[Dailydave] No more free bugs (and WOOT)

[Charles Miller]

Hi everybody.

You may have heard some about the No More Free Bugs campaign (http://blog.trailofbits.com/2009/03/22/no-more-free-bugs/ 
)  Basically, it is the chance for researchers to unite to get paid  
for the hard work we do.  As long as folks continue to give bugs to  
companies for free, the companies will never appreciate (or reward)  
the effort.  So I encourage you all to stop the insanity and stop  
giving away your hard work.  If you believe in the No More Free Bugs  
campaign, please include our logo (http://nomorefreebugs.org/logo.jpg)  
on all of your presentations at security conferences.  I think it  
would be really great if vendors sat through an entire conference and  
every talk had this logo on it.  I'll definitely have it on my  
BlackHat Europe slide deck next week.

Also, I'd like to announce the CFP for the 3rd USENIX Workshop on  
Offensive Technologies (WOOT '09).  Check it out at http://www.usenix.org/event/woot09/cfp/ 
.  This is the only conference around that brings industry and  
academic security folks together.  Its a chance for industry  
researchers to show off their work to the academic community and vice  
versa - I'm being very kind here to academia ;)  Planning on  
submitting something cool to BH USA?  Submit it here too and present  
it again a week later.  It would be great if WOOT became a showcase of  
the best research of the previous year.

By the way, I've decided instead of getting a blog or twitter account,  
I'll just send emails on daily dave!

Take care,

Charlie