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Grifter is a longtime hacker, DEF CON organizer, and respected voice in the infosec community. From his early days exploring networks to helping shape one of the largest hacker conferences in the world, Grifter has built a reputation for blending deep technical insight with a sharp sense of humor.
Learn more about Grifter by visiting grifter.org.
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Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
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JACK: Man, last Defcon was wild. It is up there with one of the top ten best moments of my life, and I don’t think I ever told you about what happened. See, Defcon is an annual hacker conference in Las Vegas, and it’s my favorite conference in the world. It’s just so inventive and fun and brilliant and weird. Defcon is just built different. Like, of course there’s talks and places to get hands-on doing hacking, [music] but at night, most conferences just shut down. Not Defcon. Defcon goes all night long. At night, they clear out the chairs and the lecture halls, and they turn them into party spots. There’s not just one party going on; there’s a DJ in Track 1, and there’s an arcade set up in Track 2, and there’s nerdcore rappers on stage live in Track 3. Keep walking, and you find even more parties around the conference.
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