From bill.stewart@pobox.com Fri Jul 6 02:35:38 2018 From: Bill Stewart To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Stanford 10/7/2010 -- Lessons from the Haystack Affair Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:35:38 +0000 Message-ID: <172289266065.3881296.13612047542491955736.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8863538230720133294==" --===============8863538230720133294== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Potentially interesting lecture if you're in the Bay Area > From: allison(a)stanford.edu > Reply-To: allison(a)stanford.edu > Subject: Liberation Technology 10/7/2010 -- Lessons from the Haystack Affair > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:40:55 -0700 (PDT) > > STANFORD FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES > > The Stanford Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series is starting > up again. The first of the series will be held on Sept 23, 4:30pm > at Wallenberg Hall. As an EE380 attendee you may find this series of > lectures at the cust of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and > Social Science his stimulating and informative series. > > Lessons from the Haystack Affair > > October 7, 2010 > 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM > Wallenberg Theater > Wallenberg Hall > 450 Serra Mall, Building 160 > > > Abstract > > Haystack, a circumvention tool, emerged in the wake of > the repression after the Iranian election of June 2009. > After achieving considerable public prominence, its use and > distribution was recently halted. Important questions have > been raised about Haystack's effectiveness and security, > as well as the roots of its reputation. > > Evgeny Morozov, who emerged as a leading critic of Haystack, > and Daniel Colascione, who wrote the Haystack code, will > discuss the Haystack experience and the lessons it carries for > circumvention technologies and, more broadly, for the evaluation > and political deployment of new information technologies. > > Daniel Colascione co-founded the Censorship Research Center > in June 2009 in the aftermath of the Iranian election and has > had a lifelong interest in internet freedom and technological > measures to mitigate censorship. He created the Haystack > anti-censorship system and holds a BSc in Computer Science > from the SUNY University at Buffalo. > > > Speaker > > Evgeny Morozov is a leading thinker and commentator on the > political impact of the Internet and a well known opponent > of internet utopianism. He is a contributing editor to > Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's Net Effect blog > about the Internet's impact on global politics. Evgeny is > currently a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of > Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Prior to his appointment > to Georgetown, he was a fellow at the Open Society Institute, > where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Before > moving to the US, Evgeny was based in Berlin and Prague, where > he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online, a media > development NGO active in 29 countries of the former Soviet > bloc. He is writing a book about the Internet and democracy, > to be published this fall by Public Affairs. > > Open to the public > No RSVP required > > > For more information on the Program on Liberation Technology go to- > http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============8863538230720133294==--