So the conference is being held at the Santa Clara campus instead of the Bat Cave in downtown San Jose (A room in the Convention Center...). The key change for Sun employees is that we can't access SWAN from the event. Everyone else and their dogs are allowed to, but we can't.

That has made it pretty difficult to IRC problems with remote engineers, transfer packet traces, etc. But we managed.

I came in this morning and one of the machines had not been locked down. It had a root login and xlock doesn't work against the root account. I was a bit hacked at first, but then I realized what did it matter?

Consider that our source code is available for download on OpenSolaris.org. The emphasis on protecting our code base has gone away. Really, the focus is more on protecting strategic data - sales projections, acquistions, marketting forcasts, etc. In that case, having root to a machine which is firewalled isn't that exciting.

It is really exciting to realize this impact of releasing the code to the wild. Actually, all I need to protect at this event is my private data on web sites I visit. I.e., like access to my blog.