[Novalug] slightly OT: security conferences?

[Matt Ahrens]

If you like California, Toorcon is coming up and is fairly cheap, if
you can make it over there.  I did it last year for less than $1k
(including meals, hotel, and airfare).

The good thing about Toorcon (300ish last year) is it's much smaller
than ShmooCon (1000ish this year) or Defcon (7000+ this year).  The
only bad thing about these cons, is the same material happens to run
through all 3 of them.

I believe there's a DC2600 group that meets in the Pentagon City mall
too, you may want to google that one up.

I agree with Pete, ShmooCon is a must for the locals =)

On 9/12/07, Pete Toscano <pete-novalug at toscano.org> wrote:
> Joel Fouse wrote:
> > Anyone have any recommendations for decent security conferences?  I've
> > heard of DefCon and ShmooCon and a few others, but don't know much about
> > how they compare.  I'm not looking for names (I can google for that
> > easily enough) so much as thoughts, opinions, etc. from folks who have
> > either been or at least have more knowledge than the occasional /. blurb
> > about some new exploit.
>
> I can't comment on DefCon, but I get the impression that it's a bigger
> conference overall.
>
> As for ShmooCon, I love it.  It's local and affordable.  (If you
> consider ~$75 for three days affordable, which when compared to lots of
> conferences, is a steal.)  More importantly, there are a lot of good
> talks by some big names.  I find it's pretty loose and thought-provoking
> environment.  I quite enjoy it.
>
> pete
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