I Want These Bugs off My Internet
Legendary security researcher Dan Kaminsky delivers a passionate call to action, outlining systemic technical approaches to eliminate persistent protocol flaws from the internet.
Summary
Architecture and Background
Are you interested in the gory details in fixing ugly bugs? No?
Vulnerability Analysis
Just like watching stuff blow up? Go to some other talk!
Exploitation and Demonstrations
But if you want to see what it takes to comprehensively end an entire bug class -- how you dive into a code base, what performance and usability and maintainability and debuggability constraints it takes to make a web browser more secure -- oh do I have some dirt for you. Dan Kaminsky is Chief Scientist of White Ops.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
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