[Think IT] Chapter 2：The Fourteenth Speaker of the PacSec2007 (1/3)

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After Writing the PacSec2007 report

This is the second article of "small talk on security". Did you enjoy my report on PacSec2007? I hope you did and I am glad if you got interested in the conference and began considering to take part.

When I finished writing the previous article, I didn't mean to make it a series and I was personally fond of its happy-ending myself. However, I felt as if I left something important in my article.

I didn't expect that feeling last long, but it did. I realized that I need to write about PacSec2007 just one more time. In this sense, this article is rather personal than made for public readers. Still I believe, if you liked my report, you will find why I need to write this part. So I'll try my best.

The Fourteenth Speaker

Here's a question for the readers of this article. Do you know how many sessions were there in the PacSec2007? "Thirteen?" Yes, it's correct. No, it isn't.

According to the "speakers" and "program" section of the conference homepage, there were thirteen entries. Then why it isn't?

The following is the portion of the message I received from Dragos on October 12:

Talk selections for PacSec 2007 - November 29 and 30 - Aoyama Diamond Hall
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- Programmed I/O accesses: a threat to virtual machine monitors? - Loic Duflot,
- Developing Fuzzers with Peach - Michael Eddington, Leviathan Security
- Cyber Attacks Against Japan - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, LAC
- Windows Localization: Owning Asian Windows Versions - Kostya Kortchinsky, Immunity
- TOMOYO Linux - Toshiharu Harada, NTT Data
- IPV6 Demystified - Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, IPv6Samurais
- Automated JavaScript Deobfuscation - Alex Rice, Websense Security Labs
- Enter Sandman (why you should never go to sleep) - Nicolas Ruff & Matthieu Suiche, EADS
- Agent-oriented SQL Abuse - Fernando Russ & Diego Tiscornia, Core
- Bad Ideas: Using a JVM/CLR for Intellectual Property Protection - Marc Schoenefeld,
- Heap exploits are dead. Heap exploits remain dead. And we have killed them.
- Nicolas Waisman, Immunity
- Deploying and operating a Global Distributed Honeynet - David Watson, Honeynet Project
- Office 0days and the people who love them - TBA, Microsoft.
(I would also like to thank Colin Delaney and Stephen Ridley as standby presenters)

Did you notice? There were fourteen entries at that point of time. So, one entry has been vanished somehow by the conference day, November 29.

The missing peace was an entry titled "IPV6 Demystified". And the name of the associated speaker was "itojun", here I would like to call him by this handle he loved rather than his real name. Itojun was supposed to give a speech at the conference. Until very recently, this entry was included in the speaker list but now it is only left in the messages sent to the speakers (and more importantly, in their memories). Next