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
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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 title/role/company |
title
Location: MPEB 1.04 |
18 Jan |
person title/role/company |
title
Location: MPEB 1.04 |
25 Feb |
person title/role/company |
title
Location: MPEB 1.04 |
8 Feb |
person title/role/company |
title
Location: MPEB 1.04 |
15 Feb |
person title/role/company |
title
Location: MPEB 1.04 |