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"Threats"

Talkat OSCON 2014 · 2014-07-20..07-24· [security]
name:Tim Bray
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Argues that the real risk is account theft and mass surveillance, not abstract threats, and that engineers can fix much of it now: stop letting build systems and dependency hell eat development time, deploy HTTPS everywhere, and add end-to-end encryption using libraries rather than inventing crypto — cites working projects like open keychain, recommends learning RFC 4880 and using existing OpenPGP implementations in Go, Ruby, Python or Node.js, and get legal to sign off on threat models.

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  1. 0:00Introduction and industry
  2. 1:34The issue of yak shaving
  3. 3:14Security as a priority
  4. 5:07The importance of privacy
  5. 6:31Call to action for security
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