DEF CON One Five CfP in effect!
DEFCON 15 Call For Papers is now officially Open and will close on June 15,
2007.
Don't know what DEFCON is? Go to https://www.defcon.org/ and clue up!
Papers and presentations are now being accepted for DEFCON 15, the conference
your mother and ISC(2) warned you about. DEFCON will take place at the Riviera
in Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 3-5, 2007.
Last year, we eliminated speaking tracks, and we received a diverse selection
of submissions. From hacking your car, your brain, and CIA sculptures to
hacking the vote, Bluetooth, and DNS hacks. We group presentations by subject
and come up with topic areas of interest. It worked out so well in the past we
are doing it again.
What are we looking for then, if we don't have tracks? Were looking for the
presentation that you've never seen before and have always wanted to see. We
are looking for the presentation that the attendees wouldn't ask for, but blows
their minds when they see it. We want strange demos of Personal GPS jammers,
RFID zappers, and HERF madness. Got a MITM attack against cell phones? We want
to see it.
Subjects that we have traditionally covered in the past, and will continue to
accept include: Trojan development, worms, malware, intelligent agents,
protocol exploits, application security, web security, database hacking,
privacy issues, criminal law, civil law, international law/treaties,
prosecution perspectives, 802.11X, bluetooth, cellular telephony protocols,
privacy, identity theft, identity creation, fraud, social implications of
technology, media/film presentations, firmware hacking, hardware hacking,
embedded systems hacking, smartcard technologies, credit card and financial
instrument technologies, surveillance, counter-surveillance, UFO's, peer2peer
technologies, reputation systems, copyright infringement and anti-copyright
infringement enforcement technologies, critical infrastructure issues, physical
security, social engineering, academic security research, PDA and cell phone
security, EMP/HERF weaponry, TEMPEST technologies, corporate espionage, IDS
evasion.
What a mouth full! Well you can't say we didn't give you some ideas. This list
is not intended to limit possible topics, merely to give examples of topics
that have interested us in the past, and is in fact the same list we used last
year..
Check out https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-speakers.html for past
conference presentations to get a complete list of past topics that were
accepted if you want to learn from the past.
We are looking for and give preference to: unique research, new tool releases,
Ø day attacks (with responsible disclosure), highly technical material, social
commentaries, and ground breaking material of any kind. Want to screen a new
hacking documentary or release research? Consider DEFCON.
Speaking Formats:
Choose between 12 hundred seconds, 50 minutes, 110 minutes, or a break out
format of a length you determine. We are continuing the Twelve Hundred Second
Spotlight, which is a shorter presentation (about twenty minutes) that doesn't
warrant a full 50 or 110 minute talk. The Twelve Hundred Second Spotlight is
designed for those who don't have enough material for a full talk, but still
have a valuable contribution to make. This is to ensure that great ideas that
can be presented quickly don't fall through the cracks merely because they
didn't justify a full length talk. Examples include research, announcements,
group presentations, projects needing volunteers or testers, requests for
comments, updates on previously given talks, quick demonstrations. You get the
idea. Presenters will get a speaker badge which entitles them to free
admittance to DEFCON, but we will be unable to pay an Honorarium.
Remember being attacked by flying meat? Do you remember thick accented Germans
trying to convince you to attack critical infrastructure? Do you remember
extravagant vapor ware releases by a stage filled with posses? We do, and sans
projectiles of raw meat we want to encourage such shenanigans again this year.
We are calling on all "hacker groups" (you know who you are, and the FBI has a
nifty file with your name on it) to present at DEFCON, to discuss what you're
up to, what your mission is, to discuss any upcoming or past projects, and to
discuss parties/conferences you are throwing. We do humbly request that all
gang warfare be relegated to electronic attacks, and not fall over into meat
space.
New for DEFCON 15:
The second year being at the Riviera has allowed us to make some changes to the
format from last year. We have more speaking rooms, and because of this I want
to announce a call for workshops, demos, and mini trainings. We have additional
small rooms that will enable highly focused demonstrations or workshops. If you
want to talk about building a passport cloner or a tutorial on developing
Metasploit exploits this might be the format for you. You tell us how much time
you need, and we try to accommodate you!
To submit a speech Complete the Call for Papers Form at:
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-15/dc-15-cfp-form.html and send to talks at
defcon dot org. You will receive a confirmation within 48 hours of submission.
We are going to continue last year's goal of increasing the quality of the
talks by screening people and topics. I realize you guys are speaking for
basically free, but some talks are better than others. Some people put in a bit
more effort than others. I want to reward the people who do the work by making
sure there is room for them.
This year we will have two rounds of speaker acceptance. In the first round we
will fill about half of the schedule before the submission deadline, and the
remaining half afterwards. This is to encourage people to submit as early as
possible and allows attendees to plan on the topics that interest them. If you
see the schedule on-line start to fill, do not worry if you have not heard from
us yet, as we are still in the process of selection.
Barring a disaster of monstrous proportions, speaker selection will be
completed no later July 1. The sooner you submit the better chance you have of
the reviewers to give your presentation the full consideration it warrants. If
you wait until the last minute to submit, you have less of a chance of being
selected.
After a completed CFP form is received, speakers will be contacted if there are
any questions about their presentations. If your talk is accepted you can
continue to modify and evolve it up until the last minute, but don't deviate
from your accepted presentation. We will mail you with information on deadlines
for when we need your presentation, to be burnt on the CDROM, as well as
information for the printed program.
Speakers get in to the show free, get paid (AFTER they give a good
presentation!), get a coolio badge, and people like you more. Heck, most people
find it is a great way to meet people or find other people interested in their
topics. Speakers can opt to forgo their payment and instead receive three human
badges that they can give to their friends, sell to strangers, or hold onto as
timeless mementoes. Receiving badges instead of checks has been a popular
option for those insisting on maintaining their anonymity.
Please visit:
https://www.defcon.org/ for previous conference archives, information, and
speeches. Updated announcements will be posted to news groups, security mailing
lists and this web site.
https://forum.defcon.org/ for a look at all the events and contests being
planned for DEFCON 15. Join in on the action.
https://pics.defcon.org/ to upload all your past DEFCON pictures. We store the
pictures so you don't have to worry about web space. If you have an account on
the forums, you have an account here.
https://www.defcon.org/defconrss.xml for news and announcements surrounding
DEFCON.
CFP forms and questions should get mailed to: talks/at/defcon.org
Thanks!
The Dark Tangent