Notorious hacker seminar Defcon has just published their phone call for Papers. The 17th annual event will occur July 30th with August 2nd. most of the statement is the exact same boilerplate they’ve included for the past two years. like last year, they’re not defining the specific speaking track themes as well as will come up with them based on submissions. new for this year is a half-day of workshops on the Thursday before Defcon for anyone that’s showing up early. This pre-con event is targeted at newbies. It definitely seems like an fascinating method to simplicity into Defcon instead of the usual delays as well as terminate marshals. We’ve been going to every year since 2005 as well as like seeing new things. You should definitely think about providing this year (we want to see more hardware!).