Many other conferences exist to cater either to the strictly Academic or Professional individual. We want a simple community based forum that is completely free of corporate affiliation (or shilling). The intention behind this is that the passion for the field or of sharing knowledge should be the primary motivation of attending or speaking at this conference.

We aim to fulfill these objectives:

* Provide a platform for publication of infosec research
* Showcase free locally-developed infosec tools
* Support the interaction of industry, academia and the interested public
* Encourage discussion on infosec / hackery / sec-related-geekery at large
* Build the ZA infosec community
* Provide a platform to up-n-coming talent

Things that can go wrong list:

1. Someone registers your number accidently under their name and they are unabled to help you in this situation
2. More phones will be stolen for the sim card to be used in crimes
3. They have to do over 40 Million sims in 18 months, thats about 80 000 a day, thats about 5 per second... starting now but how many will leave it to the last month?
4. Fake registering
5. Corrupt registering
6. Buying a sim card from zimbabwe and using MTNs one rate over africa to do crimes (hey, slightly more expensive, but since when does that matter when you're stealing a R30 000 tv right?)
7. Reselling of 'registered' sims
8. What happens if you register, but for some reason you arent added to the database and your sim is killed off, can you still re-activate it later?
9. How much would supporting this cost? register at R1 [for someones time] is already costing someone R40 000 000? Also, to maintain the database, ensure it's secure, support etc etc.
10. What stops Vodacom/MTN/Cellc from double capturing the details (when you register at a shop, they add it to their database as well as the secure national one) and use location data, personal details to target marketing to you?