Theo de Raadt has won the FSF's Free Software award. (http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html) He, and two other OpenBSD devolopers, will be giving talks in Dublin this week. Wednesday in UCD, Thursday in Trinity and Friday in Maynooth. If anyone's interested in coming along they are more than welcome. Info follows.
David C.
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The UCD Internet Society is proud to present a series of public talks by the people who bring you OpenBSD, OpenSSH, OpenBGPd and OpenNTPd. These guys are well known around the world for their multiple contributions to the security and networking domains. Their software is used in products from many high profile companies, such as Sun Microsystems, IBM, Microsoft and Cisco.
This is a rare chance to get to see their presentations and ask them your own questions in Ireland. Certainly not to be missed by anybody who has an interest in networking or security! Tell everyone you know, friends don't let friends miss an event of this calibre.
The talks are: * Theo de Raadt - Exploit Mitigation; reducing vulnerabilities to stop crackers in their tracks.
* Henning Brauer - OpenBGPd; industrial strength routing, pro-actively secure.
* Ryan McBride - Network Randomness; predictability is bad, how to reduce it. - PF; highly advanced packet filtering.
The talk will take place in Theatre M in the UCD Arts Block, starting at 18:30 Wednesday the 2nd of March 2005. We will be holding a reception after the talks
The talk is FREE and open to everybody.
Map: http://www.ucd.ie/maps/ucd_campus2005_buildingsversion.jpg
Directions: UCD is located on the N11. From the city centre buses 10, 46A and 11B will take you to UCD. The 10 will bring you closest. The 10 stops at point 27 on the map, the 11b at point 49, and the 46A across the road from point 1. Coming via Dart, get off at Blackrock and take the 17 bus which will stop at point 27. The talks will be in the Arts block (also known as the John Henry Newman Building) which is building 14 on the map. Theatre M is on the right as you come in the main entrance (follow the coloured lines).
More details on the event can be found at: http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/
The OpenBSD project website is: http://www.openbsd.org/