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by tptacek 868 days ago
People love saying this about Black Hat and Defcon, but I can't think of an important research result disclosed at Defcon 31 that wasn't a Black Hat talk. More good research gets turned down for Black Hat (which can only accept 3-5 talks per track) than appears at Defcon. Median Defcon talk quantity is approximately that of a good regional conference.

And that makes sense. Talks aren't really the point of Defcon, and they are (besides the lobby conf) the sole point of Black Hat. Black Hat is also a vendor circlejerk, but that fact confuses people who don't actually practice in the field.