Hackers Gather in Finland, Netherlands, and Vegas

tRSS points out this CNN article about the ongoing "What the Hack" gathering in the Netherlands which starts out "There are hundreds of tents on the hot and soggy campground, but this isn't your ordinary summertime outing, considering that it includes workshops with such titles as 'Politics of Psychedelic Research' or 'Fun and Mayhem with RFID.'" Read on for news from this weekend's other major hacker gatherings, namely (drumroll, please) The Gathering and DefCon. From Las Vegas, giucmo writes "The Hacker Jeopardy crew are sending images and video live from DefCon to a moblog at textamerica.com Last night they captured the lights going out in a tent full of hackers. Tonight is the main event." And sysrec writes "I've been to an even number of defcon's greater than 3 and wanted to share some personal insights from the largest hacker con in the world." (Largest, I guess, is in the eye of the beholder.)

Jumping back to Europe, Late writes "The Assembly 2005 demoparty, possibly the largest in the world, is taking place in Helsinki, Finland. As I write this the best compos are still to come and you can view them and a lot more live via the AssemblyTV streams (we use VideoLAN.org's VLC media player). If you do miss the compos, the entries will be available for download from our mirrors and as video clips from the AssemblyTV media gallery."

Comments

Re:Is this true ?

[PerlDudeXL]

true, at least the dutch police is present at WTH.

The WTH guys actually fooled the press by publishing a faked information in their wiki that the police is giving a Lawfull Interception Workshop.

Re:Is this true ?

[slavemowgli]

At DefCon, "spot the fed" is a fun game (so to speak) every year that you can participate in. I imagine it's similar at other security cons.

No, but at Defcon they have a spot the fed prize

[WebHostingGuy]

Spot the Fed

It's kind of fun to watch, but really screws up the talk schedule when someone announce they found a fed in the middle of a talk. This happened last year. They stop the talk, run to get a moderator and begin the interrogation.

w00t!

[benson hedges]

I'm currently at What the Hack, and just a few minutes, somebody screamed, "We're on Slashdot!" Overall cheering ensured. It's really, really great here. Get some pictures at Flickr or read about it at What the Planet. And please, don't /. our wiki. Pretty pretty please.