Lectures
You can find all of the lecture slides in this Google Docs folder
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Lecture One – Course Intro & The Hacker Ethic
Introduction to me & the course. General overview of the “Hacker Ethic“ and how it relates to the notion of FreeSkool. In-class we did a quick survey related to some inaccurate assumptions of privacy that are commonly attributed to the internet. We talked about the structure of the internet as a a web of intermediate computers that have impact on our privacy. Finally, we ended on a quick overview of the sorts of topics I’d like to cover in the course. Each was given a quick explanation and linked to FreeSkool where possible.
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Lecture Two – Off the Record (OTR) Messaging
Following what we learned in last week’s lecture about privacy and the internet, we spent lecture two learning about secure IM chats. We covered what OTR Messaging is, reviewed why we might need it at all, and then learned a bit more about how it worked. A quick demo of setting up OTR in Pidgin was shown. We also spent some time this lecture discussing the recent G20 arrest of Kristen Peterson and Byron Sonne. See the resources section for more information.
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Resources added this week
Lecture Three – OpenPGP & Enigmail
Furthering our quest for secure communication we moved into the topic of e-mail. Similar to previous lectures the idea of why e-mail is presently insecure was presented. An introduction to public key cryptography was given, and a demo of using OpenPGP, Enigmail and Thunderbird was shown.
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Lecture Four – Anonymous Browsing with Tor
Switching from secure communications to anonymous communications this lecture covered how to browse websites with anonymity using Tor. The reasons that Tor are required, what the technology offers, and how to use it were shown. Finally, as per usual, caveats and additional considerations were discussed.
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