http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136182/Korean_journalists_booted_from_Defcon?taxonomyId=17 By Robert McMillan IDG News Service August 3, 2009 Four South Korean journalists were booted from the Defcon hacking conference this week after conference organizers decided their story didn't quite add up. Conference representatives released few details of the incident. They said Sunday that they'd ejected the journalists two days earlier after deciding that they simply weren't acting like press. They believe that one member of the group was a legitimate journalist, but that the other three were on some sort of intelligence-gathering expedition. Hackers who the group interviewed at the show said that their questions seemed inappropriate, organizers said. The journalists attended one day of Defcon's Black Hat sister conference before being ejected on Friday. Defcon did not release the names of the journalists or say who they claimed to work for. This kind of incident happens nearly every year, said one of the show's senior organizers who goes by the name "Priest." In the past, they say they've caught members of Mossad, the French Foreign Legion, and other organizations posing as press. By registering as journalists, they can get more time to query researchers and raise no suspicions by asking probing questions. [...] __________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Wed Aug 05 2009 - 02:34:30 PDT
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