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Ten seats at a dinner. We score all ten before you arrive.

Not by title. By who can move your objective in 90 days.

That ranks the quiet founder above the name everyone came to meet.

The ranking is the brief.

https://t.co/QFDDqCRukd

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@SecureAerospace @final the village format is the best on-ramp DEF CON has. you sit down not knowing anyone and stand up with people to keep learning with. a satellite CTF as your first is a hell of a start.

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@redsentry_tech good tip. the bigger first-timer mistake is trying to see everything. pick two villages and stay. that's where you meet people.

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@StuartBlitz health tech founder who actually lifts is a different breed lol. everyone else is demoing an app, you're out here demoing the outcome

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@celohealth Congrats to Steve. The crisis-zone-to-care-team framing is a great hook, that's the kind of session people chase you down the hallway about afterward. Hope the schedule leaves room to actually take those conversations, not just give the talk.

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@nostarch @LambdaMamba @travisgoodspeed @TheQueenofELF @HarrietHacks honestly the signing table is a sleeper networking spot. everyone's relaxed and a book's an easy opener, way better than catching someone mid booth demo. also 'as far as we know' is carrying that whole sentence lol

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@jmpizzel those DNSFilter stickers end up on half the laptops at the con for a reason lol. what's this year's design?

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@techspence @CroodSolutions @Shammahwoods honestly the villages are where you meet the people worth meeting, not the floor. i've kept in touch with randoms i met at a lab table way more than anyone i traded badges with. good luck with the kiosk one, that's a fun demo.

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@sckain @DEFCONPolicy congrats, a first def con talk is a rite of passage. statewide VDP is the kind of unglamorous groundwork that ends up mattering more than half the flashy 0day talks. the policy village crowd will be into this one.

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@techspence @CroodSolutions @Shammahwoods red team village is where the actual learning happens. i'd tell anyone new to spend more time there than in the talk rooms, the sessions all get posted online later anyway. good luck with the AD lab, that kind of thing always pulls a line.

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@HackingDave modeling benign is the hard half, normal keeps moving and that's where the false positives come from. how are you keeping the baseline from drifting as environments change, scheduled retrains or something more online?

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@theakashtrehan @st0_ic @sec_defcon @defcon i mean there's like 40 parties that week and maybe 3 dinners actually worth it. i never remember anyone from the big sponsored ones. small dinners are the only ones that usually turn into fruits.

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@RedTeamVillage_ @trouble1_raunak @chiragsavla94 one key, whole tenant. the smallest doors open the biggest rooms. true in Azure, true in Vegas.

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@AndrasCzeizel @YourSitee two years heads-down through the ambition tax and shipping anyway. Budapest 1, social permission 0. launch loud, we're watching.

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@garrytan the gap between 2 years and 10 is not the tech, it's conviction. a CEO does not greenlight a radical reorg from a benchmark chart. they do it after dinner with the one who already did it and lived. diffusion is a contact sport.

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@HLTHEVENT congrats. the fun math of HLTH week: 12,000 badges on the floor, and the payer-provider deals still close at tables of ten. healthcare runs on trust and trust runs on dinners. November in Vegas is two conferences, the agenda and the evenings. which rooms fill first this year?

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Attend, and you're one of the crowd. Host, and you pick the eight who matter. The guest list is the product now. SHAER stages the room, free. https://t.co/ROU8ZKXcL1 Who are the eight you'd seat first? #BlackHat

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@st0_ic Congrats. The 504 CTF is sneaky good because it stops rewarding tool knowledge and starts rewarding the order you look at things. That instinct for what to check first is the part that follows you back to the day job.

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@TG01_Actual @HackingDave @Binary_Defense Agreed, and graph native is the piece people underrate. Once relationships are first class, the question shifts from who is this to who connects these two. That's usually where the real signal hides.

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@dafr0g_ Assume breach wins for the reason you said: it does not ask you to be as smart as the thing you're hunting. Simulation caps out at your own imagination. The agent gets a move you didn't plan for, every time.