Keynote in English - US at ZendCon & OpenEnterprise 2018
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Complexity is the enemy of security and there’s nothing more complex than the general-purpose computer: the gnarly hairball of Turing completeness that lets attackers exploit your lightbulbs to attack your printer so it opens a reverse shell to their C&C box.
To a first approximation, a computer that can’t run bad programs is a great answer: just design a cellphone that can’t run FBI-proof encryption, or a set-top box that can’t run a Netflix streamripper. Mission accomplished!
The problem is, the Turing Complete Minus One computer doesn’t exist; instead, these ideas always end up being rootkits by another name: a device whose non-admin-accessible hypervisor spies on everything you do and tries to terminate any “bad” processes.
This is a catastrophically bad idea. What’s worse is that corporations and governments are converging on a set of incentives to implement this technologically bankrupt idea in everything with a system-on-a-chip, from your toaster to your tractor to your pacemaker to your car.
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Absolutely fascinating and compelling keynote. I loved it.
It seemed like an interesting topic, the bits I could catch, but the echo of the mic made it very difficult to understand the speaker. Not a slight on him, he seemed very engaged with the topic, more an issue with the room set up.
Agree w/ Summer. Great topic, difficult to hear parts.
Information wants to be free. Rock On!