- Open-microscopy.org and its GitHub repositories were presented as the de-facto open-source stack for storing, sharing, and programmatically manipulating biological microscopy data, offering a community alternative to proprietary formats.  
- A provable factoring algorithm posted on RJ Lipton’s blog (Oct 2014) was circulated as a potentially disruptive advance in integer factorization, with implications for post-quantum cryptography and blockchain security.  
- Counterparty’s pull-request #362 was praised for eliminating the bitcoind RPC bottleneck by reading raw Bitcoin blockchain files directly, cutting initial sync time from hours to minutes and demonstrating how protocol-level optimizations can outpace official clients.  
- Docker’s image-naming and registry model was dissected as a supply-chain vulnerability: default public registries, lack of cryptographic image verification, and forced FQDN prefixes enable undetected injection of malicious containers into production workflows.  
- A blockchain-based anti-counterfeiting scheme was proposed in which every authentic physical unit is paired with a unique Bitcoin transaction; possession of the unspent output acts as a tamper-evident certificate, while spending the coin voids the proof of authenticity.  
- Participants argued that cryptographic certificates for physical goods are inherently detachable, allowing parallel markets of genuine certificates, counterfeit items, and mixed bundles—unless end-users demand simultaneous possession of both the object and its on-chain proof.  
- Debian’s decade-long SSH key entropy bug (<20 bits) and Android Bitcoin-wallet RNG failures were cited as cautionary tales that “unbreakable” cryptography often collapses at the implementation layer rather than the algorithmic one.  
- FTDI’s Windows driver update that deliberately bricks counterfeit FT232 chips by rewriting their USB PID to 0 was highlighted as “official malware,” illustrating how signed vendor updates can weaponize driver code against users.  
- LangSec principles (langsec.org/occupy) were advocated for hardware design: replacing undocumented register tests and secret behaviors with formally specified interfaces to mitigate counterfeit and malicious chips.  
- Terraform was recommended over boto for declarative, reproducible AWS infrastructure; sample .tf files were shared to let researchers spin up identical cloud labs without manual console clicks.