DEF CON
lorehackingops cultureevents
Stands for: DEF CON hacker conference
The world's largest hacker conference - Las Vegas every August since 1993 - and the cultural center of gravity of the scene.
Founded by Jeff Moss (Dark Tangent), DEF CON grew from a farewell party into the annual gathering: villages for every specialty (lockpicking to voting machines to aerospace), the flagship capture-the-flag, electronic badges that are puzzles in themselves, and Goons keeping the chaos functional. Talks routinely make global news; the culture around them - Spot the Fed, the Wall of Sheep lineage - is half the institution.
Also known as: defcon, def con, dc31, defcon villages