25 Aug
2001
25 Aug
'01
11:40 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:44:39PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
I won't pay these rates for _any_ conference. Greg Broiles hit the nail on the head: the only ones worth paying for are the ones with short-term economic payoff. For CFP, this probably means law firms hoping to get some business, or hoping to recruit some lawyers.
CFP is still worth attending, but more as a social event nowadays. It's started to become a corporate-privacy-officer conference. I was chatting two weeks ago with a friend who's a CPO at one of the valley's largest firms and my friend was talking about suggesting a panel on "how firms can comply with european data directive stuff." Not unimportant in a practical sense, but hardly interesting, or cypherpunkish. -Declan