A leading industry technologist, Mr. Forno is an expert in information assurance program development and management. His areas of expertise and interest include incident response, information operations, critical infrastructure protection, and national technology security policy.

Richard most recently served as the first Chief Information Security Officer for Network Solutions and the InterNIC. Prior to this, he was actively involved in security program development and computer crime investigations at the US House of Representatives and other government agencies. In 1999, he co-founded (and continues to actively support) G2-Forward, an innovative open source information exchange system currently supporting the national security and emergency response communities.

Along with other research and academic projects, he is an adjunct instructor at the George Washington University, conducted monthly lectures on information warfare at the National Defense University from 2001-2003, and was an active participant in the 2000 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Information Security Education Research Project.

In addition to many articles, conference presentations, and media commentaries, he is the author of the books The Art of Information Warfare (1999), O'Reilly's Incident Response (2001), and Weapons of Mass Delusion: America's Real National Emergency (2003).

Richard is a graduate of Salve Regina University (M.A., International Relations), American University (B.A., International Studies), Valley Forge Military College (A.B., Business) , and the United States Naval War College.

Mr. Aitken is a long-time Cleveland area photographer and printmaker. He works as a full-time instructor of photography at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and has also taught photographic technique at many local schools and institutions. Most recently his work was part of the, "Bits&Pieces@PBL" group exhibition of digital art at the Peter B. Lewis building on the Case campus. He is known for his numerous publications and exhibitions and has had the opportunity to serve as a judge at numerous competitions. Mr. Aitken received both his B.F.A and M.F.A. at Ohio University.

Using a series slides, Mr. Aitken will present a light hearted presentation demonstrating some of the unexpected ways the medium of photography has influenced our culture. He will also explore the historical tendency to, "accept photographs as literal or truthful, even if they were manipulated."

We may believe today that it took the advent of Photoshop and other computer software to make the art of doctoring photographs truly possible. However, Mr. Aitken will show how this practice began shortly after the invention of photograph itself in 1839!

Tanner Beck has been photographing things since he was a wee lad. He's been doing his own darkroom work since 1998. Aside from the obvious, he's made short videos, entirely digital pieces, album art, painful music and barely presentable web sites. He's also worked for a variety of companies as a programmer and NOC-Monkey. Tanner has plenty of free time and is bored easily, which may explain why he's flailing about in academia, studying photography and Asian languages instead of just finishing his computer science degree.

The project is meant to visually explore the aesthetic surrounding technology. Not simply in terms of technological artifacts themselves, but also their surrounding environment. The main impetus for exploring the aesthetic in technology is that the intimidation factor often prevents "laymen" for really appreciating the beauty inherent in certain environments. And often, technically inclined people have an abstract notion of what something does in a system, which can prevent them from appreciating it on its own. So I attempt to isolate or present out of context certain things, in an attempt to help people see them in a new way.

The project is still ongoing and probably will continue for as long as I continue photographing.

The "music" of G8 is likely familiar to anyone who's played with /dev/dsp or /dev/audio. The first album, "Floating Point" was created entirely by recording the sounds produced by catting executables to the audio device under Linux (or, the case of one track, a sega genesis ROM.) The second album, "Infinite Monkeys" was created by faking wav headers up and putting them in front of various executables. The general effect is the same, but it allows for varying bit rates and stereo (and is, I'm told, slightly less painful to listen to.) The albums are concept pieces, in that their purpose is to illustrate the patterns that are present inside of programs, rather than being really fun to listen to.

Joseph Caputo has been studying music since the age of 4. He has performed with some of the greats in the music world, including Wynton Marsalis and Kenwood Dennard. Along with some of his groups, Joseph has toured throughout the US, Mexico and Europe. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Joseph performs solo as Computo and with The Sons of Liberty and The Signal Graffitiists.

As Computo, Joseph performs and produces using a few select programs. One of those programs is Propellerheads Reason. Using Reason, one can gain an understanding of the principles of electronics and music while composing high quality audio recordings. Joseph plans on giving an overview of the program, and showing some unique tips on maximizing the programs powerful attributes. Also, Computo will take questions regarding the program and his performance from the preceding evening.

Matthew J. Fanto currently works for the US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he specializes in cryptology, specifically block cipher design and cryptanalysis. Matt is also very active in open source projects. He is involved in the Linux-NTFS project (adding NTFS support to the Linux kernel), the OpenPaX project (adding various security features to the Linux kernel), the SELinux project (adding access controls to the Linux kernel), and the Hardened Gentoo project (one of the original founders, now an independent contributor).

I will be speaking on SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) and mandatory access controls. What is SELinux? What is LSM? What security benefits does one gain with SELinux? How do SELinux policies work? What are the limitations of SELinux? How does SELinux compare against other products? If time, a demonstration on how I can give out my root password and not fear anyone doing any damage.

Mr. Gartel is considered to be the "FATHER" of the Digital Art movement around the world for over 25 years. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Joan Whitney Payson Museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Princeton Art Museum, PS 1, Norton Museum and in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History and the Bibliotheque Nationale. His biography for his pioneering efforts is included in "Who's Who," "Who's Who in the East," "Who's Who in America," "Who's Who in American Art," and "Who's Who in the World."

Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Gartel had the opportunity to teach Andy Warhol how to use the Amiga Computer, went to School of Visual Arts, with fellow art student, graffiti artist Keith Haring, where he earned his BFA degree majoring in Graphics, and started his electronic career working side by side with Nam June Paik at Media Study/Buffalo in upstate New York. Gartel had many associations with musicians such as Debbie Harry (Blonde) Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols), Stiv Bators (Dead Boys) Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls) Ace Frehley (Kiss) and Wendy O Williams (Plasmatics). Recently, Gartel has created artwork for such Pop Culture stars such as Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.

He has several monograph books on his work:

• "Laurence Gartel: A Cybernetic Romance" published by Gibbs Smith, (c) 1989 Utah. Introduction to the book is written by video guru Nam June Paik.
• "GARTEL: Arte & Tecnologia" published by Edizioni Mazzotta, (c) 1998 Milano, Italy. Introduction to the book is written by noted art historian and critic Pierre Restany. 250 pages over 400 colour plates.
• Mr. Gartel was recently included in the Italian Art History Textbook: "La Storia Dell Arte" published by Editions Giunti (c) 2001, Firenze. Michelangelo at the front of the book and GARTEL being the last page representing "NEW VISUAL LANGUAGES."

A background in networking technology and a desire to learn about radio lead Jeff to acquire a amateur radio license in the fall of 2000. Ignoring all common sense and good judgment, Jeff dove right into the middle of building repeaters and now helps operate the second largest amateur repeater network in Michigan. Along the way, he was distracted by numerous other aspects of amateur radio, and has spent a little time playing with all of them and too much time with some.

This is to be a talk covering the very wide topic of amateur radio at an introductory level to get people interested in the subject. The talk will begin with a brief description and history of amateur radio, followed by some more specific topics in greater depth as the audience desires. I intend to have 5-15 minute presentations about the following topics, and will go into each one as the audience desires. The intent is to have, for lack of a better term, a "hyper-talk" where the audience can guide the talk to their topic of interest and technical level.

• Bands, frequencies, and modes of radio operation
• HF bands and world wide radio contact.
• VHF and higher bands for local operation
• Contesting
• Repeaters, how you work them, and how they work
• Digital modes (AX.25, packtor, psk31, APRS)
• APRS
• Satellite and moon bounce
• Ham swaps, and social activities.
• Public Service activities.
• Experimental radio and modification of commercial gear
• Licensing and rules of operation.
• Fox hunting (Radio Direction Finding)

Lurene Grenier is a 21 year old senior at RPI, in Troy, NY. Her primary interests lie in the realms of networking, security, and forensics, and looking for work. She's going to the beach, and she's bringing aspirin, a beach ball, a chair....

Seth Hinze is a 22 year old who I can't get to write a bio for the talk. Lurene can vouch for the fact that he can beat every Super Mario Bros. game, but he's not very good at Metroid. He'll have his masters in Electrical Engineering and Super Mario Bros. in May of 2004.

Homunculus is a tool which allows for the simulation of large bot nets. This can be used to fool attack detection, or study profiling techniques for large bot net based attacks. In this talk we'll discuss how homunculus is designed, and how it's use can frustrate traditional attempts to detect brute force attacks.

Seth is a cryptologist, a mathematician, a computer scientist. He'd spend the rest of his life in academia if he could afford it. When he's not being schooled by crypto "experts" on irc, he spends most of his time working on various crypto-related projects and transitioning from academia to the "real world" (otherwise known as "seeking employment" or "trying to get a job"). He's also very open to questions, so if you're curious about the technical details of what he does, you should ask. No really, he means that.

Computers are getting faster, programs more complex. People are programming in much higher level languages, using methods to protect the entire project from a sloppy coder. We even have clippy, who will now let you know when you only need to #include <iostream> instead of #include <iostream.h>.

This makes it easy to lose sight of where it all started, the foundation that computing today is built on.

In this talk, we will forget about all the modern advancements of programming languages dot Net and silicon, APIs and transistors, and look at the bigger picture. Rather than covering the work of the latest and greatest "computer security professionals" of our time, we will look at the work of people such as Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, and Stephen Kleene. We will program without touching a computer, and play with languages that aren't used with compilers, linkers, or interpreters.

No previous knowledge of the subject is required, as everything will be presented from the ground up with mathematical rigor. But don't let that scare you off.

James is as much a musician as he is a technical enthusiast, playing gleefully in the realm between the technical and the artistic.

A hodge-podge collection of information that appeals to anyone who enjoys learning. The talk will focus mainly on how computers have changed audio over the past few decades. Information on many different aspects of audio, the recording of audio, the practical use of audio (be it music or surveillance) as well as how compression changes everything.

Paul Jarc is a coder, Free Software aficionado, amateur musician, and all-around geek, among other things. He likes investigating novel ways of using traditional Unix facilities, and tries to help out answering questions on mailing lists when he can, but he's not big on writing bios.

posterity is a work in progress, aimed at providing another messaging-forum mechanism, as an alternative to traditional mailing lists and newsgroups. Mailing lists suffer from a range of problems including bounce handling, autoresponders, privacy of the membership list, and malicious subscription or unsubscription of third parties. Newsgroups are better in these areas, but introduce their own limitations, including the difficulty of creating a new group, no immediate notification of new messages, and failing to present a synchronized, consistent set of messages to all readers. New alternatives such as Web-based discussion boards have some advantages, but email and news are far more mature in having well-developed clients. Taking the position that email's problems are the easiest to solve, I will discuss how public, read-only IMAP gives us the best of all worlds.

Matt Joyce is a Coder, Sysadmin, Engineering student, and American School of Sao Paulo Belch Competition finalist 1999-2000. Matt has experience in backend web development, having done infra and extranet design at fortune 500 companies. Matt has also spent the better part of 2 years working with a 3 million dollar R&D grant focused on bringing technology into classrooms. A major portion of his work has focused on the management and distribution of large media such as audio and video content.

Matt will be discussing his development efforts on an open source multimedia content management system. Focusing on the problems associated with managing and distributing large media content via the web. From technical to legal and all the psychology in between he shall explore the design of various CMS systems, while addressing a few of the more fundamental issues in content management today. Matt will also be releasing the first stable version of his own CMS system.

Rajeev is a research and policy analyst staffer at ACLU Ohio and has worked extensively on the impact of anti-terrorism legislation as it relates to small businesses and electronic communications. In addition to working at ACLU Ohio, he is currently a senior at Case Western Reserve University pursuing degrees in Political Science and Economics.

As the information age came upon us, many thought it would be a period of open exchange and the free flow of ideas. However, after the terror attacks of September the 11th, those lofty visions and ideals have come dimmed. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress haphazardly passed legislation that would significantly curtail intellectual freedom, transparency, and civil liberties. Since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act only weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the United States has undergone dramatic change. We are no longer free to go about our business without fear of big brother watching over our shoulders. He is on our telecommunication networks, in our libraries, businesses, and bedrooms. Our civil liberties are being eroded every day, yet many of us have not come to realize this stark reality. All hope is not lost. There are things we can do to reclaim the liberty that the founders of this country and generations before us worked so hard to secure.

Long time audio enthusiast, medium-time audio professional, currently working as a product manager at a company which is a leading supplier of audio components and supplies. Work-related endeavors include moderating a speaker discussion board, designing loudspeaker drivers, as well as designing and marketing complete loudspeaker kits and systems. Personal projects include conceptualizing and building unusual loudspeakers, and of course listening to them.

A discussion of music, loudspeakers, hi-fi, and their role in the 21st century. Emphasis will be on loudspeakers-- how they work, the technologies involved, why some cost more than others, why some sound better than others, and how to find the right one for you. We will look at it from a design, marketing, and end user's standpoint to get a better understanding of what is involved in the creation of a loudspeaker. Plus, we will look at the feasibility and advantages of building your own! Hi-fi isn't just for your gramps, its on the comeback baby!

Josh is an electrical engineer at Motorola's automotive electronics division. He graduated from the University of Michigan despite his best efforts, and now spends his life staring at a computer screen. Which is just like it was before, really.

He does work at Motorola. He doesn't work on cellphones. He has never worked on cellphones. He doesn't know anything about cellphones. He sometimes wishes he didn't carry a cellphone. He has been known to carry a crowbar. Do NOT ask him about cellphones.

Digital data in an ideal world does not change over time, does not change in transit from one location to another, and can be copied without error. But that ain't the way it is.

A file sitting on a disk will rot, not physically, but in its bits. Data over a wire or over the airwaves is subject to interference from any number of different sources, ranging from the FM station down the block to the cosmic ray station 150 light years away. Bad circuit design can cause errors; so can bad luck.

This presentation will outline the reasons why your data can decay and the mechanisms of that decay. It will focus on physical mechanisms rather than software mechanisms. You won't need to be an EE to understand it, but it would help if you've heard of electrons.

David Lauer has been an IT professional for over 10 years, mainly as a computer programmer. Bored with programming, he decided to become a Network Administrator. Now working as a Network Administrator, he has returned to college and has become A+ and Network+ certified. Long interested and professionally involved in security issues, Dave is currently working on his Security+ certification. As part of his involvement in computer security, he has long been interested in how people view computer "hackers" and how that picture compares to how "hackers" view themselves. I will discuss the image presented by the media of hackers in my talk. I will also be providing questionnaires, to document the "hacker" perspective on these issues.

Tim Lord has posted more than 8,000 submissions to the Slashdot homepage, currently lives in Seattle, and is single/looking.

Unless you've set up a Slashcode site, you've probably not seen the admin backend of Slashdot. This quick talk will show how to navigate within this (relatively simple) system; reject, accept and combine submissions; edit and post stories; and if all goes well, will feature some live Slashdot story posting, always fun. There are some handy anti-troll tools built in, of which a few are even within the ken of a non-programmer like Tim. If time allows, we'll also look at some of the other Slash-based sites out there -- Slash makes for pretty flexible presentation, despite the many slashdot-look-alike sites.

Duncan Lowne is a software engineer at Cleveland Medical Devices, a Cleveland-based biotechnology research and development firm. The company's products and research focus on physiological signal monitoring and analysis.

Duncan's recent work and research has included neural-nets for real-time adaptive pattern classification systems, design of polysomnograph data acquisition and analysis software, neurofeedback for training and control of neurological activity, and embedded device interfaces. He has also explored the avenues of biotelemetry in its use as a tool for artistic expression.

In his off hours, Duncan runs a small (and under-publicized) electronic music label called Lethargic Records, on which he spins funky house and produces various subgenres of electronic music. He is an avid skateboarder and student of both modern and ancient languages. He is kept in line and out of trouble by his beautiful wife Kristin.

This presentation will cover the past, present and future of Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as the basic fundamental principles, neurological, physiological, and technological, that facilitate non-tactile computer control. The presentation will include an active demonstration of physiological signal interpretation in a semi-artistic manner.

Twenty years ago, the graphical-user interface paradigm heralded the era of a computer on every desktop. Since that time, the mouse-and-keyboard combination has been the primary input method for personal computing. Such an input method requires a high level of manual dexterity, is often cumbersome to use in a mobile environment, and creates a high barrier to participation with regard to the physically challenged. Over the years, developments in Human-Computer interfaces have begun to address this issue through research into interpretation of physiological signals and applying them as control signals. Moreover, the marriage of artistic pursuits and physiological signal monitoring has led to an interesting array of experimental artworks. Existing systems, while expensive and cumbersome, point to the promise of lower-cost, minimally-invasive devices that will more directly bridge the gap between human and computer.

Todd MacDermid is a serial open-source security software author and speaker, and a member of Syn Ack Labs. Current research areas include covert channels, interface design, and other privacy protecting topics. Past work includes kernel module rootkit detection and source routing.

Come join the team for the next privacy protecting tool, one sorely needed on today's Internet. DEFJAM will provide users with a set of encrypted shared filespaces to pass files around among friends, along with a protected messaging protocol, sharing the same key management system. The messaging system will be scalable enough to handle text, voice, and video communications.

DEFJAM is not yet written. This talk is only the beginning. In the talk, a protocol proposal will be made, along with the research and rationale for the protocol design. During the talk, audience feedback and participation is encouraged, and we'll hash out a good one.

And then, we code! A framework will already be in place, but implementation will be mostly a group effort. Share in the camaraderie of developers, make new friends, and get in on the core group of a great tool.

DEFJAM was inspired by WASTE, but aims to be more secure, more user-friendly, more expandable, and with legally unencumbered code. DEFJAM will be released under a BSD license.

Bill has been working on and writing open source applications for nearly 10 years in one form or another. He has been in the computer and network security arena for 8 of those 10 years. Recently, he began work on The Cleveland Honeynet Project, http://www.clevelandhoneynet.org .

This presentation will focus on The Cleveland Honeynet Project and its goals. It will also cover some of the more technical aspects of the Honeynet as well as its practical applications. The Cleveland Honeynet Project presentation will have a lecture, a demonstration and a question and answer section.

Eric A. Meyer has been working with the web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards. He is currently Principal Consultant for Complex Spiral Consulting, focusing on helping clients understand and use open Web standards to cut costs and improve efficiency. When not otherwise busy, Eric is usually bothering his wife Kat in some fashion.

The Web has long suffered from two fallacies: that compelling sites require Flash, and that CSS-driven designs are uniformly boring. Wrong! Sites like the CSS Zen Garden and the CSS Vault have shattered both myths by demonstrating how beautiful and original CSS design can be. We'll dig into the Garden, explore the Vault, and see how CSS can be used to drive effects such as multi-level dropdown menus that work in every modern browser. The best part? The side effects of intelligently designing with CSS are reduced page weight, increased accessibility, and search engine optimization. Beauty and brains-- what's not to like? If you aren't stylin' yet, now is the time.

Have you ever wished you could annotate hyperlinks to carry extra information about the thing to which the link is pointing? It turns out that you already can, and the astounding part is that these enhancements leverage long-extant (and long-ignored) features of HTML. The XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is the first such addition to HTML and XHTML, and lets people describe their personal relationship to the maintainer of another site. Following in XFN's footsteps is VoteLinks, a way of "modding" a link's target. Already the prospect of emergent rudimentary trust networks is in the air. Could the Web be turning semantic from the grassroots up? Come find out more about these surprising new additions to the Web and how you can get in on the action.

A telco geek with too little supervision on the job, Myself likes to curl up with a good manual, frequently while sprawled out in the cable rack above an ESS machine. A background in computers and electronics, and the ability to explain almost anything to almost anyone, should make for an interesting talk. Bring your questions! Bring your t-berds! And bring the numbers you found while war-dialing that you couldn't make sense of!

This presentation will consist of a series of 3 different presentations and topics over 3 hours and will culminate with a break-out hands on session in the Birds of a Feather room.

Dr. Jose Nazario is an author, biochemist, surfer, cook, thief, lover, and poet. When he's not busy working for a small network security firm, he's skateboarding, fishing, rocking out, and writing books. Notable accomplishments in Dr. Nazario's life include the publication of a book on Internet worms, a forthcoming book on OpenBSD, infosecdaily.net, and speaking at various venues around the world.

Jason Scott is the creator of the textfiles.com family of websites, covering a wide range of computer history with a focus on dial-up bulletin board systems and early internet. Over the six years of running the sites, his mission has expanded to include audio, PDF, the artscene (demos and other graphic works) and basically anything technological and old. For the last three years, Jason has been traveling the country interviewing subjects for an epic 3-DVD documentary/mini-series on dial-up bulletin board systems. (www.bbsdocumentary.com) He has interviewed over 200 people, including his co-speaker, RaD Man. Jason's last con appearance was as keynote and regular speaker at Rubi-con 5.

RaD Man is founder and president of ANSI Creators in Demand, now simply known as ACiD (www.acid.org). This art group has run for over 14 years with regular releases of artpacks, BBS mods and software products, including ACiDdraw (1994) and The Product, an electronic magazine. Now in "retirement", he has aimed his energy at documenting the artscene and history that has led up to it. he is both a subject in Jason Scott's documentary and a researcher working behind the scenes to ensure its accuracy. Recently, he finished work on a DVD-ROM of 14 years of artpacks by ACiD and many others called Dark Domain (2004), available at http://www.darkdomain.org/.

Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene.

Mike is and experienced developer, engineer, and security expert. With over ten years of experience in the IT field, he has a broad background in most IT disciplines.

Every day, we leave digital footprints wherever we go. Whether we're buying gas, groceries, or even a drink, we're under the ever-watchful eye of electronic surveillance. Learn who's collecting your data, why they're doing it, and most importantly, what you can do about it.

Kathy Wang broke into programming with BASIC on the Apple IIgs. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, where she specialized in VLSI chip design and semiconductor device physics and fabrication. She worked at Digital as part of the Next-Generation Alpha Chip Design Team, and got to spend an entire wonderful summer blowing up Alpha chips. She has published a paper on some of the work she did there at an IEEE conference. Kathy has instructed courses ranging from Semiconductor Device Physics to Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing.

Since Digital got broken up by Compaq and Intel, Kathy has focused on the software side of things. She has worked at Counterpane Internet Security, and currently works as a Senior Infosec Engineer at The MITRE Corporation. Kathy is also a founder of Syn Ack Labs, a computer security research group focused on cryptography, steganography, and low-level packet hijinks.

Sun Tzu once stated, "Know your enemy and know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated." By denying outsiders information about our systems and software, we make it more difficult to mount successful attacks.

There are a wealth of options for OS-fingerprinting today, evolving from basic TCP-flag mangling tools such as Queso, through the ICMP quirk-detection of the original Xprobe, and the packet timing analysis of RING, to today's suite of multiple techniques employed by nmap. The ultimate advantage in the OS-detection game lies with the defender, however, as it is they who control what packets are sent in response.

Morph is a BSD-licensed remote OS detection spoofing tool. It is portable and configurable, and is designed to frustrate current state-of-the-art OS fingerprinting. This presentation will discuss the current techniques used for OS fingerprinting, and how to frustrate them. Morph will be released with the talk, as a concrete example of the discussed techniques.

OS fingerprinting is one of the most useful methods available to gather information for an attack. Some work has been done in the past to defend against OS fingerprinting (FPF by Packet Knights), but none have been implemented with portability in mind. A tool is needed that will allow systems administrators to protect their assets against reconnaissance efforts of potential attackers.

Rick Wash is a graduate student at the University of Michigan Center for Information Technology Integration who studies Computer Security, Cryptography, and Information Economics. He has recently been studying Trusted Computing and the Spam Email Problem. He did his undergraduate in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University.

One problem with most computer security is that its successes are transparent, but its failures are blatantly obvious. A New York Times story about how a hacker stole millions of credit cards from you is quite painful, but a hacker deciding that your security is too strong to be worth trying is really hard to detect. That is to say that security is a "negative experience" good, where only the negative experiences can be measured. While a lack of negative experiences might mean that your security system is working well, it doesn't necessarily. I will address the question of how you measure the effectiveness (and therefore "value") of computer security solutions in light of this problem.

Froggy and his troupe of Notacon Players will present common networking concepts and protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP using live actors and paper. Ever want to visually see how TCP connections are created and broken down? How about man in the middle attacks and Ethernet sniffing? Want to see a broadcast storm live? Join us and you will see just how much fun networking can be!

Some audience participation may be necessary!

The panel will be moderated by Rick Wash. The recent Linux systems will be discussed by Matt Fanto. He is the maintainer of OpenPaX and a frequent user of SELinux. The recent OpenBSD systems will be discussed by and Marius Eriksen. Marius is a frequent OpenBSD contirbutors and is responsible for the Linux systrace port.

Software Protection Mechanisms are OS tools that add additional security and protection to the operating system against software vulnerabilities. This will be a panel discussion comparing the implementations and philosophies behind the recent systems for both Linux and OpenBSD. Example mechanisms are PaX vs. W^X, SELinux vs. systrace, privsep, etc.