Re: July 20th, 2006 - Syscan

["Matt Conover" <mconover () gmail com>]

hmm wow i agreed with almost all of that :)

> So the best thing about small conferences is that they can experiment a
bit

speaking of which.. i have invented "a method and apparatus to preseve 0day
even during public disclosure at security conferences." for the good of the
community, i'll share my trade secrets:
1. present at a conference where attendees are not very fluent in the
language you present it
2. speak very quickly. avoid pausing for breaths, this will give the
audience the opportunity to digest what you've just said.
3. use lots of idioms
4. be sure your slides are not available ahead of time
5. refuse to be recorded. if you can afford it, hire security staff to pat
down attendees for contraband (voice recorders, camcorders, etc.). the MPAA
hasn't yet discovered the value of mandatory pat downs at movie theatres...

these steps will the 0day remains 0day even after it's publicly presented..
possibly even at numerous conferences until your material is finally
deciphered and redistributed in plainspeak.

> http://www.syscan.org/ is not a big conference. This is probably one
> of its strengths. The other strength is the organizers - Thomas Lim ...
Yeah for sure. My three favorite conferences are due to the organizers:
1. cansecwest isn't cansecwest without dragos
2. xcon isn't xcon without xfocus
3. syscan isn't syscan without thomas

> myself, Matthew Conover, and SK Chong are also on the CFP committee,
> which means papers will be vetted for technical content quite carefully.
i promise to try to get anything on windows vista approved :) i'll speak on
something about it if there are some others. u know how it goes... i'll show
u mine if u show me urs.

> A little about Singapore itself:
> It has a 7-11 on every block

Ohh I thought that was Thailand :P