| Bosko Milekic |
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Bosko currently lives, works, and studies in Montreal, Canada. He
is a FreeBSD developer who has worked on both low-level and
high-level software issues, as well as developed hardware solutions
for prior work and study. In his spare time, Bosko enjoys a
variety of music and film, and is in particular interested in
exploring various aspects of the human intellect through
personal research and expression. For more information, please
see http://www.unixdaemons.com/~bmilekic/ or Email
bmilekic@technokratis.com"
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| Michael Richardson |
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Michael Richardson has been involved with network security systems since 1988.
Michael was a founding employee at Milkyway Networks in 1994, and Solidum
Systems Corporation in 1998. While at Milkyway Networks, Michael was
responsible for developing the VPN components of the BlackHole firewall, and
later worked on several IPsec implementations. Solidum designed and sold
hardware - IPsec being an important target. Michael is a system software
designer and protocol designer. Michael is involved on a daily basis with
at the IETF. He is an author on RFC3586, and numerous drafts "in progress". Michael is the lead architect on the Linux FreeS/WAN project, a Linux IPsec
stack that aims to bring Opportunistic Encryption to everyone. Michael
received a B.Sc. Physics from Carleton University.
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| Dan Langille |
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Dan Langille is a software engineer with a passion for mountain biking.
Over the years, he has recorded his experiences with FreeBSD in the
hugely popular FreeBSD Diary <https://www.freebsddiary.org>.
He is also the driving force behind the place for ports,
FreshPorts <https://www.freshports.org>. In his spare time,
he organizes technical BSD conferences. He runs a small contracting
and consulting firm in Ottawa.
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| David Maxwell |
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David Maxwell is a NetBSD Developer and member of the NetBSD
Security-Officer team. He has had the opportunity to enjoy using NetBSD
to make life easier for Manufacturers, Distributors, Governments, Cable
Companies, ISPs, Semiconductor companies, and end-users. He currently
works full time as a Software Designer for Integrated Device Technology,
Inc. (IDT)
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| Ryan McBride |
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Ryan McBride, CISSP - Information Security Consultant and OpenBSD
Hacker. Ryan has 10 years of experience wearing a suit in the
Information Systems industry. Over this period, he has worked with
public, private, and non-profit organisations ranging in size from small
office to "Fortune 50". His experience includes Security Policy
development, Software Development, VPN design and deployment, firewall
configuration, and IDS deployment and monitoring. When not wearing a
suit, Ryan amuses himself by working on OpenBSD's packet filter code.
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| Allan Fields |
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Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> is an Ottawa software developer with
interests in operating systems and open source software. As a long
time FreeBSD user, he has tracked the development of BSD over the
last 6 years. He has administered nix systems and employed Open
Source solutions in multiple environments. His experience managing servers and developing document management
tools in a corporate Intranet environment furthered his interest
in operating system facilities and architecture. Current interests
include: the FreeBSD kernel, next generation filesystems, shells
and interpreters, persistence, session management and security.
His recent research includes investigation of pseudo and template
filesystems. He has a number of works in progress including various
filesystem projects.
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| Theo de Raadt |
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Theo is the leader of the OpenBSD team, and is the final authority for what
is now widely renown as the most secure OS available - mainly due to the
dedication and long history of experience of Theo and his core team of
volunteers; who zealously, and intensely, hone the components and constantly
refine them with security as a prime directive. While source code auditing and
secure programming are common buzzwords now, Theo and his highly successful team
have been following these principles from the project's beginning - since well
before most of todays security professionals entered the industry.
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| Robert Watson |
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Robert Watson is a research scientist at Network Associates Laboratories, and
a member of the Host Intrusion Protection (HIP) Research Group. His research
interests include network and operating system security, and open source
operating systems. Past work includes research into DNS security, tamper-resistant
hardware, extensible operating system security including access control and audit,
distributed denial of service attack resistance, network stack performance and
hardening, integration of security measures into windowing systems, and operating
system hardening approaches. Mr Watson is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team,
and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.
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| Poul-Henning Kamp |
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Poul-Henning worked on FreeBSD before it was even called that. He tries to
survive as self-employed FreeBSD contractor and spends far too much time on
non-billable projects to ever become rich that way. He served six years on
the core team for undue enthusiasm, and is one of the people who have moved the
most junk in and out of the FreeBSD CVS tree. Amongst his creations are the
FreeBSD release building framework, md5 based password scrambling, phkmalloc(3),
DEVFS, GEOM, GBDE and a couple of thousand other CVS commits he can't quite
remember what did.
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| Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino |
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Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, PhD - is a Core Researcher at KAME project,
former IETF v6ops working group chair and now a IETF Internet
Architecture Board member, as well as the NetBSD security officer
and WIDE project internet area director. He is widely recognized
as one of the world's leading authorities on IPv6 and internet
technology.
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| Bill Paul |
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Bill Paul holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and is a senior
networking software engineer at Wind River Systems. He began using
FreeBSD in 1994 and has been a committer since 1995. His first brush
with evil came in 1996 when he wrote his first ethernet device driver,
and he went on to develop many more FreeBSD drivers for ethernet,
gigabit ethernet, HomePNA, and 802.11b devices than either he or
anyone else cares to admit.
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| Joe Abley |
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Joe Abley works for Internet Systems Consortium, a non-profit,
public-benefit company based in Redwood City, California. Joe has
principal responsibility for the architecture and operation of ISC's
networks in California and in the twenty F root nameserver nodes
distributed around the world, many of which he helped install. As part
of ISC's commitment to knowledge transfer Joe has also taught workshops
and tutorials in many parts of the world on the Domain Name System and
Internet routing. Prior to working for ISC, Joe worked for a number of Internet companies
and network operators both in the US and in New Zealand. He currently
lives in Ontario, Canada with his wife and four-year-old son.
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| Vic Gedris |
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Vic Gedris has long had an interest in PGP and has run many
key signing parties.
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| Wes Peters |
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Wes Peters is a Senior Software Engineer at St. Bernard
Software, a leading security software vendor based in San Diego,
California, USA. Wes is a member of the team that designs and
implements software for St. Bernards award winning
iPrism> web access management and ePrism email
security appliances. Prior to joining St. Bernard, Wes worked
on a wide variety of embedded and secure computing systems,
including a dial-up router with the first DHCP/dynamic DNS
server, one of the first commercial "internet security"
applications, and a missile control system. Wes currently serves as a member of the FreeBSD <https://www.freebsd.org> Core Team
<https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-core.html>
, a columnist for Daemon News <http://www.daemonnews.org>, and
contributes to several open source software projects. His first
open source contribution was a port of smail, the Usenet smart
mail router, to the Microport UNIX System V/AT system in the
80s. In his miniscule spare time, Wes designs small network systems,
including trying to build open source sailing instrumentation
and navigation systems. He spends far too little time actually
sailing either of his two yachts, a J/22 <http://www.usaj22com>
racing sloop and a Catalina 27 <http://www.catalina27.org/>
coastal cruiser.
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| Marcus Bornfreund |
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Marcus is currently acting as both the manager of the Law & Technology Program
and managing editor of the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal, as
well as sitting as a member of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest
Clinic (CIPPIC) internal advisory board. He is also a member of the Law Society
of Upper Canada, Electronic Frontier Canada. and the Free / Open Source Research
Community at MIT. Marcus graduated from the inaugural class (2002) of the LL.M.
concentration in Law & Technology at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law,
Common Law Section. Primary interests include both emerging legal issues stemming from technological
innovation and the use of technology in effecting law/regulation. Recent research
has examined the following areas of technology law: Free/Libre Open Source Software
(F/LOSS), file-sharing, digital rights and information-based asset management,
intelligent agents, e-commerce, and the delivery of online legal services
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| Benoit Gregoire |
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Benoit Gregoire holds a B.S. in computer engineering and primarily works as a
consultant to the public education sector. In early 2002 he started the
LibOfx project and got heavily involved in the GnuCash project. He recently
joined and currently coordinates the technical efforts of Ile sans fil,
Montreal's wireless community group.
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| Michael Lenczner |
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Michael Lenczner is an ex-support technician + trainer
who recently returned from working in ICT's
(Information and Communication Technologies) in West
Africa. He is one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil and
the current administration coordinator. He is a
member of the www.gamecode.ca research project at
Concordia and works at a pizza joint when he's not
finishing up his sociology degree or working on
volunteer projects.
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| Jan Wieck |
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Jan Wieck is a CORE member and long standing key developer of the
PostgreSQL database project. Author of several features including
PL/pgSQL, NUMERIC, TOAST, the ARC buffer cache replacement strategy and
the background writer. Jan is working full time on PostgreSQL on behalf
of Afilias. Jan has previously spoken at numerous venues including
CeBIT, PostgreSQLCON 2000, and LinuxWorld.
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| Joseph Potvin |
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Joseph Potvin is a senior economist and IT architect, serving as a member of
the Management Team, Enterprise Architecture, IT Services Branch, in Public
Works and Government Services Canada. Prior to joining PWGSC, he worked
internationally as a consulting economist in twenty countries, and on
assignments for six divisions of the World Bank. His primary work for more than
a decade has been on full cost accounting technical analysis and application
for executives and managers. He led the business and technical architecture
for the first open source business workflow application from Government of
Canada, which was shared in 2000 under the GNU General Public License. OPA
(Online Proposal Appraisal) is currently available at Version 2.0 in three
different code streams, and collaboration is now under way towards Version 3.0.
Outside of his official duties in the Federal Government, Mr. Potvin is
Co-Coordinator of the GOSLING Community of Practice (Getting Open Source
Logic INto Governments) <http://www.goslingcommunity.org/>.
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| Richard Bejtlich |
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Richard Bejtlich is a security engineer at National Security Solutions,
a ManTech group. He was previously a principal consultant at
Foundstone, performing incident response, emergency network security
monitoring, and security research. Prior to joining Foundstone in 2002,
Richard served as senior engineer for managed network security
operations at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation. From 1998 to
2001 Richard defended global American information assets as a captain in
the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team (AFCERT). He led the
AFCERT's real time intrusion detection mission, supervising 60 civilian
and military analysts. Formally trained as a military intelligence officer, Richard holds
degrees from Harvard University and the United States Air Force Academy.
He wrote original material for Hacking Exposed, 4th Ed. and Incident
Response, 2nd Ed., both published by Osborne McGraw-Hill. Richard is the
co-author of Real Digital Forensics and the author of The Tao of Network
Security Monitoring, separate books to be published in 2004. He acquired
his CISSP certification in 2001. His home page is www.taosecurity.com.
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| Wayne Pascoe |
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Wayne Pascoe is a computer user with delusions of adequacy. He's worked
as a cable installer, desktop support technician, system administrator
and programmer in South Africa and England for the past 10 years. He currently maintains servers for an advertising company and a small
ISP, all running FreeBSD, and develops CRM applications for clothing
companies. In his spare time he prods the Apache httpd project and
pretends to study towards a degree.
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