Day 3con reflecting:
Another day down! Today was workshop day. The title of the workshop was "Dig Dug: The lost art of network tunneling." I don't want to go into the details of the workshop - it was a ton of info to cram into my brain - but I can say that I loved every minute of it! There were prizes raffled off at the end, but the main thing I took away was an emphasis on the importance of privacy and retaining control of our data. These were not new concepts to me, but listening to Eijah talk about the code we were deploying, his passion for what does and why were infectious.
After this I made it to a bar to eat and have a beverage. It was super busy (Saturday afternoon in Vegas it's no surprise), but I found a chair next to some folks with badges. While I didn't end up connecting with them on Twitter (the only thing I could thing of at the time), they were a reminder that I shouldn't be afraid to talk to strangers! Twri sets of strangers in an hour! This was actually a big deal for me. While I can chat with strangers over a bar top no problem, once I'm solo one on one, I tend towards quiet and timid.
Met up with GT and we made our way to the Social Engineering Village. A panel on a career in SE was a great insight into yet another aspect of cyber security that interests me. Then I ran into an old friend who I had no idea was in the tech world! She is a talented artist and it was great to know someone with a similar creative background was here (and had attended other security conferences) networking and taking in the con like I was! Again, she had advice on how to network and approach new people which I really appreciated and hopefully I can work up the courage to talk to more people I don't know!
Googly eyes are everywhere and in everything! It's so funny. I love it!
Tomorrow I may try out a 'cold call' sign up at the SE village where noobs can try to get x bits of info from a preselected 'targets' in a 5 minute window. Each day is bringing something new and I am looking forward to another one! Oh and I may have bought a split 60% Keyboard I'll be putting together sometime soon!
