Oct
27
2008
Hackers in the Library
On October 23, 2008 I gave a talk at Netspeed 2008 titled Hackers in the Library. The talk was designed to build awareness regarding information security threats in libraries and to dispel the myth that “nobody would want to hack a library.”
In this presentation I tell many stories of actual security incidents that I have encountered in various libraries and punctuate these stories with reports from the media of similar events in libraries around the world.
The slides for the presentation are now available for download in MS Powerpoint (PPT) format. The slides include embedded notes covering the content of my speech and additional commentary and links. I have also included some questions and answers that have come up after the talk.