Hacker Conference

[max2extreme]

If you are in the DC area, the FIRST annual shmoocon is coming to the DC area. Register at www.shmoocon.org

Key Note Speaker: Riley "Caezar" Eller
Director, Special Projects Division, CoCo Communications Corp

By night, he donates his time and energy to the Ghetto Hackers organization; a group best known for dominating the annual DEFCON Capture the Flag contest and creating the Root Fu scoring system. Caezar is the authority on security contest scoring. By day, Mr. Eller has extensive experience in Internet embedded devices and protocol security. He invented fully automatic web vulnerability analysis and ASCII-armored stack overflow exploits, and contributed to several other inventions including a pattern language for describing network attacks. Caezar's credits include the Black Hat Security Briefings and Training series, the Meet the Enemy seminars, "Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft", and the Caezar's Challenge think tank

[MMC78]

How does this compare to DEFCON size/attendance wise?

[max2extreme]

I dont think anything can really compare to DEFCON as far as hacker conferences...But after saying that, this being the first shmoocon, I dont really know. I think I read that they have 300 attendees already signed up, or it said 300 max. I just remember reading the 300 and something to do with the attendees. I just looked and couldnt find it. My work will probably pay my way so I'll let you know for next year if you dont go this year.

[arthurb999]

It's like a big virgin convention....

[max2extreme]

It's like a big virgin convention....

Lets see, your ip is.... Ok. what was that you said??

[arthurb999]

Um... I mean the guys who get all the hot chicks convention