DEFCON 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