Using Travel Routers to Hide in Safety

Presented at HOPE X (2014), July 18, 2014, 11 p.m. (60 minutes).

In light of the past year's NSA revelations and the long history of SIGINT, safe network use is a serious concern, especially for international travelers. Open source and commercial tools to hide one's identity when traveling will be described here, in the face of both blanket surveillance and targeted, intense monitoring. You will learn about tools which can be comfortably taken through restrictive border regimes and carried openly in war zones without attracting undue attention - as would suit a journalist or human rights worker. While these tools tend to be complex, the true challenge is the threat model: a single slip-up, undetected at the time, can doom the user and the user's contacts to discovery, interrogation, or worse.


Presenters:

  • Marc Rogers / cyberjunky as Marc Rogers aka cyberjunky
    Marc Rogers aka cyberjunky is an English hacker, director of SecOps for Defcon, and a past speaker/staff member for HOPE. These days, Marc works as principal security Rresearcher for Lookout.
  • Ryan Lackey
    Ryan Lackey works on security products at CloudFlare, an edge network performance and security company. Previously, he founded HavenCo, the world's first offshore datahaven, and has worked as a defense contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at various startups. He also founded CryptoSeal, a YC funded startup which was sold to CloudFlare in June 2014.

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