Dan GoodinUgh! The USENIX Enigma conference was hands down the best security conference in the world. Now it's suspended with no plans for it to be resumed. Very sad.
https://www.usenix.org/blog/update-enigma-conference-enigma-steering-committee
Adrian Sanabria@dangoodin This sucks! This was my first year presenting and I got COVID. They played a recording of my talk, but I didn't get to attend in person.
The whole process of preparing for the con was great, and I loved how they used Slack as both an out-of-band and in-line conference tool.
Mingwei Zhang@dangoodin Why would they not consider turning it into a virtual conference is a enigma.
@mingwei Sounds like the current economic conditions just aren't favorable to putting on a conference like that. I'm guessing that hosting the con virtually won't change that.
@dangoodin yeah, looks like the USENIX org overall is not doing great financially.
https://www.usenix.org/blog/2022-usenix-annual-meeting-report
Babak Farrokhi 
@mingwei @dangoodin well they have events that are doing financially good because of big sponsors, such as SRECon. Clearly they could not get enough sponsors to keep Enigma alive.
Nicholas Weaver@dangoodin Damn this is a massive bummer. Enigma is a brilliant concept and execution: "TED talks with actual content"
Jen King, Ph.D@dangoodin Had the honor of speaking here for the first time this year. Sad it could be the last. @joebeone and @Wednesday did a fabulous job organizing this year.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD@Kingjen @dangoodin @Wednesday I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say we hope to start a process figuring out what the community might need in an event like this (that would bring people)
melanie ensign (she/her)@dangoodin @Kingjen @joebeone even before recent budget cuts in security, community investment has been shifting/shrinking.
Everyone wants a turn at the mic, but few chip in to pay for the communal stage.
If even half the companies who sent talk proposals donated just $5K each, we’d be in a very different ballpark.
Stephen Foskett@Wednesday @dangoodin @Kingjen @joebeone far too many companies want to sneak by on pizza and beer marketing budget instead of spending real money to make real profit. This hurts the whole community.
@sfoskett @dangoodin @Kingjen @joebeone it’s a culture of leeching vs contributing. Think about how many people use open source code compared to those who support or maintain it.