Peter Eckersley from the EFF gave a talk today on campus, see https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/eecs.html?event_ID=97050
He suggested running the Https Everywhere plugin (https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere) in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. He also suggested Tor. Personally, I'm hesitant to promote Tor, but it also seems that in light of the recent UCOP activity, more people will want to know more about Tor. It would be helpful if there was some guidance that we could provide people about why they do or don't want to run Tor. For example, the knowledge base at https://kb.berkeley.edu/search.php?q=Tor has nothing. Another alternative is for groups and departments to break away from the campus backbone. This also has risks. Guidance here would be helpful as well. I've been converting various websites that I mange to be full time https and I reinstalled Https Everywhere My guess is that this incident will blow over, the hardware will continue to stay installed and running. In other news, until it was corrected, the examiner.com article had the July break in being at UC Berkeley, not UCLA. _Christopher On 2/1/16 6:57 PM, jon kuroda wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-ucla-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html > > (Yes, the URL says 'UCLA", but it is about Berkeley. Go Bears!) > > At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest > > --Jon > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:34:34PM -0800, jon kuroda wrote: >> http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cal-professors-fear-UC-bosses-will-snoop-on-them-6794646.php >> >> This blogpost I found seems to cover some more details: >> http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2016/01/ucop-ordered-spyware-installed-on-uc.html >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: >> >> To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe >> from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please >> visit the Micronet Web site: >> >> http://micronet.berkeley.edu >> >> Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and >> the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means >> these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective >> employers, and people who have known you in the past. >> >> ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the >> micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu list. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: > > To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe > from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please > visit the Micronet Web site: > > http://micronet.berkeley.edu > > Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the > list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means > these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective > employers, and people who have known you in the past. > > ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the > micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu list. -- Christopher Brooks, PMP University of California Academic Program Manager & Software Engineer US Mail: 337 Cory Hall CHESS/iCyPhy/Ptolemy/TerraSwarm Berkeley, CA 94720-1774 c...@eecs.berkeley.edu, 707.332.0670 (Office: 545Q Cory) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the micronet-annou...@lists.berkeley.edu list.
