Geeks Gather at 'What the Hack' Conference
An AP newswire article by Douglas Heingartner, via Yahoo! News, reports:
There are hundreds of tents on the hot and soggy campground, but this isn't your ordinary summertime outing, considering that it includes workshops with such titles as "Politics of Psychedelic Research" or "Fun and Mayhem with RFID."
This is the three-day "What The Hack" convention, a self-styled computer-security conference dealing such issues as digital passports, biometrics and cryptography.
Borrowing heavily from the model of Woodstock and the more professionalized Def Con conference that begins Friday in Las Vegas, the event held every four years in the Netherlands draws an international array of experts and geeks. About 3,000 gathered Thursday for the opening.
Unlike better-known and better-funded industry gatherings, "What the Hack" had to fight for its right to exist.
posted by Fergie @ 7/28/2005 08:14:00 AM
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