The guy asking this question almost didn’t make it out
I’ve only met Raven twice, once at Linux World last year and at Shmoocon this year. I had lunch with her at Linux World, which means I know her well enough to say hi and that’s about it. But there are a lot of people at Shmoocon who consider her a friend and really got upset when she was asked about having her laptop compromised at last year’s Shmoocon. It was not so much that the person asked the question, it was that he added the question “If you can’t protect your laptop, how can you protect the backbone networks?”
This was a stupid question. Raven’s laptop was compromised by a 0-day vulnerability, something very few people could protect themselves from. You could argue that she shouldn’t have had wireless enabled at a hacker event, but I’m sure she knew the dangers involved. But more importantly, the reality is, protecting the [...]
Original post by netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay) and software by Elliott