The first day of ToorCon Seattle 2008 was held at the so-called “Public N3rd Area” on East Marginal Way in south Seattle. BFE, in other words. I was planning on taking a cab home, before I realized that that would have been hopeless. Thank goodness I found a ride.

It’s a cool venue, though, and the 5-minute lightning talks last night were very entertaining. Two were particularly memorable:

Travis Goodspeed, who also did a cool talk last Fall at ToorCon in San Diego, discussed reverse engineering a traffic-light control box. Excellent hacker con material. See http://seattle.toorcon.org/2008/conference.php?id=29, as well as
http://travis.frob.us/projects/asc3/.

Dean Pierce presented a network visualization tool. It’s like if nmap could draw a pretty little graph for you. Very nice! See
http://seattle.toorcon.org/2008/conference.php?id=39 and http://code.google.com/p/seedsofcontempt/.

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