Anti-Censorship and Anti-Surveillance Tools - Improving the Landscape

Presented at HOPE Number Nine (2012), July 15, 2012, 5 p.m. (60 minutes).

Every day, world news informs us of more and greater threats to free communication. Nations increasingly restrict network traffic at their borders. Surveillance is omnipresent in almost every country and also via companies who defend ubiquitous spying as “best practices.” This mass privacy intrusion has spurred development of a number of open source tools even as that development has revealed a need to address common obstacles faced by circumvention tools projects. This talk describes some of those common obstacles and current work to fix them on a community-wide basis.


Presenters:

  • James Vasile
    James Vasile is the director of the Open Internet Tools Project, which supports and incubates a collection of free and open source projects that enable anonymous, secure, reliable, and unrestricted communication on the Internet. Its goal is to enable people to talk directly to each other without being censored, surveilled or restricted. He is also a senior fellow at the Software Freedom Law Center and a partner at Open Tech Strategies.

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