Darknets, wargames and Raspberry Pi at first-ever Balkan hacker conference

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By Violet Blue
Zero Day
ZDNet News
September 6, 2013

Because hackers are under such scrutiny and debate right now, and because 
hackers have literally changed the world we live in - as well as royally pissed 
off so many people - we know that this is leading somewhere.

Right now, it has led me to Serbia for BalCCon 2013: First Contact (organized 
by LUGoNS/Linux Users of Novi Sad).

It is not only the first official, large-scale hacker conference in Serbia, it 
is the first for the entire Balkan region.

Something is happening here in Novi Sad.

Old world, meet new world.

The same year America's Defcon turned 21 and Germany's CCC turns 30 this 
December, Serbia - long active in global hacking, with its own fierce hacking 
groups - formally enters the ring this weekend with the official Balkan 
Computer Congress.

According to organizers looking at its preliminary figures, BalCCon attendance 
is predicted to be at least 400 hackers.

Soon we'll find out just how many hackers, security professionals, and most 
likely some version of law enforcement in plainclothes will attend the 
history-making conference.

Friday morning, two days begin of workshops and lectures from hackers who have 
traveled to present at BalCCon from around the world.

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