Internationally Educated Professional Get Inspired at 2012 IEP Conference

Poster: 2012 Internationally Educated Professional IEP Conference
Credit: www.iep.ca

Are You an Internationally Educated Professional newcomer seeking practical, effective career advice? This forum is for you:

2012 IEP Conference

When: Friday, February 10, 2012
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building
Address: 255 Front St W Toronto, Ontario

9:00am Morning Keynote speaker Lionel Laroche, Ph.D., P. Eng. – Founding and Principal, MultiCultural Business Solutions

1:30pm Afternoon Keynote speaker - Donna Messer, Managing Editor for Entrenomics Magazine

+ IEP Conference Marketplace Exhibitors


A Quick Conference Overview

Ask Questions. Be inspired.
Get connected for professional success in Canada.

Get inspired and learn about Canadian business cultures with employers and regulatory bodies.

Participate in a wide range of personal and professional development sessions and workshops led by industry experts, experienced facilitators and successful IEPs.

This is your opportunity to meet with informed, experienced and inspirational professionals who can help make your career dreams in Canada less of a puzzle, and more of a reality.

For schedules and other registration details, please go to http://www.iep.ca

Science Talks - Dr. Lionel Laroche


youtube.com: Science Talks - Dr. Lionel Laroche
Uploaded by WesternUniversity on Feb 10, 2010

When students come from different parts of the world than their professors, they often have different ideas of what their professors expect from them, and vice versa. Dr. Lionel Laroche leads a workshop analyzing these dynamics and provides suggestions on how to ensure that students, professors and staff members all reap the benefits of cultural differences.
Credit: WesternUniversity

mafiaboy @ it360: The Dark Side Has Learned

Screenshot: it360.ca: Opening Keynote: Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet
and Why It's Still Broken
By Michael Calce with Craig Silverman
Credit: it360.ca

I don't normally condone the lionising of crackers; it only encourages the little pests. (It's like calling graffiti vandals "artists".) Allowing a major exploit the foundation of a security career also strikes me as a perverse incentive. However, a suitably public recantation and credible evidence of reform should be accepted, so I was prepared to listen to the keynote dialogue between Craig Silverman and Michael Calce (Mafiaboy) at IT-360.

Like Torvalds, Calce was introduced to computers extremely young, and began to explore their internals very thoroughly. Unlike Linus, he had the misfortune to fall in with the wrong "community".

The famous exploit that took down Amazon and Yahoo was devised as a weapon for use in juvenile gang warfare on the Internet, but the damage it caused was not so much deliberately anti-social behaviour, more an example of "Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome". Like Robert Morris' 1988 worm, a combination of misapplied (and inadequately tested) skill and adolescent lack of foresight caused damage way beyond its instigator's intentions, and promptly terrified him with its consequences.

Although he still wants to be acknowledged for the technical skill, knowledge, and (perverse) creativity he clearly displayed, Calce seems to have acquired a moral compass as a result of his experiences, and aims to use those attributes in a positive way. What he had to say about the evolution of the Internet since 1998 wasn't really news to anyone who's been watching. (There was some novelty in his suggestion that the fuss over Conficker and April 1. was a diversionary tactic to conceal some other timing or target.)

The Dark Side has learned, and morphed from pointless and largely inconsequential, (to anyone else), tribal squabbling, to serious, financially-motivated crime, with large potential rewards. The threats are greatly enhanced by the multiplication of the bandwidth available to individuals for attacks like DDoS.

The forces of good, on the other hand, are still stuck with an architecture designed for a basically trustworthy environment. In particular, BIND and named are fundamentally broken. Unlike the bad guys, the commercial world appears not to have learnt very much, because it keeps enabling the same old exploits, (buffer overflows, memory corruption, &c), and enabling new ones (XSS &c.).

I'll attribute to youthful naivety his proposed solution of government-level certification of programs. Even if it were possible to restrict the code visible to the Internet, the demonstrated ineptness of government and law-enforcement in networking matters makes any idea of officially-inspired solutions a bad joke. (That's my opinion, not Calce's.)

Even if there were no world-class insights revealed, the event was sufficiently interesting that I might take the book out of the Library.

2009 © AR

links:
it360.ca: Opening Keynote: Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken
itworldcanada.com: Mafiaboy to headline IT 360
By: Jennifer Kavur - Computer World Canada (24 Mar 2009)
mafiaboybook.com: Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken
sipgroup.blogspot.com: IT360° Show + HiTech Career Fair + Entrepreneurial Success Stories
bizjunction.blogspot.com: mafiaboy @ it360: The Dark Side Has Learned
by AR

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