Privacy and Security - Resources

Lecture Notes, Etc.

• Code samples (password protected)

Legal Issues

• The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
  • DMCA Section 1201: Circumvention of coypright protection systems at cyber.law.harvard.edu
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) links:
    • Unintended consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA
    • State-Level ``Super DMCA'' Initiatives Archive
  • Ed Felten's web pages:
    • Felten's home page
    • Freedom to Tinker weblog
  • ChillingEffects.org:
    • Copyright and the DMCA
  • Guilty until proven innocent - ``Fingered by the movie cops''
  • David Touretsky
    • DeCSS software
    • DeCSS Gallery
    • Adobe Gallery

Civil Liberties

• Airport Security Screening Tales
  • Nicholas Monahan arrested and fined for objecting to a physical search of his pregnant wife
  • Penn Jillette physically searched without his consent
  • Deirdre Walker retired Maryland police officer's account of her refusal to be searched by the TSA and the aftereffects

Privacy Links

• People
  • Philip E. Agre
  • Peter G. Neumann
  • Lauren Weinstein
  
  
• Organizations
  • People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) home page
    PFIR Fact Squad page
  • Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) home page
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) home page
  • Privacy Foundation (EPIC) home page
  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) privacy page - ``Defend Your Data''
  • New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
  • Public Interest Research Groups (links to many state-based groups)
  • Privacy.org
  • Privacy International
  
  
• Mailing Lists/Newsletters
  • Lauren Weinstein's Privacy Forum
  • Archives of Peter G. Neumann's RISKS Digest
  • Phil Agre's Red Rock Eater News Service
  • EPIC's EPIC Alert
  
  
• Threats
  • Workplace Monitoring
    • KeyGhost keystroke-logging hardware:
      
      1. Slashdot article, 2000/03/26
      2. Review, Dan's Data, 2000/03/24
      3. KeyGhost home page
    
    
  • Monitoring in Public Places
    • Scientology ``security'' cameras in Clearwater, Florida (from the Lisa McPherson Trust)
    
    
  • Identity Theft
    • At CALPIRG:
      • Privacy Rights and Identity Theft
      • What Can Consumers Do To Avoid Being Theft of Identity Victims?
  
  
• Links to Other Resources
  • Privacy Power!
  • CERIAS Hotlist: Computer Security, Law and Privacy
  • Privacy International - national id cards page
  • Privacy on the Internet (The New York Times)
  • Cyberspace Law (The Social Science Research Network)

Security Links

• Mailing lists
  • InfoWarrior.org mailing list
  • Securityfocus.com
    Gazillions: Bugtraq, SecTools, SecPapers, Security Basics, Incidents, Honeypots, etc.
  
  
• Security sites
  • InfoWarrior.org
  • SecurityFocus.com
  • PacketStormSecurity.org
  • Sans.org (the SANS Institute)
    • SANS InfoSec Reading Room
  • RootPrompt.org
  
  
• Organizations/companies
  • The Computer Security Institute
  • RSA Security
  • SGI Security Headquarters
  
  
• Incident response
  • Porcupine.org:
    • Computer forensic analysis
    • The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) (Forensic data collection and analysis tools for Unix)
  
  
• Physical security
  • Best Access Systems (locks, electronic access systems)
  • Hirsch Electronics (electronic access systems)
  • Iridian Technologies (iris scanners)
  • SecuriMetrics Inc. (biometric security devices)
  • Identix (biometrics devices)