good morning whom I am
iron by the rescue bid I was up really late last I got to bed around 7:30 this
morning
so I got a couple three hours sleep arm
I wanna thank you for getting up so early company this topic that's really
important
I am I'll talk about this talk I mean I joined a couple mountains pronouncements
first
on in addition to talk to you on that we do a lot of work shops here too
I'm gonna hardware hacking area
the the mezzanine level and in at nine
in hackers base village area on and also on the six floor
there's two rooms known as the Paris room in Budapest room
and a it's been really blinded good hands-on workshops going on there
this morning there are two on
one-inch called morning healing really not about hockey with the hacking your
own
your and physiological are being
on so any malcolm she is teaching that
and it's a basically two its internal
well-being type of thing senate really good at nine needed after last night I'm
that's a 10 o'clock
on the six floor and also this morning from 10 a.m. all the way to 1 p.m.
its whatever floating thing come in when you want but I don't show up after 12
is there FCC amateur radio
examinations I ham radio stuff we have a station set up on the 64
a special cause an issue to it by the Federal Communications Commission
and nine each for this event with the plan
this past week and we've communicated with the in 15 or 20 but nearly fifteen
a
other countries with about with just a few want to power
I'll Mosby data communications on
cuba Czech Republic Russia Costa Rica
Argentina much more are those be great medications
using no infrastructure between
morning point B pretty interesting on sale show up
you big thank you have no chance and help pass in this thing
but you'd be surprised to get a count on these tests a few years ago
for in a mine anybody can believe it so where
go down there and give it a shot after this talk good and they're
six more is fifteen dollars which in fcc v
and take the bank got nothing to lose and is the closest thing we have to
to government-sponsored hacking I think a ham radio how brazen the hacking the
radio spectrum for
over a century its it's a really awesome community into a lot with it when all
each other communications made sales
this works so on turned right on about that but it's a it's important part of
our community
I'm decided to park is about avoiding
you bakeries surveillance being or becoming aware there
and what you can do to avoid everywhere you go
in hotel Pennsylvania out in the streets on there are
racially countless forms have surveillance technology
or pointed at us Anna you now have my money the records
is there one out when everybody had to get your paranoia is just good thinking
doctor don t be heard if you care be on severn
I always remember that when I get when I see Perry's rise and communications in a
in public areas so out without further ado annie cruz said
great Kante and Lisa Shea are both have been with West Point for about a decade
teaching about this stuff they both academics be really know their topic we
had lease on off the hook on the radio show last week talking about her
week before last was in year and
but two days ago and Adam she really year she really AM
explained a lot about what we should beware if I wasn't aware
so had a great time thanks thanks very much bernie & I just as a side note
Gregoire both ham radio operators
for but that's where I'm
so as as bernie mentioned we are both
instructors at West Point we are blessed with academic freedom we
we teach at West Point on but these are our own personal view is that we're
giving you their not
necessarily the views have West Point the DOD Department the army
United government ernie any other formal entity on
and and context matters somebody's things that were going to tell you about
may not be legal to do in all places so
on common sense prevails were not out here to get
anybody in trouble especially ourselves arm we're not lawyers either
we're were computer scientist analytical engineers and ham radio operators
so but we really want you to get on this talk
are basically three things one that network surveillance systems
are out there there's lots of them were under them
even as we speak now are big can threaten our privacy and our way of life
there
that we enjoy individuals can and should take steps to protect yourselves
some its common sense movements more than common sense
but especially in this audience with olive you
this community has the opportunity the knowledge the status
the networking specialist social networking to do more than just protect
yourselves
you can deflect the trajectory this surveilled future
serving
so is a burning wood burning mentioned
you have to be blind at least in our community you have to be blind not to
see this
the sensors that are popping up at virtually every facet of our lives and
some
then we invite into our homes some them are invited to tour
you know in our societies burnt or communities for us if you've driven
across the George Washington Bridge
or any other such Lee checkpoints coming in onto the island
you're well aware solo what we did
is taken you know I'm sending a pic the counter measures by looking at what are
the trends that may cause concern that we need countermeasures in the first
place
well just as an example the government India
is the planning on tracking its citizenry using a biometric
identification system
on the order of 1.2 billion people and kinda the first
generation this there's
research right now only think about parts of your wives are currently 0 peak
to various sensors are various people who'd like to separate you from your
money
or to keep by your respective nations save
and examples you know review your living room
very orwellian Arbor TVs and watch you
are currently under under development in the idea that they can tell people are
sitting in front
better targeted advertising and all sorts of other
potential uses in the same thing communities in
in this is just an example that their one group building a billion-dollar
scientific ghost town
to be sweet instrument the whole community and you know largely these are
for
business schemes not forward on the surveillance society in the future
but if it not good privacy is not built in with proper
safeguards them we risk doing just that
and then there's also applications what do people do with these new data streams
or
environments and I thought this is just one example well if they can count
emperor penguins from space
when also I can they do with that type of technology in
in not just a one-off instance as we sexy technology evolved
know this type of activity really could occur in real time
and we see other applications
an often a trend for military technology being used in
say law enforcement or commercial use and in this just example the police
drone
you know anything on the website very Skynet like photo that flying over
metropolis
and you there are technical challenges and one of them being power
we see research into better power for these mobile
worse fix sensor systems an example just nuclear-powered redrawn research trying
to go from D's
two months to on time on station lot of investment behind it just
one example many many many examples
is minneapolis-saint Paul launching a twenty million dollar
HD surveillance cam camera project and for those
live in Manhattan your I think you're well where are the surveillance has put
a system being put in place post-9/11
in also increased capability another use
love the generator stator what do you do with it how do you
how can I be applied how can be mined in the capability is getting better and
better
now I to me a great example SoundHound you hold that up because the sample the
song
and I can tell you what the song was and if just had
imagine how powerful that is and then very it's what variance to that could be
used for
same thing official recognition capabilities
were really good idea identifying people based on their physical appearance for
other biometric
attributes trying to get to the unique identity per person
and again getting much better active area for research
and when technology alone won't work
we're seeing hybrid solutions that happened what humans are good at and
what machines are good at and this just as an example
was a Google using capture to help
humans decode street view addresses sensors are getting better and better
on on a daily basis and just right now in this basically terrifies me
the idea sensor your real time video through solid walls
so your home's are you know dne aren't necessarily secure
I know it's not the best view on the right hand side but it's there and it's
a merging technology
behind much of this or incentives incentives for government incentives for
businesses incentives for individuals
to employ and use these the sensor systems
and just your people like their money
and you know this was just an example that is GPS being used for driver
discounts
and may have seen various marketing for free on that trying to commit to put
these in their cars
in return for a discount
and then in general the justification typically is to improve your
you know your online experience shopping experience
key component of this is tying into some to some records from database
tells who you are because you have to stay to you wanted Associated
in with some person or group of people and you see various
the Thames coercive disclosure identity and I think you can look at
Google+ you know it first came out the real-name policy trying to talk to real
name
being just one example money so in this case but the idea that you can't was
people's arms
and he that your billing records cell phone numbers or idea that the other
means
be able to hide those the that those data flows
at reason those data flows to people you have you ever tried to get an anonymous
EZ Pass if I know how
now difficult or essentially impossible that is
and what this picture a puppy is is so if you go on the Google you're looking
for vulnerability
this is this is the closest I could come to you out upon our ability
the soft underbelly above the suit systems
ok I try I try to be what is vulnerability
are so Google Images is beautiful for things like that
but the systems themselves often
partners linked to attack by third parties and then they can get the people
can get in
am and use the systems that we're building so this is a
legal uses illegal use and other examples and Tom prosecute a great talk
and black hat DC
that explains some some the ways it could be time
and then you see a lot of concerning blue sky ideas
the for example the idea of using US postal trucks
as a fleet sensor platforms right you think about that
driving peered community constant sensor sensors in every
I censored you're monitoring the community via the US Postal System
so not this is being implemented by it sure does make one nervous
the end result of all this is the potential for misuse
is high we build it for arguably well intentioned reasons
but the potential for misuse either through a slippery slope above
you know which emit legal uses war
heard were illegal use do for building this infrastructure that could certainly
abuse and in negative ways very very negative words
but will lower work and we're focused on the physical world here
world live online surveillance for another talk
these
so there is a Dr Chinese
general name sons who who lived about 2500 years ago
and what we're trying to to educate you about on
is actually has ancient roots on Sun soon
said many many things is his book is often quoted they are 24
but one of the things that he said was if you know your enemy
and you know yourself than a hundred panels you need not fear the outcome
and dachau we're trying to get at here we're gonna look at deconstructing a
surveillance system
and Greg and I and some colleagues at West Point have
have developed a surveillance system model and as I talk through the
different component to the model
think about what are the vulnerability is what it was the soft underbelly
over each of these components until its
start out with the censors its a sensor system it has sensors
we look at sensors in as an electrical engineer
inserted two broad categories sensors can be passive
Witcher what's down the bottom left corner the receive energy
from the environment and that's fundamentally wanna sensor does is it
it detects energy of some sort
you could have an active sensors well think other police radar gun
active sensors omit some form of energy
and then measure weren't returned
all these sensors fundamentally measure
analog quantities pressure
lying he'd something like that on but
all these computer systems that we work with transmitted and stored digital
information
so the sensors generally convert the analog to digital
and then there's usually a local processing and local storage that's
that's conducted two probes do feature extraction identify
those on those identities perhaps our the key
characteristics I and then often that data is stored locally
what we're most concerned about are these network
surveillance systems or network sensor systems
because data that stored locally you have to go there to hack it it's its
it's more difficult to to compromise but most
many systems nowadays transmit data across
a network and I don't have to tell this community happy how many vulnerabilities
there are when you start doing that
and the data is then aggregated and stored perhaps in the cloud is stored
somewhere remotely
and again that has all sorts of vulnerabilities
finally none of this would really be a concern have never looked at it
but were concerned about who has access to this data
who are the legitimate users and what are they using it for
and then of course as greg mentioned these systems can be
can be accessed by illegal third parties and thats
of course a concerned us um in addition the systems don't have to action
miss only be accessed by real people one sensor system can talk to another sensor
system
or two just another network computer system
think I've greg mentioned EZ Pass I I love easy pass it makes
Mike Gillis commute much easier I like not having to stop
every bridge toll and fork over well known to buck 50
arm why live upstate here's where marjorie
yeah no idea his pace and outrageous fee but yeah I have a cheaper commit
so it's nice to be able to just drive through the toll booth
but that EZ Pass system connects to you the credit card system because every
couple months the doc
25 or 35 bucks off my credit card so the system's time to other systems and then
you wonder about the secondary
security about other system so these are all
definitely areas of concern
so now that we've we've known a little bit about the the system as a whole
let's look and technologically based
countermeasures so first off start we started with looking at the sensor
let's look at the center only bonus if you gonna
counter and two system you have to understand what characteristics are
Jo Brand has done some great talks on hardware hacking
including one on DEFCON 17 and smart parking meters
if you know what the hardware consists love you can figure out how to reverse
engineer it
and potentially on avoid
being subject to it home
ultimately you would like to denied a greater defeat the sensors
first you have to know where they are so this is a really clever
car radar detector from a company in Japan
not sold in the US that I can find it combines a GPS with the radar detector
on showed an and other online services can be a great source for finding
Sony's networked sensor systems if they're visible online
you can use online tools to find them and then then you know if your
if and when you're being surveilled sometimes
the people who put the systems in the place tell you about them
Washington DC among some other local governments tell you where the traffic
cameras are these are designed to help commuters
so you can avoid rush hour rush hour traffic jams
sometimes community organizations band together
and develop on databases and where the sensors are
you have to understand where the sensors are whether engines
what they're covering and then potentially might be just easy to bypass
them
home maybe with a little bit of work maybe a maybe have to get any is doing
arm but certainly if you can bypasses sensor
thats that easy countermeasure others if you know the more technical than about
the sensor
if you know its sampling returned sensitivity you can did
defeated that way Mythbusters has done some great episodes on this especially
episode 59 the looked at a number
sensor systems that were defeated in movies and of course that know the Huron
the movie
that blows a a little bit album powder and you see this this network to rave
lasers all around and they can
they can just step over instep under and crawl around them
if only it were that easy may the Boston a number of things that were shown in
the movies
not everything in the movies is true I'm
I'm but we we tested a couple use our cells we have
in are electro engineering program a
flutie i 55 thermal imager and were able to verify that yes indeed glass does
block
in for a on this is a a picture person who's standing partly behind a glass
door
and you can only see the party the person that's not behind the glass door
now granted that's maybe not the most practical countermeasure walking around
New York City carrying a pena classism
probably not recommend in arm went for a lighter re
more durable alternative try acrylic plexiglass
works just as well much lighter doesn't break you have no drop it
however you might wanna put handles on the backside
causes you're holding the plexiglas it will heat up and then you can see
through it again
other types is electromagnetic your other times ive
energy that you might want to shield against
0 electromagnetic energy there's RFID blocking wallets
there's this really interesting product to wifi shielding wallpaper that
reagan I wanted to test it's not yet available we sign on a
on a website should be on I think this fall the neat thing about it was it
alleges that it will block your WiFi signals from getting high your house
so people can snoop in and non use your
use your WiFi network but it will allow cell phone signals into your house
which is an auto engineering I'm pretty fascinating because
cell phone ban goes up to 1.9 gigahertz and WiFi
here to 11 BG and is it 2.4 gigahertz so
how it can have that sharper filter I think is pretty fascinating
where maybe Maybin doesn't work so well happy Easter
by if you want to block visible light you could you could do something like
put on these laptop copy Bunny Sox
it will prevent people from seeing what you doing I wouldn't want help for those
people that can detect your typing simply by listening to you
on and it may actually attract some attention
but it's a technique home and that ultimately if
if you're not connected to a network you have to work on air gap
if your computer only is connected to your printer
using a cable and it's in your house then
then you're protected to a much greater extent
hard to surf the internet that way but sometimes these trade-offs
other forms shielding and sim
residents have Tempe Arizona had
in some issues with cameras that were posted in their neighborhoods
and so around christmastime Santa Claus gave those present
those those cameras present in
you may have heard in the news lately stories about graphene
making invisibility cloaks did not
entirely science fiction there's electromagnetic properties of graphene
that will allow it to deflect
electromagnetic radiation these are still lab tests
sorts of things but it could be coming to you to a theater near you
the military of course is interested in these are two things
the navy's interested in ultraviolet cloaking
we have a variety of systems and chaff where you can
disperse material to prevent radar from
on to Broome your your visibility here to rate or
I'm and they're looking at being able to do that in other specter
or instead I've deflecting radiation
maybe he just want to absorb that radiation if best answer
doesn't detect the reflection then it doesn't detect you
so there are eight arms Irving materials and potentially
other types have absorbing materials we're finally
arm another opportunity would be to jam that sensor
send bank more energy than it's expecting to receive
its we live in just a cool world you can search on the internet
for green laser pointer webcam and yet just dozens of cool pictures like this
non-destructive at least you miss you doing a liner close range
or the really high power laser on but its you know it's it certainly effective
at blocking the image
or you could try and destroy it with much more intense radiation
again nothing that you can find searching the internet high-energy
RF guns these however you want to care
ok you can kill yourself happen
these these are dangerous if you point these it targets you really want to make
sure that you own the target your point
because you can you can do some serious damage to
people who work with mint lower te quise
disabling might be something as simple as when black people over lands
war for disabling audio sensors potentially a microphone plug
that greg has is this cool picture the
the microphone plug com it
isn't something that he found but he hasn't actually found a real source for
anybody knows weakened by members cool low-profile climbs
please litmus now I'd like to buy couple thousand of them
and I mean I can go to Mauser digikey and and
and get clothes but they're not they're not that cool low-profile time
so you refuse if you see one that is now
arm soon
so what we would get so far is largely energy-based
with the you know the energy being omitted heavy block it disperses and so
forth
with the sectional look as little bit higher level I had more than information
model
and how denied to feed her degree that in the process associated processing
one come strategy is that it's proving that you're generating something to me
that
books to be one thing that is actually something else and
there exist you interesting that you can go back and look forward to operation
bodyguard they had
mock-ups a very is viewed vehicles used for Battlefield the section
and then today you see circuit on the 2010
Russian inflatable weapons but the idea is
similarly camouflage circle World War two
doesn't camouflage used to in some cases
Hyderabad are camouflaged being used to hide a blend into the background
but also to defeat being able to be locked on her divert the I so when they
gonna refuting a
had a target they would be would divert them away from the sensitive areas
doubt and then there's example dazzle camouflage circa 1917
in interestingly dazzle camouflage circa 2012
I and its makeup and makeup
you know techniques for defeating several things one is
daschle detection so it a
the the computer algorithm can't necessarily detected faces there
effectively making you invisible to the algorithm war
defeating it defeating the
malcolm's ability to form facial recognition and there's a great talk on
on the right on the right hand side the dazzle camouflage
official recognition facts and fiction and
other from DEFCON 18:
also the idea a degree in Information quality in
inserting spurious activity if Europe and the Prisoner your college the it's
your funeral
episode where people would deliberately
in certain ways you know tryin ads
fool people into thinking they were going to take some action which they
never did
eventually lowering the threshold to the point they the
powers-that-be the serbia was not their harm us
and than they could strike
and also to overcoming the processing altogether absurdly powerful
if you're looking at human base processing
and just I'm not advocating this but one example Arab New York Times just earlier
this year
was the idea if you want to crash the justice system just go to trial
beyond the be high-level information degradation type activities it's very
useful think it just
collection intentions towards and wipes p.m.
of course there's encryption for data at rest were delayed
in transit but there's other activities or other
means to lower the a century billy club data
for example you may have seen privacy glass is that type of thing did
only you can see what's on screen and
to let me just say it's a great time to be alive when they learned Austral
shredders that you can put a Volkswagen bug
into in trader should all be an important part of our lives
maybe not that big but
there's also the idea because uRS and the idea
basically we need a plan to destroy our data sometimes that's built into
companies because the word about discovery
update on being able to get you get pulled out into a court of law which
maybe and senator a bit in general the idea we need a plan for a stronger data
personally
and in the people we deal with
in avoiding generating data in the first place I'm
sometimes we have a choice sometimes we don't
we need to use a common sense to make sure that when we have a choice we're
not doing
disclosing something that we should and I was up for less rather than more
however are becoming a Leo Leone low tides
and attempting to live in the 21st century I can be very difficult
thing I I'd like to live in the 21st century don't want to live in a cabin in
montana
but you I think there are times in our lives we have a choice
or companies have a try sometimes their governments have a choice
sensors themselves apart up sensor systems you often
with command control
there are opportunities good and bad for sensors to be controlled
this is an example love the ability to turn off cameras
I was packed boat remote cameras by sending certain signal to the camera
personally I find that concerning the by certain entities could turn off my
camera against my will
but nonetheless there are perhaps mechanisms for controlling the sensors
but in there also I mean using the online example we
have the police control use and privacy settings how much
information we share to the public and tubers group
however and oftentimes that
you've seen that it wasn't your Facebook there's a constant sirs articles how
their
privacy settings which shall we say artwork all that intuitive
and we're set with the faults that were all there be protected from privacy
I'm but beyond that be weird delusion up control
so you can set your privacy settings all day for who you share information with
under social networking site
but you should not forget that Homer data
every conceivably spinner actually likely resides forever
on the servers up the company that you're dealing with so but beware the
illusion of control
people see bob also
denial of service and I i think now service particularly interesting when
you look at the human
in the communications channel aspects
period since systems and I thought this was a great example
are good but whites if I could see you I would say
with the show him who's received robo calls that they haven't that into their
lives that they haven't
okay I can see him I could see a test I'm
so one enterprising company decided to build a reverse robo call our
so let's say a given government leader
decided to call you invite you to vote for him or her in their campaign
this company would allow you to dial that person back repeatedly
expressing your personal interest it not being on there
on their list anymore are it no
I went back later in the company's is now not offering the service
I'm not sure exactly what happened but I thought it was a great track
and then be on the nightly so good get into this larger context minute
but was so we've talked about the the censor themselves energy flowing
than information but we also need to understand actors because really they're
the people building
sharing allowing these things to take place
so with that altruism
so the monoline I talked about a little bit ago
is is a technologically focused mono and
and that's important because thats that's who we is technologist my own
to to tinker and we have the expertise to to exploit
but even more important is
the ability d to understand how that model
fits into the real world because technological solutions
aren't always the the most permanent if you can get a system removed entirely
then then that's better than having defeated
honor an angel sent to prison term basis so let's look at the world that these
that the sensor systems resign in for star
the sensors have targets and often that's that's us
and and as users and as citizens we should be concerned
and understand what these with the systems are and then think about
how we how we want to interact with them we're
or perhaps not interact with them at all I'm all these systems
or in place for a purpose who uses the data
who has legal and says who is illegal access
what are they using the data for and
can we strike a compromise with them that they can get
some or most to the benefit in that system
with down unduly affecting our privacy
all the systems have enablers and by that we mean
corporations companies individuals that
the design-build more kid these systems
they have a financial incentive in these systems
but can they also be persuaded to build in security building in privacy
so that their system is still profitable them
but nyse: owners to us
and then all of the systems that are in place are in place by
some organizations some collection of people BNA
a company were a government or
no whether to local municipality or a national government
and the whose owners have a vested interest in getting some benefit from
the system's
but again perhaps there could be a compromise struck
that they still retain some poster all the benefit
without being detrimental to our way of life
on and then finally already in the system regulated
should they be regulated can they be regulated who might best
regulate them so that we can
continue the way of life that we enjoy without
arm without suffering the harm thats
the second-order effects from so many systems so
or though we as technologist
always tend to turn first words a a technological solution
its is often most effective to
to look at this broader context so influencing
the policy in policymakers can be a very powerful way
counteracting systems on and in
in many countries in the world including this one we can do that through the
ballot box
and I encourage all a beauty to use your right to vote
in a way then I'm that
you know did exercise your right to vote
we also as as technologist have a unique ability to educate
educator friends educator neighbors in our communities
about the system's but then also educate the decision-makers
and if if we want to influence policy and we wanna have laws
that protect privacy the policy makers need to understand the issues
perhaps on the best ways to educate is through the mass media
and so Stephen cans given in excellent are on how to talk to the mainstream
media
to the or voices become heard
more broadly I'm and and we can learn from history
visited other my students sometimes think that the the only important
inventions incurred in the last five years
that's not always the case look to history and learn from it
mass media can be influenced on
this research a really cool billboard that we found you can educate people
in in some way unobtrusive ways and again
if if it's just one or two people speaking out
nobody hears you but if you really support in get
thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands on your side
you can make main impact we all remember what happened in January when
when Wikipedia and major online companies
work on the Internet yeah I'm and add that when your parents
our grandparents are asking about what's open is we've succeeded
yes I'm and even on a local scale
the state of pennsylvania ran and for tax amnesty that had
these were really implications and it was used way over the top
on when and say things like
was in time we can make this easy in a satellite video
on his zooming in on a picture about house
and presumably in pennsylvania my he to be the person actually own that house
when I feel paranoid om so
so this was an and that was that was just kind of egregious
and the local community protested recently we went back to the site we saw
that video
and and it wasn't there cell
sometimes sometimes you can effect change
they even took the head on
URL and some under enterprising up
enterprising entrepreneur repurposed it for his a his or her own benefit
I'm but it's important to communicate these issues effectively
when you speak to you be felon technologist
you might speak differently than you do to the mass media or than you do to
decision-makers
into you have to communicate these issues effectively
on Daniel solove had very powerful example talking about privacy and
and just how sticky a concept that is
when those things that we we know when we see it but how do we actually define
talk about it art can be a powerful we communicate
and and again sometimes sometimes that works
science fiction is well-known were communicating in raising issues and
I've technological problems long before they
they actually are instantiated you
can often be affected if you highlight cost-benefit analyses
on the TSA has drawn much attention for
for ways that its surveilled us on
and in sometimes in very harmful way is and as you draw attention
to you health risks were costs
the effectiveness the user's and the owners are these systems
are continually doing a cost-benefit analysis if the cost is too high
compared to the benefit
they can be persuaded to change change the reference
so I'm when
when TSA breaks someone's ten thousand dollar insulin pump
that's a serious problem yes there's a legitimate security interests
fun not when its comes at the cost is I'm actually harming the citizens
so you can you can effect change
transparency we believe is always a good thing disclosure
love where the sensors are and what they're doing is is important
sometimes it can be embarrassing not everybody who uses sensor systems
uses them for beneficial purposes but transparency does help keep people
honest
and as researchers we advocate conducting in sharing
admissible research admissible meaning invisible in the legal context if
if research is done well he can be introduced in some manners
this court case is that going to lead to earlier
we can influence laws in policy makers to the court system
if if we do our research well
and you can on take these issues to congress maybe not you personally
but people organizations can be called to testify in front of Congress
and other we give congress sometimes a hard time for
for some laws are the things they do or don't do here's an example
love are a congressional panel doing PSA oversight
and when Cubs when your congressional report it says the work hard two
committees
has documented a recurring pattern mismanagement ways to the TSA
and listen unending string and video clips photographs and news reports about
inappropriate clumsy and even all logical surges in screenings by TSA
agents
innocent but some pretty damning commentary about
in other branch of government so sometimes congress does get
and we do have multiple branches of government
you can work through the legislative arena possibly through the judicial
arena
we've I think probably all heard about the the reason brown case on
GPS on and even the white house has taken notice with their
prime see below blind right it's just been
been drawn up so
is anyone here a citizen I've seen em
obscene and the city but I can see but I
if there are but bid in number they were advocating these more extreme measures
but for cock to big comprehensive inner now something certainly people used over
the server
centuries the idea of non-violent civil disobedience
some people started their own countries I certainly hacktivism people start on
political parties
and in there's been and other ways populism form folks that they weren't
they were displeased
so there are other merch three measures of course we're not advocating them
for for less extreme Andrews you can do things like support your primes the
champion's choice
on things like the the Electronic Frontier Foundation which has many
speakers here
at this conference were you can join a professional societies such as the the
IEEE the ACM
that also help communicate to the media and advocate to you
to our legislature bodies on
but as always common sense should prevail
along little bit of common sense can go a long way towards
counteracting some unease measures but also
arm common sense just in your in your daily lives and
and common sense in how you go about employing some these countermeasures
Greg
so some parting thoughts to to wrap this up
this is a I was looking for picture an expert urban and mood
I'm bud I'm best I could find was a good picture above
a finance but the idea is when you're dealing with governments you have to
expect lumbering bureaucracy
and and find ways either to hack the system by finding the appropriate people
that will
help you or understand the process easy you can use the most effective way
but don't be surprised if you run into bureaucracy you're trying to import
sperms
and also is as much as we like to be smart dogs
myself included about to use and countermeasures
beware counter countermeasures and and this is a picture of someone who was
be videotaping police as they shot up a car in Miami
I'm and I don't know the details are you know how that panned out I do know that
there's a video on youtube
above the individual at gunpoint where the police officers expressing
displeasure
about being videotaped I'm it's very compelling
and when he will release the slides if you get a chance to see this
a highly recommended and don't be put off by naysayers
I'm not those you America academia works
you submit a paper to a conference you get reviews back from various people
and they give you great in a few the great time of you getting
arm so reason I were writing a paper on gonna subject very close to this
where I may have mentioned something about I'm
had total Information Awareness being a bad thing
and and I I i think i touched a nerve one of the reviewers
and the be sleep before making baseless assessments implications
and was one of the quotes and it sounds more like a political manifesto so I may
have gone a little too far
but nonetheless we were put off by this right we okay we took the feedback
I touched a nerve and got into an even better conference
about a month later so you just can't be put off by naysayers
you found us with privacy and security be
yes ultimate writer thank you
ok okay
were one up so we should be good serb
but edge as you trying to do the things you find that you can
take you can teach people about privacy is important for privacy
terrible me a given rate and the others less so far you can take people down the
rabbit hole
first wash so just beware don't be put off by
naysayers his
I'm not the one seen thus far it's what Slashdot a while back
but it's a beautiful thing it was a fire talking about communities against
terrorism
potential indicators are terrorist activities related to internet cafes
and the suspicious activities which I precluded
proposes be great countermeasures and things we should be doing just to
protect our own privacy
on included overly concerned about privacy
always paying in cash using anonymizer to shield IP address
using encryption and finally downloading information
about electronics bud
so actually I was gonna hand out these flyers today but I thought I'd be going
perhaps a little too far and ideas we need to inform
folks there well often well-intentioned overworked
and in a and I'm to be fair I pulled out these because they're
but there are others in their their arguably our a good thing
but we need to inform folks so that it will get better
better results from leaders also
seek actionable changes don't you know trying to her cancer overnight
i think im we know what can be done what can you go to a decision maker with the
actually can have the power to do
it may be still compasses the in-state with maybe less
issues regarding privacy in a few on the left have you seen the
initial obscure a TSA scanners 0 the Riviere invasive showing sensual any
good people
causing an uproar and incremental
positive change perhaps is the idea if you have this more cartoonish person
that doesn't
that still compasses the objective without naked pictures
under shopping store dinner government database summer
and as you employ countermeasures beware the risk
love uniqueness make yourself more unique because you're employing the
countermeasure
in some way am the affected a really project coping of the clicking what you
did is you visit with the browser
and based on information browser past the server through mobile interactions
they were able to uniquely identified millions and millions are browsers
in there's a really wonderful talk on Def Con at Def Con that came out after
this
but just idea here's be where is your employees countermeasures that you're
making yourself more unique and more
perhaps a target so in conclusion
I really believe is a look and see
everywhere once you're tuned into this everywhere you look you'll see more and
more sensors in our lives will see more and more
information flows aggregating this data
more and more use in a minimum
we'd should beware us and sensitive to this
and we should Canon we should protect ourselves but in particular the
community this community like
we have here in the audience today you got special powers
special skills that are that are and special insights
that allow you to you to understand what's going on
and help inform and shape the debates on going now through technology and policy
and we can deflect the trajectory of the servile
future because gonna have to live with otherwise
so for more information we'll have this on slide that we share for the whole
body psych
we do this and I'm and some colleagues have done some work in the space
including some on automated law enforcement because if you think about
the surveillance future
a natural extension that is who will help to enforce the laws better that way
so everyone we driving 55 on the
on the beltway around DC
so with that are there any questions
on my
him yes I won't let me let me ask that there is a microphone here
that's the preferred method I'm otherwise that we have to remember Peter
questions
Cup programs
and Christian up so often
opener the other the other bus line
do can yes go ahead please
do any thoughts on the proliferation by magic cameras such as the makers of
connect
I'm primeSense I'm
mean know comes at two sons was getting better right
and we're inviting them into our homes and we're collecting data with them
and then it comes down to the controls up to date as the d-league team
is a being shared in is it even if it's not being shared freely with the company
that did not aware of
is it being is doesn't reside such that a corner other
you could come in handy in access to it words that system secure so
me I think in general it in us you know that's just one of many sensors were
invited into our lives
and those are the questions you ask where's the deal is being shared
immediately
is the system secure in could be does reside
in my system such that saw a third party together perhaps a remark or
so to the network nature this most insane yeah I mean if its network
arian its even more of an issue right
thank you sure yes
I don't know I have a question on I'm from Philadelphia and in Philly we have
a a
a volunteer I have a camera program where
your private webcam has plenty on the street let the police know on any
basically register you have you looked into
legalities behind NAT or at the senior examples event in the city's
so what you're saying is you got in philadelphia you have people that
identify cameras and then make sure that there's like surveillance cameras
watching the the public spaces
and those are the concerns from central registry year like if you have a webcam
and you just went even on your problem has to be playing outside didn't tell
the you'll
precinct hey i've a web camera is at this address and then they
no debt so there's a crime then they can basically go to you
%uh and as a private citizen you can hand it over ABC and the examples that
was Billy just unique and everything else
here I haven't heard that
and I mean what I mean into this is brother the the discussion we have to
think about your private citizens with censorship governments were sensors
having a central registry of their on one hand is good I mean
I think generally transparencies good but some
also makes me nervous for where can't really figure
thanks very much sure thank you
in yeah
yesterday do during Stephen ROM bombs presentation
we were shown customs lines have people with ski masks on
we could see their eyes and maybe their skin right below their eyes
and according to mister fromm bomb on
secure lemme facialed our recognition
only needs about five percent of someone's face yet
in your slides you had something different we're maybe the dead the face
was being disguised
so could you talk about are what actually can disguise visual rock
avoid facial recognition and 129 your
I mean it depends don't have them keep believe the software in the San surgery
can they get enough for the sample that unique enough to to perform
identification that they wish
the the was drawn from for that's why I was based on the dot com park but I
referenced
arm so I mean in in that aren't they you're talking about and demonstrated
that in certain common algorithms
that that official %uh that make up those hair designs
would prevent facial detection the first place for prostrate
official recognition however absolutely i mean
that wasn't Stevens talks in the wonderful
are I could if your eyes are there
you know usually rest were just pens down what technology up against re
what time the database doesn't have behind so okay so we're really down to
two minutes
I i think we'll go ahead and and wrap up at this time
and what these my will be on hallway will be around so we will talk about
this and thank you for your time
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