Events matching tag "security"
Friday, March 7
As U.S. citizens, we have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But do we have a right to data privacy? Or is privacy just an illusion? Privacy has become a touchy subject (see: NSA); consumers want to f…
Intermediate
Presenters
Barrie Vanbrackle, Greg Cohen
Saturday, March 8
Ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance have heightened awareness about the security vulnerabilities in our mobile devices. Most consumers don’t know how their favorite devices work and are inclined to fear the worst …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jaclyn Louis, Jonathan Godfrey, Sonny Sinha
We are a nation of smartphone addicts: 7 out of 10 adults keep their smartphone near most of the time. However, as we hold our phones close and protect them from harm, do they return the favor or are they up to no good b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Murray, Erich Stuntebeck, Fahmida Rashid, Grayson Milbourne
Third-party JavaScript widgets (think Facebook Connect or Twitter Widgets) add functionality and enhance user experience, at very little cost to you. Unfortunately, much of the existing third-party JavaScript currently …
Intermediate
Presenters
Kent Brewster
One of the cool things about SXSW is that you can spend all week in Austin without spending a dime. Everywhere you look, someone or something is handing out free breakfast tacos, beer, t-shirts, even piggyback rides. Jus…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Tishgart
Sunday, March 9
“No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.” - former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Admiral James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School How are government…
Advanced
Presenters
Farah Pandith, James Stavridis, Joshua Haynes, Spencer Ackerman
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP19539 Se…
Intermediate
Presenters
James Wickett, Karthik Gaekwad, Matt Johansen
We are currently moving out of a period of “Peak Privacy,” and into an era of “Peak Surveillance.” Encryption and other protective capabilities previously available only to governments, the super-rich, and hackers are no…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Delamarter
Did you know that in less than 60 minutes you can turn a $20 router into an attack platform that is capable of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of data? Did you know that this can be done with very little …
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Tyler
Monday, March 10
On April 23, 2012, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posted a tweet proclaiming that President Obama had been injured in a terrorist attack. The stock market took an immedi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Austin Powell, Cole Stryker, Parmy Olson, Tom Cochran
Gellman is one of three reporters entrusted by Edward Snowden last May with top secret NSA archives. In December, he was the first to interview Snowden face to face in Moscow. Nine months after breaking the PRISM story i…
Advanced
Presenters
Barton Gellman, Cory Doctorow
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Snowden/ PRISM revelations pulled back the curtain on the specific workings of a technology based surveillance culture that continues to expand globally every day with significant socie…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Harvey, Colin Nagy, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kyle McDonald
Tuesday, March 11
Our identity is increasingly defined by digital data, only a fraction of which is within our control. Welcome to the social age, where we're getting intimate about our habits, health, wealth and behaviors. Businesses are…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christopher Sundermeier, Jeffrey Liu, Phyllis Newhouse, Todd Davis
Whether you painstakingly work to keep your personal information offline, “lay it all out there” on the digital plain, or hold concerns for your children online, there are an array of options that can help you protect yo…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eve Maler, Joni Brennan, Karen Reilly, Robin Wilton
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