In brief
Technical housekeeping about the Pulsar venue and the main news about the format: at the anniversary, tenth MFD there will be no traditional "roast" — instead, a time capsule sealed at the 2021 conference will be opened. Yankovoy runs the conference as moderator; he counts it "since 2016" and "ten years have passed." The opening of the capsule itself is not in the recording — it is in the closed part of the day.
What was said
- An invitation into the hall from the coffee-break area; the venue has three areas — presentations, coffee breaks and booths. In the booth area the partners "have brought a lot of their developments, because some we haven't seen in two or three years."
- Entry through the main entrance and the elevators, "no more than six per elevator"; for the smokers a second exit has been opened on the left side, the entrance stays a single one — in the same place where everyone came in.
- He introduces himself: Dmitry Yankovoy, moderator "following the good old tradition of MKO Systems." The organizer — MKO Systems, "a leading Russian developer of software for computer forensic examination of mobile devices, cloud services, computers and much more."
- The company runs its own training in digital forensics. The conference has been held since 2016, "back then it had a slightly different name"; ten years have passed, and there are people in the hall who were at the first conference. The point of the event — "one big platform for people from literally all over the country and different fields," not the talks in themselves.
- Originally the conference was intended only for law enforcement staff, then the format was changed and every year they experiment with it; this year there will be experiments "which will break with our traditions."
- The main change: "today there won't be a roast." In 2021, at the conference "held around these same dates near Komsomolskaya metro station," a time capsule was sealed; it will be opened today and there will be a discussion of how the experts of that time "saw digital forensics five years on." The live discussion format is kept.
- On bugs: they will show up, "only those who do nothing never have any." The team is in the booth area all day, you can come up with any question, some things will be fixed on the spot; "as our tech support always writes: send us the logs," because "poking around blind is a tricky business." For feedback — souvenir prizes.
- "I won't say anything about phones, you all know that already."
Stance and tone
Conversational, with self-irony ("my name is still Dmitry Yankovoy"), without pomp and without selling the talks — unlike the 2025 opening, there is neither "meat" here nor a listing of the partners from the stage (Vakhrushina will name the partners in the next talk). The admission that there will be bugs and that without logs support is helpless — a candor rare for a vendor's stage, even if in the form of a joke.
Quotes
- "…our conference is really not so much about the talks, about learning something new, as it has become one big platform for people from literally all over the country and different fields."
- "Only those who do nothing never have any."
- "…as our tech support always writes: send us the logs. And that's true, honestly, because poking around blind is a tricky business."