Workshop: BASIC DATA SECURITY

Day
Friday 11th of November, 2011
Start
09:00
End
11:00
Duration
2:00:00
Room
L308 (Språkbanken)

by Per Andersson

A large part of our lives are now digital. Even our most valuable, and sensitive, possibly even secret, data are digitized. Our analog privacies are somewhat upheld by laws, regulations and societal practice. Digital privacy and communications are far from protected from privacy breach.

This hands-on workshop will explain why digital privacy is important, even if you "have nothing to hide", ranging from journalists' needs of protecting their sources to hiding your private surfing at work from the boss, or protecting internet traffic when on open wireless connections.

Basic security concepts will be discussed, such as good passwords and social engineering. The workshop will also introduce and explore digital privacy enhancing techniques such as OpenPGP/GnuPG, Tor, SSH, FoxyProxy, Wireshark, TrueCrypt.

Time: 2 hours

Recommended: Computer for test-driving the software. Knowledge of how to install software on your system

In order for us to be able to plan the workshop sessions and which rooms to put them in, the deadline for letting us know about your attendence of any of the workshops are October 28th.

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