Enemies of the State - 29th Chaos Communication Congress (2012)

Enemies of the State - 29th Chaos Communication Congress (2012)

comment: Listen in to what is going on at the cutting edge of NSA surveillance, US state terrorism and hacking for freedom.

timetable: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/

1) Enemies of the State

ENEMIES OF THE STATE: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT SECRET US GOVERNMENT POWER BECOMES A CRIME
Blowing the Whistle on Spying, Lying & Illegalities in the Digital Era

With the post 9/11 rise of the leviathan national security state, the rule of law in the United States under the Constitution is increasingly rule by secrecy, surveillance and executive fiat.

Under the guise and veil of "national security" and "protecting" America through enabling act legislation and state "privilege," the United States government embarked on an unparalleled expansion of secret government power after 9/11, operating largely in the dark, while using extra-judicial executive authority for justifying its policies, including secret spying on its own citizens in violation of the Constitution.

Speakers Radack, Drake and Binney will highlight their searing experiences with the Department of Justice and the National Security Agency, when they were marked as criminal targets of the US government due to their whistleblower disclosures involving rendition/torture, national security, multi-billion fraud, pervasive institutional corruption, violations of the 1st and 4th Amendments, civil and human rights, illegal surveillance on a vast scale and other unlawful secret government conduct and wrongdoing.

They will also discuss the serious and compelling implications resulting from their excruciating ordeals centered on the nexus of secrecy, transparency, technology, privacy, anonymity, Internet and the law as well as actions people can take to deal with the reality of the growing surveillance state and its direct threats to human rights, liberty and freedom around the world in both our off- and on-line lives.

Speaker: Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, William Binney
EventID: 5338
Event: 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) by the Chaos Computer Club [CCC]
Location: Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH); Am Dammtor; Marseiller Straße; 20355 Hamburg; Germany
Language: english
Start: 27.12.2012 20:30:00 +01:00
License: CC-by-nc-sa

2) Not my department

On the topic of resistance.

Lecture on the NSA spy center in Utah by hacker Jacob Appelbaum at the CCC (chaos computer club) keynote in Germany. Appelbaum also talks about the urgent need for resistance against the more and more repressive regimes in western countries and about the necessary fight for freedom.

The speech starts after 10 min. approx. - just fast forward.

Speaker: Jacob Appelbaum
EventID: 5385
Event: 29th Chaos Communication Congress [29c3] by the Chaos Computer Club [CCC]
Location: Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH); Am Dammtor; Marseiller Straße; 20355 Hamburg; Germany
Language: english
Begin: Fri, 12/27/2012 11:30:00 +01:00
Lizenz: CC-by-nc-sa

3) DEFEND YOUR FREEDOMS ONLINE: IT'S POLITICAL, STUPID!
A Positive agenda against the next ACTA, SOPA, and such

Over the years we learned impressively how to oppose bad legislation hurting our freedoms online. We are now facing an even bigger challenge: how to guarantee that a Free, open, decentralized Internet will be protected in the long run?

In 2012 The Internetz won major battles against SOPA/PIPA in the US, and against ACTA in the EU. Yet, we know that the powerful industries and governments behind these projects will never stop. They have an incentive to gain control of the Internet, attacking fundamental rights and promoting technologies like "Deep Packet Inspection", now being deployed in each and every corner of the Net, and used indifferently to break Net neutrality, to filter, block and censor communications or to inspect citizens traffic.

How to push for proposals that will ensure that the sharing of knowledge and culture, citizens freedoms, and access to an open infrastructure will be guaranteed in the future public policies? How to become as successful in proposition as we are now in opposition?

(Hint: it's political, stupid!)

On Wednesday, July 4th 2012, The European Parliament rejected ACTA, the evil, dangerous and illegitimate copyright treaty, by a huge majority of 478 to 39. To all those who, for years, said it was impossible: we did it. Resonating in echo to victory against SOPA/PIPA in the US, this is a major victory for the multitude of connected citizens and organizations who worked hard for years, but also a great hope on a global scale for a better democracy.

These victories are of huge symbolic and political value, and we're still beginning to comprehend fully its meaning. It is now our duty to shape its political consequences. All is in our hands.

For years we have been witnessing the converging interests of political and industrial powers to attempt to get control of a Free Internet through various repressive measures (censorship, copyright enforcement, attacks against Net neutrality, etc.). We know that their attempts at attaining their financial or political objectives will never stop. And we must continue to combat them.

Still, we learned over the years, by demonstrating what we advocate for, that we are capable of formulating clear alternative to each and every bad piece of legislation being proposed. From that effort is born a positive political agenda, aggregating all the proposals that were put forward by La Quadrature du Net and other activists while doing the opposition job.

It is a political battle, in the etymological sense of the word "politics": citizens caring about the affairs of the city, in that case: the Internets.

All is on the table for each and every citizen to take part in a great effort for fostering the sharing of culture and knowledge, protecting Human Rights in the digital society and guaranteeing access to a Free and open Internet.

Let's get things moving forward!

Speaker: Jérémie Zimmermann
EventID: 5159
Event: 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) by the Chaos Computer Club [CCC]
Location: Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH); Am Dammtor; Marseiller Straße; 20355 Hamburg; Germany
Language: english
Start: 27.12.2012 20:30:00 +01:00
License: CC-by-nc-sa

4) WE ARE ALL LAWMAKERS!
How to further transparency by law -- the Hamburg example and beyond

In the Free City of Hamburg, which is one of 16 German states, a coalition of hackers, activists and other players of civil society have drafted the most revolutionary Freedom of information law in the world. The law obliges the state to proactively publish all important public information (such as contracts, studies, construction permits) in an OpenData format on the Internet. After the start of a referendum campaign, the law was passed unanimously by the state parliament in June 2012 to avoid a public vote on it.

Gregor Hackmack, Co-Founder of ParliamentWatch and one of the initiators of the Hamburg transparency law will present the law, its implications and most importantly how the campaign was started and why it succeeded. He will also briefly talk about ParliamentWatch, a transparency website running in Germany with partner projects in Luxembourg, Ireland and Tunisia and its impact on politicians.

Speaker: Gregor Hackmack
EventID: 5160
Event: 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29c3) by the Chaos Computer Club [CCC]
Location: Congress Centrum Hamburg (CCH); Am Dammtor; Marseiller Straße; 20355 Hamburg; Germany
Language: english
Start: 28.12.2012 11:30:00 +01:00
License: CC-by-nc-sa