Monday, July 23, 2012

Jealousy, I do confess it

I had hoped to go to the Black Hat/DEFCON security conferences in Las Vegas this week.  For those of you not in the Security Biz, this is the premiere Internet Security conference anywhere.  Black Hat is more corporate and buttoned down, while DEFCON is where everyone lets their hair down - the hacking "capture the flag" competition there is legendary.  I know a guy who won, back in the '90s.

But alas, work schedule didn't fit, and so I'm not going.  But Stainles of Whipped Cream Difficulties is.  I hope he gives us some posts about what the view is on the conference floor there.  Probably best not to post from the conference floor, though - never know who might be sniffing around, in an IP Packet sense.

7 comments:

Alan said...

That is one conference I wouldn't take my computer too, let alone turn it on.

Dwight Brown said...

I am going to DEFCON, but not Black Hat: DEFCON I can actually afford, but Black Hat pretty much requires a corporate sponsor to go.

I do plan to do daily posts summarizing the panels I attend, with links to the presentations if possible.

And I'll miss you, Borepatch. I didn't even realize you were thinking about going, and I would have liked to take you to dinner at Lotus of Siam. Maybe next year?

Borepatch said...

Alan, I don't think I'd take a phone.

Dwight, it would be awesome to meet up, assuming I can get out there next year.

Robert Hewes said...

Hey BP, you see this little thingie? (http://pwnieexpress.com/products/power-pwn). Looks cool as hell!

Borepatch said...

Robert, yeah I saw that. Evil. I expect that if you looked for that sort of thing you could find it, but it's probably not easy.

Dwight Brown said...

Having the correct outlet spacing to accommodate transformer blocks is a very nice touch.

Broken Andy said...

We're sending a guy. He's taking a spare laptop that got paved before he left and will get paved when he gets back.

I need to put this on my calendar for next year.