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Some of the world's greatest minds in IT security will gather in Queensland's Gold Coast for the annual AusCERT conference this month. Notable of the 90 presenters include the co-inventor of public key cryptography, Whitfield Diffie, expert security researcher, Marcus Ranum, Cisco security chief, John Stewart, and The Tor Project president, Roger Dingledine. Hackers with hats of all shades of grey will talk alongside thought-leaders, penetration testers and police of whom each were selected based on strict shortlist criterion.

The Queensland Police will be stationed at the conference to talk cybercrime and enforcement, which is sure to be a popular conference topic after Ranum's opening talk on insights into the US-China "cyberwar".

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