RSA protests by DEF CON groups, Code Pink draw ire

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By Violet Blue
CNET News
Security
February 26, 2014

The RSA security conference (where the world's security companies come to 
do business with each other), opened its doors this week in San Francisco 
to a wide range of protests by security professionals who would otherwise 
be attending and speaking at the conference.

The protests might be called "obnoxious," "pointless" and "first world 
outrage " -- but the protesters affiliated with hacker conference DEF CON, 
organization Code Pink, and sold-out opposition conference "TrustyCon" are 
getting everyone's attention this week.

Wednesday's protest by two noted DEF CON -affiliated organizations (Vegas 
2.0 and DC408) have bought out the entire nearby Chevy's restaurant and 
are turning away RSA attendees and speakers -- notably in the past hour, a 
visibly irritated Kevin Mitnick.

At the heart of the conflict are the weighty allegations that RSA 
deliberately weakened encryption standards in a contract with the U.S. 
National Security Agency to provide the government agency "back door" 
access.

In December 2013, Reuters reported,

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