Snow says Defcon was the event that led her into her cybersecurity career and that she competed there repeatedly.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Snow EP 22 Details
“everything that brought me to do my career is because of Defcon”
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Hacker conference featuring lock-picking, social-engineering activities, and the competition won by Snow.
Hacker conference featuring lock-picking, social-engineering activities, and the competition won by Snow.
“This summer I took a trip to Defcon, the largest hacker conference in the world.”
“I won Defcon 22. I won the Black Badge.”
Hacker conference in Las Vegas featuring talks, villages, contests, badges, and the Defcon CTF.
“Defcon is the largest hacking conference in the world”
“Defcon is Friday, Saturday, Sunday.”
Annual hacker and security conference in Las Vegas that David planned to attend before his indictment.
“He wanted to go to the annual Defcon conference in Las Vegas”
Security conference attended by Jordan, including a social engineering village.
“Jordan Harbinger is also no stranger to going to Defcon”
Security conference associated in the episode with Capture the Flag competition and black badges.
“has won like, six black badges at Defcon now”
Conference mentioned as a place where hackers share offensive hacking techniques.
“This is why things like Defcon exist”
Annual hacker conference mentioned as the setting for the r00tz youth hacking village.
“I went to Defcon, the annual hacker conference”
Annual hacker and security conference in Las Vegas attended by Marcus Hutchins.
“the annual hacker conference in Las Vegas in the US”
“I remember this was back when it was in Caesar’s Palace”
Hacking and security conference in Las Vegas where MG demonstrated and sold custom hardware.
“it’s the premiere hacking conference in Vegas”
“2013 was the first time”
A hacker and security conference repeatedly associated with Phrack releases and distribution.
“when you go to conferences like Black Hat and Defcon”
“Phrack Issue #72 was released at Defcon in 2025”
Hacker conference where Jack and D3ada55 first met.
“I met you at Defcon like five, six years ago.”
Cybersecurity conference where the host later met the participants in the courthouse story.
“I just came back from DEFCON”
“while I was at DEFCON, I ran into those two penetration testers”
Snow says Defcon was the event that led her into her cybersecurity career and that she competed there repeatedly.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Snow EP 22 Details
“everything that brought me to do my career is because of Defcon”