[cap-talk] Security and languages talk

[Ivan Krstić]

I'm directing much of my recently-gained spare time[0] towards a few  
things I've wanted to work on for a while, but haven't had the time in  
the course of my breakneck two years with OLPC. One such thing is,  
after giving a bunch of high-profile talks about systems security,  
writing a short one about security and programming languages.

The Boston Lisp folks invited me to give the talk[1] on May 27th, so  
the audience is a fairly clueful programming crowd without any  
necessary prior exposure to language security and capability ideas.  
I'll be talking for 25 minutes: covering the basic ideas and looking  
briefly at things like E, Joe-E, Caja and CaPerl.

Questions for this crowd:

* Have you seen any _great_ short introductory capability and
   language security talks before? What made them great?

* What do you think are things that I absolutely must cover?

* If this was your first brush with the relevant topics, what could
   I say that would really pique your interest?

Cheers,



[0] <http://radian.org/notebook/maintaining-clarity>
[1] <http://radian.org/notebook/talk-language-security>

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Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org