A recommendation that federal employees stay away from the Defcon conference in Las Vegas next month has the security community buzzing. “It doesn’t make any sense to me, especially since so many hackers have built up a close relationship with the government over the years, ” Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global, said in an interview. “We are not going on a witch hunt or checking IDs and kicking people out,” Moss told Reuters that non-participation would be voluntary. “Now is the time for a vigorous public debate on the subject,” an e-threat analyst said.”]
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