I've attended the past 7 defcons, and I'm starting to feel like it's losing its magic. The first defcon I went to (defcon 3) had a crowd that was much more focused on doing meaningful hacking (some ethical, some otherwise) in the field...it seems like now it's a bunch of 20 year olds who think they're hackers because they know how to reprogram their mac address on their linux labtop.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but it feels like the good old days are passing me by.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday August 03, 2004 @02:35PM (#9870506)
I agree. People spend more time complaining because all the good defcon shirts were sold out. People cared more about the swag than the great speakers there. I thought the con was about the hacking community, but really it has turned into a "woodstock for script kiddies". I don't think I will be attending next year. Also I think Jeff "Dark Tangent" Moss and his goons need to find a new venue. The Alexis PArk has turned to crap and is to damn small.
This was my first DefCon and I entered it not with the intention of learning anything (because frankly, everything that is given in the talks have been talked about on forums months before during the previous year), but with the intention of meeting as many people as possible. I just sifted through the crowd, found the sane people, got e-mails, websites, business cards, and went on my way. On the party nights, every night rather:), just hungout with them and we talked technology. I have to say I learned a
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