HTCIA Report, Day 1
The first day of the HTCIA conference was not quite what I expected. ........ ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........... ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........ .......... ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........ .......... ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........ .......... ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........ .......... ....... ...... .... .................... .... .... .... ... .... ........ ....... ...... ....... ...........

Somehow my conference registration got lost and the organizers had no record of my existence. Thankfully the staff working the desk recognized my name as a speaker and got me a badge. It took a few minutes, but gave me a chance to have a cup of coffee and schmooze. At this point, however, things threatened to go downhill.

The first speaker I hoped to see did not check in to the conference; I hope he's ok. The second called in on Sunday to say he'd broken his leg. The lunch speaker overlapped with the first session of the afternoon so I didn't get to hear much of what he said. Finally though, I caught some good talks in the afternoon and early evening.

I'm now back in my room furiously rewriting my presentations on fuzzy hashing and Windows memory analysis. Although the talks were good, they were far too impractical for the crowd here. Right now I'm surrounded by cops from the Lower Elkswhich County Police. They have no use for which functions are O(n) versus O(n²), but care greatly about what can be taken to court and what can't.