My excellent adventure at Black Hat

Yesterday was a great day at Black Hat. I would tell you all about it, but it seems Mitchell thinks that it best that we don't talk about what goes on here at Black Hat. Now, far be it from me to break "Cardinal Rules" (has anyone ever really thought about what exactly is a "cardinal rule"? Why not a Blue Jay or Falcon rule?) but if we can't talk about it, what good is it. I think Mitchell is confusing divulging the really juicy Vegas stuff, from just the mundane. So let me tell you about my excellent adventure yesterday at Black Hat.

I was one of the multitude standing in the back listening to Dan's DNS report. You probably have already heard that it is bigger and worse than originally reported. I than spent a lot of time with the Microsoft people talking to them about their security stuff. I will tell you that despite many who rail against Microsoft, these guys actually are doing a great job on security and in dealing with the security community. Much better than a certain company named for a fruit whose marketing people killed the presentation of their own security research team. After lunch I took a front row seat to watch Hoff present on virtual security. He has some very pretty slides, but the message was clear. Great presentation by Hoff. I spent most of the rest of the afternoon catching up with lots of security bloggers here. I am amazed by the number of us here at Black Hat.

Had a quiet dinner with Mitchell (I would tell you about it but you know about what happens in Vegas with Mitchell) and than went to the Breach party at the Shadow Bar (I love that place, but it was too hot last night). We than went over to the Fuente cigar bar and next thing you know we were joined by about 30 of our closest security blogger buddies. It was a great time and their are pictures floating around twitter somewhere of it. We talked and laughed into the late hours, winding up at the Augustus cafe again for an early breakfast.

Well it is back to the show today and another round of parties tonight. Ah, it is tough living the life ;-)

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