I enjoyed seeing Brian Hatch's presentation, Linux: The Securable Operating System, at LinuxFest Northwest 2003 recently. Despite the 60-minute blitz through dozens of slides (only a little over half of them), the topics that did get covered solidified my understanding of some concepts I had only heard about in passing before. Brian is the primary author of Hacking Linux Exposed, and the talk made me very interested in buying the book. Brian also has a nifty Linux security newsletter.

I'm also grateful that Brian mentioned the name of the presentation software he used, which I admit I was admiring during the talk: MagicPoint for Linux. Not that I give many presentations these days, but some day...