[clug] Canberra Linux Users Group Meeting - 23 July 2015
Steve Walsh
steve at nerdvana.org.au
Tue Jul 21 11:24:46 UTC 2015
(Sending again on behalf of Steve Hanley, as he's otherwise indisposed)
Canberra Linux Users Group Meeting - 23 July 2015
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Date: 23 July 2015 (Fourth Thursday of the month)
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Time: 18:15 - 18:55
Abstract: It's BeerSIG time!
'What's BeerSIG?' I hear you ask! BeerSIG is a social
gathering, and an
opportunity to get together with like minded people and
share a social pint
or two before the meeting.
Location: Wig and Pen, Llewellyn Hall, Canberra School of Music
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Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
Speaker: Paul Harvey
Abstract: I've been using QubesOS https://www.qubes-os.org/ for
over 6 months,
and although it's complicated my life a little, I now
feel naked without it!
I'd like to talk about why Qubes is more than just a
bunch of VMs:
- Helps mitigate against hostile USB devices (I'll
bring a USB rubber
ducky configured for hostility, just to demonstrate)
- Helps contain malicious PDFs and (eventually) other
documents
- Helps mitigate flaws inherent in the now decades-old
design/architecture
of X11, while at the same time giving a unique,
somewhat seamless
GUI experience for running different apps in
different VMs
- Helps contain exploits that might occur in kernel
network drivers
- Helps reduce the scope of malware impact by
containing its influence to
just a few filesystem locations that actually
persist across AppVM reboots:
Eg. /home and /usr/local directories (the rest of
the root filesystem usually
comes from a template rootfs that's
instantiated on every AppVM start)
- Provides a neat point & click way to chain different
networking VMs together
in front of any of your AppVMs (firewall, IDS,
proxy, Tor, etc)
- Improves memory utilization by using fancy xen stuff
to share/release free
memory among running AppVMs
... among other things
Venue: Room N101
Computer Science and Information Technology Building
North Road
The Australian National University
See http://clug.org.au/ for more directions and a map
Food/drink: Pizza and soft drink/juice. Come hungry, and bring
about $6 to cover the cost of your share if you
want some.
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