Security Workshops

In light of the orwellian nightmare we've built ourselves into, now is a good time for the CSClub to pick up the slack it usually picks and teach people how to be safe out there.

Related work and Telling Evidence

EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Guide

Pirate Party's EncryptEverything

Ken Thompson - Reflections on Trusting Trust

http://readwrite.com/2010/08/04/google_ceo_schmidt_people_arent_ready_for_the_tech

Past Series

Fall 2013

This information is fuzzy and subject to change. Do not trust it.

sharvey, m4, and nguenthe are adminning this term's series

• sharvey on Why Should You Care About Privacy
• [stephen.palmateer@gmail.com Stephen Palmateer] of KWLUG on Tor
• Sean Howard on How your ISP owns you (UW grad, ex Watsfic president, currently working for sentex.ca, knows details of Bell's network infrastructure and where the chokepoints are)
• nguenthe on OTR -- or IanG if we can get him!
• nablack and m4farrel with a security demo + open ended question session
• m4farrel on Secrets of a DDoS
• wlritchi on Reversing SBeam and pnwing ur phone
• mtrberzi on GPG, Keyservers, and You and with a keysigning party to boot
• v2buterin on Bitcoin and Bitmessage (maybe? pretty please?)
• IST Security:
  • Patrick Matlock on some combination or subset of oauth, identity, data privacy (Policy 8), and web pentesting
  • Terry Labach on safer web browsing
  • Colin Bell?
• Sapphyre?
• Hatguy!
• ?????? on Browser Fingerprinting
• ?????? on Filesystem Forensics and the Dangers of Log-Structured Data Storage (live demo!)
• ?????? on SSL: It's Broken
• ?????? on Storytime: Exporting "Munitions"
• ?????? on Stegonography
• ?????? on Digital Watermarks
• ?????? on Getting root in 5 minutes with physical access
• ?????? on What is Identity (maybe toss this out to WPIRG?)

WPIRG wants to cross-promote a "privacy forum" with us. They are imagining as an expert panel + QA session, during November. Probably the ideal distribution is csc events on the technical side ("how to shot pgp", "how to make tls go", "wat is passwurd") with WPIRG on the human-scale and politics side, with advertising to both of our cohorts for all events. Some ideas for expert participants:

• Ian Goldberg (sharvey)
• Michael Geist
• ????
• Terry Labach (this sort of thing is, actually, directly within his job description)