#  Bruce Schneier: "The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 18, 2013** 

 12:00PM - 01:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Maxwell Dworkin 119**  



 

 



 

**CRCS Lunch Seminar**

**Date:** Wednesday, December 18, 2013  
**Time:** 12:00pm – 1:30pm  
**Place:** Maxwell Dworkin 119

**Speaker:** [Bruce Schneier](https://www.schneier.com/), Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; Honorary CRCS Affiliate[  ](http://benkler.org/)

**Title:** The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance



 

**Abstract:Edward Snowden has given us an unprecedented window into the NSA's surveillance activities. Drawing from both the Snowden documents and revelations from previous whistleblowers, this talk describes the sorts of surveillance the NSA conducts and how it conducts it. The emphasis will be on the technical capabilities of the NSA, and not the politics or legality of their actions. I will then discuss what sorts of countermeasures are likely to frustrate any nation-state adversary with these sorts of capabilities. These will be techniques to raise the cost of wholesale surveillance in favor of targeted surveillance: ubiquitous encryption, target dispersal, anonymity tools, and so on.

**Bio:**  
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 [books](https://www.schneier.com/books.html) -- including [Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive](https://www.schneier.com/book-lo.html) -- as well as hundreds of articles, [essays](https://www.schneier.com/essays.html), and [academic papers](https://www.schneier.com/cryptography.html). His influential newsletter "[Crypto-Gram](https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html)" and his blog "[Schneier on Security](https://www.schneier.com/)" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly [quoted](https://www.schneier.com/news.html) in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Security Futurologist for [BT](http://www.bt.com/) -- formerly British Telecom.

 ![Bruce Schneier](/sites/g/files/omnuum6171/files/crcs/files/bruce-blog3_1.jpg)

 

**Photo(s) from the Event:**

 ![Bruce Schneier](/sites/g/files/omnuum6171/files/crcs/files/photo_2_4_0.jpg)

 

 ![Bruce Schneier](/sites/g/files/omnuum6171/files/crcs/files/photo_1_2.jpg)

 



 

 



 

 See also:- [ CRCS Lunch Seminar ](/events/crcs-lunch-seminar)
 
 

 Share on:- [     Facebook ](#)
- [     Twitter ](#)
- [     Linkedin ](#)
 


 Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/node/75696/event-feed.ics)  Copy link link