[Noisebridge-discuss] Bay Area Hacker's Association presents Dan Kaminsky

[travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:37:06AM -0700, travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> Apologies for the mixup last month.  We're trying again...
> ("this time for sure!")
> 
> Bay Area (Hacker's Association|Security Enthusiasts) Meeting!
> 
> 2nd Sunday of Every Month, 2pm, at Noisebridge, in the main area.
> 
> It lasts until it's over.
> 
> Our site, including google calendar: http://baha.bitrot.info/
> 
> It's for people interested in security, not the other kind of hacking.
> 
> This month we present:
> ======================
> 
> Dan Kaminsky
> 
> Making Trust Scale:  The Realities of Comodo and DNSSEC
> 
> The realities of X.509 reached a fever pitch with the recent compromise of a
> Comodo SSL reseller. In this talk, I'll discuss how and why X.509, as a
> technology, leads to trust networks that do not scale, and how DNSSEC is in
> fact the correct technology to replace it.
> 
> About Dan:
> 
> Dan Kaminsky is an American security researcher. He formerly worked
> for Cisco, Avaya, and IOActive, where he was the Director of
> Penetration Testing. He is known among computer security experts for
> his work on DNS cache poisoning (also known as "The Kaminsky Bug"),
> and for showing that the Sony Rootkit had infected at least 568,200
> computers and for his talks at the Black Hat Briefings.
> 
> On June 16, 2010, Dan was named by ICANN as one of the Trusted
> Community Representatives for the DNSSEC root.
> 
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dan_Kaminsky

If anyone can bring a camera, I've had numerous requests for videos...
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