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Thought this page could use a bit more information, over the next few months I'll be contributing the following content; any thoughts?
Don't believe we need to go into incredibly detail given the information available on the forums and their website, but it's definitely worth bubbling up at a high level. More light hearted topics that could be added would be 'pool on the roof' or 'def con is canceled' - Aghassemlouei ( talk) 09:11, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
This article is redundant to the one for Defense_Condition.
Is that really you RaD man? (does "ansi ACiD mean" anything to you??) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.174.21.27 ( talk) 16:51, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
What about "pool2girl"?
my understanding was that it is called defcon(it certainly on defcon.org). I'm the reason it was not named defcon was that the name defcon was already taken for defense condition. Why not defcon(convention) or something similar. Ethyr 17:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Year unknown One incident involved an attendee who gave a presentation titled "Hack the RNC." On stage, the presenter exhorted attendees to go back to New York and blow up a bus in front of Vice President Dick Cheney and kill members of the Republican party. [1]
"'I thought I would be killed in the rush of people running to the stage to beat the snot out of him,'" Defcon spokesman Priest said of this incident. Meanwhile, out a side door, eight to nine federal agents were 'chomping at the bit for access to the kid to drag him into jail,' he said.
"'They had to take him into custody to protect' him from the Defcon crowd, he said. He wound up serving three years out of a five-year jail sentence.
"'We are a global community, but we are a law-abiding and patriotic community,' said Priest, who himself is a government employee."
This was removed because not only is a distortion of a real event, but the citation is for another story, and the person who posted this couldn't be bothered to do a google search for the year (2002 by the way).
this is what actually happened http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/08/02/1426209
It seems like a rather minor event that has no place in the article. Ethyr 19:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The citation was not for another story, it was also for the RNC story-- it mentioned it. It was the source for that story the way it was told.-- 76.182.88.254 04:03, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
It wasn't that article. The original article cited did mention it, but it seems to be gone from the article now. 76.182.88.254 21:18, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Removed link to flickr since none of the pictures seemed relevant (plus anyone can do a search on flickr for defcon if they wanted) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.6.237.252 ( talk) 14:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
What does "DEF CON" stand for? Or is it meant to be a reference to the defense readiness condition? -- 75.5.198.24 ( talk) 00:44, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Is the statement 'Federal law enforcement agents from the FBI, DoD, United States Postal Inspection Service and other agencies regularly attend DEF CON, and are not required to wear identification badges' really relevant? I mean, they also regularly eat lunch at Pizza Hut & don't have to wear identification badges. For that matter, pizza delivery guys attend DEF CON without identifying themselves as pizza delivery guys. It seems I'm missing something, or rather, the article is missing something. This statement should either be expanded on or omitted. Haqui11a ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:43, 20 April 2010 (UTC).
This section reads like an advertisement for the event Rather than giving facts. It was probably copied from DEF CON's website. 74.195.244.167 ( talk) 17:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Here is the NSA's DEF CON recruitment page:
I'm not sure what it can add to the article, but here it is. WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:36, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Black Hat typically runs the previous week, then a lot of people stay over the weekend for Def Con. Same organizer; some of the more popular Black Hat presentations repeat there. Elinruby ( talk) 21:57, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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DEF CON & Black Hat have been distancing themselves from one another for quite some time, especially with Black Hat being sold to UBM and DEF CON still being independently run. May want to mention the initial association and some history but not go into too much detail. - Aghassemlouei ( talk) 08:19, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
It was recently cancelled. Looks as if it is now history. 2A02:8388:1600:6900:BE5F:F4FF:FECD:7CB2 ( talk) 13:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
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User:173.226.109.194 is citing an announcement at [1] claiming that Defcon has been cancelled. No news of it on the official site or on the Reddit - so I doubt it.
Until there's an official notice on the main site, please don't edit the article.
KNHaw (talk) 00:11, 23 February 2017 (UTC)