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
>>>
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