From scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com Tue Apr 10 23:10:04 2012 From: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com (Murphy Scott) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:10:04 -0400 Subject: [ocbug] April Meeting Message-ID: Just a reminder that we have our monthly meeting this Thursday at Colonnade Cafe. No agenda, just a reminder that BSDCan is next month. Scott -- Scott Murphy, CISSP Owner & Consultant | Arrow-Eye Consulting Inc. 112 Springcreek Cres. | Kanata | ON | K2M 2K8 | Canada O: 613-270-1387 | C: 613-769-9363 email: scott.murphy at arrow-eye.com | web: http://www.arrow-eye.com From lgj at usenix.org Wed Apr 25 16:42:51 2012 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:42:51 -0700 Subject: [ocbug] [ocuug] HotSec '12 Submission Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <11FE7368-84C3-4D91-8C79-4AFF4355F510@usenix.org> The submission deadline for the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security is approaching. Please submit all work by 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 7, 2012. HotSec places its singular emphasis on new ideas and problems. Works reflecting incremental ideas or well understood problems will not be accepted. Cross-discipline papers identifying new security problems or exploring approaches not previously applied to security will be given special consideration. All submissions should propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches, report on noteworthy experience in an emerging area, or generate lively discussion around an important topic. HotSec takes a broad view of security and privacy and encompasses research on topics including but not limited to: * Large-scale threats * Network security * Hardware security * Software security * Physical security * Programming languages * Applied cryptography * Forensics * Privacy * Human-computer interaction * Sociology * Economics * Emerging computing environment Attendance will be limited to 35-50 participants, with preference given to the authors of accepted position papers/presentations. Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/hotsec12/ HotSec '12 will take place Tuesday, August 7, 2012, in Bellevue, WA. It is co-located with the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, which will take place August 8-10, 2012. I look forward to your submissions. Patrick Traynor, Georgia Institute of Technology HotSec '12 Program Chair hotsec12chair at usenix.org --------------------------------------- Call for Papers 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '12) August 7, 2012 Bellevue, WA http://www.usenix.org/hotsec12 Paper submissions due: May 7, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EDT --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OCUUG mailing list OCUUG at listserv.storm.ca http://listserv.storm.ca/mailman/listinfo/ocuug From lgj at usenix.org Sat Apr 21 00:02:06 2012 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:02:06 -0700 Subject: [ocbug] [ocuug] USENIX FOCI '12 Submission Deadline Next Week Message-ID: <7AFF7C4B-83D1-4F31-B9D3-743249D84393@usenix.org> We're writing to remind you the submission deadline for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '12) is approaching. Please submit your work by Thursday, April 26, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT. FOCI '12 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from technology, law, and policy to share their experiences in this field of study. We encourage submission of new, interesting work on a wide variety of topics of interest, including but not limited to the following areas: * Evaluation or analysis of existing anti-censorship systems * Comparisons of existing performance-measurement tools that might be used to detect tampering, blocking, or violations of net neutrality * Studies and findings on real-world censorship or tampering from field deployments or other methods, such as the content that states censor or the extent to which ISPs are degrading certain types of content or service * Metrics and analysis of plausible deniability and robustness * Metrics and benchmarks for content tampering or performance degradation * Detection, measuring, and analysis of the censorship of search results * Design of network protocols and topologies that resist tampering or censorship * Techniques to counter mass surveillance or its effects * The role of private corporations in spreading or enabling surveillance and censorship * Capabilities of deep packet inspection (DPI) and robust mechanisms to circumvent DPI * Legality of censorship-resistant systems or bypassing censorship * Economic considerations in the design and deployment of censorship-resistant systems * Analysis of the economic impact of censorship * Usability in censorship-resistant systems * Effects of censorship on society, business, or political processes For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci12 We look forward to receiving your submissions! Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project Joss Wright, University of Oxford FOCI '12 Program Co-Chairs foci12chairs at usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet August 6, 2012 Bellevue, WA, USA Co-located with the 21st USENIX Security Symposium, August 8-10, 2012 http://www.usenix.org/foci12/ Submissions Due: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ OCUUG mailing list OCUUG at listserv.storm.ca http://listserv.storm.ca/mailman/listinfo/ocuug