KyleFazzari
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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. (My name is pronounced 'case', but uses the Dutch spelling -- I was named after my grandfather.)
Community
I've only recently become involved in the Ubuntu community, but have been using Ubuntu since Hoary. (I had been a Debian user for a few years prior to Ubuntu.) As the lead sysadmin at 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 been involved in:
IRC. I'm frequently on #ubuntu-devel, #ubuntu-motu, and #ubuntu-bugs.
Wiki updates. I've made a few small changes around triage, debugging, and sbuild.
Bug triage (and submission, and fixing). I have adopted several packages I have familiarity with. I made a launchpad emblem for the QA Team, which dholbach quickly adopted. I've also fixed plenty of bugs.
Security. I work with pitti in the Ubuntu Security Team, and have produced many security updates.
Packaging. In addition to the bug and security work above, I have done new packaging work which has been accepted into Debian:
orbital-eunuchs-sniper (sponsored by tolimar@debian.org)
mp3cd (sponsored by haas@debian.org)
Outside of Ubuntu, I'm involved in other communities. I am a kernel.org admin, where I work on maintaining the mirror network for the Linux Kernel, as well as handling user accounts. I am a lurker/janitor for the Inkscape project, through which I'm also involved in the Open Clip Art Library and Creative Commons. I have presented for two years running at OSCON, and I attend DefCon annually. In 2006, with the rest of my team, we won the Capture The Flag security competition.
Software
Author of Sendpage alphanumeric paging daemon
Maintainer of Perl Module Device::SerialPort
Author of mp3cd (as seen in the Linux MP3 CD Burning HOWTO)
Author of GOPchop MPEG2-PS editor
Contributor to Inkscape
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.
In the near-time, I want to start doing manual code audits of as much of Ubuntu as I can get my arms around. I want to help define and implement protected execution environments. Some of the task has already been done (NX bit, SSP), but there will always be work in other areas (SELinux, AppArmor, grsecurity). Security is a moving target.
In the long-term, I want to contribute to developing code analysis tools (both static and dynamic), so that more software can be examined for common problems automatically.