Fighting for more open network at LinuxTag
I'm currently in discussion with the networking team and trying to talk them into a more open policy for their conference network.
In the previous years, they have adopted a security policy that effectively
blocks any traffic that is not for a very limited list of destination ports
(spop3, simap and others). You were unable to use protocols like cvspserver,
rsync or even IPsec.
Apparently this kind of policy was adopted on behalf of the ISP who sponsored
network access, in fear of the legal risk of providing an open network.
Had to turn down invitation to LSM
The great Libre Software Meeting conference
has invited me to become co-chairman of the Security Topic. I feel greatly
honored, but I had to turn down the offer. The LSM date is too close to other
conferences I have already agreed to attend...
Maybe I can make it to LSM next year again... it's definitely one of the
friendliest conferences I've seen so far - and one that is really about free
software, not just Linux.
Some more ct_sync bug hunting
It seems like there's still a number of bugs left in ct_sync. I've spent the
major part of the last three days hunting them down. Seems to be really hard
ones, that only appear when compiled with recent gcc-3.2 versions... Learned a lot about objdump and strange x86 "instruction encoding artefacts", though.
