Brainstorming coffee for a documentary on computer security
Date: 2016/06/27
Present: Romain Wartel , Sebastian Lopienski , Stefan Lueders ,
Melissa Gaillard , Maria Dimou
Jacques Herve Fichet , Maria-Varvara Georgiou ,
Nathalie Rauschmayr , Vincent Brillault
Apologies: Hannah Short
Decision:
Our experts will embed a max. 5' sequence in a future documentary on security to be shown
in euronews, arte, french, swiss, german and other countries' TV channels. Jacques has already
embedded a CERN contribution for such a documentary on Big Data and more are expected on the Big Bang Theory,
data preservation,...
The actual script is yet to be defined but we agree this is not going to be training.
This is far from the original proposal (reminded at the end) but it makes the effort more manageable
and, most importantly, ensures a very large audience will be reached.
Actions:
We (IT) invite Jacques to the next talk in the spirit of what is useful for the 'grand public'.
Jacques tells us a.s.a.p. when popular TV channels put 'computer security' in the pipeline for a movie.
Here are some past presentations with recording for Jacques to have a look and get an idea.
The ones of Romain are not recorded, for security reasons but his material can be made 'disclosable' AND remain exciting.
Nevertheless, this is NOT the spirit in which we wish to talk in the movie. These are talks for the CERN audience.
Highlights from the discussion:
- Jacques: a 5' interview is easy - a 50' documentatry is hard to do.
In my professional time, I make movies to promote the image of CERN, not for the benefit of society at large.
- Stefan: there is no security risk for CERN that could be entailed by the things we'll reveal.
If my staff wishes to expland in a long documentary for the benefit of the average citizen, they'd have to do it in their spare time.
Resources are too tight for making such a movie.
- Melissa: the IT dept management would agree to short videos on computer security at CERN but not to pamphlets about hacking, malware, surveillance
- Sebastian: the more you want to make it interesting the more controversial and less CERN-related it will become.
- Maria: we have real experts and we are the birth place of the web. We owe this contribution to society, given that this
free, networked medium changed the face of the planet.
- Romain: our non-commercial nature as an organisation and our situation between the USA and China makes what we know very interesting for the world.
- All: a video with recipes for users it is boring. When you state opinions it becomes hard to represent cern
For the record, original proposal by Maria (not retained):
Having seen how 'Citizen Four' helped awareness-rising for a large, non-specialist public,
having seen the SF movie of Jacques Fichet and, most importantly,
having seen the impact the lectures by Romain, Stefan and Sebastian have on the CERN public,
with Melissa's agreement AND Frederic's approval,
I'd like to invite all of you to a brainstorming coffee to discuss:
The creation of a documentary to explain the risks of non-protecting personal data and passwds and
the areas of cyber-criminality and cyberwar and malware and more, to be laid out in detail.
The film will be shown on the web and the Globe and the CERN amphitheatres
and Uni Dufour and EPFL and youtube and, (why not) cinemas world-wide.
A.O.B.
Maria reminds that for short videos on raising awareness at cern
please define subjects according to
this template.