Barrett Lyon Co-Founder and CTO of BitGravity talks about some of the technology behind their Video Distribution System and his time spent working as a security researcher. It’s always awe inspiring to listen to someone who talks about technology in such a profound and engaging way.
Scoble does a good job interviewing Barrett, only interrupting him when he goes off on a tangent using all sorts of security and networking acronyms. Barrett is truly passionate about his work and sadly constantly downplays his evil genius throughout the interview.
This 30 minute video would mainly appeal to the networking bods of this world, but as a techie I found the interview to be very interesting. Especially when he talks about being employed by companies to protect their infrastructure from denial of service attacks by Russian heavies.
Another likeable part of the interview is when he explains what inspired him as a kid to get involved in technology. Referencing the War Games movie poster hung up in his office.
I have to get me one of those vintage posters to hang up on my wall, only my movie would probably be Lawnmower Man or Hackers, mind you Sneakers was pretty good too.
Anyway if you’re interested in Technology and Networking in general, I suggest you go watch it.
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Hackers 08.22.08 at 2:31 am
BLOCK A block is a physical unit of data in a logical record that is expressed in bytes. Hackers
Ken 08.22.08 at 4:13 pm
Hello, Barrett is a buddy of mine. Indeed he has always been an interesting guy. If you want to read a good story of his security work try this one…http://tinyurl.com/6ho4rw It is a well written story that goes into some of his security background.
S. Jonathan 08.24.08 at 12:57 am
Thanks for the link Ken, I have updated the post.