Nine contestants playing Hacker Jeopardy in a crowded Las Vegas ballroom room probably didn't expect to become the latest symbol of the tech industry's struggles to include women.
But then the master of ceremonies told them one of the categories would be "Dicks." The answers were tongue in cheek, like "Dick Cheney" and "Charles Dickens." But then came a question about an actual dick. Contestants had to give the size of a certain porn star's penis to within a half an inch. Women, one wearing skimpy clothes and a strap-on dildo, played roles on stage, such as serving beers. They also took off a piece of clothing each time contestants got a double jeopardy right.
To many of the thousand attendees, this was a fun Friday night event for this year's Defcon, a volunteer-run hacker convention that's been held each year in Las Vegas since 1993. This show, and the Black Hat conference earlier the same week in Las Vegas, are the premiere hacking events of the year.
Defcon is a more free-wheeling hacker meetup, while Black Hat features dozens of corporate sponsors and exhibitors. Together they draw some of the biggest names in cybersecurity, from Dan Kaminsky -- who once found a flaw in the internet's core that could have let hackers impersonate websites and intercept email -- to Radia Perlman, who created one of the foundational protocols that power the internet. Some of the issues discussed at Defcon have forced major changes, like when Chryslerrecalled 1.4 million Jeeps after hackers demonstrated they could remotely taking control of its transmission.
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