I’m killing myself because I forgot to take a picture of the fake automated teller machine at Defcon. There are no names on Defcon badges, which are typically a product of the hacker imagination. You have to pay in cash, and attendees are identified as “human,” “goons,” (for staff) and “press.” (Yes, evidently press are not human). You can pay corporate rates at Black Hat, but at Defcon, they don’t accept credit cards, since hackers do not want to be identified. But you’ll see more suits at Black Hat and more T-shirts at Defcon. Black Hat has plenty of dramatic moments as the corporate, academic, government and indie hacker cultures mesh and sometimes clash. One attendee said it was impossible to find Guy Fawkes masks anywhere in Las Vegas, since the mask, like the one worn above, is a symbol for Anonymous.īlack Hat, on the other hand, is now 15 years old and draws more than 8,500 attendees to the elegant Caesar’s Palace Hotel. Defcon is more tolerant of alternative views, such as open support for Anonymous, the hacktivist group that has launched denial of service attacks against major corporations in the wake of corporations turning their backs on Wikileaks and Sony’s battle with hacker Geohot.
For many years, it was at the downscale Riviera Hotel this year it moved upscale to the larger Rio Hotel. The Defcon conference is anything but corporate. Now it has become the big hacker event of the year with more than 10,000 attendees. Defcon began as a party for a visiting Canadian hacker. It was started in 1993 by Jeff Moss, a hacker also known as Dark Tangent.
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It’s like the difference between law enforcement and pranksterism, where both have the object of protecting freedom.ĭefcon (named after the old code for nuclear war, or defense condition) is now in its 19th year. The two conferences exhibit the extremes of hacker and security culture, with federal agents and major corporations descending on Black Hat in large numbers and mohawk-styled hackers and Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers attending Defcon. Thousands of security professionals, hackers, federal agents and media descended on Las Vegas this week to attend the Black Hat and Defcon conferences. Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
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