Hi,
I've been invited to give a lecture about Tor to a Computer Networks class at The Australian National University (ANU). It's a class I took more than a decade ago, and I've kept in touch with the lecturer.
This is the first time I've given a lecture on Tor. I've been asked to speak about Tor in general, browser fingerprinting, and single onion services.
I was thinking of using some of the images from: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#thesolution https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#thesolution https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
I'm scheduled for next Thursday Australian time (which is Wednesday UTC / US time).
Does anyone have any tips for giving a talk on Tor, or any other diagrams that would be useful for slides?
Tim
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:47:26AM +1100, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
Hi,
I've been invited to give a lecture about Tor to a Computer Networks class at The Australian National University (ANU). It's a class I took more than a decade ago, and I've kept in touch with the lecturer.
This is the first time I've given a lecture on Tor. I've been asked to speak about Tor in general, browser fingerprinting, and single onion services.
I was thinking of using some of the images from: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#thesolution https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#thesolution https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
I'm scheduled for next Thursday Australian time (which is Wednesday UTC / US time).
Does anyone have any tips for giving a talk on Tor, or any other diagrams that would be useful for slides?
Hey Tim,
This sounds great! When I give presentations I usually use those images and the EFF's Internet/HTTPS/Tor page[0]. If you are specifically talking about browser fingerprinting, you might want to demonstrate panopticlick[1] (although I've previouslly seen some weird results from this). Single Onion Services are obviously new territory, so this may be a good opportunity for creating some nice images that others can reuse.
Speaking of others, you may want to mention this on the Tor Teachers list[2]. It's still a bit new, but it's a good place for discussing this. There are some other resources on the wiki[3], too.
I think that's all I have right now.
- Matt
[0] https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ [2] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-teachers [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/tor-teachers
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've been invited to give a lecture about Tor to a Computer Networks class at The Australian National University (ANU). It's a class I took more than a decade ago, and I've kept in touch with the lecturer.
This is the first time I've given a lecture on Tor. I've been asked to speak about Tor in general, browser fingerprinting, and single onion services.
I was thinking of using some of the images from: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#thesolution https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
I'm scheduled for next Thursday Australian time (which is Wednesday UTC / US time).
Does anyone have any tips for giving a talk on Tor, or any other diagrams that would be useful for slides?
You inquire politely about the wind. Nonetheless, the whirlwild is waiting patiently to be reaped. Take your time, though: did I mention that the whirlwind waits patiently?
Back last year (2015 for posterity) I did my regular lecture for a bunch of happyfun MIT students who are smarter than me (since people get smarter all the time) but who have not yet endured the Trials of Tor.
The lecturers in that class forwarded me a list of questions that the students had sent them about the lecture in advance. Sadly, the lecturers didn't anonymize the students (!) when sending me their questions (!?!?!). Nonetheless, I think this corpus is a good input for "what do clever US CS undergrads misunderstand about Tor in 2015" which might also be a good input for "what assumptions will clever AU CS undergrads carry falsely into Tim's lecture?"
So, I'll send it to you under separate cover. I invite you to produce a synopsis in a way that respects the undergrads' privacy in a way their professors did not.
isn't devotion to privacy a counterintuitive thing?
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:46:35AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
So, I'll send it to you under separate cover. I invite you to produce a synopsis in a way that respects the undergrads' privacy in a way their professors did not.
Once this is done, I for one would like to see the synopsis. It might also be good to share with the tor-teachers list.
isn't devotion to privacy a counterintuitive thing?
Why would you not think us opposed to any other view?
(Just wanted to add to the mix of negations and interrogatives, My intuition is now adequately confused, yet my devotion to privacy is preserved by the operation.)
aloha, Paul
On 17 March 2016 at 17:47, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any tips for giving a talk on Tor, or any other diagrams that would be useful for slides?
I'll point to https://ritter.vg/blog-all_about_tor.html which might be helpful. Jake mentioned he was going to try to convert it to LaTeX for a presentation he was going to give, but I'm not sure where those ended up, if it happened.
-tom
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