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Fri, 05 Sep 2008

DefCon
digitalTRASH has been attending DC (DefCon) since DC2 way back in 1994. Back then there was, probably, no more that two hundred people in attendance. Phil Zimmerman was the keynote speaker. Gail Thackeray also spoke having just been involved in Operation Sundevil (read your history books squirts)

Now DC has an attendance of over 6000! Feds mingle with the hackers and the government actively recruits. The media is all over the place and it is much more of a party atmosphere than a technical get-together.

But after fourteen years of attendance, what are you going to do? You just gotta go.

For a couple years I did lock picking talks at DefCon. I was accompanied by the likes of Hobbit, V1RU5 and Stephen Wadlow. In recent years, the Irvine Underground has done a lot of really cool lock picking stuff but I was the first to bring a lock board to the con, the first to provide lock picking instruction and the first to sell pick sets. I'm so 31337!

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