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RESSELPARK
THOUSANDS OF FORMER INETSEC PARTICIPANTS HAVE GATHERED

You should read the rest of the text with Frank Sinatra's song,
My Way, in mind. Keep repeating the phrases:

Tra la la... and now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain...
My friend, I'll say it clear... tra la la...
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.. ta taaaa...

Excellent. Now that we have created a cheesy, sad environment, I can
continue.

(AUDIENCE: LAUGHTER NOW)

I just wanted to write a couple of sentences for me and Chris as all
good things come to an end. Life goes on, people get replaced and the
show continues. Well, yes, maybe not always... but at least in this
case, it does continue.

(AUDIENCE: CHEER NOW)

This will be the last InetSec 2 for me an Christopher. We have been
teaching it for many years, but things have gotten more complicated
after our move from Austria a year ago. We've managed to keep it up
and running for a year... however, we have less and less time, and
cannot invest the effort that we would like to invest. It is not fair
to the students, so it is time to pass on the torch. 

(AUDIENCE: SAY: AAAAAAAAH)

As of next semester, Clemens, Christian, and Paolo will be running the
show. They are lab members in Vienna. They are younger. They are
better looking. They are more charismatic. They are smarter  ;-)  I am
sure they will do a terrific and a better job than us.

(AUDIENCE: CLAP) 

I would kindly ask you to remember and also pass on the knowledge that
these guys are volunteers. They did not want the course to end, and
were willing to take over the work. As you can imagine, it is a lot of
work. Besides the publication stress and other teaching duties, they
have to invest quite a bit of time to run things.

As a father once said to his child: "Son, I brought you to this world
and I can take you out!". Keep that in mind.

(AUDIENCE: SMALL LAUGHTER)

Looking back... InetSec dates back to the early days of the 21st
century. At that time, there was one course. It was like a combination
of InetSec 1 and 2, but less advanced. In 2001 Thomas and Chris
started doing it.  Thomas gave the course between 2002 and 2003. It
was a great course. In 2004, Chris and I took over and decided to
create two courses, one of them being an advanced course.  Our aim was
to create a course that would have interested us as students. We had
taken security courses, but they were mainly on crypto or... in some cases
... useless security. We thought it would be cool to have a systems
security course that would teach the low-level stuff and that would be
inline with our scientific security work. The course was a lot of
work, but the students liked it so we continued.

At the beginning of the course, we were young and poor  ;-)  We had to
salvage 3 old computers from the distributed systems lab. gangsta,
masta and bandit were running on these machines. Everyday, we were
afraid that one of the servers was going to burn out. Fortunately, it
did not happen. 

Compare that to 2009. We now have a modern infrastructure with virtual
machines and very powerful servers. We have more hardware than we
need. Thanks to hard work, projects and sponsors. We've come a long
way.

(AUDIENCE: SMILE)

Interestingly, InetSec 2 has also had impact in real-life. After we
showed live demos of breaking smart-card based digital signature
systems (oh, you thought it was safe?) during a lecture, we were
approached by officials who wanted to know more. As a result, some
products were improved and made more secure (of course, if you would
invest enough time, you can still break them -- but hey, we got bored
after a while.).

(AUDIENCE: CHEER NOW)

So, future TU Vienna InetSec participant. Thou art in good hands. Our friends
will take good care of you in the future. So long, and thanks for all
the fun, trust, support, insults, complaints, unintended fork bombs,
excitement, bad words, WTFs, praise, and encouragement.

Take care, and talk to us if you see us at a conference.

EXIT EK

EXIT CHRIS

ENTER WONGDONG, CK, PMILANI 

(AUDIENCE: CLAP)

SILENCE
CROWD DISPERSES
LIGHT RAIN
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--EK & CHRIS