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"The 18th USENIX Security Symposium was held in Montreal, Quebec (August 10-14, 2009). This conference always provides an excellent opportunity to catch up on the thinking of some impressive minds and delivers the most technical content of all the major security-focused IT conferences."
–Richard Power,
CyBlog, 8.16.09

"USENIX: the Advanced Computing Systems Association allows technicians, scientists, systems administrators and engineers to share information on developments in the field of computer science."
–Joab Jackson,
GCN, 7.1.08

"The interactive session was designed to help the sysadmins in attendance solve their most pressing data center challenges, and some creative solutions were thrown around."
–Bridget Botelho,
TechTarget, 6.27.08

"The USENIX LEET workshop held earlier this week in San Francisco offered neat insights into the Storm botnet, including two papers showing the difficulty of accurately measuring the botnet's size, and one on the way it conducts its spamming campaigns (down to the template language used). There was a bunch of other cool work too, so check out the papers."
Slashdot, 4.17.08

"The annual USENIX security symposium is a gathering place for all kinds of ideas: those on how to stop security flaws and those about what kinds of new security issues may emerge in the future."
–Jeremy Reimer,
Ars Technica, 7.11.07

"Two bombshell papers released at the USENIX FAST '07 (File and Storage Technology) conference this week bring a welcome dose of reality to the basic building block of storage: the disk drive."
–Robin Harris,
Computerworld, 2.21.07

"The 20th annual LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference was held in Washington DC this year, from December 3rd to December 8th, continuing its tradition of excellent speakers, thought provoking side-topics and an all-around good time."
–Charlie Schluting,
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, 12.14.06

"[T]he number of famous and significant leaders in the Unix and free software world I saw walking the hallways was impressive, and the line-up on the podiums was even more so."
–Andy Oram,
O'Reilly Media, 06.02.06

"Some of the best Internet minds in the world met last week to discuss a wide range of methods to rid the Web of malicious traffic. The USENIX invitation-only workshop, called Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI), brought together more than 50 academics from all over the world as well as technical staff from equipment vendors and ISPs to develop methods to cut down on spam, viruses, worms and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks - methods that are practical at an operational level."
–Tim Greene,
ARNnet, 07.11.05

"USENIX conferences are not to be missed. The meetings were open technically, had topics that were well-thought out and ultimately created an environment of serious discussion. It's a great privilege to be with over 900 of the best and the brightest of technology."
–George Rosamond,
Dæmon News, 07.04

"A respected computer users group has begun lobbying Congress to ignore arguments against open-source software made by Unix vendor The SCO Group."
–Robert McMillan,
InfoWorld, 02.27.04

"[T]he quality and quantity of thoughtful and innovative work being demonstrated at BSDCon is nothing short of astonishing."
–Michael W. Lucas,
Dæmon News, 09.03

"Large-scale systems must be secured from the bottom up with a layered approach of separately protecting the Internet, network system and site levels of activity, Akamai chief security architect Andrew Ellis said at the Usenix Security Symposium in Washington..."
Warren's Washington Internet Daily,
08.07.03

"One of my favorite conferences of the year is coming up. It's the USENIX [Annual] Technical Conference....The great thing about USENIX is it's not only Linux and free software. People with deep knowledge of both free and proprietary software attend. The result is neither free software world domination hype nor proprietary FUD stand a chance in the blazing light of USENIX scrutiny."
–Don Marti, Editor in Chief, Linux Journal, 05.29.03

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Coverage of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium:

Coverage of the 2011 USENIX Federated Conferences Week: Coverage of the 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Coverage of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation: Coverage of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies: USENIX Mention: Coverage of the 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference: Coverage of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation: Coverage of the 19th USENIX Security Symposium: Coverage of HealthSec '10: 1st USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy Coverage of 2010 USENIX Federated Conferences Week: Coverage of LEET '10: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats : Coverage of LISA '09: 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference: Coverage of EVT/WOTE '09: 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections: Coverage of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium: Coverage of USENIX '09: 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference: Coverage of HotCloud '09: Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing: Coverage of NSDI '09: 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation: Coverage of LEET '09: 2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Coverage of OSDI '08: 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation: Coverage of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium: Coverage of the HotSec '08: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security: Coverage of the EVT '08: 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop: Coverage of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference: Coverage of NSDI '08: 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation:
Coverage of LEET '08: First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats:
Coverage of UPSEC '08: Usability, Psychology, and Security 2008:
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