Presented at
DEF CON 26 (2018),
Aug. 11, 2018, 3 p.m.
(45 minutes).
Ever worry about the hardware you leave behind? In a world where servers are co-located, and notebooks get left in hotel rooms, the ability to resist tampering, and if necessary actively respond to attack, has become increasingly important. And of course everybody knows the best booby traps are the ones you don't know are there. This talk will prepare you for life in 1984, where the maids are evil, and step brothers can't be trusted. Whether your running servers as a high value target, or simply want to protect your Monero private key, this talk will show you to achieve FIPS 140-2 level 4 security, without the FIPS 140-2 level 4 price tag. Specifically, we'll cover acquisition considerations, physical hardening, firmware mitigation, tamper detection and more.
Presenters:
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Ladar Levison
- Founder, Lavabit LLC
Ladar Levison serves as the founder, president, and chief executive of Lavabit, where he has worked the past 14 years. Founded in 2004 (and originally called Nerdshack), Lavabit was created because Mr. Levison believes that privacy is a fundamental, necessary right for a functioning, free and fair democratic society. Presently, Mr. Levison is focused on Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative, which aims to make end-to-end email encryption automatic and ubiquitous, while continuing to vigorously advocate for the privacy and free speech rights of all. Mr. Levison's involvement in the internet can be traced to the early days of the world wide web, when he built his first website, in the early nineties for the fledgling Mosiac web browser (from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications).
Prior, Mr. Levison operated a dialup bulletin board service, and worked as a computer technician assembling custom computer systems. With more than 10 years of experience as an independent consultant, Mr. Levison has brought to bear his skills as a project manager, business analyst, systems engineer, software developer, database administrator, systems administrator, and information security specialist.
Mr. Levison's career has involved working with several dozen multinational companies in the financial, consumer electronics, and retail sectors. The websites Mr. Levison built have drawn millions of visitors, and the software he's written has touched, albeit behind the scenes, the lives of millions more. Over the years, Mr. Levison has written and published numerous technical specifications and authored several editorial pieces. Mr. Levison frequently speaks at a variety of conferences, has appeared as an expert on numerous network television shows, and appeared in several documentaries; including the Oscar winning film, /Citizenfour/.
Mr. Levison has also been involved with several popular free open source software projects. Mr. Levison holds fifteen certifications, with the vast majority from Microsoft and International Business Machines. Mr. Levison received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from Southern Methodist University, where he studied finance, English, political science and computer science. Additionally, Mr. Levison spent a year studying international relations at Georgetown University. A native of San Francisco, California, he currently resides in Dallas, Texas where he lives with his best friend, and principal cheerleader, Princess, the Italian Greyhound he rescued in 2010.
Twitter: @kingladar
Facebook: kingladar
Website: https://lavabit.com
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hon1nbo
- Proprietor, Hacking & Coffee LLC
Hon1nbo is a hacker who tinkers for fun and to satisfy the basic human need to light things on fire. Hon1nbo allegedly has a job, where they get paid to take selfies in other people's secure vaults in the middle of the night. We don't know if this job is real, or merely a cover story. This possible delusion has taken them around the world entering into some of the largest organizations in both people size and technical expanse, using every possible entry method at their disposal. No domain left without an admin, no email left without a phish, and every office a wolf tail hiding in the air vents.
In addition to their night job, Hon1nbo runs Hacking & Coffee, a small hosting firm in Texas, where excess network capacity abounds, to perform security research and mirror F/OSS repositories. They also provide infrastructure support to a variety community projects, small businesses, and student groups.
A wild Hon1nbo can be spotted at DEF CON, its natural habitat, and identified via their purple tail, ears, and getting into shenanigans.
Twitter: @hon1nbo
Facebook: hon1nbo
Website: https://hackingand.coffee
Species: Wolf-Dog
Pronouns: them/their/schlee/generalisimo whatever be consistent
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