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On the Feasibility of a Technological Response to the Surveillance Morass

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Security Protocols XXII (Security Protocols 2014)

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We consider mass surveillance from a computer-science perspective. After presenting some objections to the behavior of the US National Security Agency and its counterparts in allied nations (emphasizing technical problems associated with such behavior, rather than political, legal, and social problems), we propose a grass-roots, technological response: decentralized cloud services, facilitated by open-source, decentralized configuration-management tools.

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    Call for Papers, Cambridge Security Protocols Workshop, 2014.

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    https://github.com/jeremie-koenig/ldapmin

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  1. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520-8285, USA

    Joan Feigenbaum & Jérémie Koenig

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  1. University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    Bruce Christianson

  2. University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    James Malcolm

  3. Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vashek Matyáš

  4. Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Švenda

  5. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Frank Stajano

  6. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Jonathan Anderson

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Feigenbaum, J., Koenig, J. (2014). On the Feasibility of a Technological Response to the Surveillance Morass. In: Christianson, B., Malcolm, J., Matyáš, V., Švenda, P., Stajano, F., Anderson, J. (eds) Security Protocols XXII. Security Protocols 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8809. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12400-1_23

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