I just got back from LISA 2005, and had a blast in San Diego! As with every conference I attend, there were some key highlights:
Don Bailey did an awesome presentation on 802.11 security, and showed just how difficult it is to secure wireless networks.
Matt Blaze showed numerous flaws in wiretapping technologies (I had no idea what A C-tone was prior to his talk).
Dan Kaminsky showed how to correlate DNS data and provided the coolest realtime network interaction demo EVER!
The RedHat BOF on Tuesday night showed that other admins where also having problems getting Linux issues fixed.
Liane Praza of Sun Microsystems headed an awesome BOF on the current state of Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Dan Price of Sun Microssytems headed an awesome BOF on the future of Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Bill Moore from Sun Microsystems did an AWESOME ZFS presentation!
The guys from Make magazine put on an awesome BOF! Check out their awesome magazine!!!
The load-balancer BOF Thursday night was fun!
I got to chat with Bryan Cantrill from Sun Microsystems on Thursday, and truly hope the DTrace team will add dynamic process support ( e.g., pidhttpd::: ) to the DTrace pid provider.
I got to see Wiliam LeFevre speak on DNS (this is the guy who wrote top).
The conference was a blast, and I got to meet a lot of cool people while I was there. Hopefully Lisa 2006 will be just as good!