
After walking out of Starbucks cup in hand, there was a look in each mans eye, a pep in his step, for lack of better terms we had ENERGY! On to the Blackhat Tales.
Day One
We registered, claimed our badges and bags and immediately went schwag hunt...er I mean talked to some of the vendors including Paraben, SAINT and Sunbelt Software. We missed most of the introduction and most of the keynote address. We also bumped into Chris Gates from LSO and Brian Wilson and hung out with them most of the day including lunch.
We attended the following talks:
Cracking GSM
RFIDI0ts!!!--Practical RFID Hacking
Bad Sushi: Beating Phishers at their Own Game
Oracle Hacking
Scanning Applications 2.0
We grabbed a quick bite to eat and chatted with Steve Adegbite of Microsoft (always a pleasure!) before we had to leave to do the 1.5 hour commute (sigh)
Day Two
We slept in till noon and decided that a 1.5 hour commute both ways just wasn't going to happen. Instead we packed our suitcases and jumpbags, went bar hopping, shopped at WalMart, and had dinner at a Chinese Buffet. (not necessarily in that order)
All in all it was pretty cool, the talks were a step up from Shmoocon overall and the atmosphere is nice (they also have Starbucks drip coffee going for them). Its much smaller than BH USA Las Vegas which was a great time last year. I think that next year I might just do Shmoo and then Defcon/BH Vegas in the summer.
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