2024-10-23 –, Europe - Main Room
The 2038 problem will soon start to get picked up by the popular press, which will lead to significant public pressure to do something before our technology stack crashes. However our technology stack is getting so complex with abstraction layers that by 2038 it might positively unmanageable. This presents us with an opportunity to refit our social tech stack with something not only "secure-by-design" but also maintainable-by-future-generations-by-design. Behind all this drama lurks the challenge that as 19 January 2038 draws closer, ever more hands from around the globe will be frantically reaching for increasingly scarce components from one hotly contested island off the coast of the PRC. This is the truly hard problem which lies before us today.
The 2038 problem will soon start to get picked up by the popular press, which will lead to significant public pressure to do something before our technology stack crashes. However our technology stack is getting so complex with abstraction layers that by 2038 it might positively unmanageable. This presents us with an opportunity to refit our social tech stack with something not only "secure-by-design" but also maintainable-by-future-generations-by-design. Behind all this drama lurks the challenge that as 19 January 2038 draws closer, ever more hands from around the globe will be frantically reaching for increasingly scarce components from one hotly contested island off the coast of the PRC. This is the truly hard problem which lies before us today.
Trey Darley works at Accenture Security in Brussels, where he is setting up a security testing lab of sorts, and trying to do some good for the world. Trey has been a long-standing member of the FIRST community, and has served a variety of volunteer roles, including a term on the FIRST board, during which he co-founded the FIRST standards committee. Trey is well known for his work on open cybersecurity standards like STIX/TAXII and others. He's also been aligned with the Langsec faction for many years. Trey's patron saints are Grace Hopper and Paul Erdös.