[vox] talk topic for July 16 meeting?
Brian E. Lavender
brian at brie.com
Fri Jul 6 10:53:15 PDT 2018
I saw that. I figured I would throw input out there.
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:07:12AM -0700, Theodore Sternberg wrote:
> Lol, that was just the outline of a proposed talk.
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 9:31 AM Brian E. Lavender <[1]brian at brie.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
> [2]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][3]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][4]strnbrg59 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a talk/speaker already lined up?
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> > 2. mailto:[10]strnbrg59 at gmail.com
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> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
> other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
> deficiencies."
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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> References
>
> 1. mailto:brian at brie.com
> 2. https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/i/incognito.htm
> 3. mailto:daniel.thatcher at gmail.com
> 4. mailto:strnbrg59 at gmail.com
> 5. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
> 6. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
> 7. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
> 8. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
> 9. mailto:daniel.thatcher at gmail.com
> 10. mailto:strnbrg59 at gmail.com
> 11. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
> 12. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
> 13. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
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> 15. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
> 16. http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
> 17. http://www.brie.com/brian/
> 18. mailto:vox at lists.lugod.org
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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