Stanford 10/7/2010 -- Lessons from the Haystack Affair

[Bill Stewart]

Potentially interesting lecture if you're in the Bay Area

> From: allison at stanford.edu
> Reply-To: allison at 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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