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<p>From Spender's recent <a
href="https://grsecurity.net/SSTIC2016.pdf">Keynote</a>:<br>
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Conferences poor method of knowledge transfer <br>
<p> Good method of making audience feel “knowledge” transfer <br>
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<p> Accept that it’s basically show-and-tell, that understanding
of a topic requires
more than an hour, sometimes with weeks/months/years of background
knowledge</p>
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<p>As someone who helps run <a href="http://infiltratecon.com/">INFILTRATE</a>
I want to point out that while I totally agree that conferences
can be hard to use as knowledge transfer mechanisms, that they are
getting better. In particular I want to point people towards this
very long piece on how everything connects together, especially
those of you who attended INFILTRATE: <a
href="http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-common-thread-fuzzing-bug-triage.html"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-common-thread-fuzzing-bug-triage.html">http://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-common-thread-fuzzing-bug-triage.html</a></a></p>
<p>This is also true of training: I'd love to find a way to offer a
continued education series based on the INFILTRATE classes. And I
have another post coming out to connect more dots from INFILTRATE
2016 shortly. But Spender is right: Conferences, a mainstay of our
community, can be too much about show and tell, and not enough
about scientific progress. (That said, I think INFILTRATE is the
best among them in that regards, of course. :))</p>
<p>And we ARE offering the INFILTRATE training again <a
href="https://twitter.com/Immunityinc/status/738404651712798721">both
in NYC and (strangely enough!) Columbia MD</a>.<br>
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<p>-dave</p>
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