Talks

Speaking at Kawaiicon 2019 22 Oct 2019

A few months ago when I was applying to the CFP for Chcon, I thought, why not also submit to Kiwicon / Kawaiicon as well?

My first Kiwicon was in 2012, and I have been going every year since, and I have always thoroughly enjoyed myself and learnt a lot. I guess it was a bit of a dream that one day I might be able to present a talk at this super cool conference.

Well, I was pretty ecstatic when I got accepted to speak at Kawaiicon!

Kawaiicon is Kiwicon, but cuter. It actually started off as a joke when the Kiwicon organisers forgot to renew the kiwicon.org domain name, and brought kawaiicon.org as a contingency, but I guess this year they followed through and had a cute themed con!

On Friday morning I gave my talk The Story of the “Uncrackable” Lockbox, and Why Hackers Need to Work Alongside Developers. Archive Link.

The talk has been uploaded to Youtube, which you can find below:

You can find a copy of the slides here.

Speaking at Chcon 2019 12 Oct 2019

A few months ago, I saw the CFP for Chcon open up, and I thought back to how much I enjoyed Chcon last year, so I thought why not submit a talk this year.

I wrote up a submission, sent if off and a few weeks later I was delighted to hear that my talk was accepted! Since then I have been writing, editing and practising once a day for a fortnight, and I was happy with how things turned out.

On Thursday, I gave my talk The Story of the “Uncrackable” Lockbox, and Why Hackers Need to Work Alongside Developers, which is about the series of challenges u/cryptocomicon put forward for testing the security of his TimeLock software.

The talk has been uploaded to Youtube, which you can find below:

You can find a copy of the slides here.

Speaking at linux.conf.au 2019 26 Jan 2019

I was lucky enough to be selected to speak at linux.conf.au 2019, which was held in Christchurch, at the University of Canterbury.

My talk, Maintaining the Unmaintainable: Picking up the Baton of a Secure Kernel Patchset is about my experience in attempting to forward port the last release of the grsecurity patchset to newer kernels, and my time maintaining a public release that targets Linux 4.9 LTS.

I put a lot of time into practising the talk at least once a day for about two weeks straight, and I am happy with how it turned out.

The talk has been uploaded to YouTube, so check it out below, and also have a look at the other talks - there was a lot of interesting talks by the open source community this year.

You can find a copy of the slides here.