Let me start by saying that "aftermath" is no exaggeration. Between the 24+ inches of snow and the crazy antics one can only find at a hacker convention, aftermath may even be a weak term. Due to the snow, the city shut down... all forms of life ceased to exist and the president was driving a monster truck around town. Okay, not really, but me and my fellow Americans have been stuck in the hotel and DC for the past 3 days which basically no place to go.
The conference itself was a great time. I always enjoy meeting a bunch of different people, and seeing familiar faces from other cons like DEFCON, which I try to attend as much as possible since first speaking there in 2007.
On to some more technical stuff... in my opinion the most exciting application to come out of Shmoocon this year was Airdrop-ng. Airdrop-ng will be becoming another part of the Aircrack-ng suite of tools. It's purpose is to deauthenticate clients from wireless access points. Not only will it deauthenticate them, it will also keep them deauth'd. And the cool part about the whole thing was the ability to write rules on what to deny/allow access to. I think it will be a great tool and will be useful in penetration test type scenarios where rogue access points are in the scope of exploitation.
Some other talks I really enjoyed were the FireTalks. 15 minute blurb type talks that get down to the point of the talk and just the details - my favorite. Two that stuck out were the Social Engineering Toolkit presentation by Dave Kennedy and the SHODAN for Penetration Testers talk by Michael Schearer. The Social Engineering Toolkit is basically a tool that will assist in Social Engineering type attacks - phishing, e-mails, etc.. SHODAN is a machine search engine - it fingerprints headers from millions of IPs and puts them in a database for searching. Both of these tools are very useful and fun to toy around with. I would recommend picking up these slides after they've been published.
In closing, I also picked up some physical hacking skills when I was here and honed my lockpicking skills a bit.
Overall a great time and something I will look forward to returning to. Hopefully with less snow.
Speaking of less snow... I hope I can get out of DC sometime today...
