We also have a video recording of the talk, currently in post-processing. I will add a new post when it is available.

Gary Pampara will be talking about his new favorite language, Scala, which supports both object-oriented and functional programming, and compiles to Java byte code. This promises to be an interesting topic, hope to see you all there!

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

SFD in Pretoria will be held at the Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria (CSIR campus) on 18 September 2010 (8:00 – 15:00). Entrance is free of charge.

For more info see:

• http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria
• http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144325005584641

Edwin Peer will be presenting a talk about OpenLaszlo.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

Dirk Uys will be presenting a talk about programming with Haxe.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

Derick will be presenting a talk about video formats and standards, video encoding with FLOSS tools and a look at the use of various video formats in online and mobile content.

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

PLUG and Software Freedom Day veteran Karl Fischer (also of fandroid.org fame) will be giving a talk about Free and Open Source Software in South Africa. This promises to be interesting and locally relevant. Hope to see you all there!

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

Simeon (hi, it’s me…) will be presenting a talk about fiber optics in computer networks, covering the basics like fiber types and transmission technologies, then discussing advancements (40/100Gbps, etc), and wrapping up with some commentary on fiber network roll outs in South Africa.

See you there!

For directions (including an aerial photograph) please see the meetings page.

Slides:

• attacks_and.pdf (1.2 MB) [Sorry for the manky quality of this PDF export -Simeon]
• attacks_and.ppt (4.0 MB)
• attacks_and.ppt.sig (72 B)

Although this talk was entitled Attacks and Defenses, it focused mostly on hacks, and pretty cool ones at that. Marco walked us through some recent attacks against Win32 and FreeBSD on a kernel level, as well as some application layer stuff (x509, web apps, cloud attacks). Delivered with insight and humor this was an excellent talk. Thanks Marco and everyone who attended (thanks also for support from SensePost staff).