Keynote: Do the Wrong Thing!

 

Keynote: Do the Wrong Thing!

Speaker: Radia Perlman

This talk describes some technical decisions that the industry made that although clearly “wrong”, wound up causing technologies to be invented that are quite wonderful. Would the industry have thought to invent these if they hadn’t been painted into a corner by previous decisions? I will also use the opportunity to give an example of how, despite perfectly good cryptography and protocols, a typical user (err…me) can be tricked into giving a credit card to a scammer. And I will rant about how when presented with a shiny new buzzword, instead of asking “how can I use this thing?” you should instead start with “what problem am I solving, what are various ways of solving it, and which technical approach is the best?”.

Keynote: Do the Wrong Thing! (pdf)

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