Security Options for High Risk Travelers

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 22, 2016, 11 p.m. (60 minutes).

Aggressive surveillance and espionage has long been a fact of life for government agents traveling to hostile nations but, increasingly, economic espionage is waged against visitors who neither have the expectation that they're a target nor the resources to adequately defend themselves from plausible threats. This talk will present tools, techniques, and procedures which will allow non-nation-state international travelers to defend themselves from government, criminal, and commercial monitoring, with a bias toward free and open-source options readily adopted by potential targets.


Presenters:

  • Ryan Lackey
    Ryan Lackey has been involved in computer security since discovering the cypherpunks mailing list in the early 1990s. He founded the world's first offshore datahaven (HavenCo) and then spent a decade building satellite and wireless communications networks in conflict zones in the Middle East. After returning to the U.S., he founded CryptoSeal, a server-side tamper-resistant computing company which also operated a VPN, which he sold to CloudFlare in 2014. He now is founder of Travel Fleet, a startup solving travel security problems for corporate executives and professionals going to high risk environments around the world.

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