[Dailydave] No more free bugs (and WOOT)

[Matthieu Suiche]

Why there is a Coccinellidae with 7 spots on the logo?

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Matthieu Suiche



On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Charles Miller
<cmiller at securityevaluators.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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