Danny O'Brien's Open Source con presentation on Evil

Danny O'Brien gave an amazingly funny talk called "To Evil" at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in August and now you can download the audio and the slides. Danny is a full-time civil liberties activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but he's also done time as a stand up comic, and he co-founded and co-edits the hilarious tech newsletter NTK. "To Evil" is based on his column of the same name, in which Danny picks examples of evil behavior in the tech world and writes about it.

In Danny's presentation, he recaps some of the evils of the year in technological liberty, and then switches to reporting on how good gets done (see the Gandhi State Diagram, left) and reports on some of the triumphs of the year.

It's a terrific and funny presentation, one that provokes both thought and laughter, and it's full of geeky in-jokes.

Link to audio, Link to Danny's slides

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