NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It - An Evening Talk with Bruce Schneier

April 15, 2014 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

RSVP is required for this free event.

IMPORTANT: Our number of RSVPs have reached capacity for room 290. We will be livestreaming the talk in room 190 for guests who cannot get into room 290. Also, we are videorecording the talk and it will be posted on our Youtube channel within a week. 

5:00pm Reception - Manning Faculty Lounge
6:00pm Talk Begins - Room 290

This event will be video recorded and posted in our Youtube channel in the near future. 

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.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Chief Technology Officer at Co3 Systems, Inc.

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Stanford Law School - Room 290
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA
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