The keynote to beat is Bill Gates, whom you may recognize from Jon Stewart's show the other day (event KEY-101, Hall D, 8:00 a.m.); more techish folk should also enjoy the all-star Cryptographers Panel (KEY-104, Hall D, 10:40am). Elsewhere, the expo floor opens. You've got three panel time slots on Tuesday, and each has not one but two speakers you'd love to hear. This will, by the way, be the easiest day of the week.

1:30 p.m. sessions

Plenty of rootkit fun for everyone this hour. If you're not ready for Eset Software LLC's demo on the expo floor (EXPO-103), head for the "Rootkits: Beyond Good and Evil" panel, an intermediate-level discussion with kit developers, academics and deployers (HT1-105, Green Room 102).

3:00 p.m. sessions

Perennial draw Bruce Schneier (EXP-106, Green Room 103) holds forth on the Psychology of Security. Always good stuff, but consider instead dropping on anti-malware maven Eugene Kaspersky (HT1-106, Green Room 102) detailing "the Dark Side of Cybercrime: Details on the Latest Hacker Tactics from Around the World." From Moscow with love, that's right. And intellectual-property folk may enjoy Naomi Fine and Yvonne Kisiel's group discussion on "Information Classifications: How do IS, Legal and Users Find Commons Ground?" (P2P-106B, Orange Room 238) Ah, but the ground is already common; it's capturing the territory that's at stake... what, wrong attitude? Sorry...