Speaker - Dan Shearer

Dan Shearer has been involved in Open Source since before it had the name, leading on to his interests in digital human rights. His career in open source projects started with Samba and related projects, and includes embedded, real-time, virtualisation and simulation codebases. LumoSQL is his current project, embedding a new form of data security called Lumions into the standard SQLite database used by billions of people. Lumions use Attribute-based Encryption to store permissions such as read, modify, delete etc into the data, and LumoSQL makes every row in a database into a Lumion. In addition, the team is working on a way of adding a timestamp as a reliable permission to Lumions.