Web sites continually raise several issues of concern that affect individual users' freedom. As part of their design, such web sites often make users run non free software (perhaps in Javascript) whilst others collect data about people or help both commercial and clandestine entities to do so. Some websites may help do the user's own computing and thus deny users control over it.
Next Thursday (June 26th) Dr Richard Stallman will speak about these problems and how to avoid them. This lecture takes place in LAB026 at Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, from 14:40 – 15:40.
This single event is open to both paying delegates at OWASP (see below) and free to the wider Cambridge Academic Community (undergraduate/postgraduate students, staff and alumni). For further details and to reserve a place, please contact Adrian.Winckles@anglia.ac.uk
Biography for Dr. Richard Stallman
Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
About OWASP
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Their mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks.
For more information about the OWASP Conference OWASP AppSec Europe 2014 please see: http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/events/owasp-appsec-europe-2014/
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