netmeister.org - speaking

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Past

The following is a subset of the talks or presentations I've given on a variety of topics:

• The gTLDs' New Clothes -- A Look at Centralization in Naked Domains; given at the APAC DNS Forum 2023 Pre-Event on 2023-06-20
• Who controls the internet? -- A look at diversity of authoritative NS records in gTLDs; given at the 5th ICANN DNS Symposium on 2022-11-15
• The Razor's Edge - Cutting Your TLS Baggage -
  given at O'Reilly Security on 2017-11-01 [slideshare link]
• OpSec 101 - A Choose Your Own Adventure for Devs, Ops, and other Humans -
  given at ConFoo Vancouver 2016 on 2016-12-07 [slideshare link]
• Know Your Enemy - An Introduction to Threat Modeling -
  given at ConFoo Vancouver 2016 on 2016-12-05 [slideshare link]
• Crazy Like A Fox -
  given at O'Reilly Security on 2016-10-31 [slideshare link]
• It's the people, stupid -
  given at Velocity NY 2016 on 2016-09-22 [slideshare link]
• Things They Don't Teach You In School -
  given at the Stevens Institute of Technology Computer Science Club on 2016-03-14 [slideshare link]
• Everything is Awful (And You're Not Helping) -
  given at BSidesSF 2016 on 2016-02-28 [slideshare link] [video]
• Defense at Scale -
  given at BSidesNYC 2016 on 2016-01-16 [slideshare link]
• Primum non nocere - Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations -
  given at Velocity NY 2015 on 2015-10-14 [slideshare link]
• Protecting Data in Untrusted Locations -
  given at RealWorldCrypto 2015 on 2015-01-09 [slideshare link]
• All Is Not Lost (But We Need Your Help) -
  given at OpenITP's Techno Activism 3rd Monday on 2014-01-20 [video | slideshare link]
• Online Privacy Tools -
  given at San Francisco's One City, One Book on 2013-09-04 [slideshare link]
• We're Doing It Wrong -- What DevOps Needs To Learn In Order To Scale Up -
  given at DevOpsDays NYC on 2013-01-17 [video]
• Safely Drinking from the Data Waterhose -
  An ignite talk about how Etsy extracts security related events and alerts from their logs. Given at DataGotham on 2012-09-13 and repeated at DevOpsDays NYC on 2013-01-17[slideshare link]
• PGP for Smarties -
  An introduction of PGP, Public Key Cryptography and the Web of Trust, given at Etsy on 2012-09-05 [slideshare link]
• Down with the fancy pants! How people have been optimizing the wrong things and increased complexity. -
  A discussion of complexity in infrastructure architecture, presented at Velocity 2012 on 2012-06-27 [slideshare link] [accompanying interview]
• There's no place like ::1 -
  An IPv6 basics session given at Etsy on 2012-06-01 [slideshare link]
• Useless Use Of... This and That, an updated version of my earlier talk, given at NYCBug in May 2012 [audio here]
• Of Headless User Accounts and Restricted Shells, ;login, The USENIX Magazine, December 2011
• Headless Host Scanning -
  a talk I gave at Twitter in April 2011 about scanmaster and sigsh and how to scan hundreds of thousands of hosts in minutes.
• L3DSR -- Overcoming Layer 2 Limitations of Direct Server Return Load Balancing, NANOG 51, January 2011
• Teaching System Administration in the Cloud, ;login, The USENIX Magazine, October 2010
• Building Better Tools -
  a talk on how system engineers and administrators, the people who maintain the infrastructure of the internet and who write a lot of code without (usually) having any training in software engineering practices, can improve their tools. Originally given at NYCBug in June 2009 (audio).
• DST '07 @ Yahoo! -
  a presentation on how changes in Daylight Saving Time were handled at Yahoo!; Originally given at BayLISA in May 2007. [Video]
• Useless Use of * -
  a presentation originally given at SCALE 2007.