Potentially interesting lecture if you're in the Bay Area

From: allison@stanford.edu Reply-To: allison@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/

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