Defcon Day 1

I had some great stuff I had written but the laptop is acting up probably because I logged onto one of the rogue wireless networks at Defcon. According to this article in the Washington Post there were 130 of them active. The Post reporter did a pretty good job but I thought his account rather lifeless though it did contain some interesting stuff. Other articles on Defcon can be found here and here.
In addition the Post has two other Posts here and here and here and even here. He was quite a busy boy but obviously a reporter.

My own experience was a bit different. Since I did not like the post reporter attend Black Hat I rolled in on Friday before noon only to find that my room was not ready yet. I went and registered for the conference which went very fast, bought a t-shirt and attempted to go to my first session which was closed already due to being packed. A little bothered by this I walked around for a while dragging my bags with me until I found my way to the bar where several cigars and three beers later I was feeling much better. The bar by the way had a large screen on one of the sessions and altogether watching it there was somewhat better thanbeing in the session itself.

This continued until about 4 when my room was finally ready and being as I was soaked (it was only 103 in the shade) I was ready to take a shower.
On getting to my room I found the door open and an armed female officer inside taking pictures. I thought to myself that this was indeed a record for me being as I had never had police in my room before I got there before. It turns out she was taking pictures of damage by the previous occupants and after some friendly chatter about this and that (that being her S&W 38) I finally got the door closed and the shower on. As I was drying off I put the TV on and I was delighted to find that all the sessions were on the closed circut live, so I sat there in the buff and didn't really miss a thing.

Being on the bed though was a problem and I drifted off for an hour or so. Eventually I got back in gear and caught a few sessions before hacker Jeopardy started ay 10pm. Yes I said 10pm, hackers keep late hours. not a problem when I was younger but a bit of a challenge now.

The evening activities I will detail in the next post.