Out of curiosity, does anyone know the statute of limitations on "computer hacking" crimes? When can people start telling their fun BlackHat/DefCon stories?
I believe the threat are vulnerable systems.
Black Hats/penetration testers/white hats/etc. find the problems.
Developers/admins/ are the cure.<p>sickness, T-cell, white blood cell analogy
Here you go guys, no extensions needed:
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After much digging, a Chrome extension that overcame the paywall: <a href="https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall</a><p>For this extension, I selected for it to only load on-demand (Setting: "This can read and change site data", Option: "When you click the extension"). Enjoy :)
Ok - haven't read the article, paywall, etc - but from what I've heard elsewhere, the tagline should be "...are the Feds"<p>Maybe that's more a joke than anything - but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the Fed to Blackhat ratio wasn't something huge, and those actual BH attendees were either other researchers who go to "be cool" (or legitimately present research), or were major "n00bs" who don't understand what they are trying to get into, and will likely end up in the Feds hands in short order.<p>Or maybe all of them are faking it?<p>It just seems like - if you were a real BH worth your salt - a conference of any sort where you effectively are advertising your creds would be avoided. If you went at all, you'd want to do it under the radar. At which point you might as well go to DefCon, Hope or something.<p>Its an interesting scene nonetheless - which maybe is why there are any attendees at all; maybe the whole thing is just one giant form of cosplay LARP - and the people who participate are really BH's and LEO's? Like some kind of weird meta-thing going on...?