VTLUUG:Talks

This is a list of talks people would like to see and (unscheduled) talks people are willing to put together if they are nagged. Since there's no dedicated VTCSEC wiki, you can also list talks on this page that you'd like to see given there.

Scheduled Talks

This is a planning space for talks that people have agreed to give in various semesters:

Spring 2013

• telnoratti - Cults 101: Starting your first cult for fun and profit
• telnoratti - LXC

Fall 2013

• telnoratti - ZFS - September 5th
• mhazinsk - "About VTLUUG" for new members - September 5th
• guzzles - Cable lacing - September 12th
• officers - Overview of VTLUUG services (for new members) - September 12th
• dyreshark - Go (programming language) [and maybe some optimizations too] - September 19th
• uncurlhalo - Linux From Scratch - September 26th
• mr-black - "How mr-black develops software" - workflow talk/discussion - October 17th
• Jagged - Software-defined Radio (with HackRF, USRP) - ?????
• aam - Set up a solid Email Server with Dovecot, Postfix, Amavisd, Spamassassin, Clamav and Sieve
• telnoratti - Xen Cloud Platform
• telnoratti - Puppet
• guzzles - Condensation

Spring 2014

• telnoratti - Quantum Crypto
• telnoratti - Cults 102: Advanced Culting Techniques
• mhazinsk - Mail - Postfix/Dovecot, etc
• nitin - Eliptic Curve Cryptography, Group Theory
• nitin - Intro to commandline stuff
• jkh - SSL, LDAP/Kerberos

Talks people are willing to give

• ubervert - Full disk encryption.
• telnoratti - Quantum Cryptography
• telnoratti - Intro to Modern Cryptology
• telnoratti - Linux and Unix Distro Sampler
• telnoratti - Grub2
• telnoratti - ZFS
• telnoratti - XCP
• telnoratti - Puppet
• uncurlhalo - Linux From Scratch
• guzzles - Condensation
• Egdeltur, Matt - Arduino/smartphone interfacing
• Mr. Black - Browser Architecture
• Mr. Black - Active Directory
• Mr. Black - Hadoop and HBase
• AndreiM - OS X: UNIX tools and advanced power user techniques
• AndreiM - Intro to Web Development with unix tools
• AndreiM - Intro to easy VPS management
• ram - OpenBSD router tutorial (pf, IPsec, IPv6, DNS, DHCP server)
• ram - IPv6
• ram - Some basic IPC stuff (having fun(?) with unix domain sockets, pipes, etc)
• ram - Vim (beginner or intermediate)
• Timelord - Intro to reverse engineering
• Timelord - Intro to GPGPU computing
• Timelord - Game hacking on OS X (strategies, tools, and lessons learned)
• Timelord - A complete workflow with X on OS X
• Timelord - overview of the OS X kernel (the mach/xnu frankenstein)
• Timelord - LDraw
• Timelord - Introduction to raytracing with POV-Ray
• Timelord - Audio with JACK
• Timelord - Amazon EC2
• Timelord - Basic PGP
• angelicstrike - Haskell
• angelicstrike - Programming TCP/IP Sockets

Talks people would like to see

• Short presentation of how members use Linux/UNIX in their daily routines, thus making people hear about various tools they didn't know existed/haven't seen used. - nitin
• Samba
• NFS (including NFS4)
• FDE (both boot disk and external drives)
• Mutantmonkey's security practices
• Failover tools for Linux (e.g. CARP) and simple high availability/clustered services in RHEL/CentOS and/or Debian
• DNS (theory, caching/recursive, brief tutorial on how to make your own on Linux/BSD, DNSSEC)
• Mail
  • Mutt & GPG demo - requested by dmaczka, but will be covered in CSEC
• C11 features
• GSM protocol, how to MITM - potential Cyber Security Club topic
• MIFARE and iCLASS attacks - potential Cyber Security Club topic
• Expert level Vim
• Emacs
• Timecube
• X.Org and Wayland
• DragonFly BSD
• Sys V Init
• Openstreetmap - mutantmonkey
• The evolution and justification of coding styles
• Survey of archaic programming languages
• "Mainframes on wheels: New directions in mobile computing"
• Multiboot on a RaspberryPi

VTCSEC

• IPSEC
• PF / IPTables
• Hardware Crypto
• Metasploit "advanced" CLI
• Physical security - Matt
• IPv6
• Malware analysis
• Key signing
• Botnets
• Software radio
• Buffer overflows, etc
• Social engineering
• Using CSS to hack Gmail
• TPMs - dyreshark
• Forensics

Old talks

These are things from the old VTLUUG:Roadmap page, and may get added if there is sufficient interest. Most of these were added a couple years ago, so their status is unknown

• Real-time talk in March
• Android talk
• PIM talk
• OpenStreetMap talk
  • Educational portion
  • Showoff portion
    • osm3d
    • TerpNav
• Others (Always Innovating, Randy Marchany, John Harris, Godmar Back, Ico Bukvic?)

Other meeting ideas

• Slideshare roulette
• Key exchange parties
• Android rooting event (combined with or separate from installfest)
• Karaoke night

Round tables

• (CS, ECE software side - Hacking open source projects for grades)
• ECE hardware side - Free Software for digital and analog circuits
  • Using QUCS in class
  • Free Software schematic capture, simulation, routing and layout software for the Open Electronics Lab - Fedora electronics remix
• CoE - Chat with Dean Scales, faculty technology committee about the computer requirement
• Engineering education
• OCS - i.e. improving assignment notification