Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 5, 2017, 4:10 p.m.
(60 minutes).
The return of data retention laws in places like Australia (2 year retention period), along with ‘purpose creep’ of the data that is retained, means that journalists and their whistleblower sources are more at risk than ever before. In this talk, we will provide practical steps for whistleblowers to defend themselves against investigative witch hunts likely to come after the ugly truths are revealed, including sharing lessons learned from practical cases - both technical and mindset.
#Politics #Society
Key elements of this talk are: Known cases: How the Australian Federal Police generated hundreds of pages of investigatory material around just one Guardian journalist in order to identify his source. We will walk through the details of this case, including discussing the kinds of data the authority searched for and found. Common search data sets – what data we know can be generated and probably accessed easily, including without a warrant in many cases and countries. Five fairly easy tech things you can do to make it harder to track your role in whistleblowing a story. Finally, we provide ways of evaluating whether anonymity versus 'hiding in plain sight' is the best strategy for most whistleblowers.
Presenters:
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Suelette
Dr Suelette Dreyfus - Lecturer in the School of Computing and Info Systems at Univ of Melbourne; Founder, Blueprint for Free Speech NGO; Civil Society Engineer.
Researcher. Writer. Often there At The Start.
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Robin Doherty
Robin is a software developer who believes the software industry is culpable in the demise of privacy. He attempts to demystify and promote privacy tech by facilitating workshops, making noise on the internet, and organising a collective of software makers called Hack for Privacy.
Robin is a software developer and co-founder of Hack for Privacy. After
observing the disregard for users’ security prevalent throughout the
software industry, and the lack of respect for privacy across society as a
whole, his despair was turned to action by Snowden’s revelations of 2013.
He believes that the software industry is culpable in the demise of
privacy, most people are in denial about their own role in mass
surveillance, and now is the time to fix our attitudes. He attempts to
demystify and promote privacy in Australia by facilitating workshops,
making noise on the internet, and organising Hack for Privacy.
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