Getting temporarily off the grid for DefCon…

DefCon, the largest hacker conference in the world officially started today, but the main conference kicks off tomorrow morning with a few great sessions. [I’ll be at the Software Defined Radio morning session]

While BlackHat is targeted at the Fortune 1000 and is heavily trafficked by the sales and marketing crowd, DefCon attracts the real-deal. The trenchcoat-clad, vitamin D-deficient seriously talented hacker. Those who create completely original ideas before they’re packaged up in shrink-wrap and given a pretty box and a pretty name for general consumption.

DefCon is infamous for hacking attendees, so I’m literally ditching everything that contains a chip or mag strip and heading over to the Rio here in Vegas with a couple hundred bucks in my pocket.

Here’s why:

 

And it looks like the Defcon website just got taken down…

 

It’s setting up to be an interesting few days.