Thus spake coderman (coderman@gmail.com) [11/04/06 20:28]: : i've always liked Ian Goldberg's nymity slider as a description of : identity and how you disclose/leak/protect it. : : http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/thesis.html This has been on my reading list for far too long. Perhaps I should bump it up to the top and start cracking on it. : if i were in your situation i think a high level overview of identity : and nymity (along the lines of the nymity slider) followed by specific : privacy enhancing technologies would work well. perhaps covering: : - anonymous email (mixnets) and browsing/sessions (tor/onions) : - pseudonymous communication with aliases. (Off-the-Record? blogs?) : - security and least privilege? My problem is that we're talking one to two hours a week for eight weeks. That's a whole lot of time to fill, and I'd like to avoid getting into nitty gritty details that don't concern most people (server-side security, database protection, etc.), and focus more on end-user technologies. Things I'd like to cover (and this is still a work in progress): - the concept of identity and self (as you suggested) - anonymity, pseudonymity, and nyms (as you suggested) - what a computer is/does - what the Internet is/does - data mining - traffic analysis vs. content analysis - cryptography, digital signatures, non-repudiation - digital identities and how they tie to the real world And then move in to specifics -- so things like TOR, Freenet, PGP, OTR, cookies, etc. (Google actually provides an excellent working example that ties a number of these things in together). : i'd be curious to know what you put together; this would be a helpful : resource for me and others i'm sure. Assuming this all goes through (there's a chance it won't), I'd definitely like to keep a record of it around somewhere. I have a feeling it will come in handy in the future.