Definition of Holistic : Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.

We are still trying to get a digital copy of the notes, but the talk covered security holes and how when creating a system you need to focus on every part of the system. If it is week anywhere then the entire system is flawed.

The talk was given by Mark Smith, the Lead System Admin from CreateSpace.

After the talk Mark led us in a contest to crack a set of unsecured virtual machines. after three hours of attempts, the only person to finish was Mark Gius, our very own Treasurer.

Thanks to Mark Smith and everyone who came out. We are done with meetings for this year, we hope to see you all in the fall.

/Nat

UPDATE:  There were actually 3 persons to finish the tasks, Mark was only the first one.

The first hour will go over the basics of holisitic security, and the second hour we will relocate to 14-301 to practice implementing said security and hacking into a machine with incomplete security.

This meeting is sponsored and given by Dr. Staley’s company CreateSpace.

The flyer is here. (in odt format…)

The talk has been moved to 14-301!

Yes it really is in the english bldg this time. In the first hour Staley will talk about the issues with RSA, how it’s used, and how to implement it. The second hour will contain a puzzle where the winner will receive a small prize.

President: Austin Hendrix
Vice Pres: William Tracy
Treasurer: Mark Gius
Secretary: Michelle Khuu and Jeannie Nguyen
Web God: Nat Welch

and in our most contentious position

Master of What’s Going On: Tanya Luthin

Industry Relations will be dealt with at the next Execboard Meeting.

Mark

Anyway, thanks to those who showed up in 14-255 tonight for Josh’s talk. It was very informative. Here is Josh’s Bash Presentation as a PDF.

Upcoming May Events

5/6 - Bash Scripting Talk of Doom Death (Tentative, but appropriate, title)
Josh, aka SillyG, aka President of CPLUG, will be giving a talk on BASH scripting Tuesday May 13th at 7pm in a room to be determined. A lot of us have been waiting for this to happen, so come on by and learn a thing or two.

Update: Check our facebook group (cplug) and the BASH event through there for location, time, etc.

4/19 - Open House
That’s right folks, this Saturday CPLUG will be out in force. We will have two booths, one outside the CSL and one near Eng. IV. Our team at the CSL will be giving tours of the CSC Machine room and doing other nerdy stuff. Our Sun Bound booth will have general assortment of t-shirts for sale, pasty nerds roasting in what will probably be their first time outside in weeks, and lots of machines running everything from Gentoo to Slackware. Come stop by, bug us, pick the minds of your current execboard, and talk to those who want to take our jobs next year.

4/26 - FYM 33
As every quarter, we will be hosting Free Your Machine in the Networks Lab (Bldg 22 Room 124) starting at 10AM. Come get your machine freed and filled with penguiny goodness. If you already have Linux come by and enjoy the nerddom. There will be Pizza.

5/6 - Bash Scripting Talk of Doom Death (Tentative, but appropriate, title)
Josh, aka SillyG, aka President of CPLUG, will be giving a talk on BASH scripting Tuesday May 13th at 7pm in a room to be determined. A lot of us have been waiting for this to happen, so come on by and learn a thing or two.

Till then,
/Nat

Update: Check our facebook group (cplug) for a facebook event, and the room number.

Thanks to everyone who showed up to our events this month. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. mgius would also like to say this about getting to know CPLUG:

There are 2 main ways to get active in the club. The first is the Mailing List. Just sign up for announce and cplug and go from there. The second way to hear about events, ask questions, and get to know us is through our IRC channel. We are #cplug on Freenode.net. If you need help setting up IRC we recommend XChat for Linux & Windows. Our mac users reccomend different things, but I’ve heard Colloquy, and if you use Pidgin/Gaim it has (bad) IRC support. For help on setting up IRC check this link.

Hope to see you guys soon at some of our other events or online.

/Nat

Who: You
What: Power of UNIX talk hosted by the Cal Poly Linux Users Group
When: This Wednesday January 30 at 7:30 pm
Where: Computer Science Lab(building 14), rooms 301/302/303
Why: Cal Poly uses Linux/UNIX, Industry uses it and so should you!

We’ll be teaching all of the basics, so come on by, even if you’ve never used Linux/Unix before.

Flyer: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dkirker/PowerOfUNIX.pdf

Basic UNIX Commands: http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~vmeyerso/cplug/BasicUnixCommands.pdf