Ekoparty Isn’t The Next Defcon (& It Doesn’t Want To Be)

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By Andrew Ford
Dark Reading
12/15/2014

Unlike American security conferences that offer a buffet of merchandise, 
meals, and drinks, Ekoparty, in Buenos Aires, is every bit as functional 
-- with a little less fluff.

For some reason, the competitiveness of startups in Silicon Valley can 
regularly put competitors at each others' throats.

Uber and Lyft seem to get the most colorful headlines lately with their 
recruiting wars. Yet any coffee shop with a decent pour-over will have 
technology folks steeping in anger while competitors copy technology or 
poach clients.

Maybe as a developer new to the security arena I just haven't been around 
enough security folks to see that they are all easy going and immune to 
the otherwise tension-filled tech arena of Silicon Valley.

Maybe. But, I don't think so.

That's why it was so cool this November to see The Latin American security 
community at the Ekoparty conference in Buenos Aires not angrily mumbling 
about their competitors at Blue Bottle Coffee, but instead joining with 
them in hardware and software hacking, lock picking, and mixing Fernet 
with Coke.

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