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From: Peter Trei 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: 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]

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