CONFERENCE METADATA — incomplete historical coverage; source presence is not proof of delivery.
Research dataset: Lukas Walter, Clemens Sauerwein, Daniel Woods, InfoSec.pptx, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Changes: metadata extraction, exact-match reconciliation and uncertainty flags. No endorsement implied.

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  "title": "Inside the Fake Science Factory",
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    "Dr Dade Murphy - Reformed Hacker (AKA Suggy)",
    "Professor Dr Edgar Munchhausen – Struwwelpeter Fellow (AKA Till Krause)"
  ],
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  "rights": "Metadata and source links only; abstracts, biographies, transcripts and media not republished",
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  "title_status": "source supplied",
  "presenter_status": "research dataset; independent index title match",
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      "source_kind": "secondary independent index",
      "sha256": "9095ab22d74c3b7051252f89b8f37a8a5c6ed8f2f06a460d59c8ef9c0aaac42d",
      "checked": "2026-10-16T03:48:29Z"
    },
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      "raw_agenda": "11.08.2018",
      "date_conflict": false,
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593",
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    }
  ],
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    },
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    },
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}