http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_d4842976-4050-11e3-bcd9-0019bb30f31a.html

A group of N.C. State students protested the University’s August announcement that the National Security Agency is open a research lab on Centennial Campus.

NCSU Students for Democratic Society led a Cryptoparty Monday to teach attendees about protecting themselves from governmental surveillance and show their frustration with recent revelations about the NSA’s data collection methods. The event culminated in an artistic demonstration at the Bell Tower.

Cryptoparty, a grassroots, global initiative introduces basic Internet techniques to the general public, teaching them how to encrypt their personal technologies from being read by surveillance.

More than 30 people attended the workshop and learned how to encrypt their web browsers, cellphones and hard drives from privacy invasion.

Cryptoparty started in 2012 on a Twitter thread between Australian privacy advocate @Asher_Wolf and computer security experts, according to Ryan Thomson, a graduate student in sociology. Since then, the event has become a global phenomenon to protest governmental surveillance.

10/29/2013 2:28:42 PM

Lol, what a joke.

At the same time, kudos.

10/29/2013 3:14:41 PM

Here is another pic:



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10/29/2013 3:57:29 PM

You know what happens in the next frame?

Drones blast them off the planet.

10/29/2013 4:00:38 PM

^^ nice pic actually...

10/29/2013 4:10:47 PM

Here's the petition:

https://www.change.org/petitions/ncsu-chancellor-woodson-remove-the-nsa-s-proposed-expansion-to-the-lab-for-analytic-sciences

10/29/2013 4:24:28 PM

Quote :

"SDS"

It's like the '60s are back...

11/2/2013 11:00:07 PM

why are people dumb enough to think petitions matter?

hey, you don't like something and want to get rid of it? great, a petition on the internet does not do jackshit, it gives you the false impression you're actually doing something when you're really do nothing

11/2/2013 11:38:17 PM

They can work in local issues like 500 petition signatures being delivered to a town council. Online petitions a little less so, but usually the point of petitions is to collect contact information to follow up with people vaguely interested in a particular cause to get them more educated and involved on the issue over time.

11/3/2013 1:02:19 AM

Online petitions basically are to generate mailing lists for sure. You will be spammed if you sign in most cases.

11/3/2013 8:39:17 AM

^, ^^ So in other words, you guys agree that this online petition asking the Chancellor to kick the NSA off campus will in fact do nothing toward kicking the NSA off campus?

I've got an idea if people want to engage in masturbatory meaningless bullshit, let's start a petition telling Doeren to replace Mitchell at quarterback. Hey, that would accomplish just as much as a petition to kick the NSA off campus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_h_HBzZnc

[Edited on November 3, 2013 at 10:12 AM. Reason : ,]

11/3/2013 10:10:38 AM