First NoVA Sec Meeting 1900 Thu 24 Aug 06

Let's hold the first NoVA Sec meeting at 1900 on Thursday, 24 August 2006 at the Panera Bread at:

Fairfax Towne Center
12120 Fairfax Towne Center
Fairfax, VA 22033
Tel: (703) 246-0056

This place has free wireless.

The price of admission is a laptop running something other than Microsoft Windows. Whoever brings the most exotic OS on their laptop will get a free book from my stash of books that publishers send me to review. The winner will be decided by an attendee vote. See you there!

Note: This is the last time I will cross-post to the TaoSecurity Blog. All future announcements will be posted exclusively to the NoVA Sec Blog.

Comments

Anonymous said…
The price of admission is a laptop running something other than Microsoft Windows.

Darn...that counts me out. Maybe next time...and I do love me some Panera...
8:51 PM
Richard Bejtlich said…
Bring a live CD then. :)
8:55 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks, Richard, but I can't hide who I am...oh, wait, that's the line I was going to use when I tried out for "Who wants to be a superhero"...
9:23 PM
Anonymous said…
I have one problem with this post. First thanks for waiting for me to move to the west coast to start this. :P.

In all honesty the NOVA area really needs somethings like this. Nice job Rich.
1:57 AM
Richard Bejtlich said…
da kahuna,

You bet. Have fun.
5:41 AM
Anonymous said…
Who is going to sweep the place for "bugs" before we arrive to insure our privacy?

aj
8:45 AM
Anonymous said…
Man, do I wish I lived near you. It sounds like a great meeting.
I'd love to see the winner of most exotic laptop. Please let us know.

Thanks for al your hard work, Richard. I read your blog everyday.
10:25 AM
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