KeesCook
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[https://launchpad.net/people/keescook keescook] |
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keescook (freenode) |
kees (oftc, linuxnet) |
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GPG: |
[http://outflux.net/public_key.asc 0x17063E6D] |
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Location: |
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock%2C_Portland%2C_Oregon Portland, Oregon, USA] |
About Me
Hi! I work for Canonical as an Ubuntu Security Engineer. My work is to stay alert, curious, and creative while keeping one step ahead of the bad guys. When I'm not working, I've been known to play with MythTV and generally poke around at video formats.
Community
I've only recently become involved in the Ubuntu community, but have been using Ubuntu for a while now. (I had been a Debian user for a while prior to Ubuntu.) As the lead sysadmin at [http://www.osdl.org/ OSDL], I chose Ubuntu as the default distro for all new servers, replaced most of the aging RedHat systems, and kept the visitor lobby stocked with fresh Ubuntu CDs. Nothing beats having a Debian system with a regular release cycle.
More recently, I have started getting involved in Ubuntu bug triage (and submission) and have uploaded [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=3236 several] [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=3239 packages] to ["REVU"]. I work with MartinPitt in the [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-security Ubuntu Security Team], and already a few security fixes I've [https://launchpad.net/people/keescook/+packages worked on] have been released.
I am also a [http://kernel.org/ kernel.org] admin, where I work on maintaining the mirror network for the Linux Kernel, as well as handling user accounts.
Software
Author of [http://sendpage.org/ Sendpage] alphanumeric paging daemon
Maintainer of Perl Module [http://search.cpan.org/~cook/Device-SerialPort/SerialPort.pm Device::SerialPort]
Author of [http://outflux.net/software/pkgs/mp3cd/ mp3cd] (as seen in the [http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MP3-CD-Burning/intro.html Linux MP3 CD Burning HOWTO])
Author of [http://gopchop.org/ GOPchop] MPEG2-PS editor
Contributor to [http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape]
Fiddler with lots of [http://freshmeat.net/~kees/ other] [http://outflux.net/?see=software stuff]
Future
I have been an advocate of free software since I first understood what the GPL meant. I love tweaking and patching and helping make things better; I've always had a knack for getting software to behave in unexpected ways. I think finding security problems is fun, and I want to spend my time hunting down and squashing those problems where ever I can find them. Free software already has a strong security reputation, and I want to help keep it that way.