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I just made it home after going to the annual freakshow that is Blackhat and Defcon. I haven’t been to Defcon since I believe DC9, so it has been 7 years. Overall the conference was pretty much the same, the best part wasn’t the talks but the people you meet. However, the Sensepost talk was really cool–everytime I come across those guys they really scare me (I first met a few of them back in 98 at a class.) The part that caught my eye was a tool that they released for tunneling TCP over http. Pretty cool stuff for pen testing, and they have JSP, PHP, and ASP versions of the program.
We weren’t able to see Kaminsky’s talk–there is a moral about hackers and crowd control somewhere in the story, but basically they didn’t have room for all the people that wanted to watch his presentation (whatever, I’ll download the torrent.)
We met some really cool folks while we were out there, if you have never been you should really go! If you don’t know anyone and you plan on going next year give me a shout and we will meet up.