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We wanted to quickly announce the availability of http://cc.thinkst.com ( a resource in need of it's own domain & a better name .) CC is a simple application that aims to give us a single point where one can search and browse infosec conference talks and materials*. Quick Overview One of the cool things about having all of this data in a central db is that we are just as easily able to search by topic ( http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/foo/ ) as we are by speaker ( http://cc.thinkst.com/searchMore/halvar/ ) Finding a speaker we are interested in, allows us to see all the talks (we know about) he has given ( http://cc.thinkst.com/speaker/Flake/Halvar/ ) And also allows us to get a good overview of his public research timeline ( http://cc.thinkst.com/speaker/Flake/Halvar/timeline/ ) One of the "funner" things is the ability to see who the speaker has previously (publicly) collaborated with ( http://cc.thinkst.com/speaker/Flake/Halvar/links ) This allows you to go from ...

The folks over at the Infosec Network have recently started doing interviews with security researchers. They have interviewed some real rock stars so far ([ Charlie Miller ], [ HD Moore ], [ Joanna Rutkowska ], [ David Litchfield ], [ Matthieu Suiche ], [ Dan Kaminsky ], and [ Jeremiah Grossman ] ) so i was pretty flattered when they asked me.. My interview is up [ here ] complete with dodgy photo and embarrassingly bad answers..