I'm giving a keynote at Usenix LISA, the 20th annual Large Installation System Administration conference in DC this coming December. The con runs Dec 3-8, and I'm speaking on the 6th. LISA is the world's coolest, biggest sysadmin conference — I'm deeply honored to be invited. Here's my talk summary:
Pwned: Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC
The entertainment industry has tried to ban every new technology from the record player to the VCR, but when it comes to the Internet and the general-purpose PC — the battleground of the war on copying — Hollywood has far grimmer plans. Under a variety of legislative, standards, policy and treaty negotiations, the people who brought you Police Academy n-1 are working to prohibit open source, to make open ports a crime, and turn Web 2.0 into AOL 0.9b. You can fight this — you can put a stake through its heart. If you don't, kiss everything you love about the Internet goodbye.
I'm also thrilled that they're reprinting my story When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth in the program book.
