LinuxWorld Expo Highlights

[jordi laforge]

Thanks for the info!

On 8/11/07, Phillip Waclawski <waclawski at mail.mc.maricopa.edu> wrote:
>
> Well, yesterday was the last session of the Linux World Conference and
> Expo in San Francisco at the Moscone center.
>
> As usual, the weather is amazingly wonderful compared to the Phoenix
> Valley. I think the high one day was 74F ;) cool breezes, just
> wonderful.
>
> The first day we did some work with BackTrack Live CD,
> http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html  . Lots of nice
> attack/penetration testing software all compiled into a nice live CD.
> We did have some problems with the network not being fully up for us
> until the end of class, but learned quite a bit.
>
> Then we had a 3 hour seminar on hacking web applications, with neat
> tricks such as "fuzzing" etc. I now understand a lot more of the weird
> http errors I've been getting. I'm being probed. Unsuccessfully
> thankfully, but still...
>
> I went to a few other talks that were interesting, some of them a bit
> basic, others quite interesting.
>
> At the LPI wine and cheese party (Linux Professional Institute) I was
> able to chat with John "Maddog" Hall for about 15 to 20 minutes.
> Amazing gentleman, suprisingly softspoken, but then again the "Maddog"
> nickname is from a time when he was a lot younger and more
> easily "agitated" ;). Talked about how China, South Korea and Japan
> are coming together to work on open source Linux derivations as a
> group, and how amazing it was considering the attitudes the different
> countrys usually have towards each other.
>
> Oh, and I also snagged a lot of Live CDs, suction cup feet for laptops
> to keep them cool, a few suse hats, and a T-shirt or two that I can
> donate to both the PLUG and a few to give out to my department at MCC
> too.
>
> I hope to make another PLUG meeting, please keep up the warnings as to
> when the meetings are being held.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil Waclawski
> PS  Sign up for my classes ASAP (see my previous post ;)
>
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