Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON

Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by lrvick on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:02AM (#39257862)

There are actually very few people with pentesting skills at Defcon stronger than running burp suite, and fewer still of those that are blackhats. Those with skill can do very well for themselves legally, and know better than to risk their careers getting caught messing with casino systems.

In practice the biggest abuse from Defcon to the venues is in the form of a subset of people constantly defacing casino property which no one reports because no one has sympathy for casinos.

My favorite trolling of casinos at Defcon is the people dumping prop money everywhere. Casinos do not -like- that and spend a lot of resources running around picking them up which is funny to watch.

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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by nodesocket on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:11AM (#39257910)

Not sure I agree with the idea there are very few world class hackers there. I've watched a few of the capture the flags and almost immediately they went over my head and I felt inadequate. lol.

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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by prmoustache on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:36AM (#39258022)

I'd argue that the CTF competitors are a minority in attendance (but that doesn't mean they are none at DEFCON).

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Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON by lrvick on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:31AM (#39260055)

The people you see on stage and competing in the CTFs are like 0.1% of the attendees.

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