Thoughts on NOTACON 6
Posted by g0ne on April 19, 2009
Just got back from presenting our client side talk at NOTACON with CG. The drive out and back from Cleveland OH was fun in the M and the area chosen to host the CON was aparently the “nice/hip” part of town- Good choice. Now on to the actual con…
The point of NOTACON is that it isn’t a typical CON, and it lives up to this. The talks were all good but ranged from hacking sql to strategy behind the go game to audio programming languages. If you were there for any specific reason you would have had a considerable amount of down time. You really needed to be a security/ techie/gaming/ hardware geek to find something during each timeslot.
I think our talk went well although they didn’t have feedback forms for participants to fill out so I have no idea how well we really did. We got good on the spot feedback from a few people but we packed the room in so it would be good to know for the future. If anyone wants to post a review we’d appreciate it.
Enough about me for now… David Kennedy’s (ReL1K) talk about fast-track was very good and even tempted the demo gods with live demos with great success. I will be testing out the software shortly. I’m sure he was happy that he didn’t need to have a shield as nobody was throwing lemons or other items. Another member of secure state, Matt Neely (Zamboni) gave a great talk on decoding hotel room keys for personal information. He showed all kinds of techniques to get and analyze raw data from mag stripe cards and was very informative. Travis Goodspeed as usual gave a pretty detailed talk on hardware modding and building your own binary clocks and circuit boards. I’m not an electrical engineer but if you were you would really have enjoyed the talk.
I went to a few more talks and all were informative but decided to head out of town early and didn’t make it to the end. Oh yeah… memedump by Jason Scott for 2+ hours was a blast. It was basically a movie of the “best youtube has to offer” with beer and cheering. Good times!
I don’t have the video uploaded to vimeo yet but plan on getting that taken care of soon so check often if you are interested in seeing it.
Till the next con… peace out intersphere
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