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Defense Against the Digital Dark Arts. Choose Privacy Week - May 5, 2014 Eric Stroshane North Dakota State Library estroshane@nd.gov @ ericstroshane. Panel from Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal used with permission.
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Defense Against the Digital Dark Arts Choose Privacy Week - May 5, 2014 Eric Stroshane North Dakota State Library estroshane@nd.gov @ericstroshane
Panel from Zach Weinersmith’sSaturday Morning Breakfast Cereal used with permission. View this and other comics at: http://www.smbc-comics.com/
86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints • 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government From this September 5, 2013, Pew Research Internet Project report: http://v.gd/6ogCGF
September 1, 2009, Unshelved strip by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum used with permission. Visit www.unshelved.com for more free comics and books about libraries!
January 20, 1953 - Joseph McCarthy becomes chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations • June 25, 1953 – The Freedom to Read Statement is officially adopted by the ALA Council and the AAP Freedom to Read Committee
Proud History of Librarian Resistance • DECAL aka “Library Awareness” (1973-1976, 1985-?) • CIPA (2000-) • USA PATRIOT Act (2001-) • SOPA/PIPA (2011 - 2012) • CISPA (2011 - 2012, reintroduced in 2013…)
Rights status unclear; image used at great personal risk Image in the public domain in the United States
Panel from Randall Munroe’s xkcd licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5 View this and other comics at: https://xkcd.com/
“I don’t try to describe the future, I try to prevent it.” - Ray Bradbury Quote from Roger Moore’s article “At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future he Foresaw,” available at: http://v.gd/pLPkgP
Dave Hoffman’s “Internet VS Privacy – A Helpful Venn Diagram,” licensed under CC BY 2.0from http://v.gd/Yp9Ujj
All Data You Generate Is Personal • Mobility patterns • Browser fingerprints • Search habits • Metadata
“Pervasive, end-to-end encryption can quickly make indiscriminate surveillance impossible on a cost-effective basis. The result is that governments are likely to fall back to traditional, targeted surveillance founded upon an individualized suspicion.” - Edward Snowden Snowden’s full testimony to the European Parliament (pdf): http://v.gd/0MCQgg Shirt available from: http://v.gd/35zt6R
The Digital Dark Arts • Casual leaks from sharing computers • Spyware and adware • Third party cookies • Keyloggers • Packet sniffing and inspection Detail from katefarrar’s Dark Mark Wallpaper, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0from: http://v.gd/11oxtb
Panel from Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions, used with permission. View this and other comics at: http://basicinstructions.net/
Malware: software installed against your will with bad intentions • Spyware: malware that monitors and reports on your activities • Adware: spyware that injects ads
Visualize tracking cookies with Mozilla’s Lightbeam extension (Firefox): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Detail from “Delicious cookie!” image by Andres Moreno, licensed under CC BY 2.0 from http://v.gd/Sv5QJZ
Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 from: http://v.gd/bWK1n0
Licensed under CC BY 3.0 US, from: https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
EncryptoPatronum! • Test how a browser handles SSL/TLS: https://howsmyssl.com • Test a site’s SSL/TLS configuration: https://www.digicert.com/help/ • Get certified! Implement HTTPS on your sites: • Digicert • SSL.com • StartSSL • Or from a host of other cert authorities!
Challenge Vendors to Reset the Net • Place statements in RFPs requesting potential partners to use HTTPS by default • Contact current vendors and request they enable HTTPS by default
CPW Programming Guide - Usable 52 weeks per year! http://v.gd/LukU9J (pdf) Programming ideas from Cory Doctorow: http://v.gd/nbQTbF (YouTube)
Elected officials directory: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml • House staff directory: http://staffers.sunlightfoundation.com/
American Civil Liberties Union • Center for Democracy and Technology • Electronic Frontier Foundation • Freedom of the Press Foundation • OpenNet Initiative • Sunlight Foundation
Base PAC Recommendations Windows Settings: • Enable the Guest account Browser Settings: • Always open in Private/Incognito mode (for Chrome, add the -incognito flag to the shortcut) • Change default search provider to DuckDuckGo Browser Extensions: • AdBlock Plus • Disconnect or Ghostery • HTTPS Everywhere • For Chrome, be sure to check “Allow in Incognito” for these! Software: • ZemanaAntiLogger Free • CCleaner or a steady state/deep freeze product
Questions? Contact: estroshane@nd.gov | @ericstroshane Slides: http://v.gd/yaFAH8 Playlist: http://v.gd/H7cbAC (they’ll know you listened…)