Meeting Minutes, March 2026

Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC monthly meet, March 14, 2026

Intro

• Gopi welcomed the participants and gave a small introduction about ILUGC

Talk 0

• Shrinivasan started his talk on Prometheus
• Showed how VPS is a hosting solution
• Demonstrated Grafana for visualizing site analytics
• Showed various python scripts that can be used to collect metrics
• He talked about the importance of writing blogs and the RSS protocol

Talk 1

• Irfan talked about tailscale
• He explained the difference between hub and spoke architecture
• Provided a brief summary of assymetric encryption
• Talked about mesh networks and explained NAT Traversal
• He explained how tailscale accomplishes NAT traversal through a tailnet
• Demonstrated tailscale

Talk 2

• Nihaal started his talk about Choicejacking
• Explained how hardware is inherently insecure
• Showed a USB device that can mimick phone inputs
• Talked about ADB protocol and its flaws
• He discussed about various ways to prevent choicejacking attacks

Post Talk Discussion

• We had a lively discussion about the history of linux and various other things
• There was also a brief introduction about mailing lists and irc
• New members were informed about the matrix channel