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.



Thank You Akamai



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



More Upcoming Meetings



Internet of Things Festival

Thurs, Jan 15 6:30pm - 9pm at MIT

http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-iotfest3



Dick Miller on Fotoxx

Weds, Jan 21 at MIT

http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-jan



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/