The "Crypto and Privacy" village at Defcon demands you agree to the privacy policies of Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Discord to interact with them. It is a disgrace.
Defcon stopped caring about privacy, hacker ethos, and digital sovereignty a long time ago.
Go there if you want to talk to their military recruiters or buy/sell proprietary snake oil security SaaS. It is really just another corpocon at this point. Hackers should probably skip it unless using it as a chance to hang out with friends in vegas on their corporate credit card.
The hackers are mostly at HOPE and CCC these days.
Defcon stopped caring about privacy, hacker ethos, and digital sovereignty a long time ago.
Go there if you want to talk to their military recruiters or buy/sell proprietary snake oil security SaaS. It is really just another corpocon at this point. Hackers should probably skip it unless using it as a chance to hang out with friends in vegas on their corporate credit card.
The hackers are mostly at HOPE and CCC these days.