*shee ... * ~15-17 years of #USENIX etc papers, presentations on #computering to trawl ...

https://www.usenix.org/publications/proceedings

https://www.usenix.org/conferences/multimedia

Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)

Boston, July 7–9

I am pleased to announce that our second paper got accepted at #USENIX Security 2025!

Two fantastic visiting students conducted the work Tristan Bilot and Baoxiang Jiang at UBC CS with the help of Zefeng Li.

Paper: https://tfjmp.org/publications/2025-usenixsec-2.pdf
Code: https://github.com/ubc-provenance/PIDSMaker

CFP for ACM #SoCC '25 is out. https://acmsocc.org/2025/ Just posted on twitter. Not sure if there's a conference account on the Fediverse.

Apparently, a fully virtual event now. Wondering if #ATC could have switched to a fully remote / virtual model as well.
#acm #usenix #sigops #sigmod

#AI based #password candidate generation is super interesting to me, but so far the best generators (CMU's #neuralnetwork based generator presented at #USENIX 16, and Dr Matt Weir's #PCFG generator) are still about on par with existing #Markov implementations and rule-based #cracking.

#PassGAN, on the other hand, falls well short of existing password cracking techniques and candidate generators.

While I hold out a lot of hope for future AI-powered password cracking, it ain't here yet, and it definitely isn't PassGAN.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/the-passgan-ai-password-cracker-what-it-is-and-why-its-mostly-hype/

ancient SDF is ready to celebrate #unix50 @livingcomputers with #usenix - doors open at 10am event begins #tonight 6pm - 9pm #bbs #vintage #computing #unix