I was up in Wellington last weekend for Kiwicon II and I must say the 50 bucks was well worth it. Over the course of two days, I learned that:

• video conferencing systems are insecure, hackers may be watching you
• I have a lot more to learn about heap overflows
• locks do not prevent access, they simply slow you down
• fancy locks are fancy but not as secure as you may think
• you can be knocked off Google
• your Bluetooth devices may be giving away your whereabouts
• the range on wireless devices is greater than you think
• Paul Craig owns all the Internet kiosks out there, check out iKAT
• Windows make life easy for malware creators, it’s a feature not a bug
• Google is a hacking tool… well, I already knew that

There were other interesting topics including biometrics, Citrix, and drive-by-downloads.

Tokemon was awesome. It was 3 hours of hacking and drinking @ Shooters. All legal of course. I couldn’t be bothered lugging my laptop up to Welly as I was trying to travel lite, so I didn’t get my hands dirty this year. Plus I don’t feel like having it pwned. I did learn quite a bit from watching the pros at work.

Hopefully, there will be a Kiwicon 2009. I will definitely be back.