On Thursday and Friday I participated as part of the Firewall/IPS
team for Shmoocon Labs (https://www.shmoocon.org/labs.html). The
organizers brought in a Cisco ASA to handle the firewalling duties;
needless to say, I was disappointed although not entirely surprised.
While they struggled for a couple hours to get the most recent
patches installed for IOS and the IPS module, I spent all of 15
minutes configuring OpenBSD/macppc -current on my PowerBook G4 to act
as a single-homed routing gateway for 10 conference VLAN networks.
It never got to see production, but it was a fun exercise
nonetheless. Thanks OpenBSD. :)
P.S. We really need more *BSD attendees at Shmoocon. If you're
remotely interested in security, and I would assume most folks using
OpenBSD are, you should really come out next year. Besides myself
and Mike Erdely, I ran into Ray Lai (OpenBSD dev), Dan Langille
(FreeBSD user), and Bruce Potter (OpenBSD user). I also met a
handful of members from kaos.theory, some of whom are BSD advocates.
Needless to say, we were far outnumbered by Windows and Linux fanbois.
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
