Sonia Seddiki
Biography
Sonia is a software craftswoman at Arolla, a French company helping clients craft better software systems. She has been in the tech industry for about 4 years now, navigating between backend, ops and cloud.
She has a (not so secret) passion about cybersecurity, a (maybe more secret) one about tidy Git repositories, and will ramble about them at any given chance, in no particular order.
She is also an origamist and leaves little paper-folded creatures wherever she goes. It may sound like a serial killer modus operandi, but it's mostly a way to help with fidgeting and ADHD.
NewCrafts Paris 2024
When cybersecurity goes beyond vulnerabilities
Talk
Have you ever heard of IKEA Hackers? This vibrant community gathers passionate builders, makers, who transform and/or assemble furniture from the IKEA catalogue. They could take a TV stand and turn it into a beautiful, functional wardrobe, with drawers and even coat hangers.
Was the TV stand poorly designed? Definitely not. It can hold a large TV screen, and even offers shelf space for books, gaming consoles, and your favorite plant, which is what we expect from a TV stand.
When we think cybersecurity, vulnerabilities and design flaws are the first topics that come to mind. But crafting an attack often requires to repurpose mechanisms meant to fulfil a given purpose, in order to fulfil our own.
Data exfiltration, steganography, DNS rebinding, side-channel attacks... Let's discover some of these techniques that leverage legitimate objects and protocols we use in our daily digital lives.
