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Date Speaker Details
Term 1 (2007) - Friday, 2-4pm
05 Oct speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
12 Oct speaker not confirmed
Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
19 Oct Prof Mark Handley Early Feedback
Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
26 Oct Graeme Pinkney
Symantec

The Changing Threat Landscape and What it Means to You

Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT

02 Nov speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
09 Nov Reading Week - No Seminar
16 Nov speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
23 Nov Dr Ian Brown
Oxford Internet Institute

Who 0wns the Internet

The Internet's decentralised, cross-border nature and libertarian culture has made it resistant to traditional forms of government regulation. The US government lost a 25-year battle to control the spread of encryption software, while copyright law has been emasculated by peer-to-peer networks and perfect digital reproduction. An underground criminal ecology has sprung up, with programmers providing custom viruses at low cost to target specific government and corporate secrets, bot herders renting out huge networks of compromised machines at 3-7c/host/week, identities traded after harvesting by phishers, and mafias extorting protection fees from gambling sites under threat of DDoS attacks. Distributed terror cells use websites for publicity, planning and recruitment. New forms of regulation are evolving in response. Governments are requiring Internet Service Providers to install high-capacity wiretaps and retain data about their customers' communications. Copyright laws ban attempts to circumvent Digital Rights Management controls. Computer misuse acts ban hacking tools and some types of security research. ISPs are encouraged to filter customer access to sites containing child pornography. Police constables may shut down websites that glorify terrorism. How much further should governments go in their efforts to regulate and control on-line behaviour?

Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT

30 Nov speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
07 Dec speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
14 Dec speaker not confirmed Location: Anatomy Gavin de Beer LT
Term 2 (2008) - Friday, 2-3pm
11 Jan person
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Location: MPEB 1.04
18 Jan person
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Location: MPEB 1.04
25 Feb person
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Location: MPEB 1.04
8 Feb person
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Location: MPEB 1.04
15 Feb person
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Location: MPEB 1.04