Beginning the conference was Marcus Ranum, from Tenable Network Security. If you would like to watch this presentation it is available through YouTube as Marcus presented it late last year at TED. The premise of his talk is that we have made some very poor decisions because of temporary technical challenges, rather than good design. Many of these decisions should have long ago been resolved by a much smarter designed replacement, yet we continue to use old broken methods simply to be backward-compatible. At one point Marcus says (warning, I didn't record this, it's a paraphrase) "FTP is almost 40 years old. We need to take it out behind the barn and put a bullet in it's head. Don't worry, software doesn't have feelings, and we don't know who the original author is".