theSummit

Featured Guests -

EFF Summer Interns

Derek Slater

Chris Riley

Cory Altheide

Handler, SANS Internet Storm Center

Website:Storm Center

Hey, man, you don't talk to Cory. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you -- I mean I'm no, I can't -- I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas -- I mean --

He can be terrible, he can be mean, he can be right. He's fighting the war. He's a great man. I mean... I wish I had words. I can tell you the other day he wanted to kill me.

Kevin Bankston

Attorney, Equal Justice Works / EFF

Website:EFF

Kevin Bankston, an attorney specializing in free speech and privacy law, is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow for 2003-05. His fellowship project focuses on the impact of post-9/11 anti-terrorism laws and surveillance initiatives on online privacy and free expression. Before joining EFF, Kevin was the Justice William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. At the ACLU, Kevin litigated Internet-related free speech cases, including First Amendment challenges to both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Edelman v. N2H2, Inc.) and a federal statute regulating Internet speech in public libraries (American Library Association v. U.S.). Kevin received his J.D. in 2001 from the University of Southern California Law Center, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in Austin.

Valerie Blanchard

IPv6 Specialist

Website: valkyrie

Valerie Blanchard (CISSP, NSA-IAM, CBCP) is a Security Consultant with a management and technology consulting firm specializing in the financial services industry.

In her career as a security consultant and technologist, Valerie has developed security and incident response policies and has designed and implemented wide-area network security architectures. She has planned and implemented encryption schemes, VPN solutions, high availability strategies, intrusion detection systems, data and application servers, and backup and recovery strategies for national and international clients, three letter agencies and local government entities. Valerie has also become quite adept at "geek-wrangling."

Valerie's most recent projects include investigating crypto modification for the Air Force, IPV6 implementation for the .mil and re-engineering the security infrastructure for a global telecommunications company. When not practicing her craft, Valerie can be found haunting bookstores, listening to music all the way to "11", and mucking around trying to IP enable her motorcycle.

Greg Conti

Beyond Ethereal: Crafting A Tivo for Security Datastreams BlackHat

Countering Denial of Information Attacks DefCon 13

Website: Greg Conti

Greg Conti is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at a university in the Northeast United States. His areas of expertise include network security, information visualization and information warfare. Greg has worked at a variety of military intelligence assignments specializing in signals intelligence. Currently he is on a fellowship and is working on his PhD in Computer Science at large university in the Southeast United States.

Gene Cronk

IPv6 Task Force

Website:Hacker Pimps

Gene Cronk, ISSAP, CISSP, NSA-IAM, resides in Jacksonville, FL and is currently providing system administration services to an advertising and marketing firm.

He has 12 years of experience in electronics, system administration, networking and system security. Gene is best known for his work with the North American IPv6 Task Force, and his work on FairuzaWRT, a fork of OpenWRT designed to have security tools built into a wireless access point (the WRT54GS). He has spoken on IPv6 and other topics at several venues.

When not totally absorbed by system security related issues, Gene can be found working on his lab, actively participating as Vice President of the Jacksonville Linux User's Group, and building a successful and dynamic 2600 chapter, of which he is currently president.

Nick Farr

Hacker Foundation Defcon 13

Website:Hacker Foundation

Nick Farr spent the first decade of his career serving in non-profit management roles in academia, public radio, print journalism and computer recycling. While pursuing a new career in Public Accounting, he continues to serve in his role as Treasurer of the Hacker Foundation which he co-founded.

Julian Grizzard

Surgical Recovery from Kernel-Level Rootkit Installations Defcon 13

Website:Georgia Tech

Julian Grizzard is a PH.D. candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Clemson University and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been studying rootkits for several years, written numerous related papers, and given many academic and research presentations. He is a member of the Honeynet Research Alliance and his research interests include kernel hacking, networking, and secruity.

Eric Hanson

Membership Coordinator, EFF

Website:EFF

Paul Holman

Website:Shmoo Group

Bio Coming Soon

IrishMASMS

Security & the COTS vendo NotACon 2005

Webite:

IrishMASMS is an old school hardware & network guy, and has degrees in Management of Information Systems, computer programming, networking technology, micro-computer programming, and aviation/aerospace management. Certainly not a bit-head by any means, but he will figure out how to write some code if forced. After exploring the wonders of the early years with TRS-80's, Mac Plus, and even some Unisys mainframes and a clustered DEC VAX, he is currently employed by a Defense contractor in the information/network security realm. During off time he helps with the local Linux User's Group and other local IT organizations; also enjoys a few LAN parties, attending & presenting at other Cons, his NES, and his cat. No one can confirm or deny that he was a founding member of the 241_Crew, a locally based group of misfits who explore technology and the local music & epicurean scene.

William Knowles (tentative)

InfoSec Newsgroup founder

Website:erehwon

Bio coming soon

Dan Kaminsky

Black Ops 2005 DefCon 13

Website:doxpara / Effugas

Dan Kaminsky is a security researcher focusing on applied mechanisms for analyzing and understanding very large scale networks. He has been working and speaking professionally in this field for a little more than six years, first at Cisco where he developed mechanisms required to secure network monitoring systems, and later at Avaya where he consulted for their Enterprise Security Practice. Kaminsky has contributed to several books, including "Stealing the Network: How To Own The Box" and "Aggressive Network Self Defense", and is most well known for his talks at the Black Hat Briefings and Defcon. Dan's released software includes Scanrand, a very high speed network scanner, and the OzymanDNS suite, which most recently demonstrated video transmission over the Domain Name System. He also contributed a VPN mode to OpenSSH.

Jesse Krembs

Hacker Foundation DefCon 13

Website:Hacker Foundation

Jesse Krembs is the Head Defcon Speaker goon, and has been involved with Defcon since 1998. He is co-founder of the Hacker Foundation and its current president. He travels widely doing radio survey work & wireless installation for Fortune 500 companies. He restores classic motorcycles and naps in his spare time.

Ben Laurie

BlackHat

Website: Apache Group

Ben Laurie has worked for years on cryptography and security, particularly in the open source world. Perhaps best known for authoring Apache-SSL, the ancestor of almost all secure free webservers, he is also a core team member of OpenSSL and a founding director of the Apache Software Foundation. In his copious spare time, he is Director of Security for The Bunker Secure Hosting. He has published papers on subjects as diverse as knotted DNA and anonymous money. His current obsessions are privacy and security.

Johnny Long

Google Hacking for Penetration Testers DefCon 13 The Book

Website:johnny.ihackstuff.com

Johnny Long is a ?clean-living? family guy who just so happens to like hacking stuff. Over the past two years, Johnny?s most visible focus has been on this Google hacking ?thing? which has served as yet another diversion to a serious (and bill-paying) job as a professional hacker and security researcher for Computer Sciences Corporation. In his spare time, Johnny enjoys making random pirate noises (?Yarrrrr!?), spending time with his wife and kids, convincing others that acting like a kid is part of his job as a parent, feigning artistic ability with programs like Bryce and Photoshop, pushing all the pretty shiny buttons on them new-fangled Mac computers, and making much-too-serious security types either look at him funny or start laughing uncontrollably. Johnny has written or contributed to several books, including ?Google Hacking for Penetration Testers? from Syngress Publishing, which has secured rave reviews and has lots of pictures.

Raffael Marty

Visual Security Event Analysis Defcon 13

Website: security.raffy.ch

Raffy is a senior member of the research and development team at ArcSight, the global leader in Enterprise Security Management (ESM). He initiated the Content team, holding responsibility over all the content in ArcSight's product - everything from correlation rules, categorizations and vulnerability mappings to visualizations and dashboards. For the past couple of years, his passion has been the visualization of security events and log files (http://afterglow.sourceforge.net).

Dan Moniz

EFF Technologist

Website: Moniz

Dan Moniz is Security Engineer at Alexa Internet, an Amazon.com company working to provide everyone with information about the Web. Prior to joining Alexa, Dan worked as Staff Technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and specialized in free speech, privacy, and technology issues, including RFIDs, DirecTV, and Total Information Awareness. Dan is a member of The Shmoo Group, and is usually working on too many projects at once. Dan held previous research and security positions with Cloudmark, OpenCola, and Viasec.

Annalee Newitz

EFF's Policy Analyst

Website: EFF

Annalee Newitz is EFF's Policy Analyst. She conducts research, gives lectures, and writes policy recommendations and white papers. Although she is a digital rights generalist, her special areas of interest are expanding the public domain, free speech, and network regulation. She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in 2002, and writes a syndicated column called Techsploitation. She is also a contributing editor at Wired magazine. In her off-hours, she edits an indie magazine called Other.

Deviant Ollam

Introduction to Lock picking and Physical Security DefCon 13

Website:deviating

While paying the bills as a network engineer, Deviant Ollam's first and strongest love has always been teaching. Employed periodically at schools in the greater Philadelphia area, he is presently a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the hopes of tacking some actual letters to his name and doing the professor gig full time. A fanatical supporter of First Amendment rights who believes that the best way to increase security is to publicly disclose vulnerabilities, Deviant has given lock pick demonstrations at other technology & security gatherings, most recently ShmooCon, and various schools, most recently the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Kurt Opsahl

Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Website:EFF

Kurt Opsahl is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law. Before joining EFF , Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. For his work responding to government subpoenas, Opsahl is proud to have been called a "rabid dog" by the Department of Justice. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook.

Bruce Potter

Shmoo Group

Website: Shmoo Group

Bruce Potter is the founder of the Shmoo Group of security professionals, a group dedicated to working with the community on security, privacy, and crypto issues. His areas of expertise include wireless security, large-scale network architectures, smartcards and promotion of secure software engineering practices. Mr. Potter coauthored the books "802.11 Security", published in 2003 by O'Reilly, "Mac OS X Security" by New Riders in 2003 and "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security" by O'Reilly published in April 2005. Mr. Potter was trained in computer science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Bruce Potter is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton.

RenderMan

Notorious Canadian Hacker

Website:renderlab

A fixture of the wardriving and WWWD community for years, RenderMan is usually not to far away from any wardriving news, often causing it himself. Speaking this year as part of the 'Ethics and Legality of Wardriving panel. He's written several notable how-to's and essays for the wardriving community, including the 'WRT54G kismet drone how-to', and the 'Stumbler Ethic'. Creator of the 'Warpack' mobile wardriving rig he can usually be found tightening his tin- foil hat, chugging a brew or finding some new way to irradiate himself. Just look for the guy yelling at people; 'I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just very angry!'

Jim Rennie

Licensing Agreements 101: The Creative Commons License DefCon 13

Website:FalconRed

Jim used to code C# and ASP.Net web applications for a living in Seattle, but one day he decided he?d rather go to law school in New York City instead, where he is currently working on his J.D. He has been attending DefCon for the past 6 years. Before coming to talk at DefCon this summer, Jim will be doing legal research at a small criminal defense firm.

Russ Rogers

DefCon Goon

Hacking a Terror Network

Website:

Russ Rogers (CISSP, CISM, IAM, IEM, HonScD), author of the popular Hacking a Terror Network, co-author and technical editor on multiple other books including the best selling Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent, and Editor in Chief of The Security Journal; is Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of Security Horizon; a veteran owned small business based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Russ has been involved in information technology since 1980 and has spent the last 15 years working professionally as both an IT and INFOSEC consultant. Russ has worked with the United States Air Force (USAF), National Security Agency (NSA), and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Mr. Rogers is a globally renowned security expert, speaker, and author who has presented at conferences around the world including Amsterdam, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paulo, and cities all around the United States. Russ has also been involved with Defcon as a goon since Defcon 7.

Mr. Rogers has an Honorary Doctorate of Science in Information Technology from the University of Advancing Technology, a Masters Degree in Computer Systems Management from the University of Maryland, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of Maryland, and an Associate Degree in Applied Communications Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. He is a member of both ISSA and ISACA and Co-Founded the Global Security Syndicate (gssyndicate.org), the Security Tribe (securitytribe.com), and acts in the role of Professor of Network Security for the University of Advancing Technology (uat.edu).

Jason Schultz (tentative)

Staff Attorney, EFF

Website:EFF

Jason Schultz is a Staff Attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering. He currently leads EFF's Patent Busting Project. Prior to joining EFF, Schultz worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., where he spent most of his time invalidating software patents and defending open source developers in law suits. While at F&R, he co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Internet Archive, Prelinger Archives, and Project Gutenberg in support of Eric Eldred's challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Prior to F&R, Schultz served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen and as a legal intern to the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, both in the Northern District of California federal court system. During law school, Schultz served as Managing Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and helped found the Samuelson Clinic, the first legal clinic in the country to focus on high tech policy issues and the public interest. Schultz also has undergraduate degrees in Public Policy and Women's Studies from Duke University. Jason maintains a personal blog at lawgeek.net.

Wendy Seltzer

Special Projects Coordinator, EFF

Website:EFF

Wendy Seltzer is Special Projects Coordinator with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. Prior to joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl)

Adam Shostack

The Future of Personal Information BlackHat 2005

Website:Emergentchaos

As Zero Knowledge's Most Evil Genius, Adam Shostack's schemes to take over the global network and add privacy didn't quite work out. But he'll be back, and next time...

His current projects are all secreted away on an island hideout, but he blogs at http://www.emergentchaos.com

Elizabeth Stark

FreeCulture Movement

Website:FreeCulture.org

Elizabeth Stark is the main law student of freeculture.org. She went to Brown University and is currently attending Harvard Law School, where she is involved with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society on such issues as the digital media project, internet filtering reports, and drafting an Internet and technology law casebook. She is also an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law Technology, a Teaching Assistant in Cyberlaw, and conducts research for Professor Jonathan Zittrain. She is spending the summer as a legal intern at the EFF, where she gets to think about such issues 24/7.

Tierra

Project Prometheus DefCon 12

Website:2600 SLC

Tierra, has been manipulating bits since the 7th grade, and is currently working on his Computer Science degree at the University of Utah. He has been attending 2600 meetings for more than 3 years now in Salt Lake City, and has been helping run the DefCon Scavenger Hunt since DefCon 10. While working with the DC801 crew on projects such as Project Prometheus, he spends his time mastering his PHP and SQL skills on various personal projects such as TIMAP found on SourceForge.

Paul Vixie

Website:Vixie

(from Wikipedia)

Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron.

While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on BIND, of which he is the primary author and architect of the release 8.

After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet. The activities of Internet Software Consortium were assumed by a new company, Internet Systems Consortium in 2004.

In 1995 he cofounded the Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX), and after Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) bought it in 1999 he served as the MFN Chief Technology Officer and later as the president of PAIX.

In 1998 he cofounded MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System), a California nonprofit company with the goal of stopping email abuse.

He also used to run his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.

Along with Frederick Avolio, he co-wrote the famous book Sendmail: Theory and Practice.

He is also known to hold the record for "most CERT advisories due to a single author". He attended George Washington High School in San Francisco, California.

EFF Interns

Derek Slater

EFF Summer Intern

Website: A Copyfighter's Musings

Derek Slater is an EFF summer intern. As a member of the communications team, Derek helps hone EFF's message through its blog, publications, and other website resources.

Derek is also a senior at Harvard College and a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Since joining the Center in 2002, he has contributed to the Project's study of the legal, policy, and business issues raised by the Internet's disrupting the production and consumption of copyrighted works. He is a lead author of Content and Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models and is currently studying emerging music recommendation tools.

Chris Riley

EFF Summer Intern

Website: http://suspendedconversation.blogspot.com/

chris riley grew up in west virginia, studied computer science at johns hopkins university, and is now a first-year JD student at yale. he is currently studying law and technology, with a current emphasis on copyright law and the ever increasing control over information goods, in order to defeat the evil demons of boredom and restlessness continue to pad his already full resume better understand the interactions between developing law and technology.