[Cryptography] (MIT) TALK: Thursday 02-06-2014 Thursday 02-06-14 NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It

[Peter Trei]

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:
skevorkova at csail.mit.edu">skevorkova at csail.mit.edu</a>
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