[tor-talk] (FWD) Jan 14 WATCH: Roger Dingledine on "The Tor Project in 2013"

[Roger Dingledine]

This coming Tuesday I'll be doing a Tor talk for the National Science
Foundation (in the DC area), and you're welcome to join.

It will be a mash-up of our 28c3 talk ("How governments have tried to
block Tor"), my talk from PETools 2013 ("Lessons from Tor: How to Help
Developers and Researchers Improve your Privacy Tool"), and our 30c3
talk from last month on the recent social and political pressures on Tor.

Please spread the word!

--Roger

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Date:         Mon, 6 Jan 2014 21:10:04 +0000
From: "Epstein, Jeremy" <jepstein at NSF.GOV>
To: WATCH-ANNOUNCE at listserv.nsf.gov
Subject: Jan 14 WATCH: Roger Dingledine on "The Tor Project in 2013"

Dear WATCH-announce mailing list member,

Our next WATCH talk is:

Title:                      The Tor Project in 2013
Date:                     January 14, 2014, Noon-1pm
Location:              NSF Stafford I, Room 110
Presenter:        Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Abstract

Tor is a free-software anonymizing network that helps people around
the world use the Internet in safety. Tor's 5500 volunteer relays carry
traffic for around a million daily users, including ordinary citizens who
want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations
who want to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the
world whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and
law enforcement.

The last year has included major cryptographic upgrades in the Tor
software, dozens of research papers on attacking and improving the Tor
design, mainstream press about government attempts to attack the Tor
network, discussions about funding, FBI/NSA exploitation of Tor Browser
users, botnet related load on the Tor network, and other important topics.

In this talk I'll aim to strike a balance between explaining Tor's
"intellectual merit" side (all the neat research problems that Tor
raises, and how we've positioned ourselves to get so much attention from
academics) and Tor's "broader impact" side (the many ways that Tor has
changed lives around the world).

Bio

Roger Dingledine is project leader and research director for The
Tor Project, a US non-profit working on anonymity research and
development. While at MIT he developed Free Haven, one of the early
peer-to-peer systems that emphasized resource management while maintaining
anonymity for its users. He works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
the US Navy, Voice of America, the National Science Foundation, and
other organizations to design and develop systems for anonymity, traffic
analysis resistance, and censorship resistance. He organizes academic
conferences on anonymity, speaks at such events as Blackhat, Defcon,
Toorcon, and the CCC congresses, and also does tutorials on anonymity
for national and foreign law enforcement. Roger was honored in 2006 as
one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review
magazine, and honored in 2012 by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the
100 top global thinkers.


Logistics:

The talk will be held from 12:00-1:00pm EST on January  14, 2014 in Room 110.  No RSVP is necessary, and no visitor badges are required.  NSF is one block from the Ballston Metro.  If you drive, parking is available in the NSF building.  It's generally cheaper to park across the street in the Ballston Common Mall parking garage ($1 for 3 hours).

To attend virtually, please register at: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/nsf/140114/ .  After your registration is accepted, you will get an email with a URL to join the meeting.


Future talks:
Feb 20 2014: Deanna Caputo, The MITRE Corporation
Mar 20 2014: Maya Bernstein, Department of Health and Human Services
Apr 17 2014: Deb Frincke, National Security Agency
May 15 2014: Dan Wallach, Rice University
Jul 17 2014: Crispin Cowan, Microsoft

--
Jeremy Epstein
Program Officer, CISE, NSF
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
jepstein at nsf.gov<mailto:jepstein at nsf.gov>
Tel: 703-292-8338
Mobile: 703-989-8907

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