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Location:
ASU, Tempe Center Map

Time:
April 3, 2007: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST

Details:
This month is a Mystery Presentation! Either Darren Spruell, Darrin Chandler, or some random person will be presenting LDAP or something completely unrelated to LDAP! Chances are good that we’ll be meeting at GIOS, at ASU’s Tempe Center. This month’s presentation will also be broadcast live over the Internet, unless it isn’t.

Whatever happens, it is EXTREMELY likely that we’ll meet for libations and grub after the presentation at Casey Moore’s Oyster House.

Tempe Center is located on the Southeast corner of Mill Ave & University Dr. GIOS is in the Southeast corner of the plaza. Free parking beginning at 7pm MST (not MDT).

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.

Fresh off his interview with Will Backman on bsdtalk, Jason will be giving a talk and demonstration on PF, CARP and pfsync at the April CapBUG meeting. The demonstration will include using two Soekris embedded devices with OpenBSD configured as a redundant carp pair. Though highly dramatic, I doubt Jason will use the infamous “axe” technique to show failover. I guess it depends on how much caffeine he had that day.

Due to the availability of equipment, we will hold this month’s meeting at Raba in Columbia, MD at 6:30 PM EDT. We will again broadcast this talk as part of MetaBUG.

Note: the meeting starts at 22:30 UTC.

Peter Hessler will be exploring xenocara, the new modular X, which has now replaced the old XF4 in OpenBSD-current. See SFOBUG for location and other details.

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.

The MetaBUG is proud to present our first official video presentation this evening. Matt Fisher will be presenting his Vulnerability 2.0 talk at the Capital Area BSD Users Group. The CapBUG meeting starts at 6:30pm EDT (-04:00 GMT); we expect to have the video stream started shortly thereafter, with Matt’s talk beginning around 6:45pm EDT.

We welcome all MetaBUG members world-wide to join us for Matt’s presentation. Please remember that the stream will be via RTSP using H.264/AAC codecs. If you have any questions about platform support with the stream, please refer to this post.

RTSP URL: rtsp://live.metabug.org:8000/metabug.sdp

Live Stream

We’ve finally added polls to the MetaBUG site. Now that our membership is really taking off, we’d like to get a sample of how our BSD usage breaks down. What’s your favorite BSD?

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Matt Fisher will be presenting his talk entitled Mistakes to Lure Hackers: Vulnerability 2.0 at this month’s CapBUG meeting. Matt is a Senior Security Engineer at SPI Dynamics and shares leadership of the Washington DC OWASP chapter.

Cross-Site-Scripting and SQL Injection are now the most commonly reported vulnerabilities in the CVE. We will examine the entire genre of web application security and the unique security paradigm required, while zooming in on XSS and SQL Injection. Think Web 2.0 sites are neat? So do the bad guys and we’ll examine some of the factors going into the “new web” that makes them so vulnerable to script attacks.

I was in NYC for his talk at LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit. Although the talk is not BSD-specific, it is very informative and should be of particular interest to BSD Systems Administrators who pride themselves on high security. Matt is a very engaging speaker and highly experienced with his subject matter. This will be the first presentation to be streamed live via the MetaBUG, but if you’re in the DC area, you’ll still want to come out and see it live! The meeting location is at SPARTA in Columbia, MD.

Directions to SPARTA

I was able to get streaming server software installed on a well-connected system over the weekend. Thanks to work by Brad Smith, OpenBSD-current will soon have a patched version of VLC that supports RTSP for live video feeds. A few users have tested this out while I streamed a test feed from my laptop, and it works great! We should be able to support dozens of remote clients, but the true test will come at the next CapBUG meeting (speakers willing). Read on for more details about patching VLC if you can’t wait for the OpenBSD ports to unfreeze (or you’re a Free/Net/DragonFlyBSD user).
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