If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Tales from the Early Internet
Paul Mockapetris, Inventor, DNS, and David Conrad, CTO, ICANN
Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare
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MP: You guys wrote all this stuff; why is the internet so broken?
PM: People complain about security flaws, but there is no security in original design of dns. I think of it that we haven’t had the right investment in rebuilding the infrastructure.
Original stuff was only good for 10 years, but we’ve been using it for 30.
DC: The fact that we were able to get Packard from one machine to another in the early days was astonishing in itself.
MP: So what are you worried about in terms of Internet infrastructure that we aren’t even thinking about?
PM: i’m worried about the fact that a lot of places like the ITF are very incremental in their thinking, and that people aren’t willing to take the next big jump. E.g. hesitancy to adopt blockchain
Being able to experiment and try new stuff is important.
The idea that you can't change anything because it will affect the security and stability of the internet. we need to weigh benefits and risks or we will eventually die of Continue reading
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Making the World Better by Breaking Things
Ben Sadeghipour, Technical Account Manager, HackerOne, and Katie Moussouris, Founder & CEO, Luta Security
Moderator: John Graham-Cumming, CTO, Cloudflare
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JGC: We’re going to talk about hacking
Katie Moussouris helps people how to work around security vulnerabilities.
Ben Sadeghipour is a technical account manager at HackerOne, and a hacker at night
JGC: Ben, you say you’re a hacker by night. Tell us about this.
BS: It depends who you ask: if they encourage it; or, we do it for a good reason. “Ethical hacker” - we do it for a good reason. Hacking can be illegal if you’re hacking without permission; but that’s not what we do.
JGC: You stay up all night
BS: I lock myself in the basement
JGC: Tell us about your company.
KM: I was invited to brief Pentagon when I worked at Microsoft; The pentagon was interested in the implementation of this idea in a large corporation like Microsoft.
“Hacking the pentagon”
The adoption of Bug Bounty has been slow. We were interested in working with a very large company like Microsoft. There was interest in implementing ideas from private sector at Pentagon. I helped the internal team at Continue reading
A Cloud Without Handcuffs
Brandon Philips, Co-Founder & CTO, CoreOS, and Joe Beda, CTO, Heptio, & Co-Founder, Kubernetes
Moderator: Alex Dyner, Co-Founder & COO, Cloudflare
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We’re exploring increasing risk of few companies locking in customers gaining more power over time.
AD: I want to hear your stories about how you got into what you do.
JB: Kubernetes faced problem of either having googlers use rbs or bring X to rest of world. We wanted to have Googlers and outside people using something similar. We chose to do it as open source because you play a different game when you’re the underdog. Through open source we could garner interest. We wanted to provide applicational mobility.
AD: Brandon, talk about your mission and why you started company.
BP: We started CoreOS four years ago; We spent a lot of time thinking about this problem and containers were natural choice. They are necessary for achieving our mission. We wanted to allow people to have mobility around their applications. We wanted to enable new security model through containers. So we started building a product portfolio
AD: There are tradeoffs between using a container or an open source tech; how do you think Continue reading
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Making Mobile Faster than Fixed Line
Cole Crawford, Founder & CEO, Vapor IO, and Chaitali Sengupta, Consultant, Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies
Moderator: Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder & COO, Cloudflare
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CC: moved between private and public sector.
CS: her company added 100 million customers in India.
MZ: Let’s start with where we are today: trends or things you’re seeing in the marketplace that weren’t there 5 years ago.
CC: What’s interesting is combination of data mass and data velocity, resulting in a more dynamic internet. E.g. Latency wasn’t mentioned by customers at first; AI is helping to create a new low-latency internet.
CS: One of the biggest things is applying lessons of cloud to telecom to see how we can make systems more centralized and virtualized. Network function virtualization; putting things on general service servers. Now dovetailing into 5G, where we see more bandwidth.
MZ: We’re currently in 4G world; when will 5G standard get finalized?
CS: Standards are getting finalized; trials are getting started. Many 5G systems are up and running NWC America ... is running trials already. I would say end of next year or 2019
MZ: So the future is here and it’s almost distributed? 4G took 2 years to Continue reading
Your guide to selecting pluggable transceiver modules
The high-cost of vendor-locked optics has spawned a lot of ingenuity over the years as other ‘non-approved’ manufacturers build the same optics to the same spec and try to get them to work as a low-cost alternative to preferred ODMs. But the whitebox revolution has now leveled the playing field. Lower cost whitebox hardware can work with low-cost or high-cost optics, without discrimination based on manufacturer brand. In the case of a data center deployment, the cost savings of using lower cost optics can translate to millions of dollars.
As long as the box manufacturer and the optics manufacturer both build to industry standards — both formal and informal ones — optics from any manufacturer should be able to work on any box. Most of the implementation details are specified by standards. However, that doesn’t guarantee that you can pick any module on the internet, order a thousand units and have a successful deployment.
At Cumulus Networks, we do everything we can to ensure a smooth, easy deployment. We believe that one of the critical benefits of disaggregation is that it provides you with the ability to choose whatever hardware and software best suit your business needs.
When it comes Continue reading
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Disruptive Cryptography: Post-Quantum & Machine Learning With Encrypted Data
Shay Gueron, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Israel, and Raluca Ada Popa, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Moderator: John Graham-Cumming, CTO, Cloudflare
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Raluca is also a Co-Director of the RISELab at UC Berkeley as well as Co-Founder and CTO of a cybersecurity startup called PreVeil. She developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data as well as designed new encryption schemes that underlie these systems.
Shay was previously a Senior Principal Engineer, serving as Intel’s Senior Cryptographer and is now senior principal at AWS, and an expert in post-quantum, security, and algorithms.
JGC: Tell us about what you actually do.
RP: Computing on encrypted data is not just theoretical; it’s also exciting because you can keep data encrypted in the cloud. It covers hacking attacks while still enabling the functionality of the system. This is exciting because we can cover so many hacking attacks in one shot.
SG: I’m working on making new algorithms; also on making solutions for quantum computers that are increasingly strong.
SG: I’ve been working on cryptography: making it faster, recently I’ve been thinking about solutions for what will happen when we Continue reading
What Will AI Mean for Everyday Life?
Willie Tejada, Chief Developer Advocate, IBM and Anthony Goldbloom, CEO, Kaggle
Moderator: Jen Taylor, Head of Product, Cloudflare
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JT: Our focus today is really what does AI mean for everyday life. I’m hearing a lot about AI. What is your assessment about where we are and how it is making a difference?
WT: we’re in an unprecedented, interesting era. From a consumer perspective, negative connotation.
It’s an interesting era we are in; these technologies are going to do a tremendous amount in terms of consumers selecting what they buy, Helping patient-centric care.
Combination of data set & availability of resources is fueling AI.
You might hear 90% of the world’s data has been created in the past two years. AI will help us deal with that kind of information overload.
The big difference with programming systems is that AI knows how to understand, reason, learn, interact.
AG: There is a set of techniques through which we can more accurately predict fraud, insurance plans, credit scoring.
This is a jump in the past 15 years.
5 years ago, the ability to do very exciting things with unstructured data, i.e. automating radiology. Then digital networks Continue reading
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The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration
Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare
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Avril began her career on the National Security Council, and went on to become the first female deputy at the CIA.
DK: How will cyber will play a role in military operations?
AH: We look at it from the perspective of “asymmetric threats”; state actors (those who have high-value assets that they can hold at risk with no threat to them). The US is more technologically advanced and relies on cyber more and more; we are as a consequence more vulnerable to cyber threats. Asymmetric threats thus hold at risk those things that are most important to us.
In the cyber realm we can’t quite define what constitutes a use of force, and saying so can be used against us. So this is an area that is crucial to continue working in; in many respects the US has the most to lose from using a framework that doesn’t work.
“The private sector is utterly critical in creating a framework that is going to work.”
We want to have widely-accepted norms and rules so that we can ask other countries Continue reading
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