Title: Nos Oignons at BSides Zürich 2019
Date: 2019-09-21 12:00

The 14<sup>th</sup> of September, I had the pleasure to give a talk at [BSide
Zurich](https://bsideszh.ch/archive/welcome-2019/agenda/abstracts/), entitled
*Nos Oignons — Operating large Tor relays in France*, in front of 140 people.
The slides are available [here]({static}/files/bsides_zurich_2019.pdf), there is no
video recording, so you won't have the associated
[jokes](https://twitter.com/tomchop_/status/1172856673263869953).

The conference went like this:

1. 3 talks of 20 minutes each
2. a small coffee break
3. 30 minutes of questions, with one dedicated room per speaker
4. lunch in a nearby restaurant, outside
5. 3 talks of 20 minutes each
6. a small coffee break
7. 30 minutes of questions, with one dedicated room per speaker
8. social event

As an attendee, being able to converse, with a group
of interested people, directly with the speaker about their talk,
for 30 minutes uninterrupted is really nice.

As a speaker, I didn't get any stupid questions, was able to provide long
and nuanced answers, and had interesting conversations.

Moreover 20 minutes is __short__, meaning no bullshit intro, but also some
*fuckityfuck* moment when the timekeeper shows the "5 minutes remaining" sign
to the speaker. Speaking of bullshit, or the lack thereof, almost all the
talks were nice; I really liked [Claudio Guarnieri](https://nex.sx/)'s keynote,
[Michael Kurth](https://twitter.com/mik__)'s
[thesis](https://twitter.com/vu5ec/status/1171468481423798275) at VUSec about
CPU attacks and introduction to 5G security by [Ravishankar
Borgaonkar](https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ravishankar.borgaonkar/). Oh and the
[cookies](https://twitter.com/mylaocoon/status/1172851084836114434) were great.