In a rambling, hourlong keynote address at the Black Hat USA conference here today, security luminary Dan Kaminsky detailed the risks and the opportunities inherent in the internet.
Kaminsky first shot to fame in 2008, when he revealed a flaw at that year’s Black Hat USA event in the pervasive Domain Name System (DNS) protocol. At the time, he said that a web doomsday had been averted and the continued safe operation of the internet could continue. Now in 2016, with threats of government surveillance and an ongoing public debate about the use of encryption, Kaminsky once again sees the basic fabric of the internet to be at risk.
“We have work to do to keep the internet working,” he said. “I’m here to encourage everyone to notice what is wrong, how it can get worse and what we can do about it.”
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