DEFCON 20/BlackHat 2012?

demonfurbie

same nick here but i was always in #2600 and #hackphreak

i still have my redbox

drkat

yeah the nick looks familiar.. but i dont think we ever interacted.

JDMurray

Recuperating at home today from DC20. A great four days, despite a miserable drive back home, mostly due to road construction delays.

Here's a YouTube video that sums up some of the activities at DC20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6T0eikGsng

My unique con experience was managing to get my foot run over by Jason Scott on a Segway while filming a documentary about Defcon. He's quite a character. I'll plug his hackish films and ASCII files Web site here to show him there's no hard feelings: ASCII by Jason Scott


UPDATE: Whoa, I just discovered that I'm now being followed by Bruce Schneier himself on Twitter! I'll post a link to his DC20 talk when it appears on YouTube (I'm very surprised one is not already there).

chaser7783

Defcon was a lot of fun, but it seems each year there are less and less talks that show active demos. Seems like Defcon has gone from a hacking conference to more of an Infosec conference. I might try to check out Derbycon this year and see how that stacks up to defcon.

JDMurray

Many of the live demo talks were in Track 4, but it did feel that many talk opted for screenshots/videos of their demos rather than live. I chalk that up to the popularity of exploits needing equipment that could not be easily transported or run at defcon--especially by researchers from foreign countries.

Next up for me to Toorcon in San Diego, which is like a small, cozy DefCon in the SD Convention Center.

And there's always Burning Man in September...

chaser7783

Have you heard any feedback about derbycon or notacon?
Derbycon looks to have a strong speaker list so far: https://www.derbycon.com/speakers-2/

JDMurray

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