Title: 2017 in retrospect Date: 2017-12-31 23:59 End of December, beginning of January, time for the (now usual) retrospective. In 2017, I - Hosted a training about [Tails](https://tails.boum.org) for [Mediapart](https://www.mediapart.fr/). - Attended the [r2con 2017]({filename}/radare2/r2con_2017.md) in Barcelona, and gave two *unexpected* workshops there :D - Published 25 blogposts. - Released, along with my colleagues, an amazing open-source security module for php7 in the spirit of [Suhosin]( https://suhosin.org ), called [Snufflepagus]( https://snuffleupagus.fr ), providing virtual patching at PHP-level, killing several vulnerability classes like unserialization-based RCE, or poor entropy generation. We gave talks about it at [Berlinsides]({filename}/talks/berlinsides_2017.md), [BlackAlps](https://blackalps.ch/2017program.php), the [hack.lu]({filename}/talks/hacklu_2017.md) and some other private conferences. You should slap it on your php7 stack. - Helped (a tiny bit) to organize a [Debian event](https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2017/05/fr/Paris/Announcement), with a strong focus on accessibility. - Managed to finally get a small, half-decent and working infrastructure at home, with monitoring, [vpn](https://www.wireguard.com/) and stuff. - Spent a significant portion of my time at work coding defensive software and doing related research, mostly on things that will be open-sauced at some point in the future. I do hope that it will help to raise a bit the bar against the bad guys™. - Managed an [intern](https://github.com/xXx-caillou-xXx) at work: it was a nice experience. - Got into the *board of directors* of [nos-oignons](https://nos-oignons.net) - Celebrated [Christmas](https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/945376540015017986) away from my family for the first time in my life, and it was pretty relaxing. - Managed to get outside a bit more, made new friends, saw old ones. I remember almost everything from [last year]({filename}/misc/2016.md), and I think that this one was way better.