The Way Things Work: How Computers Communicate
David von Vistauxx
Topic: Electronic Communications
Audience: All audiences
Description:
This seminar covers in a detailed and intensive manner the actual processes that electronic communications go through on their way from the sender's machine to the receiver's machine.
Which intermediate machines have access to the communication?
Which intermediate machines modify the communication?
Who keeps copies of the communication?
How can you tell from the message itself whether it is legitimate?
You will leave with a level of understanding that will allow you to ask the right questions and understand the answers whenever the legitimacy, timing, authentication, or disclosure of an electronic communication is questioned.
Prerequisites:
This seminar was developed for lawyers and executives who need to have an intensive but basic understanding of the actual modalities used in transmitting information electronically.
History:
1997 May
The District of Columbia Bar Association -
Computer and Telecommunications Law Section
Washington DC
Last change: Aug 31, 2006 04:16:16 PM
The Speaker: David von Vistauxx
Contact Organization: Vistauxx, Ltd.
Location: Jessup, Maryland
Phone: 301-317-9000 x 4007
Email: superman@xrayvision.com
Website: http://vistauxx.com
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: 4800 per day
Bio:
David von Vistauxx
David von Vistauxx is Chairman (Emeritus) of American Communications & Computation, Inc. and is a practitioner of the black arts of computing. He has been practicing in the area of computer systems infrastructure and security since the late ?60?s. He holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio Certificate. His clients include US Government Agencies as well as the governments of Jamaica and the Former Soviet Union. He has been an invited speaker at several international symposia including the American Society for Industrial Security, the Public Relations Society of America, the TransNational Crime and Corruption Conference, and the International Association of Private Security Consultants.
When not traveling internationally on business he uses his spare time to work on the Secure Linux Kernel and writing device drivers for both Unix and Linux. Still under 55 and always in blue jeans and a corporate tee shirt he is on the boards of directors of several organizations including the publically traded Internet Growth Fund (AMEX:FND).
Posted: Mar 21, 2007 07:31:12 AM; Last change: Mar 21, 2007 08:32:02 AM
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