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]