Tonight - BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - CryptoParty - Weds, Feb 4, 2015

[Will Rico]

*Sorry for the last minute notice.  Some extenuating family (health) issues
have slowed me down as of late.  If you plan to attend tonight, please
email me at willrico at gmail.com so I can give a proper headcount to Akamai
and they can order enough food.

When: Wednesday, February 4, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
      http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
      Also easily accessibly by T.

Cost: Free

Notes

  1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
     standard MIT meeting location.

  2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
     and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
     Thank you to our sponsor!
     http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Albert Willis along with Steve Revilak, Quartermaster for the Massachusetts
Pirate Party <https://masspirates.org>, will show us how to protect
ourselves online.  Topics will include:

   * How Packet Sniffing Works and Why You're Vunerable

   * Securing Email (PGP)

   * Securing Web Browsing

   * Q & A for other topics of interest (e.g. chat, VOIP, etc.)

 Plus, Jérémie Astori will present cryptic
<https://github.com/astorije/cryptic> [github.com], a script to very easily
split root and home partitions when installing Ubuntu on a fully encrypted
disk.

More events and announcements:

  Natick FOSS
  Thurs, Feb 5 at Natick Community-Senior Center at 117 East Central Street
  http://natickfoss.org/

  Mesh Nets with William Fleurant
  Weds, Mar 4 at Akamai
  http://meetu.ps/2G5Rkm

   Linux Soup 15 with Christoph Doerbeck
  Weds, Mar 18 at MIT
  http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar

  LibrePlanet 2015
  Sat & Sun, Mar 21 - 22 at MIT
  https://libreplanet.org/2015/