San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting

Topic: Data Ownership - How I (mostly) wrestled control of my data from evil corporate overlords

Speaker: Charles N Wyble

Charles Wyble is a systems and security engineer. His focus in 2010 is security research, with a particular emphasis on improving performance of automated analytic systems. In support of this, he does a lot of networking stuff and is in the process of building a malware lab.

He lives in sunny southern California, with his wife Patricia and 2 dogs ISIS and OSPF. Yes they are named after routing protocols. He frequently hosts hacker parties, where all sorts of cool stuff gets built. You will often find him at various hot startups doing consulting, and at numerous user group meetings throughout the southwestern United States.

Charles Wyble will be joining the SGVLUG group once again and discussing the topic of data ownership / private cloud.

Owning ones data is a critical and often overlooked part of security. As such, he will discuss how he maintains numerous web properties on a Linux server at his residence, connected to the best DSL ATT has to offer.

He has recently completed moving all his data onto his own server, freeing it (mostly) from the control of google,yahoo etc. It was a relatively straightforward process, encompassing 4 major phases. He will talk about the tools he utilizes, and advantages/disadvantages to his setup and some of the problems he encountered.