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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnnouncement from DEFCON Hacking Conference
DEF CON is considered the "world's largest" hacker conference. It is also considered one of the core conferences, with organizers and attendees using it as a model for other conferences. It's attended often by some of our congressional Democrats and the FBI, DoD, United States Postal Inspection Service, DHS (via CISA) and other agencies.If you've ever been interested in anything cyber related, DEFCON's big news is that they've established a fediverse-like place. I've noodled around to check participants' names and topics.
Here is their Big Announcement.
DEFCON.social is open!
From the first DEF CON announcement over 30 years ago inviting all to attend our first gathering:
"We cordially invite all hackers/phreaks, techno-rats, programmers, writers, activists, lawyers, philosophers, politicians, security officials, cyberpunks and all network sysops and users to attend."
That's still our core audience, but we welcome artists, musicians, infosec, privacy professionals, journalists, and everyone genuinely curious about how things work.
Name: DEFCON.social
URL: https://defcon.social/
Support Site: https://www.defcon.social/
Location: USA
Languages Supported: English language posts, more languages as we add moderators to support them.
Tor .Onion: Coming soon
Topics: Technology, hacking, privacy, policy, infosec, music, art
Moderated: Yes
Infrastructure: Self hosted for privacy & security reasons
Funding: Community supported
Related Sites: defcon.org, media.defcon.org, Reddit.com/r/defcon, discord.gg/defcon,
DMCA: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-dmca.html
Privacy Policy: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-privacy.html
Code of Conduct: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-code-of-conduct.html
NOTE: We follow the Mastodon Server Covenant.
DEFCON.social provides for open discussion where different viewpoints are welcome and a high degree of skepticism is expected. However, insulting or harassing others is unacceptable. Its not about how you look or how hard you meme but whats in your mind, your ideas, and how you present yourself that matters.
DEF CON grew from the Underground BBS scene of the late 80's into the giant conference of today, and DEFCON.social is another way we seek to support the global hacker community.
We are building a community where you can explore serious issues, ask dumb questions, and make friends along the way. We have a strict Code of Conduct and enforce it. We hope you enjoy yourselves and be kind to others.
Join us at DEFCON.social.
From the first DEF CON announcement over 30 years ago inviting all to attend our first gathering:
"We cordially invite all hackers/phreaks, techno-rats, programmers, writers, activists, lawyers, philosophers, politicians, security officials, cyberpunks and all network sysops and users to attend."
That's still our core audience, but we welcome artists, musicians, infosec, privacy professionals, journalists, and everyone genuinely curious about how things work.
Name: DEFCON.social
URL: https://defcon.social/
Support Site: https://www.defcon.social/
Location: USA
Languages Supported: English language posts, more languages as we add moderators to support them.
Tor .Onion: Coming soon
Topics: Technology, hacking, privacy, policy, infosec, music, art
Moderated: Yes
Infrastructure: Self hosted for privacy & security reasons
Funding: Community supported
Related Sites: defcon.org, media.defcon.org, Reddit.com/r/defcon, discord.gg/defcon,
DMCA: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-dmca.html
Privacy Policy: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-privacy.html
Code of Conduct: https://defcon.org/html/links/dc-code-of-conduct.html
NOTE: We follow the Mastodon Server Covenant.
DEFCON.social provides for open discussion where different viewpoints are welcome and a high degree of skepticism is expected. However, insulting or harassing others is unacceptable. Its not about how you look or how hard you meme but whats in your mind, your ideas, and how you present yourself that matters.
DEF CON grew from the Underground BBS scene of the late 80's into the giant conference of today, and DEFCON.social is another way we seek to support the global hacker community.
We are building a community where you can explore serious issues, ask dumb questions, and make friends along the way. We have a strict Code of Conduct and enforce it. We hope you enjoy yourselves and be kind to others.
Join us at DEFCON.social.
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Announcement from DEFCON Hacking Conference (Original Post)
ancianita
Dec 2022
OP
Not real easy to see on my monitor, but there's a printed circuit in the background at top.
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2022
#4
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)1. Took 'em long enough.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)2. Haha. True.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)4. Not real easy to see on my monitor, but there's a printed circuit in the background at top.
At this moment, it's showing 1.7K active users and 5.6K Followers
ancianita
(36,132 posts)5. ...
Thanks. Not bad numbers, right? Good time of year to throw this up, I'm thinking.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)3. The "Explore" thread gives a look at the lay of the land and what's trending.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)6. There's also "Local"...
https://defcon.social/public/local
Images there have a ": 9" (without the space) in the link, which results, here, in things like
https://files.defcon.social 000/dcsocial-s3/media_attachments/files/109/558/958/610/853/203/small/4abf7b37bd35b20f.jpg
Images there have a ": 9" (without the space) in the link, which results, here, in things like
https://files.defcon.social 000/dcsocial-s3/media_attachments/files/109/558/958/610/853/203/small/4abf7b37bd35b20f.jpg
ancianita
(36,132 posts)7. ...
Yeah. That happens with posting a lot of sites here, and it's possible that embedding can be risky for this politics oriented site.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)8. A lot of code everywhere goes into just sanitizing input.
ancianita
(36,132 posts)9. Cool. Glad to know this.