Security and Privacy on the Web in 2015 | Monthly technical presentation Sept. 21st 2015 (VanLUG)

Security and Privacy on the Web in 2015

  • Presented by: François Marier (from Mozilla)
  • Where: Room 1530 at SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street.
  • When: Monday September 21st, 2015
  • Time: 7:00PM

In the last few years, a number of new security features have become
available to web developers (e.g. Content Security Policy, Strict
Transport Security) and a few more are coming up this year (e.g.
Referrer Policy, Subresource Integrity).

As a browser vendor and a member of the W3C WebAppSec working group,
Mozilla is busy extending the web platform to provide the tools and
features that developers and users need in 2015. In addition to that,
the non-profit behind Firefox is experimenting with new ways to protect
its users, building on Google’s Safe Browsing technology to defend users
against tracking.

About François

François is a software engineer working on the Security &
Privacy team at Mozilla. He works on security features like subresource
integrity
and Safe Browsing, as well as privacy features like
tracking protection. Aside from Mozilla work, he blogs about
Linux-related things, runs a free software alternative to Gravatar,
called Libravatar, and maintains several Debian packages.

We’ll have a book raffle to raise funds for VanLug, and then adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments and networking.

So come on out, learn something new, win a book, meet some friends, and support VanLUG!

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