Notes from 2008-10-09
- At Tulsa TechFest Day 1, morning keynote by Chris Bernard, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist; click here for slides #
- Standing room only at the TechFest morning keynote #
- Stunning revelation from Microsoft keynote: “We need to think about scale”. Wow. #
- Bernard: “UX is about making choices”; developers need to “be everywhere” #
- Bernard is pushing Silverlight, XAML, and designer-oriented tools #
- Bernard: “How people feel is the new black”#
- Bernard’s blog http://chrisbernard.blogs.com #
- Jayson Street’s waiting to start his “Google to Pwnag3 in 60 Minutes” session http://twitpic.com/faew #
- Jayson Street’s “fun job” http://stratagem-one.com #
- Street’s talk TOC http://twitpic.com/fah9 #
- Street: Back Track 4 will be a Debian distribution http://tinyurl.com/3dg2zs #
- Street can’t get his Windows movie to play… #
- Street: “Hackers love complexity” (speaking of FoxNews.com and Fox.com using different OSes and web servers) #
- Street shows Firefox hacking extensions, using Netcraft.com and SamSpade.org #
- Street: OSVDB is an invaluable tool for sysadmins and defenders #
- Street: “Microsoft provided us with a hacking tool, tftp.exe. Lovely!” #
- Street’s presentation is at http://f0rb1dd3n.com/s1s/WP/ #
- Coming up after lunch in Track 1: Chris Koenig, Microsoft Evangelist, on Silverlight style http://twitpic.com/fb0l #
- Tim Elrod’s “Reverse Engineering Security Patches”: Most RE hackers use IDA Pro #
- Elrod talks very well of Metasploit, as did Street #
- Elrod shows how to reverse engineer a QuickTime RTSP vulnerability #
- Elrod uses VMWare Fusion extensively during his QuickTime RTSP exploit #
- Koenig’s Silverlight talk is sparsely attended and a bit of a snoozer http://twitpic.com/fbig #
- My “Hacking the Meaning in Human Communication” talk went well, two or three possible new partners #
- Rob Howard, CEO of Telligent and former Microsoftie, keynoting about the importance of talking *with*, not *at*, customers #
- Howard: “Search has to become much, much smarter”. Talk to Digital Reasoning, Rob! http://twitpic.com/fce0 #
- Howard: “Webkinz is brainwashing our children”. Love it! http://twitpic.com/fcgc #
- Howard demoing Telligent’s Harvest Reporting Server analytics tool #
- Overheard during Zune giveaway: “What’s that?”. Answer: “Like an iPod” #
- Tulsa TechFest suggestion for next year: Seriously streamline the giveaways at the end of each day (madness and mayhem and 45 minutes to get through them on Day 1 this year) #
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