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by waihtis
868 days ago
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> It was nothing carried out by Defcon in any way. You think insurance providers are capable of doing this level of analysis? They see "hacker conference" in which Defcon may still hold some notoriety in and decide it's a risk. |
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I don't think this was done because of cyber insurance
They most likely got bumped to make space for a better paying corporate conference.
Most vendors are now running a Cisco Live/AWS Re:invent type conference, and they've increasingly consolidated on Las Vegas because venue booking and block room booking is much easier there than in any other city in North America.
Also, DefCon has become massive, so the RoI has most likely shrunk due to staffing overhead.