I returned from my first DEFCON last week, I wanted to attend since I decided to follow cybersecurity path almost 10 years ago. At least I managed to save some money, save the date (at the same timeframe)... and I embarked in one of the most enlightning travels that I had in several years. Don't get me wrong I have been more or less around the world already but this was deffinetively different.

When I went to Asia the cultural differences where abismal, on the time that I lived in middle East I noticed that too... every other trip that I have ever made was marked by adaptation and discovery. Except this one, this was an external-internal journey trough the most deep parts of my conscience.

I felt almost immediately at my intellectual "home", the one that I didn't know that it existed.

Keeping aside the obvious excitement and overwhelming power of DEFCON. I noticed a subtle "something" changing in my behavior. In most of my conversations I started to be a little more extroverted and more vocal, and a lot of my conversations revolved around the role of hackers in the present society.

Obviously the enviroment helped, but it was an old idea, it remained cooking itself at low heat in a pot for years in one of the least visited corners of my mind.

(I was born in the 80's and I was fan from the minute I read the "Conscience of a Hacker" manifesto from the Mentor. But at that time the ideas presented there where just a glimpse from the future).

Few days before my flight, an inocuous and rutine update from a well known enterprise anti-malware stopped the economic trade for several countries, reaching financial losses in billions.

And then it clicked...

"Here, under this roof. We. Here we are, the people that run the world today."

Everything today is dependent of computers, there is not a single activity in human life that has been prevailed untouched by technology.

Then why we are mostly silent, why we don't scream our rightfull opinions and instead stay hidden... why haven't we noticed?!

Now, its our turn.