COSCUP x UbuCon Asia 2026 — Session Notes (Day 1, 2026-08-08)
Structured notes derived from eight on-site audio recordings, cross-referenced against the official pretalx schedule.
Venue: NTUST (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology), Taipei Day covered: 2026-08-08 (Day 1 of 2)
Schedule times below are Taipei (UTC+8). The pretalx table renders in UTC; add 8 hours.
Session map
| # | File | Session (pretalx) | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | web3-red-team-agent | 當 AI 學會當白帽駭客 | fffuuuming / "on" | TR412-1 |
| 02 | ai-agent-trust-stack | AI Agent 的信任堆疊 | Williams Lai | TR511 |
| 03 | linux-kernel-tracing | Linux Kernel Tracing | Hoyeon Lee | TR213 |
| 04 | zkp-natural-person-cert | 零知識證明與自然人憑證身份驗證 | Ya-wen Jeng | TR511 |
| 05 | kvm-virtualization | How a VM Draws… | Yung-Tse Cheng | TR213 |
| 06 | oss-language-barriers | My broken English… | Naruhiko Ogasawara | TR410 |
| 07 | usb-otg-security | USB MITM: Build… | Aristo Chen | TR213 |
Follow-up research
| File | Topic |
|---|---|
| zkp-taiwan-certificates | Taiwan government PKI credentials + ZK anonymous credentials |
| hermes-stateless-stateful | Stateless/stateful agent design via distributed markdown |
Recording → session index
| Recording | Session file | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 新錄音 24 (Part A) | 01 | ~76 min (combined A+B) |
| 新錄音 24 (Part B) | 02 | — |
| 新錄音 25, 26 | 03 | — |
| 新錄音 28 | 04 | ~40 min |
| 新錄音 29 | 05 | — |
| 新錄音 31, 32 | 06 | ~2 min (32 only) |
| 新錄音 33 | 07 | — |
Cross-cutting threads
Three sessions converge on trust in autonomous agents — 01 (agents that attack), 02 (agents that pay and get rated), and 04 (proving humanness without identity). Read as a set, they trace the same question from three directions: how do you establish that an actor on a network is what it claims to be, when the actor may be software?
Sessions 03, 05, and 07 form a systems-observability cluster: tracing execution inside a kernel, inside a hypervisor, and across a hardware bus. All three rely on the same underlying move — insert an observation point at a boundary the target cannot see.