FOSDEM 2026
January 31 - February 1
FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.
In 2026, Rust Foundation Software Developer Adam Harvey will be presenting two talks:
“A Phishy Case Study” — “In September 2024, the good name of crates.io was invoked and besmirched by a phishing attack that targeted the owners of many popular crates, much as other language ecosystems had been the target of attacks in the preceding couple of weeks. This talk will go over how this all went down, what we did, and how a worldwide Rust Project <-> Rust Foundation <-> Alpha-Omega collaboration was crucial in its rapid mitigation.”
“Using Capslock Analysis to Develop seccomp Filters For Rust (and Other) Services” — “The Capslock project was started within Google to provide a capability analysis toolkit for Go packages, and has since been open sourced and is being extended to support other languages.
In this talk, we’ll walk through using the experimental cargo-capslock tool developed through a grant from Alpha-Omega to analyze the capabilities of Rust services. We’ll then use the result of that analysis to create seccomp profiles that can be applied using container orchestration systems (such as Kubernetes) to restrict services and ensure that updates are unable to silently open new attack vectors, and discuss how this technique can be applied to services written in other languages as well.”
If you are attending FOSDEM, we encourage you to check out Adam’s sessions!