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 “Hacker Summer Camp”. Like other hacker conferences, the event is notoriously unwilling to create any sort of register of attendees. American law enforcement clearly has its eyes on Defcon as an event that draws people of interest from around the world. Some has already broken, in fact, pre-briefed out to excite attendees:PunkSpider, a controversial and long-unavailable “hacker search engine”, is back. If you want to read the complete version of this newsletter please subscribe to receive TechScape in your inbox every Wednesday.

Source: The Guardian August 04, 2021 10:52 UTC