[MacPerl] Re: November 11 NYSA Meeting - Randal Schwartz delivers JACPH talk (fwd)

["David H. Adler" <dha@panix.com>]

For anyone in the NYC area, Randal Schwartz is giving his "Just another
convicted perl hacker" talk next month. Thought people around here might
be interested...

Details below.

David H. Adler - <dha@panix.com>
"The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum."

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Xev Gittler" <xev@lehman.COM>
Message-Id: <9710210944.ZM7158@mrbun.dsoprod.lehman.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:44:57 -0400
To: sage-members@usenix.org
Subject: November 11 NYSA Meeting - Randal Schwartz


The New York System Administrators (NYSA) guild, a local chapter of SAGE,
meets the second Tuesday every month to discuss topics of interest to
New York City area system administrators. The meetings are free and
open to the public.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 11, from 6:30m - ~9:30.
(Note that we are starting a bit later, because the room is in use
before that). It will be held at Morgan Stanley, 750 7th Avenue,
4th Floor. Directions are available at the end of the message.

The presentation will be "Just Another Convicted Perl Hacker" by
Randal L. Schwartz. (The previously announced topic will be bumped
until another month).

Randal is a, very real, convicted felon and co-System Administrator (and
to a lot of SAGE members "one of the good guys"). You may know him better
as the author of two Nutshell books for O'Reilly and Associates:
"Learning Perl" (aka the Llama Book) Available in English, Japanese, French,
and German; and "Programming Perl" (aka the Camel Book). Randal also
writes a bi-monthly column for Unix Review, as well as a monthly column for
Web Techniques magazine (from the people that brought us Dr. Dobbs Journal).

However, in July 1995, Randal Schwartz was convicted by a jury
of three felony counts under Oregon's Computer Crime Law. The charges
related to his activities while working as a consultant (Systems
Administrator) at an Intel Corporation facility in Beaverton, Oregon.
His sentence issued in September includes 5 years of probation, 480
hours of community  Service, 90 days of deferred (cancelable) jail time,
and $68k of restitution to Intel. His legal bill exceeded $170k by the
end of 1995.

Randal Schwartz is respected on the Internet for his contributions to
the progress of the Perl programming language through his two books,
long-time participation in the comp.lang.perl(.misc) newsgroup,
moderation of the newer comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup, and his
training courses.

The purpose of his talk is to describe both the events, his mistakes and
the problems with modern computer crime laws.  This talk is designed
to help prevent what happened to him from happening to any other
well-intentioned  computing professional. Preventing similar incidents
requires insight into this unforeseen application of a law that is
intended to protect organizations against thieves, spies, and casual
intruders to the enforcement of a corporation's internal rules of
operation.

I am expecting a larger turnout than normal.. Therefore, if you are
planning to attend and do not regularly attend NYSA meetings, please
drop me a note at xev@lehman.com so that I can gauge the room I'll need.

For more information about NYSA, and to check for the location if
its getting close and you haven't heard yet, check out http://www.nysa.org.
To subscribe to our mailing list. by sending a subscribe message
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Directions to Morgan Stanley:
By Subway - 1 and 9 to 50th Street
          - B, D and E to 7th Avenue (and 53rd)
          - N and R to 49th Street.
  The 1, 9, N and R stations are in the building, although you must walk
    out to the streetand around the block to reach the lobby entrance on
    7th Avenue.