DEF CON To Feds: We Need Some Time Apart
Summary: DEF CON organizer Jeff Moss asked federal agents to stay away from the 2013 conference, writing in a blog post titled "Feds, We Need Some Time Apart" that recent surveillance revelations had made many in the community uncomfortable with the relationship. The request followed a decade of warming ties in which intelligence and law enforcement agencies recruited at the show and NSA director Keith Alexander delivered the prior year's keynote.
Bottom line: Agencies that had come to treat DEF CON as reliable recruiting ground for scarce security talent were told to sit out, and the article notes the surveillance disclosures did not encourage people to take up "cyber arms" with the government.
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