Brian Baskin
Brian Baskin is a Threat Researcher with a specialty in incident response, threat intel, and malware analysis. Baskin was previously an intrusions analyst for the US Defense Cyber Crime Center and a threat research lead at Carbon Black's Threat Analysis Unit (TAU). He has studied and presented research on cyber threats for over 20 years. He has authored multiple security books and develops open source tools for more efficient IR and malware analysis.
Session
Laptop stickers are more than colorful pieces of flair. They represent our interests, hopes, goals, and communities. They help us find our tribe in a sea of unknown faces in black shirts. But there is a major danger to the stickers that define ourselves: upgrading our laptops.
Hundreds of poor hackers punish themselves with old and barely usable systems just to retain their rare mementos. After talking with many of these poor souls I've experimented with various methods to remove, retain, and reuse cherished stickers.
This is a conversation on the role of stickers in our communities and learn the right and wrong ways to keep our history alive.