I was a student member of CIPS for a while (i only dropped it because I was broke). I approve of their behavior.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Mark Jenkins <m...@parit.ca> wrote: > We have been approached by CIPS (membership of 120 or so, expect about 50 >> to 60 folks to show) >> to host an event in our space 530pm to 700pm on Tuesday, 22 January 2013. >> >> The CIPS organization is excited to see our space and learn about our >> projects. >> >> This may be a great opportunity to piggy back a grand opening celebration >> evening for the public >> and put us next to Sr. IT leaders from many local companies. >> > > Excellent, we have a real grand opening in the works with a date now > settled on. > > I declare Dec 15 to be a member-focused, infrastructure hackathon without > any cheeky use of the O word. I'll kick it off early (noon, 1pm, 2pm?), > with a talk on the current state of / re-launch of the VM server and I'll > be inviting folks after that to work on any of three related, ongoing > challenges: > > 1) Try to find security holes in my automated account claiming system > that would allow you to get more than just the account you claimed. (system > it also not open at all outside the Skullspace LAN) > > Even though members have physical access and can own anything in the > space anyway (short of a well setup TPM* machine) -- the protections are > still valuable against an adversary that isn't physically present, but has > access to the private LAN, such as via a member or or guest's infected > laptop/smartphone. > > 2) Other current and up and coming services on the VM server have "ask > Mark" as an instruction for appropriate resource allocation. It would help > if there were web-based interfaces for automatically claiming resources for > those services as well. > > 3) And for those who like to just configure existing stuff vs writing new > code, there will always be ongoing ways to improve/expand the list of > available services to members on the VM server -- interest in working with > me on that kind of system administration is welcome too. > > > Mark > ______________________________**_________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: > http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/**index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss<http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss> > Archive: > https://groups.google.com/**group/skullspace-discuss-**archive/<https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/> >
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