[Pycon] [new paper] "Justin Mayer" - Protecting Privacy and Security — For Yourself and Your Community

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Title: Protecting Privacy and Security — For Yourself and Your Community
Duration: 45 (includes Q&A)
Q&A Session: 15
Language: en
Type: Talk

Abstract: Internet service providers, advertising networks, governments… Many organizations have increasing access to our personal information. Protecting privacy in this environment is a non-trivial effort, and the threats posed by malicious attackers further exacerbates this problem. We, as developers, owe it to ourselves and to our communities to do the best we can to improve our collective security and privacy.

Attendees of this talk will walk away with a thorough understanding of the following topics and the problems they solve:

* multi-factor authentication
* virtual private networks (VPN)
* full disk encryption
* compartment isolation
* re-decentralization

“Re-decentralization” is among the most important. Digital interactions with other people increasingly occur via hosted services, which while convenient can compromise the privacy, integrity, and control of our data. With some open-source software and inexpensive virtual servers, we can take back control and empower all of us to securely share our lives with one another.

Tags: [u'community', u'privacy', u'security', u'servers']