I don't mind sponsorship as much as I do the lack of knowledge transfer. If you have a flow chart for a problem and one of the boxes is a ? thats not as good as a talk that shows lots of IDA screens. I feel like the difference between RSA and Defcon is that RSA talks are marketing pitches for products where Defcon has technical discussions of problems. So leaving an RSA talk is a lot like those mysterious drug commercials that just list random symptoms and sends the masses in a hypochondria, where Defcon leaves me thinking how can I integrate this into my testing or write exploits to take advantage of it.
As long as I leave a conference with that Defcon feeling I am happy regardless of how it's funded. On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Christien Rioux <[email protected]> wrote: > That's an good goal for an event if you can afford it. > > SOURCE Conference accepts sponsorship, but no sponsorship level > includes 'paid keynotes' or track talks. > > Any 'vendor' sessions are clearly marked as such, and our advisory > board would never accept vendor pitches masquerading as track talks. > When you're a smaller event, it's not that hard to keep the vendors > where they should be. > > --chris > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, The Dark Tangent <[email protected]> wrote: >> What he said. >> >> DEF CON has not and will not even accept sponsorship at any level. I'm not >> sure what conferences still do that, but I don't want to risk any vendor >> taint >> at all. >> >> Jeff >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DeepSec >> Conference >> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:21 AM >> To: Dave Aitel >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Paid-for Vendor talk .... seems legit? >> >> Dear Dave, >> >> not every conference does that. >> >> We choose our keynotes carefully and make sure that they don't have a vendor >> or product pitch. And we pay for travel and accommodation for all speakers, >> including key note... >> >> regards, DeepSec >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dailydave mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave >> > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list [email protected] http://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
