercover Feds." While I was trying to take a picture of him, a couple of attendees high-five'd him. Of course, there's no way to know whether they were really feds or were just doing it for fun. (If you're wondering, yes I also spotted a fed but can't talk about it).

1, What is "spotting the fed" meanings?

1. What is IH15's Undercover?
2. What is to high-five'd someone?

 

[Colif]

Perhaps this article from the same time might help

FBI files on DEF CON show "Spot the Fed" contest a sore spot for Feds

It's a running joke that DEF CON - Las Vegas' annual gathering of notable members of the hacker community - is a rather obvious target for nosy government agencies. So much so, that the conference has made it into a contest: spot the fed, win a t-shirt. While organizers insist it's all in good...

www.muckrock.com

HIgh 5 = https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/high-five

Its Def Con, not Con Def.

 

[shaharhada]

Perhaps this article from the same time might help

FBI files on DEF CON show "Spot the Fed" contest a sore spot for Feds

It's a running joke that DEF CON - Las Vegas' annual gathering of notable members of the hacker community - is a rather obvious target for nosy government agencies. So much so, that the conference has made it into a contest: spot the fed, win a t-shirt. While organizers insist it's all in good...

www.muckrock.com

HIgh 5 = https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/high-five

Its Def Con, not Con Def.

I look at the dictionary but I don't understand the sentence with the High 5 words can you explain what the sentence say in other words?
When the photographer-reporter take a picture what was happening then?

 

[Colif]

 

[shaharhada]

details.

Can you give me the exact meaning of spot in the expression "spot the fed"?
Maybe, a link to dictionary with the number of the exactly definition in the dictionary?
Thanks in advance,

 

[USAFRet]

Can you give me the exact meaning of spot in the expression "spot the fed"?
Maybe, a link to dictionary with the number of the exactly definition in the dictionary?
Thanks in advance,

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spot

4 a : to single out : identify
especially : to note as a known criminal or a suspicious person


c(1) : to locate accurately
spot an enemy position
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I spotted the fed == I saw and identified the federal agent.

 

[shaharhada]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spot

4 a : to single out : identify
especially : to note as a known criminal or a suspicious person


c(1) : to locate accurately
spot an enemy position
-----------------------------------------------------

I spotted the fed == I saw and identified the federal agent.

Thanks. you create order in the mess.