It’s day two, I’m sitting in Track One getting ready for some wifi hacking goodness.
Yesterday…
Where to begin.
Let’s start with this: The DEFCON speaking arrangement needs to be changed. We can’t have things the way they are. The speakers are spending half (or more) of their time doing basic $subject_matter 101 discussions prior to getting to the meat of their discussion.
There’s just no excuse for this.
It used to be assumed that if you didn’t have the 101 stuff, DEFCON didn’t care. It was up to you to either catch up or be left behind. The bar was set high and the expectation was that you’d at least reach for it.
This year, I (and many others) keep tripping on the bar.
The issue really is that I’d like to help *fix* the problem rather than just whining about it.
I’m sorry for whining.
I did see a few good talks – the Alexander Muentz talk “Protecting your IT infrastructure from legal attacks – Subpoenas, Warrants and Transitive Trust” was brilliant – well delivered, topical, good slides, excellentness.
I spent a lot of time stirring around in the vendor area (see previous post) and hanging out with the Hacker Foundation people talking about how business-in-front, hacker-in-back mullet wearers like me could be participatory. Was in there for a long time and think there are many easy ways to make cool things happen.
Went out for the dinner and the drinking in the evening, slid back to the hotel room and then stumbled myself awake at the crack of nothing this morning to head back to the Riv-hole (sorry, it’s the truth… this place is grody-to-the-max) for more edu-ma-cation.
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[tags]defcon, defcon15, Alexander Muentz, hacker mullet, freebeer[/tags]