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Dr. Paul Vixie, an internet pioneer who was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for his work related to DNS, will provide a brief DNS primer before providing the journalists a hands-on opportunity, using DNSDB, to examine the online footprint of a well-known political network to uncover dozens of its affiliated organizations. **You must bring a laptop with Firefox and Google Chrome installed for this workshop. Logins will be provided to use DNSDB. Basic knowledge of the Domain Name System (DNS) is helpful, but not required. ", 11, "2019-03-08", "2019-03-08 14:15:00", "2019-03-08 15:15:00", 0, 0, 0, "Paul Vixie, Farsight Security", 3, null, 2, "Finding the story: Using DNS search for investigative journalism"], [92, 4269, "GitHub for journalists", "We'll cover Github's basics features \u2014 repositories, commits, branches, pull requests and issues \u2014 using a recent data-driven story as a case study. 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