Finally back in SA after a week of debauchery out in Las Vegas with my crew from LSO. Times were good this year, between Carnal0wnage getting the hook up, Tebo, and Adam knowing everyone, and Dean and mines taste of elegance and high class women it was an awesome time. We got into a crap load of the parties which were fine and great but they mostly lacked women. Dean and I spent many nights in the lounges of the Bellagio getting drunk and talking about various things. This was the first time I actually met all those dudes so it was really cool!

I’m still tossed up about the talks though; I did not feel they were that great this year. There were a few that caught my attention and were well spoken. Penetration testing is dead, Malware RCE, Vulncatcher just to name a few at defcon. Blackhat as usual was only two day’s but it felt like it lasted forever. Although a few good talks popped up nothing shot out at me as being new. Of course, you had all the hype about the Kaminski bug, and he got a little butt hurt when they gave him a pwnie for the most hyped bug. I was two rows back for that, it was amusing.

Dean and I met a few people one evening and I turned into a 5:30 a.m bedtime when I finally departed and went back to my hotel. Hopefully that will turn into a few consulting gig’s.

We all came back pumped full of motivation, me included. I picked up a copy of “The Ida Pro Book” by Chris Eagle and I’m reading through it during the day. After talking with one of the immunitysec guy’s he suggested we split our stuff up and not do the same thing each day otherwise we might burn out on it. So I’ve been playing with different stuff, going to attempt to avoid burn out over the next course of the year while still growing in my ability to do shit.

For the next few weeks, I’ll be busy as all hell. Got a bunch of stuff to read and catch up on. I’ve Got some presentations to make, potentially a chicon presentation to create, 3 more classes left for my Masters degree. I made an entire list of things on the plane, basically born from talks at blackhat, or discussions in the hallway. I’ll try to post up!