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The code to freedom? Techniques & technologies of countersurveillance in cyberspace

The code to freedom? Techniques & technologies of countersurveillance in cyberspace. Kate Milberry, PhD University of Toronto kate.milberry@utoronto.ca. The People's Summit * 20 June 2010. Ubiquitous Surveillance. Social control. Democracy. Political power. Freedom.

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The code to freedom? Techniques & technologies of countersurveillance in cyberspace

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  1. The code to freedom? Techniques & technologies of countersurveillance in cyberspace Kate Milberry, PhD University of Toronto kate.milberry@utoronto.ca The People's Summit * 20 June 2010

  2. Ubiquitous Surveillance Social control Democracy Political power Freedom

  3. Foucault's panopticon

  4. Post/Modern Panopticon?

  5. The internet? • Internetworked social movements? • Cybersurveillance?

  6. Netwar: an information-age model of social struggle • Digital • Mobile • Nodal • Decentralized • Internewtorked

  7. Surveillance Society after 9/11: • “War on Terror” >> culture of fear • Rebranding of activism as terrorism • Increased violence against activists • Predictive policing • Cybersurveillance

  8. Surveillance Self-Defence Toolkit: • Radical tech collectives • Building the digital infrastructure of the movement • Activist technologies of countersurveillance • ee software as “disruptive tools” • Security culture SociSeal practices of privacy protection

  9. Free software: • Is the foundation of digital infrastructure of the GJM • Technically & legally encodes user freedoms • Embodies unmet user needsnonymity • Materializes social values • aid

  10. Encryption:

  11. Anonymizers:

  12. Circumvention proxies

  13. Crabgrass

  14. La fin (merci) www.geeksandglobaljustice.com

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