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I came across this article:
How to sneak into a security conference
It's always fun to target a security event and ridicule it by exposing some of its weaknesses. That said, it's not much of an achievement, since it mixes things up: the content (security) gets confused with the container (organizing conferences). On top of that, you have to understand that the financial loss from a small number of people getting in without authorization is inconsequential for an event like RSA. Consequently, the energy deployed goes into limiting it as much as possible, but not at all costs. It wouldn't be the same thing if state secrets were on the premises ;-)