London CryptoFestival
Tools and Analysis for a Post-PRISM Internet
https://www.cryptoparty.in/london_cryptofestival
Saturday, November 30th
Doors open 10.30 / Start 11am sharp
New Academic Building
Goldsmiths, New Cross
London
Location: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/
Free, all welcome
What happens to the internet after the Snowden revelations?
Do we just sit tight and let the most important cultural and economic force of the last two decades get turned into a giant surveillance honeytrap? London CryptoFestival is the biggest public and academic manifestation in the UK after the spy-network has been exposed. The unique day-long festival is aimed at showing paths beyond the logic of fear and coercion offered by the state on the one hand, and business models based on surveillance on the other.
London CryptoFestival brings together leading security engineers, computer scientists, civil rights groups, hackers, activists and artists to evaluate the current situation and to show ways forward.
Alongside this, three strands of hands-on workshops present user-friendly tools to increase security by encrypting email, web-use, chat and other data.
Speakers
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge Computer Lab
Ian Brown, Open Rights Group, Oxford Internet Institute
George Danezis, UCL
Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
Jo Glanville, PEN
Wendy Grossman, Open Rights Group
Annie Machon ex-MI5 whistleblower
Sm?ri McCarthy (@smarimc), International Modern Media Institute
Nick Pickles, Big Brother Watch
Workshops
Over twenty workshops will teach non-experts how to use advanced tools to support internet privacy, secure personal data, and to use the internet, mobile phones and computers without falling easy prey to spooks. Workshops will include: Internet of Things; Tor (secure web-browsing); PGP (secure email); Metadata; TCPDump (analyzing network traffic); File encryption; Bitmessage (chat); Talk (chat); OTR (chat); Digital Double (app); Chokepoint Project; and more to be announced. Bring your computer and start working with these tools. Workshops are suitable for all skill levels.
Art
IOCOSE ? present First Viewer Television
Orsolya Bajusz ? Swarming Talent Competition
Deckspace ? Community Access
Organised by
Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/ccsdigitalcultureunit/
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/
Contacts
Book a place online: https://londoncryptofestival.eventbrite.co.uk/
Twitter: @cryptofestival
