Dorkbot #2: Jacob Appelbaum // Techniques, ideas and pitfalls for communicating (semi)anonymously

By grenz
January 17th, 2007 @ 12:02 PM Urban Survival

Jacob Appelbaum (photographer, world traveller, Unix user) will be the guest lecturer at Dorkbot Vienna #2.

He’ll give a talk (in English language) about techniques, ideas and pitfalls for communicating (semi)anonymously.

So, what is anonymous communication?

Jacob will start a discussion about anonymity, pseudonymity and privacy. Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: Anonymous communication. Desires for communicating anonymously. Historical examples. Pragmatic methods for staying anonymous online with software recommendations. Threats are presented for someone trying to communicate anonymously. Techniques that are useful off of the internet. Risks involved in such communication. Ethical issues involved with anonymity. Ideas for the future.

Software to be discussed includes: Tor, JAP, mixmaster, mixminon, Freenet, pgp, gpg, Torpark, generic proxies.

Where, when?
At the wonderful Werkzeug H.
January 17, 2007. 8 PM.

2 Comments so far

  1. ben (unregistered) on January 17th, 2007 @ 3:15 pm

    Mooshie-baum. Sounds like a great talk, too bad I’ll have to miss it. I might send a stand in.

  2. grenz (unregistered) on January 17th, 2007 @ 3:34 pm

    we’ll try to record it an generate an mp3.

    best wishes


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