Reviewing Blachat Japan 06 / Tokyo

This trip was a blast! I already arrived on Wednesday -- one day before the conference -- and went out with Laurie from ShadowServer to do some shopping in Asakusa as he is a Tokyo local for two years now. Bought some nice stuff for my girlfriend and family there and also took the compulsionary tourist's fotos in front of one of the temples.

Later on that day, I went to Roppongi visiting the Gas Panic club, which really deserves the description ``foreigner meat market'' as it is called by some locals. I've been later on told by some other locals that it's not the most beautiful you'd get there, but nevertheless it would have been really easy as far as I can judge.

Thursday started with a huge hangover, a nearly missed press meeting and a hard one staying awake during the day, followed by going to bed right after the Blackhat social event. I talked to some people and attended some talks, as usual the topics at Blackhat were rather interesting but conferences are more for socializing...

Our talk at Friday morning went pretty well, apart the we totally messed up our botsnoopd demo as no botnets were showing activity and even #gentoo on FreeNode was silent during our presentation (we should have pre-recorded a video). So we could only show some simple management commands... Apart from that, it was said to be the second most popular presentation (right behind Joanna's talk on the virtualization rootkit), probably thanks to Thorsten's CWSandbox part of it.

The speakers party did not convince to much (especially not for 4500 Yen entrance fee), but we were going to the Air club later on were a Chicago DJ hat some insane set; we were there from 1:00 to 6:15, powered by Redbull and Orange Juice (and the other by Vodka Redbull, too). It was simply great.

So see you next year at some Blackhat conference! ;)