Looks interesting, how much are the tickets tho? why are students not welcome (not that i am a student)? seems like the talks are very high level and not sure they would be advantagous for me, with my experience.

just came back from this conference- was quite good - listened to the kaspersky lab's "the botnet business" seminar but it was nothing new, mostly just the details of conficker for people who didn't already know - making the point that malware is getting far more sophisticated. 
went arround to the other vendors that were doing talks and realised that most of the talks were going to be not so informative.  and as I am more interested in the technical side of things I didn't go to any of the business orientated seminars.

one thing that really made my day was at one of the stalls Brian Oakley (former president of the british computer society and now bletchley park tour guide) was there with an actual enigma machine which he demonstrated to me and opened up to show the wheels etc.  (one of the lightbulbs didn't work etc).  He looks to be in his late 70's early 80's. I asked if he had worked at bletchley park during the war and he looked non-commital and said "no, but I was associated with it".  so I left it at that.

 I asked about bletchley park now and are all the old machines still working etc and he smiled and said something along the lines of "they're mostly all working - we were lucky - one nice lady came along one day and said that she worked on these machines during the war and still had her maintenance kit with her.  so she was able to fix a lot of the non-working machines.  I asked her about the time during the war, but after that it got a little bit complicated because she said that during the war she was a man"

anyway - really made my day - I donated £10 to the maintenance of bletchley park anyway. 

also came away with a free malware assessment CD from Kaspersky lab, so we'll give that a whirl shortly.

anyway...

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also picked up a cheap copy of Hacking the Human by Ian Mann. got him to sign it for me also  :-)   I've been looking for a good social engineering book for a while - kevin mitnik's one just didn't do it for me and I said so, and Ian said that he actually wrote it in response to kevin's book.   so I'll write up a review when I'm done with it, but it looks good so far.