Standing for 2024 TAB election

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

Hello!

I'm volunteering again to stand for election to the LF Technical
Advisory Board.

My primary concern for Linux is its security. I'm a member of the
security@kernel.org response team, lead the Kernel Self-Protection
Project[1], maintain[2] the kernel hardening, seccomp, and pstore trees,
and co-maintain the exec and binfmt tree. As a result, I frequently
work kernel-wide across many subsystems (or many architectures) when
helping land various security defenses. This cross-maintainer work is a
unique social and technical challenge, and the topic of "security" is a
similarly wide and unique challenge. I'd like to continue to represent
both of these concerns on the TAB.

In addition, I also bring several "downstream" perspectives on how the
kernel is consumed, from those of a general-purpose distro (having lead
Ubuntu's security team) to those of special-purpose device vendors
(having worked on Chrome OS, Android, and Google Cloud).

Some examples of my contributions over the last 2 years on the TAB were
helping respond to the XZ backdoor[3], examining past XZ kernel commits,
and reviewing various community support documents like the Linux Kernel
Contribution Maturity Model[4]. I've also continued to support[5] the
TAB's online election process, with regular refreshes of contributor
metrics.

Thank you for your consideration,

-Kees

[1] https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=f%3A%22Kees+Cook%22+s%3A%22GIT+PULL%22
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202403291221.124220E0F4@keescook/
    https://lore.kernel.org/tech-board-discuss/202404151051.90B786EE85@keescook/
[4] https://git.kernel.org/linus/10a29eb658b3039eccfa6f249da079194f535a9a
[5] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/identity-canonicalizer


-- 
Kees Cook