‘Treat it like China’: How U.S. officials stay safe, and have fun, at the world’s biggest hacking conference

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‘Treat it like China’: How U.S. officials stay safe, and have fun, at the world’s biggest hacking conference
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The DEF CON hacking conference presents some very real risks — and plenty of fun, say current and former U.S. cybersecurity officials and conference regulars.

Rogers also recommends bringing cash to the event. In part, that’s because attendees in past years have snuck fake ATMs into DEF CON. It’s also because on-site vendors refuse to use point-of-sale devices — which let consumers tap or insert a credit card, for example — for a simple reason: they don’t trust them.but it probably should,” said Monika Hathaway, the DEF CON staffer to whom a POLITICO reporter recently handed $440 in cold hard cash, the price of admission into the conference.

In addition to its own vocabulary, DEF CON has given birth to its own games , its own swag and its own fashion style, the type that encourages the non-Irish to wear kilts and at least one attendee to strap a Nintendo 64, TV and four controllers onto his back. A host of non-cybersecurity events have sprung up at DEF CON. There is the tin foil hat contest, a martial arts competition and countless puzzles and trivia contests.

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