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> largest European hacker conference now (and btw: so that niche is filled now) There are quite a few European hacker conferences and CCC's ties to hackers (in
by Eridrus 11y ago
> largest European hacker conference now (and btw: so that niche is filled now)
There are quite a few European hacker conferences and CCC's ties to hackers (in the computer security sense) are getting weaker as it gets more political and less technical.
- tobltobs 11y agoPlease name at least one conference which has a similar number of participants, ah forget that even 10% would surprise me. The CCC was political since its beginning.
- Eridrus 11y agoObviously nothing of the same scale, and yes it was always political, but the balance is shifting away from security to all of their other tracks, I counted up the talks from last year and only 25% were in the Security track vs 45% from 23c3. There were 67 hacking talks at 23c3, and 29 Security tracks at 32c3, it's very clearly on the downhill as there are less talks, and people become less interested in submitting and attending.
- Ao7bei3s 11y agoThe second largest European IT-related conference is FOSDEM (5000 participants); of course it has a different focus. But it's more productivity, less party. Then there are conferences like HITB Sec Conf that are much smaller, but focus exclusively on security - many (probably most) Congress attendees don't really have a security/hacking background, so I'm not sure the total number of attendees is a good metric for "is it a good security conference?". Though Congress does get all the high-profile talks. And there is no European hacker conference with nearly as much visibility as C3.