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CLOSING KEYNOTE: Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Security

KEYNOTE ABSTRACT โ€œIs it secure?โ€ What does that even mean? The question itself is biased; looking for a Yes/No response. We get annoyed when TV lawyers press a testifying witness for a Yes/No answer, when we can clearly see that both answers are wrong since there are so many potential contextual nuances that affect how […]

KEYNOTE 1: DNS Wars: Episode IV – A New Bypass

KEYNOTE ABSTRACT Since commercialization and privatization of the Internet first began in the 1990’s, there has been a steady push to move access side DNS (called “recursive”) away from customer networks and towards first ISP’s and later Cisco, Google, IBM, and Cloudflare. What are the real motives for this trend? What are the risks and […]