Pass it along, if you know someone local who should be there.

   Cheers,

   RAH

   Begin forwarded message:

   From: Peter Trei <[1]petertrei@gmail.com>

   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: [2]cryptography@metzdowd.com

   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: [3]http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/ For more information
   please contact: Susana Kevorkova, [4]617-324-8424, <a
   href="mailto:[5]skevorkova@csail.mit.edu">[6]skevorkova@csail.mit.edu</
   a>
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References

   1. mailto:petertrei@gmail.com
   2. mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com
   3. http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/
   4. tel:617-324-8424
   5. mailto:skevorkova@csail.mit.edu
   6. mailto:skevorkova@csail.mit.edu
   7. mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com
   8. http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography