11-21, 18:30–19:30 (Canada/Eastern), Hackfest - Track 1
Language: English
It's the start of a new decade (please no arguing about that let's just say it is.) The best way to start it off right is with a delightful educational rant. One of the most asked questions I receive is, "How do I become a Hacker?" I've been asked this so many times I literally created a webpage, iR0nin.com, on this very topic. Spoiler alert that hasn't helped with people asking the question. So Let's not only address that topic for the next year with help from people in the industry, but there are some other things I would like to get off my chest as well, so why not lump them all together and get this party/decade started right! I promise there will be no war stories, but hopefully, some will be started with it! So prepare for some insights as well as information being delivered more loudly and probably more passionately than usual. The main objective is not to watch Jayson burn everything down to the ground, though it may appear that way, but to hear some unvarnished truth and knowledge shared for the benefit of the community we all are a part of.
Jayson E. Street is an author of the "Dissecting the hack: Series". Also the DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador. Plus the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY. He has also spoken at DEF CON, DerbyCon, GRRCon and at several other 'CONs and colleges on a variety of Information Security subjects.
*He was a highly carbonated speaker who has partaken of Pizza from Beijing to Brazil. He does not expect anybody to still be reading this far but if they are please note he was chosen as one of Time's persons of the year for 2006.