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Well, the conference essentially just borrows the name, in effect. The conference is highly vendor oriented, unlike Blackhat or Defcon. The speakers, however ar
by wglb 5y ago
Well, the conference essentially just borrows the name, in effect. The conference is highly vendor oriented, unlike Blackhat or Defcon. The speakers, however are RSA themselves. Keep in mind that they are no longer associated with the company.
And the theme "crypto means cryptography" is a losing battle, I think.
- sneak 5y agoThe eponymous RSA conference is run by RSA Security LLC, the same people who backdoored their products for the NSA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security κρυπτός means hidden or concealed, and I intend to die on this hill.
- wglb 5y agoMy point is that Rivest Shamir Adleman are no longer with RSA.
- sschueller 5y agoEither defcon or blackhat had as their keynote speaker the head of the NSA. Wtf. Try that at the CCC conference . Never going to happen.
- wglb 5y agoI never anticipated that NSA would speak at either of those two . . .
- sneak 5y agoDefcon, being in Nevada (a state owned 95%+ by the US federal government and the home of the Nevada Test Site and Area 51) has always been super friendly to the US military (including its spying apparatus) and adjacent industries. It's super gross.