Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 7, 2017, 11:10 a.m.
(120 minutes).
Qubes is a reasonably-secure desktop operating system based on using the Xen hypervisor to secuely isolate distinct activity domains. If you've used it, you may have noticed a few foibles and rough edges. This is a meeting for users (and prospective users) of Qubes who want to share tips and tricks or vent about inconvenience.
This event was originally organized by Tom Lowenthal.
Presenters:
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Jean-Philippe Ouellet
When Jean-Philippe was 8 years old, someone handed him their well-worn copy of K&R and said "Here kid, read this. One day you'll thank me." He got started in security by hacking games, and somehow made it through high school wearing OpenBSD shirts nearly every day. He studied Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he picked up random hobbies like Amateur Radio, Caving, and Dungeons & Dragons. He ran the Cyber Security Club at Virginia Tech for several years, and really enjoys going to hacker conferences and being part of the greater hacker community, where he has made many friends. These days he stays up at night contributing to Qubes OS. He is currently seeking interesting work with a positive societal impact in an interesting part of the world - feel free to contact him ;)
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Tom Lowenthal
Tom Lowenthal is a privacy activist and security technologist working to make technology safe to use and worthy of trust. He's the staff technologist a the Committee to Protect Journalists, the leading global press freedom watchdog. Tom works in CPJ's Safety and Emergencies program where he researches new and emerging technical threats to the practice of journalism and provides timely safety advice to protect journalists at risk.
Tom previously worked as project coordinator for the Tor Project, and on Mozilla's Privacy and Public Policy team in San Francisco. He has written on tech and policy for Ars Technica and has experience as an emergency medical and technical rescue first responder.
Tom generally avoids making eye-contact with surveillance cameras out of either a peculiar superstition or a bizarre abundance of caution. He is working to incrementally replace himself with a small federation of shell scripts and doesn't know how to react appropriately when he hears someone say “cyber”.
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