Announcing CryptoNight! Friday Nov 21st: Student 'Tech Talks' and Key Signing Social ACM is teaming up with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the CSU Sacramento Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) to throw our very first CryptoNight! No experience is necessary to enjoy the event. It's free. All are welcome!



Digital privacy has been a largely controversial topic since, well, the inception of today's internet. Some users have begun to take steps to secure their own digital privacy and computer security but many lack either the technical background or even the right reasons for taking their privacy into their own hands.



We want to talk about it!



A modest variety of relevant topics will be covered for this first CryptoNight. These presentations (and maybe some demonstrations!) will be performed by security-minded students and by a popular professor who all have either outspoken enthusiasm and/or experience within the cyber security industry.



The environment will be casual and laptop friendly. In fact if you have a laptop: BRING IT! AND BRING AN ID OF SOME KIND! After the talks we will be hosting a mail encryption social. We will learn how to securely send our email over the internet and how to verify who's on the other end.



You don't have to stay the whole time but you should.



The list of speakers and even topics is subject to change because who's schedule isn't hectic right now?! Professor Devin Cook would like to talk to you and show you all about bot nets. [Website]



Will Kinderman would like to explain the basics of best practices online, anti-virus options, and password choice & management. [Google+]



Michael Garrett is excited to delve into the world of Java security with the uninitiated, the new programmers, and the experienced hackers in the audience. [LinkedIn]



Shawn Maxim will teach you how to browse the internet securely and anonymously (and maybe even how to browse the other internet). [LinkedIn]



Darryl Nixon will kick off the PGP key signing social with some background and a hopefully killer tutorial about how to be all kinds of secretive with your e-mail. [LinkedIn]

Riverside Attic!



Riverside Hall, Room 5029

November 21st, 2014

5:00PM - 9:00+PM



If you can, bring a laptop and some form of identification. You'll see why.

Frequently Asked Questions!



I don't have a laptop! Can I still come?

Yes, please do. We are looking into getting some virtual machines running on the machines in the room but that is still up in the air. Worst case, you are of course welcome to stay to observe and hang out during the key signing social.



I don't know anything about security. Will this suck?

No. Come.



Will there be food?

Yes. Come.



I know a lot more about x than your speaker does. Will everyone think I'm super cool if I try to take over the talk by being argumentative?

Casual environment! Discussion encouraged. Our speakers will forever be a mix of both peers and predecessors with varying public speaking experience but please don't be that guy or girl. If you have an answer to a question that the speaker is having trouble answering please chime in politely! We want everyone to have a good time and that includes you and everyone around you but please follow the speaker's lead.



I am interested in speaking. Can I do a security talk? I have this really great idea for a demo where I'm going to use an empty peanut butter jar and, not one, but TW-

I'm sure that would be very interesting! We have enough speakers for this first event but we will definitely be interested in having you for the next one (or at a future general tech talk event!). Hit us up!



I have more questions. What do I do?

Step 1: Write them down.

Step 2: E-mail them to Darryl at darryl@darrylnixon.com.

Step 3: Try not to fall in love.

Step 4: Fall in love. See you there!



With all of my heart,

Darryl Nixon

Operations Officer, Association for Computing Machinery