CTF and other events in the UK?

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/7/30  <lists at truthisfreedom.org.uk>:
> Hi all,
>
> Working in the IT industry, I'm well aware that computer security is a
> world-wide problem, however I'm having real issues finding other
> people in the UK that are interested in events like Capture the Flag
> and security conferences.
>
> Most of the security conferences I've attended over here are really
> glorified sales pitches from the primary sponsor along with loads of
> other companies guaranteing to "secure 100% of your data for ever and
> never get hacked in your life whilst your one of our customers for
> less money than you might think" and other such quackery. [0]
>
> Is anyone else on the list in the UK? ?If so, have I missed an entire
> sub-culture or is it just not british to talk about the fact that
> people get hacked? :)

I'm in the UK and there used to be two conferences, Brumcon and DNScon
both of which have folded as far as I know.

I'd love to have a Shmoocon style event over here and would be happy
to help organise as long as someone else actually tells me what needs
doing.

We had a really good Hak5 meet up a couple of years back where we did
a load of techie stuff, last year it was in Germany and this year I
didn't get to it.

Robin