I just saw an email on the bugtraq list announcing the call for papers for DEF CON 14. I started having flashbacks of the one DEF CON that I attended, DEF CON IV in the summer of 1996. I’ll always remember that year because I have a very vivid memory of returning to the hotel room and watching the breaking news of theOlympic Park Bombing in Atlanta, GA.
I haven’t been back to DEF CON since then, but I understand that it has grown quite a bit. Not quite the underground hacker scene it once was I suppose. Hard to be underground when you have main stream media reporting on it 🙂
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>> Hard to be underground when you have main stream media reporting on it 🙂
I like that 🙂 Very good point… It’s always interesting to see how an “underground hacking society” adjusts to the main stream. Definitely something I now have tagged to keep an eye on. It seems to me that the bridge to the mainstream world can be a difficult bridge to build, and in many cases results in something similar to “Galloping Gurdy” because of some key design flaws that, at the time, were not obvious enough to have warranted consideration.