] Every year since that initial meeting, Defcon has grown. ] From a few hundred people in 1993, it has expanded by the ] thousands, reaching a record of around 6,000 people this ] year. But Defcon's growth isn't limited to the ] sheer volume of people in attendance; it also includes ] the mushrooming list of topics discussed by the panels. ] Some of the subjects this year included: a session on ] quantum hacking, a presentation about cracking the ] CIA's Kryptos Sculpture (an artwork containing ] encoded messages that resides in a courtyard at CIA ] Headquarters), and another on homebrew mind machines. ] Even electronic voting vulnerabilities were a key topic ] at the conference this year. I noticed in my weblogs that I got a recent spike (about +25%) of visitors to my Kryptos site. They didn't seem to be *from* anywhere in particular -- just an increase in the number of people searching on the word "Kryptos". My guess is that it's from here: A mention of Kryptos on TechTV/ScreenSavers. :) G4techTV - The Defcon Briefing |