Re:Heartleech: Automated OpenSSL private key extraction tool...
by _delirium on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @10:02AM
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In addition to the existence of tons of highly casual security conventions (compared to the strict cons for programming languages and frameworks)
There are plenty of casual PLs conventions, meetups, hackathons, unconferences, just about any format you want. If anything I think that community is more welcoming and casual than the computer-security convention scene, which has a heavy tilt towards big-money, "rockstar" conferences like DEF CON and Black Hat, full of corporate and government presenters and attendees. There are conferences like that outside of security, like videogames (E3, GDC), but security really takes it to ridiculous levels, even holding the damn things in places like Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi.
What that portion of the security scene's image most reminds me of outside tech is the rockstars they'd like to be: a manufactured pretense of "anarchy and chaos" sold as a business's brand image.
There are plenty of casual PLs conventions, meetups, hackathons, unconferences, just about any format you want. If anything I think that community is more welcoming and casual than the computer-security convention scene, which has a heavy tilt towards big-money, "rockstar" conferences like DEF CON and Black Hat, full of corporate and government presenters and attendees. There are conferences like that outside of security, like videogames (E3, GDC), but security really takes it to ridiculous levels, even holding the damn things in places like Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi.
What that portion of the security scene's image most reminds me of outside tech is the rockstars they'd like to be: a manufactured pretense of "anarchy and chaos" sold as a business's brand image.