As we reported from DEF CON last year, the NSA table was placed next to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's table in whimsically trollish style for the duration of the four-day conference (the EFF filed suit against the NSA in 2008 to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance on American citizens). Last year NSA Director Keith Alexander keynoted - amidst controversy - and the NSA had an information and recruitment table on the vendor floor.
This will give everybody time to think about how we got here, and what comes next. Therefore, I think it would be best for everyone involved if the feds call a ‘time-out’ and not attend DEF CON this year. When it comes to sharing and socializing with feds, recent revelations have made many in the community uncomfortable about this relationship. Our community operates in the spirit of openness, verified trust, and mutual respect. The short post " Feds, We Need Some Time Apart" went live tonight on the DEF CON blog, just three weeks before the enormous hacker conference sets to kick off in Las Vegas:įor over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, a place where seasoned pros, hackers, academics, and feds can meet, share ideas and party on neutral territory. Now in its 21st year, DEF CON is America's flagship hacker conference - a place where hackers, security researchers, corporate recruiters, digital frontier legal eagles and law enforcement have mingled and boozed it up on noncombatant territory.īut this year DEF CON is sending a serious message: organizers posted on the official blog that Federal agents are not welcome in any form at this year's conference.
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