Chris Lamb
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You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers...
Note: WE ARE MEETING AT TWO SIGMA!! We'll need names, & you will need IDs. RSVP will open Wednesday Mar6th, 2018, 4:30pm.
"You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers..."
If you develop or distribute software of any kind, you are vulnerable to whole categories of attacks upon yourself or your loved ones. This includes blackmail, extortion or "just" simple malware injection By targeting software developers such as yourself, malicious actors, including nefarious governments, can infect & attack thousands if not millions of end users.
How can we avert this? The idea behind "reproducible" builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during build processes; this prevents against the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers' machines, ensuring attempts at extortion & other forms of subterfuge are quickly uncovered & thus ultimately futile.
Through a story of three different developers, this talk will engage you on this growing threat to you & how it affects everyone involved in the production lifecycle of software development, as well as how reproducible builds can help prevent against it.
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Join us afterwards at <TBD> where we'll continue the discussion over drinks and/or food. <TBD> is located at <TBD>.
Speaker Bio:
Currently Project Leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project,Chrisis freelance computer programmer, author of dozens of free-software projects & contributor to 100s of others.
Chrishas been official Debian Developer since 2008 & is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds sub-project for which he has been awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. In his spare time he is an avid classical musician & Ironman triathlete.
Chrishas spoken at numerous conferences, including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon,<a href="http://linux.conf.au/">linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, OSCAL, Software Freedom Kosovo & FOSS'ASIA.
