I'm lucky enough to be able to catch the last day of the USENIX Security Symposium here in Washington, DC, and as soon as I hopped off the plane, I jumped into a session that was just starting, Measuring the Practical Impact of DNSSEC Deployment. The authors of the paper were Wilson Lian, Eric Rescorla, Hovav Schacham, and Stefan Savage, and Wilson Lian gave the presentaiton.
It's one of those moments that stays with you. Where you were when you heard Evi Nemeth, one of the original Unix Graybeards (she didn't actually have a beard, but the honorific still seems appropriate) being declared "lost at sea." I was, as I usually am in the mornings, at a computer. It was an especially bittersweet moment for me, being one of the few technical women in a landscape dominated by men.
At USENIX Security '13 tonight (Wednesday, August 14), attendees are invited to celebrate the life of Evi Nemeth. Attendees are encouraged to share their favorite memories and happy stories at tonight's Tribute to Evi.
Do you have a sys admin-related
question you want answered on air (errr... G+ hangout)? If so, email
them to me at rikki@usenix.org
by 5pm Eastern today (Tuesday, August 6). If your question is chosen
to be answered in tonight's hangout recording, you'll receive a free
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Fully supports authors of academic paper barred from publication at 22nd USENIX Security Symposium
Berkeley, Calif., July 31, 2013 — In keeping with its commitment to academic freedom and open access to research, the USENIX Association announced today that Roel Verdult, lead author of the academic paper, “Dismantling
Megamos Crypto: Wirel
USENIX thinks sysadmins are Kind of A Big Deal, which is why one lucky @LISAConference Twitter follower will win a tech session pass to attend LISA '13. (Yes, we really dig sysadmins!)
Not already following @lisaconference? No problem — follow us by July 27th (11AM UTC/GMT -7 hours) to be included in the drawing.
Thanks to support from USENIX members, we're able to provide open access to conference proceedings. Videos from our recent USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit (WiAC '13) are now online for your viewing pleasure. More videos will be added as they get edited.
Earlier this month, Ben Cotton and Matt Simmons held their first G+ SysAdmin Hallway Track hangout. Watch the recording and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Do you have topic ideas for our next SysAdmin Hallway Track
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to win a Puppet book.
