I'm in the midst of committing myself to leading a series of discussions about privacy and anonymity on the Internet (though, to properly tackle the subject, I'll have to embrace meatspace as well) with a given number of likely non-technical persons. Though I'm fairly comfortable discussing such matters amongst persons of a technical inclination, when starting to prepare some outlines, I realized that these two demographics have some significant differences. I have pulled through any number of papers, publications, websites, books, etc. that I still have kicking around, and though it /should/ be enough to fill up all my allotted time, I thought a solicitation for help and pointers couldn't hurt. If you were to lead a discussion on privacy and anonymity (regardless of the involvement of the Internet), what topics would you want to discuss? Which areas would you want to focus on? How would you start out?
On 4/11/06, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote:
... I have pulled through any number of papers, publications, websites, books, etc. that I still have kicking around, and though it /should/ be enough to fill up all my allotted time, I thought a solicitation for help and pointers couldn't hurt.
If you were to lead a discussion on privacy and anonymity (regardless of the involvement of the Internet), what topics would you want to discuss? Which areas would you want to focus on? How would you start out?
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 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? i'd be curious to know what you put together; this would be a helpful resource for me and others i'm sure.
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.
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