<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div>Pass it along, if you know someone local who should be there.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>RAH</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Peter Trei <<a href="mailto:petertrei@gmail.com">petertrei@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[Cryptography] (MIT) TALK: Thursday 02-06-2014 Thursday 02-06-14 NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">February 4, 2014 at 7:54:47 PM AST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a><br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I know this is late notice, but some here may be interested.<br><br><br></div><div><br>Subject: TALK: <span tabindex="0" class="">Thursday 02-06-2014</span> <span tabindex="0" class="">Thursday 02-06-14</span> NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It<br>
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NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It<br>
Speaker: Bruce <span class="">Schneier</span><br>
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Host: MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL<br>
Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL<br>
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Date: <span tabindex="0" class="">Thursday, February 06, 2014</span><br>
Time: <span tabindex="0" class="">5:00 PM to 6:00 PM</span><br>
Refreshments Time: <span tabindex="0" class="">4:45 PM</span><br>
Location: 32-123<br>
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ABSTRACT:<br>
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.<br><br>
</div>[I cut out Bruce's bio - no one here needs it - pt]<br><div>
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Relevant URL: <a href="http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank">http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/</a> For more information please contact: Susana Kevorkova, <a href="tel:617-324-8424" value="+16173248424">617-324-8424</a>, <a href="mailto:<a href="mailto:skevorkova@csail.mit.edu">skevorkova@csail.mit.edu</a>"><a href="mailto:skevorkova@csail.mit.edu">skevorkova@csail.mit.edu</a></a><br>
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