<?xml version="1.0" ?><entry xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:planet="http://planet.intertwingly.net/"><id>https://blog.nelhage.com/2007/08/def-con/</id><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/2007/08/def-con/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><title>DEF CON</title><summary>I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve been at the con, and it wasn’t really what I expected. Frankly, I walked away feeling kinda underwhelmed.
Very few of the talks were as technical as I was hoping – they were almost universally broad overviews of an area, with lots of introduction, and relatively little, to my eye, technical meat.</summary><updated planet:format="August 05, 2007 10:53 PM">2007-08-05T22:53:00Z</updated><source><id>https://blog.nelhage.com/post/</id><author><name>Nelson Elhage</name></author><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><link href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><subtitle>Recent content in Posts on Made of Bugs</subtitle><title>Posts on Made of Bugs</title><updated planet:format="September 18, 2026 05:37 AM">2026-09-18T05:37:03Z</updated><planet:format>rss20</planet:format><planet:bozo>false</planet:bozo><planet:items_per_page>60</planet:items_per_page><planet:name>Nelson Elhage</planet:name><planet:css-id>nelson-elhage</planet:css-id><planet:days_per_page>0</planet:days_per_page><planet:http_etag>&quot;5b2ae9eec2e293572f6ae5a000bd0161-ssl-df&quot;</planet:http_etag><planet:http_status>200</planet:http_status><planet:encoding>utf-8</planet:encoding></source></entry>