[vox] talk topic for July 16 meeting?

[Brian E. Lavender]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 10:40:48PM -0700, Theodore Sternberg wrote:
>    Hey Tim,
>    Yeah, I do have an idea.  I was in fact hashing it out with Ethan
>    tonight.
>    It would be about being safe on the internet.  I'd hit topics like,
>    1. What does an "incognito mode" browser tab buy you in terms of
>    anonymity?

It just gets you don't keep my cookies, browsing history and
cache and don't send cookies from other sites. Here is some info.

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/incognito.htm

>    2. What does "https" (as opposed to "http") mean when it's the first
>    part of a web address, and what security guarantees does it give you?

If you are on wi-fi hotspot, it will keep people from injecting stuff
into your surfing.


>    3. When and why does your browser warn you you're trying to go to an
>    "insecure" site, and what are the implications of you clicking on "take
>    me there anyway, I know what I'm doing"?

It means that you are accepting an unverified certificate. Someone could
have inserted this certificate in the middle or it could be that the
site has a self signed cert or the certificate expired.

>    4. Is your email traveling in encrypted form?  All the way to its
>    destination?  Part of the way?

If it says https, it's encrypted to the web server. What
happens on the other side of the web server is up to the maintainer of
the web site. 

> 
>    On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 10:33 PM Timothy D Thatcher
>    <[1]daniel.thatcher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      We have something tentatively planned and an announcement of the
>      topic
>      will come next week. It's fairly flexible, though - did you have
>      something in mind that you were interested in contributing? If so,
>      shoot me a direct email and we can sort something out for this month
>      or in the near future. (That goes for anyone else on the list, too!)
>      Tim
>      On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:06 PM Theodore Sternberg
>      <[2]strnbrg59 at gmail.com> wrote:
>      >
>      > Is there a talk/speaker already lined up?
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