NSA keeps low profile at hacker conventions despite past appearances

Though agency actively recruits security engineers and experts, NSA chiefs wont speak at Black Hat or Def Con this year

As hackers prepare to gather in Las Vegas for a pair of annual conventions, the leadership of the National Security Agency wont make the trek.

While the technically sophisticated US surveillance entity has often mingled in recent years with some of the worlds elite engineers and digital security experts at Black Hat and Def Con, Admiral Mike Rogers and Rick Ledgett, the newly minted director and deputy director of the agency, wont prowl the Mandalay Bay and Rio hotel-casinos this year.