Portable Privacy: Digital Munitions for the Privacy War

Presented at DEF CON 15 (2007), Aug. 4, 2007, 7 p.m. (50 minutes).

This talk will discuss the increasing need for portable privacy protection, and the pragmatic tools to accomplish it. A law only gives you consent to exercise a right you must already be able to assert. With the open war on privacy rights, not creating tracks has become more important because of increasing data retention and the risks it exposes. Steve Topletz from Hacktivismo will present the risks, development framework, and solutions to retain your privacy. The talk will include tools for private communications, encrypted data storage, anonymous commerce, and portable secure computing environments. Steve will also be providing a development pre-release of xB Machine, a new portable secure computing environment. A limited number of free XeroBank anonymous internet accounts will also be provided to attendees.

Presenters:

• Steve Topletz - Hacktivismo Member; Administrator, XeroBank
  Steve Topletz is a member of Hacktivismo, an international group of hackers, human rights workers, lawyers and artists that evolved out of THE CULT OF THE DEAD COW. Mr. Topletz is the developer of Torpark, the most popular free anonymous web browser, with over 3 million international users, and he is also the administrator of XeroBank, a commercial anonymity network.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-15/dc-15-speakers.html#Topletz
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 15/DEF CON 15 video/DEF CON 15 - Steve Topletz - Portable Privacy - Video.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNbrdC5ZJw

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