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 🙂