"I don't anticipate much of an online 'hacker' response," said Bryan Burns, who attended Defcon. Such tactics have been used in the past to try to disrupt annual meetings of the global business elite run by the World Economic Forum. And one group released tools online to mount so-called denial-of-service attacks aimed at overwhelming the main Web sites for the convention, the Republican National Committee and the Bush campaign, said Greg Shipley, chief technology officer of the security company Neohapsis Inc. One speaker at this summer's Defcon, an annual hackers conference, advocated disrupting the convention. Not many hackers are warning of electronic disruption. "Hackers are interested in what the cops are doing, how the city is being operated during that (convention) period, what kinds of technology are being implemented here for the first time, as well as all sorts of ways to infiltrate and spread information."
"The word 'target' is inappropriate," said Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and publisher of 2600, a hacking magazine.
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