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Is there any smaller conference that's more focused on white-hat illegal hacking, like DEFCON used to be?
by upwardbound 3y ago
Is there any smaller conference that's more focused on white-hat illegal hacking, like DEFCON used to be?
- rychco 3y agoA former colleague of mine had a good impression of BSides in this regard, but I can’t remember which location/year it was (& there seems to be a lot)
- j0hnyl 3y agoRegional conferences like bsides, but the punk/counterculture vibe of early defcon is lost to time and will never be back. Cybersecurity is a big industry now.
- mmaunder 3y agoSad but true. It’s as if the last ounce of hacker authenticity died with Kevin.
- david_shaw 3y agoThere are lots of regional conferences that are really great: NolaCon in New Orleans, THOTCON in Chicago, ShmooCon in D.C., just to name a few :) The hacker community is alive and well (even at DEF CON), but in my experience you have to look harder to find it.
- albertzeyer 3y agoThe events in Europe: All the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) events, or then also OHM/SHA/MCH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Contain_Hackers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Contain_Hackers) etc.
- zer8k 3y agoFrom what I've experienced BSides aims to be as close to Alexis Park DEFCON as possible. It does a good job.
- igetspam 3y agoDC @ AP was probably peak 'con. You can't even reference pool numbers with kids these days... The AP _hated_ us but they had a multi-year contract.
- throwaway892238 3y agoAP was the closest thing I can imagine to "what if the Hell's Angels were a bunch of nerds into computers?"
- screwturner68 3y agotHOTCON is pretty cool, I'm not sure if I'd consider it White hat as much as it is non-corporate.