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Re: DEF CON One Five CfP in effect!
From: dan () geer org
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:40:52 -0400
A curiousity question that I've been meaning to ask... This is the Nth time that DefCon has scheduled directly over USENIX Security. The latter, which honestly commands my first loyalty, publicly sets its meeting dates literally years in advance -- I know as I was on the Board for a decade. DefCon, to this casual observer, seems to prefer an element of surprise. Of course, one can argue that the attendees and thus the meetings don't overlap but that is to split the hair between choosing overlap in time (which precludes overlapping in attendees) and choosing to overlapp in attendees (which precludes overlapping in time). And it is not just USENIX Security; this overlap also encompasses the Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, the HotSec Workshop, and the Metricon 2.0 Workshop as well. Of course, one can argue that with DefCon running August 4-6 and USENIX running August 6-10 that the meetings don't strictly overlap, but for anyone with a travel budget (or a life) this sounds like overlap to me. Besides, if you wanna claim that your attendees are different than someone else's, why not overlap with SANS instead? Paller is not paying you to do this, is he? --dan _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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