Confused time tables and had to wait 15 minutes for the right tram and still managed to get onto the wrong tram. Therefore I missed part of the pgp standard talk. Ran into Mario, and really enjoyed the passive covert channel lecture of Joanna Rutkowska for various reasons.

Tried to connect to the net again and synced 5000 mails which took an hour. Unfortunately I missed the first part of the bluetooh hacking talk which brought some amazing results.

Went to an Italian restaurant for pizza and restocked food supply for the congress in the food section of kaufhof.

Attended the keysigning party which was supposed to last for an hour. When I arrived with Scotty there were around 150 people in the workshop room - which was clearly too much. We started to compare fingerprints and decided to do the id comparison at a different location. At first we wanted to do that on the platform of the trainstation but this idea was rejected by some people because the platform had surveillance cameras. We gathered in front of the congress center and it took a while until everyone found their position. The whole event lasted for 2,5 hours and lots of people (including me) were half-frozzen and cursed for not taking any gloves. Overall it was fun nevertheless.

Returned to catch the rest of Dan Kaminsky’s talk “Black Ops of dns”. Amazing stuff and Dan is a really entertaining speaker.

Listened to more talks during the night and even stayed for the Hacker’s jeopardy till 2am.

Managed to miss the night bus, although I was literally standing right in front of it. Normally I am better with the local public transportation system… Had a vague idea where I needed to go, so decided to walk home. Walked right into the Oranienburger Straße where lots of ladies tried to be really, really helpful and would have probably offered a place to stay but with only 10 Euros left, I figured that I should politely decline any offers.

Walking along the Oranienburger Straße at 3am in the morning has also the big advantage that lots of police is still around.

Found a place that still had kebabs and eventually arrived at home around 4am.