Jacob

Major changes are underway in the Tor Project, the Tor Network, and the Tor community. We want to tell you details and introduce the growing Tor community to the larger world.

The State of the Onion covers technical, social, economic, political, and cultural issues pertaining to anonymity, the Tor Project, and the ecosystem surrounding our communities. Important topics include the following issues: - Our new mission statement and code of conduct - An introduction to our „Vegas Plan“ - Introducing a huge set of developers and users working on enabling your anonymity - An overview of the kinds of projects and groups involved with Tor - A summary and fact checking of important media coverage - A history lesson about the Tor network

Other people: Roger Mike Perry Shari Steele Alison Macrina

The current state of the Tor network and community, covering important updates, discussions of the ecosystem of software, and include a longer Q&A than previous CCC talks!

The State of the Onion covers technical, social, economic, political and cultural issues pertaining to anonymity, the Tor Project and the ecosystem surrounding our communities. Important topics include the following issues: - XKEYSCORE rules - The shift from 3 guards to 1 guard - Blackhat / cert talk and responsible Tor research in general - Russian funding for Tor research - Heartbleed - New hidden service R&D funding - Helping Internet services accept anonymous users - Meek and new pluggable transports - Tor Browser integration - Tor and EFF Tor relay challenge - OrFox - Incentives to relay - Spoiled onions paper amongst others - A summary and fact checking of important media coverage - Tor Weekly news - Art and anonymity in culture

Other people: arma

Surveillance, cryptography, terrorism, malware, economic espionage, assassination, interventions, intelligence services, political prisoners, policing, transparency, justice and you.

Structural processes and roles are designed to create specific outcomes for groups. Externally facing narratives are often only one of many and they seek to create specific outcomes by shaping discourse. We will cover a wide range of popular narratives surrounding the so-called Surveillance State. We intend to discuss specific historical contexts as well as revealing new information as part of a longer term research project.

Other people: Laura Poitras

Finally, the world is aware of the threat of mass surveillance and control, but we still have a fight on our hands, and that fight is both technical and political. Global democracy is not going to protect itself. There has never been a higher demand for a politically-engaged hackerdom. Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange discuss what needs to be done if we are going to win.

The first part of this talk will discuss the WHAT? and the WHY?: the historical challenge we face, and how we are called to resistance.

We are living in a defining historical moment. In recent years, the network has created an unprecedented capacity for parallel communication and action. This has changed the world. For decades hackers have known of the growth of a surveillance state at the heart of Western democracies. Now, everyone knows, and we are left with a single question, how do we stop this? Hackers, sysadmins, developers and people of a technical persuasion are neither neutral parties nor spectators to this. We built the internet and we keep it running. We live there. We write the code. We manage the networks. Communications hegemony is impossible without the obedience of the people who build and run the system. Our network has become the nervous system of the world. We must wake up to this. We must realize the power and responsibility we hold for the great structural problems of our time. This year, Edward Snowden showed that we are not powerless. We all face a moral choice whether to collude or to resist. We say, resist! Sysadmins of the world, unite!

In the second half of this talk we will discuss the HOW?: the medium term and long term modes of action around which we must organize, if we are to see meaningful resistance against the global counterintelligence state, and meaningful progress towards emancipation.

Other people: Julian Assange

Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum will discuss contemporary Tor Network issues related to censorship, security, privacy and anonymity online.

The last several years have included major cryptographic upgrades in the Tor network, interesting academic papers in attacking the Tor network, major high profile users breaking news about the network itself, discussions about funding, FBI/NSA exploitation of Tor Browser users, botnet related load on the Tor network and other important topics. This talk will clarify many important topics for the Tor community and for the world at large.

Other people: arma