Here is the quick recap of what happend in ILUGC Monthly meet, July 11, 2026.
Intro
- Gopi welcomed the participants and gave small introduction about ILUGC
- Briefed participants about the mailing list
Talk 0
- Zaid started his talk explaining network fundamentals
- He explained the physical and hardware layer
- Discussed MAC, IPV4 and Subnetting
- He demonstrated concepts using cisco packet tracer
Talk 1
- Nihaal started his talk on copy fail exploit
- Explained the basics of setuid
- Showed modules that were responsible for page cache corruption
- He demonstrated copy fail with an example
Talk 2
- Arun started his talk on observability
- He explained how two giant initiatives led to opentelemetry
- Explained the advantages of opentelemetry api
- Showed differences in open telemetry architecture
Post Talk Discussion
- Participants had a discussion on programs being rewritten on rust
- They discussion revolved around the larger implications of Linux
