{"id":2391,"date":"2021-08-04T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/techscape-why-hacker-summer-camp-and-pandemics-dont-mix\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:39:23","slug":"techscape-why-hacker-summer-camp-and-pandemics-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/techscape-why-hacker-summer-camp-and-pandemics-dont-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: Why \u2018hacker summer camp\u2019 and pandemics don\u2019t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: DEF CON hit by Covid concerns \u2026 Zuckerberg enters the Metaverse \u2026 and the impact of Final Fantasy VII<\/p>\n<p>In a normal year, I would be getting on a plane today and travelling to Las Vegas for the loose conglomeration of events informally known as \u201cHacker Summer Camp\u201d. Centred around <a href=\"https:\/\/defcon.org\/\">DEF CON<\/a> and its stuffy younger sibling Black Hat, the event sees Las Vegas taken over by hackers, information security specialists, spooks and criminals, all there to discuss the best ways to defend computers against hostile adversaries \u2013 and to break into those same computers as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/04\/why-hacker-summer-camp-and-pandemic-precautions-dont-mix\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/616630061142f71e37a435b9dc6e6106631091e8\/0_95_1853_1112\/master\/1853.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1e24854ee5d36d9309dc9d0fda66feef\" title=\"TechScape: Why \u2018hacker summer camp\u2019 and pandemics don\u2019t mix\" \/>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: DEF CON hit by Covid concerns \u2026 Zuckerberg enters the Metaverse \u2026 and the impact of Final Fantasy VII<br \/>\nIn a normal year, I would be getting on a plane today and travelling to Las Vegas for the loose conglomeration of events informally known as \u201cHacker Summer Camp\u201d. Centred around DEF CON and its stuffy younger sibling Black Hat, the event sees Las Vegas taken over by hackers, information security specialists, spooks and criminals, all there to discuss the best ways to defend computers against hostile adversaries \u2013 and to break into those same computers as quickly as possible. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: DEF CON hit by Covid concerns \u2026 Zuckerberg enters the Metaverse \u2026 and the impact of Final Fantasy VII In a normal year, I would be getting on a plane today and travelling to Las Vegas for the loose conglomeration of events informally known as \u201cHacker Summer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/techscape-why-hacker-summer-camp-and-pandemics-dont-mix\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: Why \u2018hacker summer camp\u2019 and pandemics don\u2019t mix<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}