Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 4 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Join Joshua Horowitz, one of Ross Ulbricht's defense attorneys, tech journalist <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Andy Greenberg">Andy Greenberg</a>, and filmmaker <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Alex Winter">Alex Winter</a> for an in-depth discussion of the Silk Road case. All panelists attended Ulbricht's trial.
Greenberg has written extensively about the now legendary black market's rise and fall and <a href="https://xi.hope.net/speakers.html#Alex Winter">Alex Winter</a> directed the documentary <em>Deep Web,</em> with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family and defense team. In this panel discussion, they'll examine the less-discussed aspects of Ulbricht's case, including the role of two corrupt federal agents in the Silk Road investigation, the indictment of Ulbricht's alleged mentor and consigliere Variety Jones, and Ulbricht's controversial life sentence without parole.
Presenters:
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Joshua Horowitz
Joshua Horowitz's practice is concentrated on litigation matters requiring expertise in technology and computer software. He has served as the technology lawyer on the defense team of multiple federal cybercrime cases in the Southern District of New York, including the Silk Road trial (United States v. Ulbricht) and other international cybercrime matters. He also represents corporate clients in government investigations involving technologically complex legal issues. In the Silk Road case, he submitted an 18-page declaration undermining technical assertions made by the FBI with regard to their discovery of computer servers located abroad. His work raised significant questions about the government's purported methodology in uncovering computer servers hosted as a Tor hidden service, receiving national recognition in Forbes, Wired, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, and other publications. While in law school, Joshua worked at the Software Freedom Law Center, an organization providing legal counsel to Free and Open Source (FOSS) software developers in a broad variety of legal matters. He received his BA from the University of Rochester and JD from Ohio Northern University and launched his practice immediately upon graduating from law school.
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Alex Winter
Alex Winter entered show business as a child actor on Broadway and came to prominence in movies such as Warner Brothers' hit The Lost Boys and the wildly popular Bill and Ted franchise. He has directed three narrative features: cult classic Freaked for 20th Century Fox; Fever for Lionsgate, which screened at Cannes; and Smosh: The Movie, which opened in 2015 as the number one comedy on iTunes. Winter's TV credits range from MTV's The Idiot Box to Emmy-nominated work for Cartoon Network, as well as numerous commercials and music videos. Alex is the recipient of the Charles Guggenheim award for his directing work. His VH1 rock doc Downloaded has earned nationwide critical acclaim at theatrical and festival screenings. His latest award-winning documentary Deep Web had a critically acclaimed world premiere at SXSW and a broadcast premiere in the U.S. on the Epix network. The film opened as the number one documentary on iTunes in September 2015. Alex is now making the definitive documentary on Frank Zappa, which set the record as the highest funded documentary in Kickstarter history.
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Andy Greenberg
Andy Greenberg is a reporter for Wired, where he writes about information security, privacy, cryptography, and hacker culture. He's the author of the book This Machine Kills Secrets, on the history and future of anonymity, the cypherpunks, and information leaks. In 2013, he conducted the media's only extended interview with the Dread Pirate Roberts, the administrator of the Silk Road dark web black market.
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