Fascinating that all the material is online via the course calendar. Good stuff.
-- Owen On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgot to relate the tidbit that motivated me to update the group: > > The "Covert Channels" reading, which is a very specialized example of > Steganography (by my measure) has some very clever ideas in it which I'd > never encountered before... all kind of obvious once described but > nevertheless quite clever. > > - Steve > > I don't know if anyone (else) is doing the reading for this course.... > > I lagged a bit but am just now catching up... the first 5 readings were > history/law and *very* timely and relevant to the current situation with > the NSA, etc. > > > The following are more technical: > > Secure Email > Tor (secure - obfuscated?) Routing > Network Traffic Analysis > Steganography > Covert Channels > Chat (off the record) > ..... > > I've done my time working with or studying all of these at a fairly > limited level and found each of the resources offered to be very well > chosen... a good review for me and a good introduction for anyone with > modest technical knowledge. They are also "bite sized"... I find the > reading assignment for each week requiring less than an hour, though one > can use these as a point of departure that could consume a whole week! > > I'm glad to hear that our best and brightest are being taught these things. > > - Steve > > I'm in. A number of journos are interested in/worried about this. > -tj > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Cody - >> >> >> I think you just started one (by asking). >> >> I suggest a Google Group for discussion and following the class schedule >> even if we don't have the benefit of lecture and class discussions. >> >> 3 or more is a good number... if Owen's alerting us indicates interest, >> we already have a Quorum!? >> >> - Steve >> >> that seems like a very cool reading list. Are you thinking of starting up >> a reading group? >> >> Cody Smith >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Another gem from twitter: >>> >>> Ed Felten >>> Preliminary syllabus for my "Surveillance and Countermeasures" seminar: >>> http://ow.ly/oHs9a >>> Retweeted by BrendanEich >>> >>> >>> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall13/cos597G/ >>> >>> Sounds fascinating .. and not all tech, lots of history and spy craft. >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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