Happy New Year! We hope you had a fantastic holiday season and are ready to dive into a year of exciting infosec learning. Our first Roanoke Infosec Exchange (RISE) meeting of 2025 is scheduled for February 13th, and we’re kicking things off with a very serious presentation.

Schrodinger will be giving a talk titled “Tor: Spooky Internet for Everyday Criminals”. He’s provided the following (completely non-satirical) abstract:

“Tor is the darkweb. The darkweb is full of hackers, traffickers, thieves – bad people. The darkweb is a bad place. You are not a bad person. So you don’t go to the darkweb. Bad people hide from the government on the darkweb. You have nothing to hide, since the government takes care of good people like you.  

In this talk, we will look into this bad place and learn why it is so bad. We will talk about the evil networking, cryptography, and software used by real criminals every single day. Last of all, I will instruct you on why you should never ever visit this terrible corner of the internet.

There will be no satire. This is all very serious.“

So, prepare yourselves for a very serious and informative evening as we delve into the dark (and apparently very serious) world of Tor. We look forward to seeing you there to start the year off right with some new infosec knowledge!

Meeting Details:

We will be meeting at Virginia Western Community College in the Hall Family Business/Science Building.   Take the stairs to the left and go to the third floor and go to the CyberSecurity lab in room M302.

Meeting info:
Virginia Western Community College
Business/Science Building, Room M302
February 13th, 2024 @ 6PM
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