[Ta3m-Seattle] Tonight! TA3M Seattle

[Bethan C.]

Sorry I'm going to miss it! I have an event with my kids, or else I'd be there.

Take care - B

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From: Meg Young<mailto:megyoung at uw.edu>
Sent: ‎11/‎16/‎2015 12:11 PM
To: ta3m-seattle at ta3m.org<mailto:ta3m-seattle at ta3m.org>
Subject: [Ta3m-Seattle] Tonight! TA3M Seattle

Hi all, we are indeed having a Ta3m tonight. (This announcement is delayed
due to listserv problems, apologies!)

Techno Activism 3rd Mondays is an international, monthly meetup designed to
connect people interested in modern anti-censorship and anti-surveillance
issues. TA3M Seattle <https://twitter.com/TA3Mseattle> is Seattle Privacy
Coalition’s “sister organization” because of our shared goals in advocating
for personal privacy, and we are happy to be announcing November’s TA3M!
We are meeting this month!

*When*: Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:30 – 9:00 PM
*Where*: University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering building
(CSE) room 303 [directions
<https://www.cs.washington.edu/visitors/getting_here>]

* Free pizza! *
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*Talk one (7PM)*: Virtualization for Security: An Introduction

This talk will explore virtualization and it’s utility within security and
maintaining privacy. Learn about what virtualization is, the attack surface
and threat model for virtualization software, the impact of recent
vulnerabilities such as VENOM, and what the future of virtualization looks
like. Finally, find out how you can use virtualization to limit compromise
and compartmentalize everyday activity with the open source operating
system Qubes OS. Note: despite the technical nature of this topic, effort
will be made to ensure that this material is valuable to end users.

Andrew Sorensen <https://twitter.com/AndrewX192> is a security engineer at
Twitter and former security consultant at Leviathan Security Group. In his
spare time, Andrew enjoys researching virtualization security issues and
building secure implementations of typically challenged software use cases
(including home automation / internet of things).
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*Talk two (8PM)*: Informational Privacy and Social Privilege:
Discriminatory Data Practices in the Information Society

The well-off have historically sought to separate themselves from everyone
else, employing privilege to maintain affluence and exclusivity. Gated
communities, private schools, shell corporations, complex financial
instruments — the tendency by elites to seek special advantages and
insulation from others and to obscure themselves within walled gardens is
well-established. Ghettos, glass ceilings, housing and employment
discrimination and other elements of institutionalized oppression are
obstacles that have historically prevented the unprivileged from gaining
access to the educational and economic opportunities necessary to escape
cycles of poverty and achieve the “good life.” As both the positive and
negative inclinations of the material world find expression in the digital
world, a move to separate and segment society is finding its way there as
well, leading to new forms of oppression and social sorting.

These effects are not arbitrary, but reflect the biases inherent in our
society and within the culture of information technology production and
use. Information systems are truly socio-technical systems and, as such,
have the capacity to amplify preexisting inequalities through practice and
use, including pervasive data collection by major data controllers and an
increasing inability to engage in socially-beneficial “forgetting.” So, we
are left to cope with the fallout of the status quo as if this were all
inevitable. Given the demographic makeup of the designers, producers and
early adopters of information systems, it should not be surprising what
inclinations these systems reflect and which groups find themselves
dispossessed within the information society.

Mike Katell <https://ischool.uw.edu/people/phd/mkatell> is a PhD student at
the University of Washington Information School.
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