{"id":1280,"date":"2014-03-07T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:49:21","slug":"langara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2014\/03\/langara\/","title":{"rendered":"Langara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/langara.bc.ca\/\">Langara<\/a> is a loc\u00adal col\u00adlege offer\u00ading degrees in a num\u00adber of sub\u00adjects, includ\u00ading Com\u00adputer Stud\u00adies. I know one of the instruct\u00adors there, and he asked me to give a talk at their monthly Com\u00adputer Tech meetup. As a top\u00adic, I picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Langara-College-CS-Computer-Tech-Meetup\/events\/162086792\/\">Simple Prin\u00adciples for Web\u00adsite Secur\u00adity<\/a>, a short\u00ader ver\u00adsion of talks I\u2019ve giv\u00aden at the <a href=\"http:\/\/xmlsummerschool.com\"><span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the fact that I was recov\u00ader\u00ading from a bout with the vir\u00adu\u00adlent stom\u00adach bug that seemed to be going round Van\u00adcouver at the time, it was fun. A good bunch of people, decent ques\u00adtions, and the stu\u00addent news\u00adpa\u00adper took advant\u00adage of the oppor\u00adtun\u00adity to <a href=\"www.langaravoice.ca\/2014\/02\/24\/langara-talks-about-hacking-and-internet-security\/\">write a column<\/a> and make a video about basic inter\u00adnet secur\u00adity. One of my aims in this talk is to make the audi\u00adence para\u00adnoid, point\u00ading out some\u00adtimes the bad guys really are out to get you, and talk\u00ading a bit about risk ana\u00adlys\u00adis and the trade-offs involved in writ\u00ading down strong pass\u00adwords (using a pass\u00adword man\u00adager is bet\u00adter, of course). And the door prizes for Langara stu\u00addents were quite impressive!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ray\u00admond for invit\u00ading me, and Gail and Holly for organ\u00adising everything. I put the slides up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/laurendw\">slide\u00adshare<\/a> if you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langara is a loc\u00adal col\u00adlege offer\u00ading degrees in a num\u00adber of sub\u00adjects, includ\u00ading Com\u00adputer Stud\u00adies. I know one of the instruct\u00adors there, and he asked me to give a talk at their monthly Com\u00adputer Tech meetup. As a top\u00adic, I picked Simple Prin\u00adciples for Web\u00adsite Secur\u00adity, a short\u00ader ver\u00adsion of talks I\u2019ve giv\u00aden at the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2014\/03\/langara\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cLangara\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}