Evading Big Brother In A Wilderness Of Telescreens

William A. Blunden, San Francisco State University

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Is anyone safe from a global surveillance apparatus that receives more annual funding than most countries spend on their entire military? There are answers to this question and they don't revolve around the latest mobile device. In high-risk environments, the key to evading Big Brother lies not in a technological quick fix but in the obscure domain of field-proven tradecraft: the classic methods of espionage. With homage to Cold War spymasters this talk draws lessons from history to formulate a set of strategies that can take away the advantage of heavily resourced signal intelligence.