Talks and Lectures

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• 1996
• Hype
  Summercon 96 - 6/18/1996
  Talk on the dangers of media and law enforcement hype.
• 1998
• Computer Security and Intrusion: The Technical (a sketch of things to come)"
  "Doing Business in a Networked World" conference - 1/16/1998
  John Marshall Law School
  Lecture on computer security concepts, complex system intrusion trends and predictions. An outline of the talk is also available.
• 1999
• Issues re: Infrastructure Security and Technical Means of Protecting It
  John Marshall Law School - 10/1999, 10/2000, and 3/2002
  Guest lectures at John Marshall Law School on infrastructure security for David Loundy's class IT 848, "Computer Crime, Information Warfare, and Economic Espionage"
• Technical Means of Protecting Information - NOTES only
  John Marshall Law School - 10/1999, 10/2000, and 3/2002
  Guest lectures at John Marshall Law School on some technical means of protecting information for David Loundy's class IT 848, "Computer Crime, Information Warfare, and Economic Espionage"
• 2000
• In A Bind (PowerPoint)
  DefCon 8 - 7/2000
  Talk on the functions of a DNS root service, ICANN, policy, and intellectual property issues as they were coming to a head. (Hear RealMedia stream of it here)
• 2001
• WRONG: Everything you think you know about client to LAN VPNs (PowerPoint)
  Chicago Association of Internet Professionals, security SIG - 6/2001
  Analysis of the cost benefits and risks of client-to-LAN VPN connections, with an emphasis on the risks produced by VPNs of this sort, and the costs of reducing those risks.
• 2002
• Tech 102: Information Security Technology as Evidence (PowerPoint)
  The National Cybercrime Conference, JMLS, Chicago - 5/2002
  Discussion and lecture of technical means of authentication and authorization both as a kind of evidence, and the use of post-factum authentication technical logs as evidence.
• 2003
• Technical Security - minimizing exposure to information-related risks (PowerPoint)
  Technical and Financial Security: Minimizing Exposure to Information-Related Risks seminar, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago - April 4, 2003
  
• 2004
• USENIX ;login: "SSO/RSO/USO/Oh No?" (PDF)
  An article on the problems and issues around single, reduced, unifed, and other complex sign on systems.

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