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Abbey Roberts

What Americans think about NSA surveillance, national security and privacy - 4 views

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    This is the results of a Pew Research survey in May (of 2015) regarding Americans' opinions of the NSA, surveillance, national security, etc. This could be useful in the security vs. privacy paper, to look at the public opinion on these issues.
smohite1

How "omnipotent" hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years-and were found at last | Ars Tech... - 1 views

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    Try to avoid opening emails from senders you don't 100% trust and know. Also, routinely check your PC using some kind of antivirus or data scrubbing software to ensure your system hasn't accrued keyloggers or malware that might give bad actors sensitive personal information.
Annie Vreeland

Pearl Harbor Review - JN-25 - NSA/CSS - 1 views

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    JN-25: code used during and slightly before world war II
Derek Bruff

Art that shows us what mass surveillance actually looks like | Fusion - 0 views

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    Quote: What you are looking at is one of the many undersea cables that carries inside it, to put it simply, the magic of the Internet. This particular cable, which runs aground on the coast of Florida, has been tapped by the NSA according to Paglen's research. Paglen, an artist who has been documenting the physical footprint of surveillance for years, got scuba-certified in order to go diving "at several locations off the coast of Florida," he says, to find and photograph the cables.
Derek Bruff

NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World - Schneier on Security - 0 views

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    Here's a recent piece by security expert Bruce Schneier on quantum computing, which is different than quantum cryptography. (I conflated the two during class today.) Quantum computing is very fast computing that could be used to quickly break modern encryption schemes. Quantum cryptography involves sending messages that can't be read, since "looking" at them changes the message. Schneier offers some conjectures about where the NSA is with regard to both technologies.
Derek Bruff

New Tech City: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography - WNYC - 0 views

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    Here's a podcast interview with Bill Binney and Ladar Levison, both featured in Citizenfour. Binney was the former NSA crypto expert we saw testifying in the film a couple of times, and Levison was the guy who ran the secure email service Lavabit that he felt compelled to shut down.
estrutt

The Domestic Surveillance Directorate - 1 views

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    "The Domestic Surveillance Directorate - If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Should the government have such free reign over our personal information, or should we be able to keep our data encrypted and hidden from the government to respect our personal rights?
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