So my Day 1 highlights from CHCon?

'The hacker known as “Alex”' has an excellent presentation style, very accessible to a wide audience. Good fun and technically informative, although TBH it was a very limited attack ...

Matthew Ruffell – one of the few people I've seen who can throw up a function call graph from IDA and tell you honestly that you can understand it, because all you need to do is find out where this call came from, not what it's doing ... and then throws in how to 'break' symmetric encryption and all sorts of other things as an aside ... and it all makes sense to pretty much everyone in the audience ...

Pete Nicholls, not just because I've known him for years, but also because he's talking about the same thing I'm finding on my plate right now at $dayjob. We might not always agree about how we're going to address our respective situations, but it'll be a thoughtful disagreement!