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Many of the attendees at DEFCON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, crackers, and hackers with a general interest in computer code and computer architecture. The event consists of several tracks of speakers about computer- and hacking-related subjects, as well as social events and contests in everything from creating the longest Wi-Fi connection and cracking computer systems to who can most effectively cool a beer in the Nevada heat. Other contests include lockpicking, robotic-related contests, art, slogan, coffee wars, and Capture the Flag. Capture the Flag (CTF) is perhaps the best known of these contests. It is a hacking competition where teams of hackers attempt to attack and defend computers and networks. CTF has been emulated at other hacking conferences as well as in academic and military contexts. This article describes how security can be achieved through design and engineering. ... A black-hat is a term in computing for someone who compromises the security of a system without permission from an authorized party, usually with the intent of accessing computers connected to the network. ... For other uses, see Hacker (disambiguation). ... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ... A typical vision of a computer architecture as a series of abstraction layers: hardware, firmware, assembler, kernel, operating system and applications (see also Tanenbaum 79). ... Official Wi-Fi logo Wi-Fi was originally a brand licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the embedded technology of wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802. ...

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List of Venues

• The first DEF CON was held in June of 1993 at the Sands Hotel & Casino.
• DC2 1994 was held at the Sahara Hotel & Casino.
• DC3 1995 was held at the Tropicana Resort & Casino.
• DC4 1996 was held at the Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino.
• DC5 1997 was held at the Aladdin Hotel & Casino.
• DC6 1998 was held at the Plaza Hotel & Casino.
• DC7 1999 through DC13 2005 were held at the Alexis Park Resort.
• DC14 2006 was held at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.
• DC15 2007 will be held at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.

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See also

• Hackers on Planet Earth, also known as H.O.P.E. – the conferences held by 2600+ The Hacker Quarterly.
• Summercon, run by The Legion of Doom
• Chaos Communication Congress – oldest and Europe's biggest hacker conferences held by Chaos Computer Club.
• LayerOne - annual conference in Pasadena
• HoHoCon – first modern hacker convention held by CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
• Black Hat Briefings the largest "official" computer security event in the world.
• Phreaknic a smaller conference, as of 2006 on their 10th year. Held annually in Nashville, TN.
• Notacon New to the scene, a branch off conference that focuses on Creativity instead of Security.
• ShmooCon Organized by The Shmoo Group, it's held in the Washington DC area.

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External links

• DEF CON official website
• Goons of DEF CON
• defconpics: a repository of photographs from past DEF CONs, from the first to present
• The Alexis Park Resort & Hotel
• The Riviera Hotel & Casino
• Flickr: Photos tagged with defcon, photos likely of DEF CON
• Video from Defcon 14.