ShmooCon Pregame
(Wait, isn’t tonight’s OWASP meeting the pregame? So, in about eighteen hours, I’ll be (hopefully) be picking up my badge, and getting started on this years version of ShmooCon. Shmoocon is definitely a con where the best parts happen “off the record,” in the hallways, bars, and restaurants, or at the events like Hack or Halo, Hacker Arcade, the Locksmith Village, the parties, the list goes on and on. Last year suffered from extremely hit or miss talks, to the point where the end of con seemed based around people asking why some talks were allowed in. However, I’m cautiously …
Shmoocon 2008 — the “not sexy” talks part II
The second “non-sexy” talk I attended was by Rohit Sethi, and Nish Balla of Security Compass, on Aspect Oriented Programming. This is a topic that I have been told to look into by a variety of my developer friends, and it’s pretty simple and profound, and very timely to have in the sights of security practitioners. Even though the talk was in the “main room,” it was severely under attended compared to most of the talks in that track. Converting projects to Aspect involves compiling with an extra library and a special library, but no real alteration of source code. …