The Center for Research on Computation and Society continues its
weekly lunch seminar:

     CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar
     Date:  Wednesday, 19 March 2008
     Time:  12:00pm-1:30 pm
     Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Topic: How to make the Tor anonymity network play well with the rest
of the Internet

Speaker: Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Abstract:
Tor is a free software anonymity network used by several hundred
thousand people daily: ordinary citizens who want protection from
identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look
at a competitor's website in private, law enforcement, and soldiers
and aid workers in the Middle East who need to contact their home
servers without fear of physical harm.

But it's still pretty darn hard to use correctly, and it turns out
not every site on the Internet likes anonymity. How should Slashdot
and Wikipedia handle anonymous users? How can we help individual and
educational users have an easier interface to secure their communications
without upsetting their network admins? What about policy and legal
issues? Roger will explain the roadblocks for simple anonymity online,
and discuss directions for solutions.

For more information about Tor, see http://www.torproject.org/

Bio:
Roger Dingledine is project leader 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, and other
organizations to design and develop systems for anonymity and traffic
analysis resistance. He organizes academic conferences on anonymity,
speaks at such events as Blackhat, Defcon, Toorcon, CCC congresses,
and What the Hack, 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.
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