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DEF CON 22 · 2014

Presenter: Ladar Levison · Stephen Watt

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Source date value: 2014-08-08. This is retained as source metadata; recording dates or placeholder timestamps do not establish a session’s actual date.

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Research dataset: Lukas Walter, Clemens Sauerwein, Daniel Woods, InfoSec.pptx, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Changes: metadata extraction, exact-match reconciliation and uncertainty flags. No endorsement implied.

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