General Tech Meeting - Security & Privacy on the Web by François Marier-Mozilla
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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 [1] and Safe Browsing [2], as well as privacy features like tracking protection [3]. Aside from Mozilla work, he blogs [4] about Linux-related things, runs a free software alternative to Gravatar, called Libravatar [5], and maintains several Debian packages [6].
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Phishing_Protection
[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tracking_protection
[4] https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/
[5] https://www.libravatar.org
[6] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=francois%40debian.org
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!
About the meeting: The VanLUG General Tech meetings are held every 3rd Monday of the month. This is a meeting where we talk about various FLOSS/Opensource projects and concepts that interest the Linux community.