Yeah it’s lame to post so late but better than never

It all started with me meeting vinzanity and raz at Sungai Nibong Bus Station. I wanted to drive earlier but chose the bus option. Driving in KL for me is hell since I don’t know the roads there. I would usually drive down then take a cab to go anywhere I want. This time I wanted someone else to do the driving.

f1ex was already in KL waiting for us. He called me a few times while we were in the bus. I had asked vinzanity to bring along a wireless router so we could share any Internet connection we could find. f1ex had checked into Federal Hotel and of course Internet access is not free. He described to me their service provider and I told him I’d get back to him. Me and vinzanity did some checks in the bus and SMSed f1ex a working username/password.

It’s nice to know we’ve secured our Internet access before even reaching KL Sure beats the instability of connecting via client mode.

I gave f1ex a call when we reached KL toll then met him at Pudu where he picked us up and went to have some food near Medan Imbi. After food, we packed some drinks from 7-11 and headed to the hotel.

We used vinzanity’s wireless router to setup our very own wireless network. Drank and smoked till the sun came out.

I had a splitting headache when I woke up and the rest were still dead sleeping. By the time everyone got ready it was already lunchtime. We had a quick lunch and walked towards The Westin.

When we got out of the lift on the 2nd floor, CtF was hot in progress. I greeted spoonfork then hushed into Tim Pritlove’s Project Blinkenlights. I got a bit bored then ventured to the next room where Fyodor Yarochkin & Meder Kydyraliev’s STIFWare Evolution was hot in action.

When that ended, we walked around and stopped by VIA’s Openhack booth. Going thru the rules of the challenge, I knew no one was gonna win anything from here.

The zone-h hacking challenge located at the other end of the hall had more attention. We lingered a while around the area then quickly headed for the grugq’s “VoIPhreaking: How to make free phone calls and influence people” then Shreeraj Shah’s Web Hacking Kung-Fu and Art of Defense.

During the break, we checked out CtF progress. This year’s format was a bit different. Each team will be given custom daemons that contain bugs. The teams are expected to patch and code an exploit to score points. More information here and here.

After the break, Anthony Zboralski’s Social Engineering Fundamentals and Joanna Rutkowska’s Virginity Verifier was very informative.

After that, we headed back to the hotel. Met up with Kris and Barry at Bangsar then went wardriving which resulted to these little points. We would have got more if it wasn’t for my battery. I had a power invertor for the car but f1ex’s lighter power source was disconnected intentionally

We got more drinks and headed back only to end up sleeping when the sun came up again.

The second day of the conf, vin got sick and raz got lost. Among the interesting presentations were Dave Aitel’s Nematodes (Beneficial Worms), Jim Geovedi’s Hotspot Security, Fabrice Marie’s Hacking Internet Banking Applications and Raoul Chiesa’s x.25 Security.

Walking back to the hotel, I saw this and said to myself “Well well well … What could that possibly be?”. If you’re interested, it’s at the crossroad infront of Lot10.

Vinzanity got better when we got back to the room. Since we had a little bit of time to kill before the party, we went to KLCC. I checked out the posibilities of jumping from one floor to another while f1ex shopped for pens and pants. vinzanity just did his usual tagalong.

We wanted to get a cab to Menara KL and this dude infront of KLCC obviously thought we were Eskimos and wanted to charge us RM20 for the ride. I walked a few more meters and got one for RM8.

We saw spoonfork and the rest of the gang and proceeded up up up up. Elevator was not as fast as going up Shanghai’s tower but it’s cool though. At the top … the party was just warming up. Food, drinks *cough* and a spanking view of KL at night.

Ate and drank … shot some blury photos. I never liked flash hence the crap photos.

Looking for a place to smoke … I opened a door and fumbled unto a makeshift “hacker smoking room”. ** cough ** cough ** Ahhhh … smoke.

Anthony, Roberto, Fabio, Raoul and me did the management a favour by killing a few roaches in the mens. They stanked !

The party swung into higher gear when Tony Chor and Dave Aitel bottomed a few mugs with the rest of the crew. Sure is great being high high. 4th highest that is.

Leaving the place was a problem. The elevators were not working and we had to wait for ages to get down. Overall … fuckin awesome party!!!! Thanks HITB! You guys fuckin ROCK!

kr0n drove us back. On the way to the car we discovered a “Fear Factor” truck. Everyone took turns to snap photos and I was thinking of getting right on top of the truck. Lucky thing I didn’t.

For those of you who are still cracking your head over my t shirt. Convert hex “01A4” into decimal and you should get “420“. Google up 420 if you don’t know what it means. Hope to see you guys again next year!! Show some lurve and leave some comments.