Inside Defcon, the Conference That Made Cybersecurity Noob-Friendly
The first thing I learned at Defcon was that I apparently didn’t know what a badge was.
I already had one hanging around my neck: the press credential that got me through the door at the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas in early August. Yet everywhere I looked, people stood in long lines to buy more. When I asked what they were waiting for and heard “badges,” I glanced down at mine, confused.
I would soon learn that Defcon badges can be electronic puzzles, soldering projects, collectibles and signs of belonging to a culture I was experiencing for the first time. Those badges were my first indication of how much I had to learn.
Everyone else seemed to understand the schedule, the language and the unwritten rules. But me? I felt like I was back in high school and had somehow missed orientation.
Over the next few days, talking...
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