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DEFCON LAS VEGAS MOVIE
DEFCON LAS VEGAS FULL

DEFCON LAS VEGAS MOVIE

If you are into military lingo DEF CON is short for “Defense Condition.” Now being a fan of the movie War Games I took note that the main character, David Lightman, lived in Seattle, as I do, and chose to nuke Las Vegas with W.O.P.R.

If you are a Phreak, or just use your phone a lot you’ll notes “DEF” is #3 on the phone. I didn’t want any association with a time of year. There as a SummerCon in the summer, a HoHoCon in the winter, a PumpCon during Halloween, etc. The short answer is a combination of places. Why not invite everyone on #hack? Good idea! I decided what the hell, I’ll invite the members of all the other networks my BBS (A Dark Tangent System) system was a part of including Cyber Crime International (CCI), Hit Net, Tired of Protection (ToP), and like 8 others I can’t remember. I was just planning a party for a network that was shut down, except for my U.S. We talking about where we might hold it, when all of a sudden he left early and disappeared. He was going to shut down the network when his dad took a new job and had to move away. hub I was helping the Platinum Net organizer (I forget his name) plan a closing party for all the member BBS systems and their users. Originally started in 1993, it was a meant to be a party for member of “Platinum Net”, a Fido protocol based hacking network out of Canada. There is great value in both types of content, but our con is a hacker con by design.” InfoSec is more focused on enterprise, frameworks, and protecting the interests of share holders.

Hackers are more focused on the joy of discovery, irreverence, novel if impractical approaches. “DEF CON is a hacker con, not an InfoSec conference. Badgelife describes the grueling experience of creating a piece of hardware from concept to completion in 8-10 months.

The art and effort that have gone into the official badges have spawned a cultural trend called #badgelife, where dozens of unofficial electronic badges and digital ecosystems have sprung up.

Conference admission is cash-only, and comes with a custom designed badge, unique each year.

DEF CON is one of the few conferences that drafts its own all-volunteer security staff from among its attendees, called the Goons, who always wear red shirts for easy identification.

The vendor hall is more akin to a techno-bazaar than a trade show floor, with storefronts selling tools or knowledge, civil society groups engaging directly with their stakeholders, and universities recruiting students.

The DEF CON “Villages” are self-contained spaces dedicated to single issues, such as privacy, social engineering, lockpicking, voting machines, and vehicles - that tend toward highly interactive demonstrations and hands-on hacking.

DEFCON LAS VEGAS FULL

Now in its 30th year, DEF CON draws 25,000-30,000 people and is usually held the first full weekend in August, is unlike typical conventions or trade shows. DEF CON remains an open space for intellectual exploration, open to all those who want to participate in good faith. The talks at the first event resemble what you might hear today: Talks from lawyers and law enforcement, gender and social issues in technology, technical explainers, and warnings about issues that would manifest in the future. The party got out of hand before it even started, as dozens of other groups were invited, and the organizers remodeled it based on other hacker conferences that had come before. The DEF CON ( conference began in 1993 as a party to celebrate the closing of a popular online network.