As mentioned previosuly I'll be posting information concerning specific talks later as I get the time. I would like to mention however for more information about the legal events surrounding the MIT students and the injunction on their Defcon talk go to Groklaw. (Funnest part about this whole affair is that the geniuses over at the Mass Bay Transit Authority, in their zealous attempt to stifle the free speech of some college students, released way more details about the vulnerabilities in open court, which made their way on to Pacer, than the students intended. Again to get the full 411 go to Groklaw, also support the EFF!!!!)
The badges this year were pretty cool: TV turn off with limited file transfer/receive capability. Also of note according to a few people I talked too over 8,000 badges were ordered and despite a hang up in customs, they still ran out! WOW! Only real items of note for me was that I was introduced to Major Majfunction, DT, and Priest by a friend. Despite the Federal injunction this years Defcon seemed to run pretty smoothly. I defiantly like the Riv better than the AP.
Lets see other items of note... Saturday the stillsecure and IO Active Freakshow at the top of the Riv was pretty cool. We left there early and headed to the Edgeos party. Again I played DD and had water most of the evening, not drinking so others
could :) This party was pretty cool except it got crowded quick. We quickly took over a booth in one of the back corners and just chilled out most drinking lots of free drinks. Some noob was snapping pictures with out asking till we schooled him other wise. Word to the wise, if/when you attend Defcon, proper etiquette (yes even at Defcon there is etiquette)states that you ALWAYS ask before taking pictures, EVEN if you are holding a Press badge. The guy was pretty cool about the whole affair and even let us screen the pictures he had taken to delete any we objected to. We called it an early night and on the way out said hi to Major Malfunction as he and a few others were arriving. Sunday was spent going to more talks and simply chilling, packing and getting ready to head home.
Take care and check back in later because over the next few days/weeks I'll be posting more in depth information about the talks from both Black Hat and Defcon that felt were especially interesting.
Ish.
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This is Jay from Edgeos. Thanks for checking out our party Saturday night. I apologize for the line outside and the over-packed venue. We are honored so many people came to our event, but we did not expect it to get so full so quickly. Nonetheless, thank you for coming and I am glad to hear you had a great time at DefCon - I know our whole crew did!
Jay,
What line? O you mean the line we saw as we walked out about 1 ish? We got there around 10 and was able to walk right in. Only real reason we left when we did was we were getting worn out by that point from all the other late nights at Black Hat and Defcon.
Ish
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