I just returned from the 27th Defcon security conference. I’ve been attending for the last 12 or so years and it has been interesting and fun to see the conference grow and mature. Once intimidating due to the homogenous attendees, lewd contests, and a “Try Harder” mantra, it has now evolved into a great place to learn and meet new people. Each year I speak at, or attend, a handful of security conferences. These range from the massive RSA Conference, where you can find hundreds of security vendors spending hundreds of thousand of dollars to hawk their latest security appliances, to small locally run, open source conferences that are run by engineers for engineers.
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