Pass it along, if you know someone local who should be there. Cheers, RAH
Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Trei <[email protected]> > Subject: [Cryptography] (MIT) TALK: Thursday 02-06-2014 Thursday 02-06-14 NSA > Surveillance and What To Do About It > Date: February 4, 2014 at 7:54:47 PM AST > To: [email protected] > > I know this is late notice, but some here may be interested. > > > > Subject: TALK: Thursday 02-06-2014 Thursday 02-06-14 NSA Surveillance and > What To Do About It > > NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It > Speaker: Bruce Schneier > > Host: MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL > Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL > > Date: Thursday, February 06, 2014 > Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM > Refreshments Time: 4:45 PM > Location: 32-123 > > ABSTRACT: > Edward Snowden has given us an unprecedented window into the NSA's > surveillance activities. Drawing from both the Snowden documents and > revelations from previous whistleblowers, this talk describes the sorts of > surveillance the NSA conducts and how it conducts it. The emphasis will be > on the technical capabilities of the NSA, and not the politics or legality of > their actions. I will then discuss what sorts of countermeasures are likely > to frustrate any nation-state adversary with these sorts of capabilities. > These will be techniques to raise the cost of wholesale surveillance in favor > of targeted surveillance: ubiquitous encryption, target dispersal, anonymity > tools, and so on. > > [I cut out Bruce's bio - no one here needs it - pt] > > Relevant URL: http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/ For more information please > contact: Susana Kevorkova, 617-324-8424, <a > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
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