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Meet the Feds

Federal Law Enforcement Panel explores meet the feds at DEF CON 15, examining law-enforcement and practical defenses.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Panel: Meet the Fed This year we will have so many feds representing their federal agencies that we will have to break it up into two separate panels: IA Panel: Information Assurance, CERTS, first responder's organizations from agencies including DC3, DHS, SOCOM, NSA, OSD, NDU, and GAO.

Vulnerability Analysis

LE Panel: and Law Enforcement, Counterintelligence agencies including DC3, FBI, IRS, NCIS, NASA, NWC3, US Postal IG, FLETC, and RCMP.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

Each of the agency reps will make an opening statement regarding their agencies role, and then open it up to the audience for questions.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Agencies that will have representatives include: Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), FBI, IRS, NCIS, NASA, DHS, National White Collar Crime Center (NWC3), Special Operations Command (SOCOM), NSA, US Postal IG, Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Defense University, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO). For the third year in a row, the "Meet the Feds" panel has gone international. We will have a rep from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For years Defcon participants have played "Spot the Fed" For the 2nd year, the feds will play "Spot the Lamer" Come watch the feds burn another lamer.

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Main Stage·2 hr

  • DEF CON
  • Policy
  • Date: Aug 2008
  • Location: Las Vegas

Keith Rhodes · Linton Wells · Ken Privette

Keith Rhodes and Linton Wells details dEF CON 16 - Panel: Meet the FEDs Ever had to sweat through an interrogation or watch some poor sap suffer a similar fate.

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