Black Hat USA 2002 was held July 31-August 1 in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. Two days with eight tracks of speaking. The Keynote was Richard Clarke speaking on "National Strategy for Securing Cyberspace"

A post convention wrap up can be found here:https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-02/bh-usa-02-index.html

If you want to get a better idea of the presentation materials go to https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-media-archives/bh-archives-2002.html#USA-2002 and download them. Put up the .pdfs in one window while listening the talks in the other. Almost as good as being there!

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