#usenix — Public Fediverse posts
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🚀🤖 Oh, because everyone was just *dying* to co-opt Linux processes for network simulation. #USENIX serves up a riveting tale of registration discounts and hotel logistics—truly a must-read for anyone who finds reality TV too intellectually stimulating. 🙄📉
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/jansen #LinuxProcesses #NetworkSimulation #RegistrationDiscounts #RealityTV #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🤖 Oh, because everyone was just *dying* to co-opt Linux processes for network simulation. #USENIX serves up a riveting tale of registration discounts and hotel logistics—truly a must-read for anyone who finds reality TV too intellectually stimulating. 🙄📉
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/jansen #LinuxProcesses #NetworkSimulation #RegistrationDiscounts #RealityTV #HackerNews #ngated -
I'll have to try and find the exact conference presentation later - might be interesting to rewatch now. Maybe I can grep through infocon.org
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I'll have to try and find the exact conference presentation later - might be interesting to rewatch now. Maybe I can grep through infocon.org
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OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference.
First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems. -
OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference.
First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems. -
Ah, the classic #Usenix #Unix poster, because nothing screams cutting-edge tech like a vintage wall decoration! 🎨✨ On #GitHub, no less, because where else would you want to annotate 'magic' that even your grandpa's computer wouldn't understand? 🖥️🔮 It's a riveting read—if you're a time-traveling developer stuck in the 1980s. ⏳🤖
https://github.com/drio/unixmagic #vintageTech #retroComputing #timeTravelingDeveloper #1980sNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic #Usenix #Unix poster, because nothing screams cutting-edge tech like a vintage wall decoration! 🎨✨ On #GitHub, no less, because where else would you want to annotate 'magic' that even your grandpa's computer wouldn't understand? 🖥️🔮 It's a riveting read—if you're a time-traveling developer stuck in the 1980s. ⏳🤖
https://github.com/drio/unixmagic #vintageTech #retroComputing #timeTravelingDeveloper #1980sNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
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Our new Android attack, #TapTrap, is getting media coverage. Here's a quick explainer.
It's a new tapjacking technique that exploits Android's UI animations to hijack user taps without requiring any permissions. @beerphilipp will present it at #USENIX Sec'25.
Unlike classic tapjacking, TapTrap uses Android's built-in activity transition animations to launch a transparent activity on top of the attacker's app. The user thinks they're tapping a harmless button, but the tap goes to a permission/system prompt, a browser, or a sensitive app without notice.
It works on Android 15 & 16, while @GrapheneOS has recently issued a fix. Major browsers such as Chrome and Firefox promptly patched after we disclosed the vulnerability. We also analyzed ~100K Play Store apps finding that TapTrap is currently not being exploited in the wild.
This effort is the result of a collaboration with @beerphilipp, Sebastian Roth and @lindorferin. Kudos to Philipp for discovering the issue and doing the heavy lifting. And thanks Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for making this research possible and supporting us ♥️
See you at #USENIX in Seattle next month!
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Our new Android attack, #TapTrap, is getting media coverage. Here's a quick explainer.
It's a new tapjacking technique that exploits Android's UI animations to hijack user taps without requiring any permissions. @beerphilipp will present it at #USENIX Sec'25.
Unlike classic tapjacking, TapTrap uses Android's built-in activity transition animations to launch a transparent activity on top of the attacker's app. The user thinks they're tapping a harmless button, but the tap goes to a permission/system prompt, a browser, or a sensitive app without notice.
It works on Android 15 & 16, while @GrapheneOS has recently issued a fix. Major browsers such as Chrome and Firefox promptly patched after we disclosed the vulnerability. We also analyzed ~100K Play Store apps finding that TapTrap is currently not being exploited in the wild.
This effort is the result of a collaboration with @beerphilipp, Sebastian Roth and @lindorferin. Kudos to Philipp for discovering the issue and doing the heavy lifting. And thanks Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for making this research possible and supporting us ♥️
See you at #USENIX in Seattle next month!
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Day 2, again lots of great OSDI talks. My favorite was a systematic analysis of sequential performance optimization in practice.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/park-sujin https://github.com/sslab-gatech/SysGPT
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The keynote was pretty good as well, lots of good developer tools coming out of https://github.com/plasma-umass #usenix #osdi25
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Busy first day. I was very tempted by the ATC tracks but stuck with OSDI today. My favorite talk was probably Enabling Efficient GPU Communication over Multiple NICs with FuseLink https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/ren but there were so many good ones…
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celebration time!
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celebration time!
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At #usenix #osdi25 this week, ready for some great talks https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/technical-sessions
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Another 👌🏽 one — #phkmalloc in #FreeBSD:
“phkmalloc”, Poul-Henning Kamp (https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432900
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/6bduaj/phkmalloc
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Another 👌🏽 one — #phkmalloc in #FreeBSD:
“phkmalloc”, Poul-Henning Kamp (https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432900
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/6bduaj/phkmalloc
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Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/memory-safety-merely-table-stakes
#HackerNews #MemorySafety #TableStakes #CyberSecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #Usenix
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Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/memory-safety-merely-table-stakes
#HackerNews #MemorySafety #TableStakes #CyberSecurity #SoftwareDevelopment #Usenix
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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Looks like I'll be attending The Last USENIX ATC (and OSDI)
Boston, July 7–9
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USENIX will discontinue its annual technical conference after the 2025 event
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/USENIX-Annual-Technical-Conference-To-Be-Discontinued?utm_source=mam
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The #USENIX ATC is where I gave my first conference talk, and I have very fond memories of speaking there.
And now they have decided to stop holding them.
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🚀🎉 #Nostalgia alert! #USENIX #ATC just caught the Zoom flu 🤧 and decided to RIP itself in 2025. Apparently, "Renaissance-era Florence" 🏰 for #sysadmins couldn't withstand the mighty power of virtual meetups and a couple of nerds on Discord.
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/ #virtualmeetups #techhistory #HackerNews #ngated -
Usenix ATC Announcement (Usenix ATC Shutting Down)
https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement
#HackerNews #Usenix #ATC #Usenix #Announcement #Tech #News #Shutdown
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Wow, just saw this. #Usenix was a significant driver of my growth as a Unix developer and sys admin. The #SAGE conference in particular was a must-attend for me and me sys admin colleagues. I presented there more than once. I heard my first security paper there. I was there when the original inventor of sudo (whose name escapes me) first presented that soon-to-be universal utility. (The idea was an obvious winner as soon as he described it.)
So many friends from that era. Just a ton of memories (especially from the LISA conferences). And T-shirts.
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Really disappointed to learn of the demise of the #USENIX Annual Technical Conference. It was the flagship conference of the USENIX organization and a hub for the dissemination of computing research. I hope USENIX itself is somehow able to continue to thrive. https://lwn.net/Articles/1020306/ #atc #usenixatc
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The end of the #Usenix Annual Technical Conference (#ATC):
https://lwn.net/ml/all/CACY3YMGkaDL40r[email protected]/
I attended the 2001 edition in Boston just after my first #OpenBSD hackathon (!c2k1)
At the time they were lending PCMCIA wifi cards to attendees to enjoy the beginning of wireless networking.
