I moved back to the world of civilized e-mail, i.e. mutt. It's been wonderful, and I particularly enjoy hacking my mailcap to display things just how I like them (no PDF sploits for me). However, OSX's handling of calendar files is very irritating in that iCal tries to send responses via Mail.app without giving you much of a chance to do anything. I'd rather handle it in mutt and the cli. This is also generally useful for people using mutt who want to handle calendar files.
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TBOY - The Best One Yet
ZaCon III has come and gone this last weekend. It was a blast, solid content including some exciting first timers and more than doubling the original research output, an extension to include a Fri night, and the first time we ran with volunteers. The fact that the con seems to be getting better each year is important for me.
"It looks a bit eclectic"
Friday night kicked off around 7 at an uber-chilled venue, described by Roelof as "what I always imagined ZaCon should be" which was pretty great. Despite a projector failure, and nowhere to put the backup one, Roelof and Marco both presented some really entertaining talks. It was a nice mix of entertaining (and freaky) OSint followed by some hardcore vuln research. The time on either side to meet and talk to people was fun as a change to the usual brain-bending long day that is ZaCon.
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