Security Conferences - A Waste of Time?
Stefan Friedli · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2014
A few years ago, I was allowed to attend one of the most impressive and most influential events of my career to date. In 2007 I was at the Chaos Communication Camp 2007 in Finowfurt. The reasons for my being there are many and not quite that easy to remember. Most likely I went there because – among other reasons – the convention was held in an old airport that was converted to a museum where world-renowned researchers held talks in repurposed bunkers. At the same time, there were thousands of tinkerers who let their LED-studded Quadcopters fly, presented their RFID-Gadgets as well as other technological tools that seemed way more futuristic in 2007 than they do now, more than half a dozen years later.